Day: February 16, 2018

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called absurd the accusations of the American spectacular Robert Mueller in address 13 of the Russians alleged to have participated in the intervention in the US presidential election. She wrote about this on Friday on his page on Facebook. “They, it appears, was 13, according to the U.S. Department of justice. 13 people intervened in elections in the US?! 13 against the billion-dollar budgets of the intelligence services? Against the intelligence and counterintelligence against the latest developments and technologies? Absurd? Yes. But this is modern American political reality”, – stated in the message.

The Prosecutor General did not see a violation in the registration of Putin as a presidential candidate Moscow. 16 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Russian Prosecutor General’s office asked the Supreme court to refuse the request of the candidate in presidents of the Russian Federation Ksenia Sobchak to invalidate the registration of Vladimir Putin as the candidate on elections of the head of state. The Prosecutor also noted that the actions of the CEC on registration did not go beyond its powers and the contested decision made lawfully and reasonably. In the complaint Sobchak asks the Supreme court to “declare illegal and cancel the decision of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation from February 6, 2018 on registration of Vladimir Putin as a candidate in presidents of the Russian Federation”. As stated in the complaint, Putin has no right under the Constitution to run for this position, as he held

Poland opposed the supply of Russian gas to the EU bypassing Ukraine Poland opposes the construction of the pipeline “Nord stream-2”, because he believes it necessary to preserve Russia’s dependence on gas transit via Ukraine, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the Polish radio. According to him, Warsaw wants Russia had the opportunity to transport gas to Europe bypassing Ukraine. “This is primarily because today is all the time a few dozen billion cubic meters of gas Russia has to send to Western Europe through Ukraine. Russia supplies around 180-185 billion cubic meters of gas and about a third of this volume, and in some years significantly more, she was dependent on Ukraine”, — said Morawiecki. The Prime Minister believes that the dependence on the Ukrainian transit hinders Russia from “aggressive actions”. “In this regard, its aggressive actions in the Donbas, that is, in the Eastern part of Ukraine, held

The state Duma adopted in the third reading a law increasing the minimum wage The state Duma at plenary session on Friday adopted in the third and final reading the presidential law on raising the minimum wage (SMIC) to the level of a living wage since may 1, 2018. The document submitted by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, was approved in the first reading last week. In the second reading the MPs did not support the only amendment that came from the leader of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky. It was proposed to raise the minimum wage to 20 thousand rubles. The law proposes to set the minimum wage since may 1 11 163 thousand rubles a month, bringing it to the subsistence minimum of the working population. As noted in the explanatory Memorandum, the implementation of its provisions will affect 3 million people, of which 1.6 million are employed in state