Day: February 19, 2018

In the elite Chinese prison over the camera for the officials The anti-corruption campaign in the country continues in its fifth year. “In our jail, there was a tradition: prisoners older than 60 years could expect on the eve of the lunar New year (this year it fell on February 16.— “B”) at the festive dinner with several members of his family, reported the SCMP, a source in the administration of the prison.— But this year, we abolished this tradition, and forbade the visitors to come two weeks before and two weeks after the New year.” The reason for these measures was an unprecedented prison overcrowding. In 2013 the law enforcement agencies and intra-party control, according to official data, subjected to various punishments over 1.35 million officials and party leaders, including some 100 tigers — civil servants of the level of Deputy Minister and above. Most of those convicted got

Headquarters, Vladimir Putin spoke about his campaign commercials The press Secretary of the election headquarters of Vladimir Putin, Andrey Kondrashov has told RBC that the main themes of the campaign commercials of Mr. Putin were the integrity and strengthening of the country, improvement of life of citizens and social justice, the further movement of Russia forward, respect traditions, and strengthen the defense. Mr. Kondrashov has explained that these topics are “natural” as acting President “throughout his work was always foremost in these challenges”. The main slogan of the majority of the commercials will be “a Strong President — a strong Russia”. “We believe that Russia must be strong, to grow and to make breakthroughs. The lives of citizens can be comfortable only if at the head of our country a strong President”, — explained Andrey Kondrashov. He noted that Vladimir Putin in the filming of the commercials was not involved,

US sanctions against Russia: who will be in the expanded “the Kremlin list” The US is preparing a new blow against Russia. In America, think about increasing the number of defendants in the “Kremlin report”. The publication of the previous list has hit the reputation and business of Russian entrepreneurs. U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, in an interview with CBS said that the United States is considering the possibility of imposing additional sanctions against the Russians. According to him, the United States has “taken steps in accordance with CAATSA (the law “On combating the enemies of America by sanctions” — “Газета.Ru”) which prevented a major defense deal Russia”. “We are considering additional persons for the possible introduction of sanctions,” said Mr. Tillerson, answering the question “why no sanctions are imposed, which wants the vast majority of members of Congress.” Due to the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine, the

© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Russia urges US not to play with fire in Syria. This was stated on Monday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov at the opening conference of the international discussion club “Valdai” “Russia in the middle East: playing on all fields”.

© Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Russia sees the aspirations of the US and the European Union to introduce anti-Russian elements in its policy in the Balkans. This was stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Serbian news Agency Beta.