Day: February 27, 2018

The Committee of the Federation Council supported the amendment banning contact pritravki dogs The Committee of Federation Council for agrarian policy and environmental management supported the amendments to the hunting law relating to the prohibition of contact pritravki dogs. The document in edition of the conciliatory Commission of the lower and upper chambers of Parliament, the senators intend to consider at session of the Federation Council on Wednesday. Now with the adoption of the document on so-called “testing and training stations” will be possible only contactless dog training, that is, if the corresponding protective structures that should not only eliminate cruelty to animals, but in principle, applying them to any physical harm. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on agrarian and food policy and environmental management, co-Chairman of the conciliatory Commission Vladimir Lebedev noted that the text agreed by the Parliament “does not infringe upon hunters, puts barriers in

The Deputy Pushkin is preparing amendments on sexual harassment amid a scandal with the Deputy Slutsky The Deputy head of the Duma Committee on family Affairs Oksana Pushkina told RBC about the intention to amend the responsibility for sexual harassment in the speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a bill on gender equality. The Deputy reminded that the criminal code article 133 “Coercion to sexual actions”, but according to her, the norm does not actually work. Oksana Pushkina said that the initiative was developed against the background of the scandal around the head of the international Affairs Committee of the Duma, Leonid Slutsky. Several journalists accused parliamentarian accused of harassment. In response, the party of Mr Slutsky, Vice-speaker from the LDPR Igor Lebedev told about the possibility of de-accreditation of those who distribute “slanderous information”. “If there is evidence, bring the case to the end. It is rampant in our society”, — explained

Problems in relations of Russia and the USA will always be, said the huntsman Problems in relations of Moscow and Washington will always need to be resolved gradually, not otchityvayasj ago, said U.S. Ambassador to Russia John huntsman. “Problems in relations with Russia always will be. They need to be solved gradually, but you need to remember that not (should) fall back in the development of business relations, investments, contacts between people,” said the huntsman at the meeting with students and professors of the Kazan University.

More than a million Russians will vote not on their sites As of February 26 of 1.16 million Russians have expressed a desire to not vote at the place of registration, and by place of residence, told RBC Deputy Chairman of the Central election Commission (CEC) Nikolai Bulaev. “The number of those wishing to vote at the place of stay is growing very quickly,” said Mr. Bulaev noted that for five days, the number of applications increased by almost 50 thousand and continues to grow. We will remind, on elections to the State Duma 2016 absentee ballots voted of 1.03 million Russians, nearly 1 million less than in the 2012 elections, when the residence voted to 1.97 million people, however, this record could be beaten if statements will arrive in the same amount. Meanwhile, the CEC staff count by approximately 1.5 million people, noting that not all applicants really will