Day: March 1, 2018

Putin will submit the message to Parliament in a new format with graphics. The current address will become the 24th in the modern history of Russia. MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 1 will announce the message to the Federal Assembly. It is traditional, as a rule, the annual address of the President to the Parliament provided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation. This year it will take place less than a month before the presidential election, participation in which will accept and running for the new term of Putin. The current address will become the 24th in the modern history of Russia and 14th Putin personally. Typically, these demonstrations, which the President presents his assessment of the situation in the country and the vision of the main directions of development for the future, have been within the calendar year. Only in 2017, the message

Lugovoi called for tougher requirements for candidates for President of Russia There has been talk that Grudinina there is real estate outside of Russia, and accounts abroad. And it seems like someone from the family has a residence permit, — said the newspaper VIEW Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoi. In his opinion, during the next presidential campaign, these candidates will not be able to register. A member of the Duma Committee for security and combating corruption, the former intelligence officer Andrei Lugovoi said that during current election campaign has become an important question about the requirements that must be met by the candidate that voters had no doubt about him. “It’s about Pavel Grudinin. There has been talk that Grudinina there is real estate outside of Russia, and accounts abroad. And it seems like someone from the family has a residence permit. It’s about the fact that we have laws according

Prejudiced forearmed UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres, at the Conference on disarmament in Geneva urged the United States and Russia further reduce their nuclear arsenals. However, the heads of the delegations of both countries have made it clear: neither Moscow nor Washington in the foreseeable future do not intend to continue to disarm. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov has named a number of reasons why Russia is not ready to heed the call of the General Secretary. Among them the preservation of American tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and the US deployment of a global missile defense system. U.S. Ambassador Robert wood, in turn, said that further disarmament is impossible, because his country was threatened by power-rivals and rogue States. In this situation, the prospects for new initiatives to reduce nuclear weapons arsenals, which promised soon to present antónio Guterres, look dubious. Opening the conference,

© Syrian White Helmets Civil Defense via AP DAMASCUS, February 28. /TASS/. The second humanitarian pause in Eastern ghouta took off like a previous one, due to a mortar attack from terrorists, said Wednesday the Russian journalists the representative of the Centre for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria the General-major Vladimir Zolotukhin.

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS GENEVA, 1 Mar. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov during the visit to Geneva on Wednesday took part in a session of the UN Council on human rights (HRC) and the Conference on disarmament. The leitmotif of the speeches of the foreign Minister in the Palace of Nations was a call for Western partners to abide by international law and begin truly collective work to address crisis issues. In addition, Lavrov held several meetings on the sidelines of the conference, in particular, discussed with the special envoy of the UN Secretary General on Syria Staffan de Mistura the implementation of Security Council resolutions on the cessation of hostilities throughout the territory of Syria to provide humanitarian assistance to the population. A lesson on human rights Working day the Russian Minister began with a speech at the session of the HRC. Lavrov specific examples