Day: March 2, 2018

Vyacheslav Volodin has called into question the legitimacy of the ECHR The Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin said that the legitimacy of the European court of human rights (ECHR) is questionable. “What a third of judges are formed, elected without the participation of the Russian side, our delegation is, of course, is to cast doubt and raise questions under the legitimacy of the decisions taken by the ECHR”, — quotes its words “RIA Novosti”. Thus mister Volodin considers what to speak about Russia’s withdrawal from ECHR “probably not entirely correct”. We will remind, that the Russian authorities are studying the possibility of ending the cooperation with the ECHR, previously reported by “RIA Novosti” with reference to sources in the relevant departments. According to them, the ECHR does not take into account peculiarities of the Russian legal system. Depriving Russia of voting rights in the parliamentary Assembly

“His words can be seen as a message to Washington” On 1 March the President of Russia Vladimir Putin has addressed to Federal meeting with the annual message. This year, his performance lasted almost two hours, most of which Mr Putin has devoted to the story of the last achievements of Russia in the latest types of weapons. What was the reaction of foreign media to the speech of the President of Russia — in the compilation of “y”. The Washington Post (Washington, USA) Putin’s speech, which began with the enumeration of the internal projects, quickly turned into a hard retelling of the conflict between the East and the West and praise the achievements of Russia’s Arsenal, such as a cruise missile with a nuclear engine that can hit a target anywhere. Putin did not indicate any ally of Moscow, whom she will protect… His words could be seen as

The European Parliament has supported a sanctions procedure against Poland The European Parliament supported the European Commission’s decision on launching a sanctions procedure against Poland started in the country’s judicial reform. This was reported on the website of the European Parliament. For this decision voted 422 deputies, against — 147, abstained — 48. The European Parliament has confirmed that the adopted in Poland, the laws violate the principles of separation of powers and independence of the court. Now the European Council must determine whether breaks Polish the reform of the European values. In December 2017, the European Commission launched a sanctions procedure against Poland for judicial reform. For Poland, this may lead to loss of votes in the EU Council. Despite this, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda signed a law on the National judicial Council and the Supreme court.

The Deputy Slutsky about the allegations of harassment: never been The Deputy of the state Duma from LDPR Leonid Slutsky denied allegations of sexual harassment. “Never been,” — reports the words of the MP, “RIA Novosti”. “Women never complained and I think will not complain about a wrong action on my part,” said the MP. Answering the question about the possible polygraph test, the Deputy Slutsky said that this device “has a large margin of error.” In this case, we should not cling detectors, polygraphs, we just have to make it zakazuha went out, over, and work from this day on, constructively, positively and no one in no blame.Leonid Lucidata of the state Duma from LDPR On specifying question, whether he refuses the test, the Deputy did not answer, pass “Vedomosti”. Accusations from the Deputy editor-in-chief of RTVi Catherine Kotrikadze Leonid Slutsky explained by the nationality of the journalist. “Georgian