Day: December 24, 2018

The OSCE Secretary General fears of deterioration of relations of Russia and Ukraine The Secretary General of the OSCE Thomas Greminger warned Russia and Ukraine from further escalation of the conflict after the November incident in the Black sea, where the violation of the Russian border was detained by the court from Ukraine. He also noted that none of the parties seeks to begin the dialogue needed to resolve a tense bilateral relationship. According to the head of the OSCE, a good step would be Russia’s decision to release the 24 detained Ukrainian sailors. The Secretary-General of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Thomas Greminger commented on the incident in the Kerch Strait, where Russian border guards detained three military ships of Ukraine. According to Greminger, the already strained relations between Moscow and Kiev may deteriorate even more. Both sides “happen again and again provocations,” he said.

“There should be a culture in the relation of citizens to the authorities” Valentina Matvienko considers that the state must be protected from “deliberate insults”. Resonant bills on the Autonomous Internet, the punishment for “contempt of authority” in the network and “false information” in the media “we need to discuss”, said “Kommersant”, the speaker of the Federation Council (FC) Valentina Matvienko. However, she has already spoken in support of the amendments: the fake news “unacceptable”, against the authorities “should be culture”, and the Russian part of the Internet it is necessary “to protect against possible cyber-attacks”. No “not in a hurry to take” Autonomous bills on the Internet, the punishment for contempt in the Network and “false information” to the media, said Valentina Matvienko, answering the question “y” at a press conference on the results of the autumn session. This “draft laws” that “we need to discuss, to conduct a

Medvedev replaced the head of Rosstat Alexander Surinov, who led the Agency for almost 10 years, leaving at his own request. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the head of Rosstat Alexander Surinov. The decree published on the government website. The decision was made at the request of the Surinov, the document says. Another decree on the appointment of Pavel Malkov, who was the Director of the Department of public administration, Ministry of economic development. In an interview to “Interfax” after the appointment he stated that allocates, in particular, the key blocks of the reform of the statistics system and conducting the national population census in 2020 Answering the question about feasibility of the reform in fact, Rosstat, the official stressed that it is more correct to talk about reform and modernization. Before the new head of Rosstat, the task is to establish business processes, IT processes, to improve the collection