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Photo: RIA NOVOSTI/Vasiliy Batanov Three years after joining the Crimea to Russia General euphoria from the historic reunification passed in conscious belief: enacted in 2014, the decision was correct. The Russians used to take the Peninsula as part of our country, but in 2017 the number of those who agree with this statement, reached a record high. This is evidenced by the poll (at the disposal of “Izvestia”), which was conducted by VTsIOM on the eve of the third anniversary of the return of the Crimea to the Russian Federation. Crimea — is Russia. Agree with this statement 97% of the citizens of our country. Refuse to take the Peninsula as part of Russia, only 2% respondents 1% respondents were undecided on this question. That the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, has brought only benefit the country, sure 78% of the respondents. It should be noted that their number

Maria Zakharova Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the statement of the UN high Commissioner for human rights Zeid RA’ad al-Hussein on the situation in Syria, delivered on 14 March in Geneva, are biased. This was reported on the website of the Department. “The speech of Zeid RA’ad al-Hussein on the 34th session of the UN Council on human rights – is not the first example of his public statements and assessments, unacceptable for a UN official and contrary to the obligations and requirements of professional ethics of the employee of the UN Secretariat, which are defined in the Charter of the organization”, – said Zakharov. According to Zakharova, al-Hussein, trying to accuse Damascus of fomenting war Damascus, in fact, engaged in rewriting history in favor of opportunistic motives, which is typical for many Western countries. “The question arises whether such actions

Zakharov: attack on Yahoo! can divert attention away from investigations of WikiLeaks Discussion in the media of hacking by hackers Yahoo! can serve as a way to divert attention from the publication of the WikiLeaks investigation, said the official representative of the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova, reports TASS. “I do not exclude that it is an attempt to divert the world’s attention on the latest WikiLeaks material. In European capitals is possible all possible to ensure that the media of the theme of the recent revelations will not go, and does not actively developed, ” — she said. He also noted that the coverage of the attack on Yahoo! can continue the “unwinding threads of the notorious Russian hackers”. Earlier, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov denied the FSB involvement in the cyber attacks.

The case of the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral terminated Judge matusyak Tatyana has closed the case on the illegality of the orders of the Committee of property relations (KIO) on the use of St. Isaac’s Cathedral. The lawsuit was filed by lawyer Sergei Bakeshin 14 February, later it was merged with another lawsuit, among the initiators of which the Deputy of legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky. The judge cited a similar claim was rejected in January by Vasileostrovsky district court. This decision was confirmed later the St. Petersburg city court. Director GMP “Isaakievskiy Cathedral” Nikolai Burov retracted his statement, which was one of the grounds for the order. The Museum is ready to implement the statutory process of transfer of real estate, but after two and a half months since the issuing of the order, the action plan is not implemented, set primary terms of moving to a 24-month oral

Poroshenko has imposed sanctions against Russian banks for one year The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has imposed sanctions against subsidiaries of five Russian banks for a period of one year, the message on the official website of the President of Ukraine. Sanctions for a period of one year imposed on the five “daughters” of Russian banks with state participation: 100% “daughter” of Sberbank and Prominvestbank (owned VEB), VTB and “BM Bank” (the Russian VTB) and VS Bank, which belongs to Sberbank through the European “daughter” of Sberbank Europe. Control over execution of decisions on sanctions Poroshenko laid on the Secretary of the national security Council and defence of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov. On the eve of the national Bank of Ukraine has proposed to prohibit the withdrawal of capital from banks in favor of their parent institutions in Russia. The national Bank proposed to limit interbank loans, subordinated loans