Category: Politics

Beglov urged to protect St. Petersburg from the “different time” in the elections Moscow. 12 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov urged not to allow outsiders on the municipal elections in the Northern capital. “What I am talking about the election. Now going to different crow: “Here we come, we’ll teach you”. What are you going to teach us? We ourselves with a mustache. Do not teach us. It is strange that someone will come to teach us to develop the city,” said Beglov on Tuesday at the ceremony of awarding the employees of the concern “Almaz-Antey”. He noted that passed and Leningrad, and the Moscow school of management, Leningrad, however, “has always been valued more.” “And in this regard to let strangers in the municipal elections of weird. Newcomers can put the factory Director, and municipalities should have their. The city requires protection. It must

Medvedev explained why always chooses water with gas MOSCOW, 12 Feb — RIA Novosti. The head of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev explained why he prefers drinking water with gas, carbonated water-not that big a fan, but because of the confidence that she at least passed some processing. During the meeting the Prime Minister with the members of the Federation Council on Tuesday, the speaker of the upper chamber Valentina Matvienko complained about the quality of bottled water and asked Medvedev to appoint the government Department responsible for the quality of bottled drinking water. The Prime Minister, in response, also in favour of the water was accompanied by certain certificates which would indicate its composition to its quality being tested. “I can say that I, for example, when offered to drink water with gas or without gas, always choose gas. Not because I’m such a big fan

Duterte suggested renaming the Philippines MOSCOW, 12 Feb — RIA Novosti. The head of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte made the renaming the country the “Republic of Maharlika”, the newspaper Manila Bulletin. Duterte criticized the influence of Spain on Philippine culture and recalled the idea of ex-President Ferdinand Marcos to abandon the “Spanish” name of the state: The name of our country came up with Magellan, a journey which was paid by the Spanish king Philip. Therefore a fool and called it the Philippines. Someday we will change it. The head of state supported the proposal of Marcos, noting that “maharlika” is a word of Malay origin, which reflects the concept of “calm and peace”.

Matvienko asks to install an embargo on the export of wood from Russia MOSCOW, 12 Feb — RIA Novosti. The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko has proposed to introduce a temporary embargo on the export of timber from Russia. “We just do not understand, will not take public action, maybe stop for some time, the timber for the border?” she said at the meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Matvienko asked the Prime Minister to instruct to check all the lease forest areas in the country “on the legality of their detention”. According to the speaker, almost the entire forest industry in Russia is in the “informal sector”. As an example, she cited the felling under the guise of health protection. The head of the upper house of Parliament the reason for this situation considers the shortcomings in the legislation. Matvienko has proposed Medvedev to immediately draft a

NATO plans to deploy new nuclear missiles in Europe BRUSSELS, 12 Feb — RIA Novosti. NATO is discussing possible measures in the event of termination of the INF Treaty, but has no plans to deploy new nuclear land-based missiles in Europe, because he did not want a new arms race, said on Tuesday NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on the eve scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday meeting of the defense Ministers of the Alliance countries. “At the meeting of defence Ministers we will discuss what steps NATO should take in order to adapt to the world with a large number of Russian missiles. And maintain an effective deterrence and defence. I’m not going to speculate on what are these steps,” he said at a press briefing. According to him, “all our steps will be coordinated, balanced and defensive, and we do not intend to stay in Europe, new nuclear land-based

Matviyenko sees a threat in the excessive centralization of power in Russia The Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko considers harmful attempts to control all the processes in the regions from the centre. In her opinion, it violates the principle of federalism established in the Constitution, and reduces the responsibility of local authorities. “Sometimes attempts of Moscow to regulate all aspects of activities of subjects of Federation, they are wrong, they are harmful from the point of view of interference in the competence of the actors, even the municipal authorities”, — said Mrs. Matvienko at a meeting with the leadership of the upper house of Parliament with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (quoted by “Interfax”). That excessive centralization is harmful for Russia, MS Matviyenko said. So, in November, speaking at the joint session of Council of chamber of Council of Federation and the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences,

Lavrov said Finland suspicions about the involvement of the Russian Federation to the suppression of the GPS signal Moscow. 12 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has carried speculation about the involvement of Russia in the suppression of the GPS signal in the North of Finland to the series “haili likli” . Upstairs “Studies have not been conducted because to explore their fantasies, unsubstantiated by any facts is impossible. It’s all, “Haile likly” he said at a press conference with the foreign Minister of Finland. So the Russian Minister, in particular, answered the question whether there had been any research about where these disturbances occurred. Lavrov stressed that his Finnish colleague at the meeting raised this issue. In response, the Russian foreign Minister reminded him that immediately after accusations of Russian military expressed a willingness to sit down and consider existing facts. We have officially declared, loudly said,

The state Duma adopted in the first reading the bill about the stability of the Runet MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. The state Duma on Tuesday adopted in the first reading a bill to ensure the stable operation of the Russian segment of the Internet in case of disconnection from the global infrastructure of the world wide web. The authors of the initiative made by the head of the Federation Council Committee on constitutional legislation and state construction Andrey Klishas, his first Deputy, Lyudmila Bokova and state Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoi. The document envisages “the creation of a national system of information on domain names or network addresses — a set of interrelated software and hardware designed to store and retrieve network addresses for domain names, including those included in the national domain zone, as well as authorization when resolving domain names.” The requirements for this system, the order of its

Zhirinovsky demanded to exclude meadow of the authors of the draft law on “sovereign Runet” LDPR faction takes the name of the Deputy Andrei Lugovoi of the co-authors of the draft law on “sovereign Runet” and “will not vote for this law”. This was stated by the leader of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky at a meeting of the state Duma, where the resonant corrections today, February 12, will be considered in the first reading. The head of the Committee on rules United Russia Olga Savastianova said that the removal of his name to the co-author of the project “it is necessary to write the application addressed to the speaker”. “I do not withdraw my signature,” — said Andrei Lugovoi. “I think the Deputy is obliged to negotiate with a faction of the introduction of the bill”, — said the Deputy from LDPR Alexander Sherin. Olga Savastianova explained that “in accordance with