Category: Politics

The General Director of the Russian center for public opinion studies (VTSIOM) Valery Fedorov © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. The request for stability in the Russian society gave way to a cautious desire for change, this explains the high results of the elections of the acting governors appointed by the President. This opinion was expressed on Wednesday the General Director of the Russian center for public opinion studies (VTSIOM) Valery Fedorov. “A couple of weeks before the day of voting, I put forward the thesis that the request for stability in Russia was replaced by a request for a change. I’m on the basis of these elections were convinced that this demand for change is really there, but I want to clarify: this is a request for change, but change is evolutionary, gradual change for the better. It is in any case not a revolutionary change, not disruptive

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS SOCHI, September 13. /TASS/. Russia passed the US through diplomatic channels of proposals for the resumption of cooperation, however, not reciprocal.

The Prosecutor General’s office of Spain began a crackdown on 700 mayors of cities in Catalonia The Prosecutor General’s office of Spain opened 700 criminal cases against mayors and heads of municipalities of the Catalan cities because of the preparation for the referendum on independence. Reported by the Associated Press. According to La Vanguardia, the attorney General of the Kingdom of Jose Manuel Maza sent a circular letter to the heads of the Supervisory authorities of the major Catalan cities of Barcelona, Gerona, Tarragona and Lleida. Officials were ordered to begin the prosecution of governors who intend to facilitate voting. If they do not appear before the court voluntarily, they may be detained. Earlier, on September 7 Maza said that his Department will investigate and stop any attempts of preparations for the plebiscite — the publication and distribution of promotional materials, flyers, and equipment areas. A day earlier, the Parliament

The best and worst passports of the world-2 To be a Russian became more profitable. Matter how talented the person, the limit of its possibilities in the majority of cases is determined by the place where he was born and where he lives. In this case the determining factor will be not just a city or a country, and the passport: it is possible to understand what the conditions of life available to the person initially, and which can be obtained, for example, when moving to another country. Whose passport is more valuable, trying to figure out a consulting company Henley & Partners, who presented the second “Index citizenships of the world” (Quality of Nationality Index, QNI), created in collaboration with Dimitri by Kochenower, Professor in constitutional EU law at the University of Groningen. The authors of the study tried to give an objective assessment of various nationalities, examining their

“Kalashnikovs” from the Pentagon The Pentagon has allocated more than $2 billion to purchase weapons and Soviet-style ammunition to Syrian opposition groups. This is stated in the report submitted by the Center for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP) and the Balkan investigative reporting network (BIRN). According to the authors, large-scale procurement began in September of 2015 during the administration of President Barack Obama. Moreover, the program was conducted separately from the already collapsed on the initiative of the President trump the CIA program of training rebels fighting against Syrian government forces. According to the magazine Foreign Policy, the U.S. Department of defense intentionally uses the documents are vague, not allowing to understand that the arms were sent in Syria. Experts warn that such practices could undermine international efforts to combat illicit trafficking in arms. The U.S. Department of defense funneling arms of the Soviet sample units of

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the charges of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco in violation of the rules of incineration performance, intended to justify barbaric actions of the American special services on the territory of the diplomatic mission. This opinion was expressed on his page on the social network Facebook.

© Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. The party “United Russia” final count received 68.1 percent (368) of all mandates in the representative bodies of the Moscow region, for which the region held the fight in a single voting day on September 10. About this to journalists on Wednesday, Chairman of the election Committee of the Moscow region Irina Konovalova.