Category: Politics

Photo: depositphotos.com The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia expressed a protest in connection with a “hostile U.S. actions” and “infringement of diplomatic immunity.” This was reported on the website of the Department. “The Russian side reiterated the protest in connection with the hostile actions of the United States, assault on diplomatic immunity. Provided that the conditions of stay of American diplomats in Russia will be brought into compliance with the limits for our representatives,” — said the Agency. On 11 September, Deputy foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov held talks with US Deputy Secretary of state Thomas Shannon. The meeting was held in Helsinki. The representative of the Ministry called searches, arranged on 2 September by US law enforcement in the diplomatic missions of Russia in San Francisco and Washington, “a flagrant violation of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations”. 31 August, the us government demanded Russia to September

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. During the conversation the parties discussed the process of settlement of the armed conflict in the Donbass. This is stated in the message on the Kremlin website. “Emphasized the inadmissibility of any violations of the ceasefire regime, undermining the so-called school of the truce agreed upon in the contact group and supported by the leaders of States in Normandy format”, — said in a statement. Putin also told Merkel that Moscow is ready to complement within the framework of resolution functions the mission of the United Nations (UN) in the Donbass. According to the initiative of the head of state, peacekeepers will have the opportunity to carry out their functions not only on the frontline but also in other parts of the region. On 5 September, Russia sent to the UN security Council resolution on

Photo: RIA Novosti Moscow will soon reduce the number of American Embassy staff in Russia. This statement was made by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The speech of the diplomat published in the account of the Ministry in Facebook. “If they took the parity as a criterion, we now consider the conditions in which the work of American missions in Russia and Russian in the United States and will bring these conditions into full compliance with what is called parity,” Lavrov said. His statement Lavrov made at a press conference in Amman, the Jordanian capital. This requirement will push Moscow to Washington in connection with the demand of the American authorities to close the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco. In addition, the US authorities demanded to close one diplomatic facility in new York and Washington. Probably, the number of employees of the US diplomatic mission in Russia will

The state Duma has opened autumn session The state Duma of the seventh convocation Wednesday, September 13, opened the second in its history autumn session. The broadcast of the plenary sessions is on the website of the lower house of Parliament. Opening planarch, speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin has reminded that the autumn session will last only a few months (September to December approx. “Of the tape.ru”). “These months will be very important for us,” he said. The MP highlighted some of the main priorities in the work of deputies during this period. “First of all, the implementation of legislative support of the President’s message (Federal Assembly),” said Volodin. The main task of the state Duma for the autumn session he also said that consideration of the draft budget and improving the quality of lawmaking. As a matter of priority to people’s deputies, according to preliminary data, will be

Ukrainian media reported the “disappearance” of Saakashvili KYIV, September 13. /TASS/. Deprived of Ukrainian citizenship to ex-the Governor of Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili “disappeared” from a hotel in Lviv, where he stayed after the illegal border crossing of the country on 10 September, Ukrainian media reported. “The lawyer Saakshvili stated that she is not sure where his client, but suggested that he could go to Chernivtsi, — said the Agency UNIAN. The guards Saakashvili assured reporters that he was not going anywhere to go and will spend the night in a hotel room in Lviv. However, Saakashvili left the hotel. The staff noted that the politician didn’t come back.” The law enforcement sources said that a politician of scope left, the Agency said.

Photo: The Kremlin is preparing a new resignation of governors The Chairman of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky has declared the beginning of the campaign against the Communist party and personally to the leader of the Communists Gennady Zyuganov. His words leads RIA Novosti on Monday, September 11. According to Zhirinovsky, earlier, the Communist party organized a campaign against the liberal Democrats, calling it “Zhirinovskiy”. “We will now conduct propaganda “Zyuganovschina” across the country, the such a well-balanced anti-Communist propaganda. We will help Zyuganov and the Communist party to bury it, and himself,” — said the politician. He added that such actions prompted him including the fact that Zyuganov used the “personal attacks”. Zyuganov, in turn, binds the statement of Zhirinovsky with the “failure” of the liberal Democrats in the last election, and stressed that such propaganda was carried out always. “You heard his speech, which was beyond all possible. Now the

Photo: RIA Novosti Ex-Deputy of the state Duma Dmitry Gudkov has declared that begins preparation for elections of the mayor of Moscow in 2018. “We are starting a new campaign. Begin to prepare for the election of the mayor, and our staff continues to work. No legitimate election of the mayor without our participation is impossible, we are the second political force in Moscow, to be reckoned with,” said Gudkov. Earlier he said that he created together with the party “Yabloko” bloc “United Democrats” got 266 seats of municipal deputies held in Moscow on 10 September elections. Gudkov also has not excluded that on elections of the mayor will go with the head of the Moscow branch of the “Yabloko” Sergey Mitrokhin “one team, for example, the mayor and Vice-mayor.” Earlier on Monday, the Mitrokhin has declared that he will run for mayor of Moscow and hopes to pass the

Photo: RIA Novosti Violations of the rights of the citizens on last Sunday the election was reduced to almost zero, told journalists the Chairman of the Board of the Russian public organization “Russian public Institute of electoral law”, member of the presidential Council of the Russian Federation on human rights (HRC) Igor Borisov. Elections of different level have passed in Russia in the uniform voting day on September 10 in 82 of the 85 regions in 16 subjects chose the heads of regions. “Procedural irregularities — they were and always will be, but the infringement of the rights of the citizens, we see that these are isolated cases,” — said Borisov.

Russian diplomats will be fined for black smoke at the Consulate in the US Managing air quality in San Francisco said that the Russian diplomats before they vacate the building of the Consulate General in the city broke the rules by burning garbage. The corresponding statement, as reported by CBS News, was made by the representative of the service Ralph Borrmann. Black smoke over the building of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco was discovered on 1 September, the day after Washington ordered the representatives of the Russian Embassy to leave the premises. However, arrived on the scene fire fixed “false alarm” — in the building of the Consulate did not let their diplomats. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova later explained the occurrence of black smoke “measures for the preservation of the building.” In the air quality Management San Francisco, in turn, is now considered that