Category: Politics

Medvedchuk said the rejection of the Russian observers KIEV, 7 Feb — RIA Novosti. Kyiv’s ban on observers from Russia to participate in the presidential elections in Ukraine will not affect the final result and should not affect their recognition, said on Thursday the leader of the public movement “the Ukrainian choice — the right of the people”, the representative of “Opposition platform For life” Viktor Medvedchuk. Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law which proposed to ban the representatives of Russia to take part in the elections in Ukraine as observers. Presidential elections will be held in Ukraine on 31 March. According to recent reports, the Central election Commission has registered more than 30 candidates. NewsWalker urged Kiev to allow Russian observers to the elections Answering the journalists ‘ question about whether the failure of observers from the Russian Federation to influence the election, he declared that “the problem

Bloomberg: trump asked for $20 million for permission to call his name to a skyscraper in Moscow The current President of the United States Donald trump in 2006 requested $20 million for permission to name the Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow. On 6 February in an interview with Bloomberg said the businessman Pavel Fuks. Russian and Ukrainian businessman Fuchs said that in 2006, after several meetings with Donald trump in Moscow, he also met with his children Ivanka and Donald Jr. to discuss the plan for the construction of a skyscraper. According to Fuchs, he offered Trump $10 million in installments for the right to use his name in the title, in what trump has demanded $20 million: He said that $20 million is nothing. I said that is a large amount. In the end we could not agree. According to Bloomberg, trump in different years also held talks with

Walker urged Kiev to allow Russian observers to the elections The Russians in the OSCE mission should be present at the voting for President of Ukraine, said the representative of the state Department. Special envoy of the US state Department in Ukraine Kurt Volker said that Kiev is necessary to allow Russian observers under the auspices of the Office for democratic institutions and human rights of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE / ODIHR) for the elections of the Ukrainian President in March. Thus Kiev will prove its commitment to democratic standards, says Walker. Earlier the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he will give orders to the state border service not to allow Russian observers to the elections. “Ukraine needs ODIHR observers to prove that it adheres to democratic standards. Otherwise people can put the elections into question. Let Russian observers will participate, but under

Washington vs Moscow: who is better friends with Venezuela In Venezuela is raging political and economic crisis. Russia supports re-elected in 2018, President Nicolas Maduro, and the United States took the side of opposition leader Juan Guido. And who is better friends with Caracas over the past half century: Moscow or Washington? Russian service Bi-bi-si tells the history of relations by Venezuela with these countries since the 1960s During the download an error has occurred.

For the implementation of the law on the sustainability of the Runet will allocate 20 billion rubles MOSCOW, 7 Feb — RIA Novosti. The Russian government will allocate for the implementation of the bill about the stability of the Runet 20 billion rubles, reported RIA Novosti, the author of the document, Senator Andrey Klishas. “The law on the budget provides funds for the implementation of the proposed bill measures”, — said Klishas, explaining that we are talking about the establishment of a monitoring and control communication network for General use. According to the Senator, as soon as the monitoring Centre will begin work and will analyze the structure of the network, will identify “real” threats and selected equipment that will allow them to counteract, it will be possible to determine the amount of necessary funds for further activities. In the passport of the project “Information security”, which was approved by

The budget has provided funds for the implementation of the bill on sustainable Runet Moscow. 7 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Funds for the establishment of network operation Centre of public communication in the framework of the draft law on the protection of Runet from external threats is provided in the budget for 2019 in the amount of almost 600 million rubles, only three years expected to spend more than 1.8 billion rubles. Relevant data are contained in the Federal law “on the Federal budget in 2019 and the planning period of 2020 and 2021 years”. According to the document, on the establishment and operation of the monitoring Center and network management of public communication and the creation, operation and development of information system for monitoring and network management of public communication planned $ 597 million rubles in 2019. “These funds provided only for the start of this project,” — said “Interfax”

Ukraine’s Parliament enshrined in the Constitution of a course for membership in EU and NATO Moscow. 7 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at a meeting on Thursday adopted in General initiated by the President of amendments to the Constitution concerning the country’s course towards membership in the European Union and NATO. As the correspondent of Agency “Interfax”, for the final approval of the bill on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine concerning the strategic course of the state on the attainment of full membership of Ukraine in EU and NATO (No. 9037) voted 334 deputies. According to the procedure, the final adoption of the draft law with the constitutional change requires at least 300 votes of the parliamentarians. The relevant amendments the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko submitted to the Verkhovna Rada in September 2018. In November, Poroshenko said that the amendments to the Constitution will require

Peskov said on behalf of Putin on the case “Jehovah’s Witnesses” The presidential administration is preparing a request of President Vladimir Putin banned in Russia as a religious organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. This was stated press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the sentencing of the follower motion Dennis Christensen. In December 2018, Putin said at a meeting with the Council on human rights had offered “carefully understand” in a situation with the “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. “They also are Christians, for them to pursue — I do not really understand,” he said. “Therefore, the order is, the question will be worked through, but we don’t know in what way. Of course, it will be developed taking into account the entered into force court decision”, — said Peskov. He noticed that the “topic is not easy”. Answering the question whether “Jehovah’s Witnesses” extremist organization from the point of view

The Kremlin said reports of doubts about Maduro Moscow continues to support the elected President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, said press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. His words are quoted by the RBC on Thursday, February 7. He was commenting on reports in the press that the Kremlin’s position on this issue has changed. Peskov stressed that the topic of evacuation and rescue of Maduro “does not appear and does not rise”. According to the press Secretary of the Russian leader, dialogue on the topic of the Venezuelan crisis between Russian and American parties there. News“Vladimir Putin we always provides assistance in all aspects” On the eve of the information appeared that Moscow is beginning to doubt the viability of the regime of Nicolas Maduro. Russia has repeatedly expressed its support for Maduro after the opposition leader Juan Guido declared himself acting President of Venezuela. The situation