Category: Politics

“Rain” learned of the intention of Putin for the first time to come to the municipal elections Senior Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, will take part in the elections of municipal deputies in Moscow, sources told the “Rain”. President Vladimir Putin intends to participate in the elections of municipal deputies in Moscow, said close to the Kremlin sources of the TV channel “Rain”. According to interlocutors of the channel, in this way, the government wants to attract the attention of voters to the election, not only municipal, but also presidential, which will be held in March 2018. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov neither confirmed nor denied this information. “This can never be excluded,” he said. In the territorial election Commission Gagarinskiy district, where the registration needs to vote for the President, said that nobody warned them about a possible visit of the

Tillerson warned Lavrov that Russia is ready to sue US During a telephone conversation on 5 September, foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov drew the attention of the Secretary of state Rex Tillerson on the opportunity of the trial because of Russia’s departmenet in the United States. This is stated in the statement published following the results of negotiations Ministers of the two countries. The main issues in the course of the conversation Lavrov and Tillerson was the situation around the Korean Peninsula and the actions of us authorities against Russian diplomatic property. The Russian Minister in conversation with his American counterpart said that “the seizure by the American authorities of the Russian diplomatic property in the U.S. is a flagrant violation of international legal norms”. He reminded Tillerson about the statement of Vladimir Putin, who told Russia’s readiness to go to court because of the actions of Washington. That the foreign

The energy Ministry decided to ban 50-watt bulb The Ministry of energy will examine the issue of banning the production and sale of incandescent lamps with power above 50 watts. This was told by Deputy Minister Anton Inyutsin, reports RIA Novosti. He noted that on the calculations and elaboration by the office of the bill in the case of a positive decision will take several months. According to officials, over the past five years, the proportion of led lamps increased from two to 28 percent of the market, and the cost of energy-saving lamps has decreased. It is necessary to continue to create the conditions so that these lamps cost a couple of dollar instead of the current 3.5 dollars. Researchers lamented the fact that in Russia the share of lighting accounts for about 13 percent of annual consumption. The ban on incandescent bulbs was adopted in 2009 at the

Abe spoke about the prospects of concluding a peace Treaty with Russia Strengthening mutual trust between Russia and Japan may lead the two countries to conclude a peace Treaty by the end of the Second World war. This was stated by Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, the TV channel “Russia 1”. Abe stressed that given the fact that the war ended more than 70 years ago, “weird that the peace Treaty between the two countries is not signed until now”. And I and President Putin in this respect share the same views. I hope that the reinforcement of relations between our countries will eventually lead to the conclusion of a peace Treaty.Shinzo Abaranger Prime Minister of Japan While Japanese Prime Minister noted that the absence of a peace Treaty continues to negatively affect the development of cooperation between Russia and Japan. “Due to the fact that a peace Treaty

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled on Tuesday a new initiative that could become a turning point in the stalled Minsk process. At a press conference on the results of the BRICS summit in China, he said that instructed to submit to the UN security Council resolution on the placement of UN forces on the demarcation line in the Donbass to ensure the security of OSCE personnel. The President stressed that the deployment of UN forces is only possible after the removal of the arms and when reaching agreement on this issue with representatives of the proclaimed republics of Donbass. The official reaction of Kiev, despite the negative responses of a number of Ukrainian politicians, including representative in the contact group Irina Gerashchenko, was quite pragmatic. Pointing out that President Petro Poroshenko also informed came out with this initiative, the Ukrainian foreign Ministry has

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS VLADIVOSTOK, September 5. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated Russian and Syrian military with a major victory over the terrorists in Deir ez-Zor, and also sent on this occasion a telegram to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The journalists said the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.