Category: Politics

Son trump will tell the U.S. Senate about “ties with Russia” The US President’s son Donald trump Jr. will give to the legal Committee of the U.S. Senate testimony in the case of a possible “intervention of Russia” in the U.S. presidential election in 2016. On Wednesday, August 30, reports CNN. States that he will speak at a meeting to be held behind closed doors. Its date is still unknown. 10 July it became known that trump Jr. held in June 2016, meet with a lawyer from Russia Natalia Veselnitskaya, expecting to receive from it the compromising evidence on the candidate in US presidents from Democratic party Hillary Clinton. According to the newspaper The New York Times, talks with his lawyer was also attended by head of the presidential campaigns by Paul Manafort trump and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the incumbent President. The paper argues that Veselnitskaya has a

Permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS UN 30 Aug. /TASS/. Missile and nuclear programs, the DPRK should be terminated, and the problems of the Korean Peninsula should be resolved peacefully. This was stated on Tuesday, after closed consultations in the UN security Council, Russia’s permanent representative at the world organization Vasily sebenza.

Photo: TASS The mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin does not see the need in unification of Moscow and Moscow region, according to the mayor, for the dynamic development of the Metropolitan area good transport accessibility and good coordination. “I believe that there are no special prerequisites for this kind of administrative associations too huge subjects — about 20 million people,” the mayor declared in interview ” to the Newspaper.ru”. According to him, the example of New Moscow, it became obvious that such a Union requires a tremendous amount of time and investment. “In order for agglomeration effectively developed, not necessarily to change the administrative structure, from the point of view of economy there is nothing wrong that peat cut in two subjects. The main traffic flows and transport accessibility, and this requires coordination,” — said the mayor. According to him, in the last few years this issue has been a

Photo: RIA Novosti Contracts for 170 billion rubles were signed in the framework of International military-technical forum “Army-2017”. It ended on Sunday, August 27, in the suburbs. The Ministry of defense of Russia in the framework of the forum was signed by 23 of the state contract and three additional agreements with 17 enterprises of the military-industrial complex, said Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov. According to him, the result of the execution of these contracts in the Armed forces will put more than 600 and renovated with the modernization of more than 200 pieces of weapons, military and special equipment. In particular, Borisov said that the defense Ministry of Russia till 2020 will receive 100 new tanks “Armata”. Deputy defense Minister noted that almost all the samples of the arms contracted, the Russian defense Ministry International military-technical forum “Army-2017” , have been tested in Syria. Deputy Chairman of the Duma

Photo: Kommersant Only 2 out of 16 regions, where in September will be held gubernatorial elections, the experts of the Foundation for civil society development (Fcsd) provide “a competitive edge” — in Karelia Republic and Kirov region. The report about the upcoming elections Fcsd concludes that the decline in competition as the tendency of the last five years and the need to “renovation,” but not the abolition of the municipal filter. Proposes to exempt the party from the filter if they have representation not less than 25% of the municipalities. In ISSI, which became the initiator of introduction of the municipal filter, indicate that the proposed way of adjustment. The signs of a competitive campaign Fcsd found in Karelia Republic and Kirov region. “Irina Petelava can’t defeat Arthur Parfenchikov and is unlikely to achieve the second round, but under certain circumstances it has the power to bring down his score

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Emir of Kuwait Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah hold a meeting in the capital of the Emirate, the correspondent of RIA Novosti. The meeting of Lavrov and al-Sabah, held behind closed doors. It is expected that later on Monday, the Russian Minister will also hold talks with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah. Lavrov on Monday went on a trip to the Persian Gulf, during which will visit Kuwait, UAE and Qatar. It is expected that the main topics on the agenda will be the crises in Syria and the situation around Qatar and its relations with its Arab neighbors. In addition, the Russian foreign Ministry on the eve of the visit said that during the meetings in the Arabian capitals of the Russian side intends to discuss the development of the traditionally friendly relations with these countries, but also

Photo: RIA Novosti YEREVAN, August 28 — RIA Novosti, Gagik Baghdasaryan. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan discussed on Monday with the Secretary General of the Organization of collective security Treaty (CSTO) Yuri Khachaturov security issues in the CSTO area of responsibility, reported the press service of the Armenian leader. “The Armenian President and CSTO Secretary General discussed issues related to strengthening peace, stability and security in the area of responsibility of organizations in General and in South Caucasus in particular”, — stated in the message. According to the press service, Sargsyan noted that in 2017, marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on collective security and the 15th anniversary of the formation of the CSTO, stressing that these dates are a good opportunity to touch traversed by the path organization and identify opportunities for its further development. Sargsyan attached importance to work on the implementation of the strategy

Kim Jong-UN stressed that the recent missile test of the DPRK as a “prelude” to the attack on GUAM DPRK leader Kim Jong-UN has called the latest missile launch of North Korea as a “prelude” to application of the Pyongyang of the attack on the American island of GUAM located in the Pacific ocean. On Wednesday, August 30, according to the KCNA. Also DPRK authorities have confirmed that experienced on the eve of a ballistic missile of average range “And 12”. At the launch attended by himself, Kim Jong-UN, said the Agency “Yonhap”. In the night of Tuesday, North Korea launched a rocket which flew over Japan’s territory, fell in 1180 kilometers from the island of Hokkaido. Total flight distance was 2.7 thousand kilometers. North Korean rocket flew over Japan for the first time since 2009, when North Korea launched a satellite with a missile “Taepodong-2”. On 5 August the

Photo: RIA Novosti A test survey using electronic questionnaires will be held in 2018, the newspaper “Izvestia”. The main goal of the project is to find out how effectively you will work with new ways of collecting information before the forthcoming all-Russian population census 2020. Entering electronic data collection, the economic development Ministry plans to reduce the cost of the event and to increase the coverage of the population, as during previous censuses not all citizens were able to find at home. New methods will be tested in several regions. Expect to interview about 300 thousand people. The need for a new approach emerged when, as Rosstat said that the coming census will cost 50 billion roubles that three times exceeds the budget of the previous data collection, which was conducted 7 years ago.

Photo: Reuters Angela Merkel is trying hard to build good relations with Moscow. In this the Chancellor assured the visitors at the open day in the building office of the Chancellor. There came dozens of residents of the German capital, reports channel “Russia 24”. This year the event is especially interesting because less than a month in the country pass elections of the head of the office. “What to expect from the relations of Moscow and Berlin?”— this question asked one of the students standing near Merkel. “Can we have a good relationship with Russia? I’m working on it — said Merkel. — We are trying to solve a complicated conflict in Ukraine. At the moment we are trying to ensure that the ceasefire in the Donbass acted to the beginning of the school year. This is the first step. Yes, I would like to have good relations with Russia.”