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© Vitaly Nevar/TASS MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. The experts of the Foundation for civil society development (Fcsd) believe that some competitive potential is, the election of the head of Karelia and the Governor of the Kirov region, in the remaining 14 regions gubernatorial elections will be held September 10 at the referendum scenario. These findings are contained in the report “Elections of heads of regions in 2017: scenarios, campaigns and forecasts”, which will be published on Monday and seen by TASS.

Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated the residents of the city of Cheremkhovo of the Irkutsk region and the mayor Vadim Semenov 100th anniversary, noting that the city has played a significant role in the development of Siberia and contributed to the strengthening of the Russian coal industry, reported on the Kremlin website. Earlier it was reported that a copy of the congratulatory telegrams from the President of the Russian Federation appeared in social networks a few days before the holiday. In turn, the mayor of Tehran stated that upset about the leaks in the network, the congratulations of the President of the Russian Federation with a 100-year anniversary of the city and the miner’s Day, however, the service check will not be performed. “I congratulate you on significant date — the 100th anniversary of Cheremkhovo. Your city has played a significant role in the history

Photo: RIA Novosti Justice and participation in political life are among the key queries Russian young politicians. About it it is told in message VTSIOM received by TASS on Friday. Data were obtained in the course of the research center VTSIOM and the student of sociology, held from 31 July to 1 August during a shift for the young parliamentarians and political leaders at the youth forum “Territory meanings on the Klyazma”. The survey was conducted in the format of discussions in three focus groups with the participation of 30 people aged 18 to 30, representing different regions and political parties. “Key request to the country’s development centered around the ideas of fairness and participation. Justice refers to participants in the study first and foremost as the equality of opportunity with inequality of starting positions,” — said in the message. “The problem, “elevators” , breaking down the way up —

Photo: RIA Novosti Chief editor MIA “Russia today” editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan commented on the statement of the Secretary General of the European Federation of journalists (EFJ) Ricardo Guterres, condemned the refusal of the Estonian presidency of the European Union to provide to the correspondent of “Russia today” accreditation for covering the informal meeting of foreign Ministers of the EU on 7-8 September in Tallinn. Accreditation asked three reporters who consistently have been denied without explanation. The Agency for the first time faced with such limitations in access to coverage of events at the Ministerial level under the auspices of the European Union. “Very happy, except for Estonia in the European Union there are a couple dozen States. Many of them, as we see, quite sane. Special thanks to Mr. Gutierres because, at the risk of being branded unfashionable, allowed himself to stand up for freedom European words,” Simonyan

Development Fund civil society has proposed to reform the municipal filter The experts of the Foundation for civil society development (Fcsd) has published a report which proposed to prohibit candidates for Governor to collect more signatures than necessary for the passage of the municipal filter. The report also says that the bar filter is necessary to reduce and to exempt from collecting signatures for candidates from the parties having representation of at least a quarter of the municipalities in the region. In addition, parties should be encouraged to nominate candidates in local elections and to work with municipalities. In Fargo I think we need to exclude recurrence of the situation, when the candidate of the parliamentary parties represented in most of the municipalities in the region, “is on the sidelines”. The Fcsd experts recalled that this year happened with the candidate on elections of the head of Buryatia from the

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he would discuss with the foreign Minister of South Korea Kang Gyu Hwa, the situation around North Korea. “We hope that our meeting will provide an in-depth exchange of views on international and regional issues, to discuss key issues on the agenda of the United Nations, as well as to discuss the evolving situation on the Korean Peninsula, which is of particular interest for us and for you,” he said during the meeting with the foreign Minister of South Korea.

Photo: RIA Novosti Meeting of the presidents of Russia and South Korea, Vladimir Putin and moon Jae-Ins will be held in early September at the Eastern economic forum (WEF), said the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Of fundamental importance was the meeting of our presidents on the sidelines of the summit of “big twenty” in Hamburg on 7 July. Just after ten days they meet again in Vladivostok in the framework of the Eastern economic forum” , — said Lavrov at the meeting with his colleague from South Korea Kang Kyung Hwa. According to him, Moscow is also interested in arranging contacts with Seoul through governments, various ministries and departments in the efficient operation of the intergovernmental Commission on trade and economic cooperation, “which will hold its next meeting on 4 September in Vladivostok on the eve of the next summit”.

Rex Tillerson believes provocation DPRK launch three ballistic missiles U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson called a provocation on the eve of the launch of three ballistic missiles of the DPRK. “We will continue our campaign to bring pressure by peaceful means, working with allies, working with China to see if we can bring the regime in Pyongyang to the negotiating table,” said the Fox News channel, Mr. Tillerson. Recall that the launch of missiles from the territory of Gangwon province in Korea has documented the South Korean military. According to them, the rocket flew 250 km. the US Military has fixed the launch of three ballistic shorter-range missiles from North Korea. They said that launched missiles did not threaten GUAM or North America. The UN security Council in early August for missile tests has tightened sanctions against Pyongyang. The President of the United States Donald trump did not rule

Photo: 360tv.EN Russia will send to the Republic of Guyana his new Ambassador. In addition, he will represent our country in such countries as Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago. This is reported by “Izvestia”. So know that this post will take an experienced Russian diplomat, Deputy head of European cooperation Department of Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Kurmaz. This information was confirmed to journalists in both chambers of the Russian Parliament, where his candidacy has been already approved.