Category: Politics

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow announced the suspension of visa issuance Moscow. 21 Aug. INTERFAX.RU — the U.S. Embassy in Moscow announced the suspension of non-immigrant visa on August 23. This is due to the action of the Russian authorities to limit the number of employees of diplomatic missions of the USA in Russia, said the Embassy. The procedure for issuing nonimmigrant visas will be renewed, but “significantly reduced” from 1 September this year. Diplomats explained that starting from that day, interviews for nonimmigrant visas will only be held at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Interviews for nonimmigrant visa in the consulates of the USA in St.-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be suspended until further notice.The U.S. Embassy As noted in the message, the mission the United States will begin the process of cancellation of interviews for nonimmigrant visa designated in all the US consulates in Russia, beginning at 9:00

Outstanding stock In the ranking of the most influential public policy-“successors” who made the Fund “Petersburg policy”, the closest to President Vladimir Putin in the personnel reserve of higher rank is Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The twenty included the head of FBK Alexei Navalny. The head of the Fund of civil society development (Fargo) Konstantin Kostin noted: the team that will come in 10-15 years, to meet new challenges in the economy and public administration. The main “successor” of Vladimir Putin, the authors of the rating (its presentation will take place today) believe Dmitry Medvedev (21 points). The authors clarify that the term “successor” to mean “a high rank of presence in the nearest personnel reserve” of the President, but a possible future official position is not indicated. “Past experience shows that the options are: the nomination of presidents, Prime Ministers, Deputy Prime Ministers”, — the report says. Politicians included

Views of Yekaterinburg © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS TASS, August 20. Yekaterinburg is “most appropriate” city in which the Russian capital could be moved from Moscow, said a member of the High Council of party “United Russia”, Director of the Agency for political and economic communications Dmitry Orlov. Only the Supreme Council of the party, its governing body, responsible for strategic development, included 90 people. “Moscow is far away from the geographical center of Russia, and its development leads to hypertrophy of the Moscow Metropolitan area (from over-concentration of tax revenues to overpopulation),” wrote policies in Facebook. In his view, these reasons are weighty enough to start a “serious discussion” about moving the capital. “The most appropriate solution would be to Yekaterinburg and a part of the Metropolitan functions could be delegated to a few cities,” said Orlov, stating that assesses the likelihood of realization of these plans as low.

Photo: RIA Novosti President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of Nikolay Kudashev, Russian Ambassador to India. The corresponding decree published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Prior to that, Heidi Robinson held the position of Deputy Director General Secretariat of the Ministry of foreign Affairs. The previous Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin has held the position since 2009, and died 26 Jan 2017.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov held a telephone conversation with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel. This is stated in the message on the website of the Russian foreign Ministry. “The Ministers discussed the situation around the DPRK and the ways out of the crisis”, — noted in Department. It is clarified that the parties reaffirmed their commitment to compliance with the relevant UN security Council resolutions.

Photo: TASS Irkutsk regional court refused the local regional Committee of the Communist party in the annulment of the decision of Legislative Assembly of the region on holding a referendum about returning of direct elections of the mayor of Irkutsk. On Friday, August 18, reports TASS. According to the Agency, to the consideration of the court action began on August 3. In late June, the legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region rejected introduced by a group of Communist deputies a bill to return direct election of the mayor of Irkutsk. The Chairman of the legislation Committee on state building and local self-government of Boris Alekseev stressed that the current method of election of the mayor cannot be regarded as a restriction of the electoral rights of citizens, because it is based on norms of the Federal legislation. In addition, according to Alekseeva, its validity was confirmed by the constitutional court

CNN: more than 10 diplomats and their families were subjected to the “acoustic attack” on Cuba NEW YORK, August 21. /TASS/. The number of American diplomats affected by the impact of certain acoustic instruments in Cuba, more than previously thought. This was reported Sunday by CNN. According to his sources, more than 10 worked in Havana to U.S. diplomats and their families had to be treated for symptoms caused by acoustic impact of an uncertain nature, which they had been since November of last year. Earlier it was reported that at least two employees of the American Embassy in Cuba were forced to return to the US for treatment. It was not excluded that they may be losing hearing. As a result, these diplomats are unable to return to Havana. According to CNN, after that, a few employees of the diplomatic mission decided to leave the island nation. In addition,