Category: Politics

Poll: trump is losing support in key States that voted for him in the election NEW YORK, August 21. /TASS/. The level of support for Donald trump in several key States, a victory which helped him win the elections of the President of the United States dropped below 40%. This is evidenced by published on Sunday the results of a survey conducted by NBC in cooperation with the research service Marist . According to the data, Michigan 36% of respondents approve of Republican trump at the head of the state, 55% are against. In Pennsylvania, the level of support for the President is 35%, while 54% of respondents disapprove of his work. In Wisconsin for trump are 34% of the respondents, 56% do not agree with how he runs the country. Meanwhile, 64% of respondents in Michigan and Wisconsin said that they are ashamed of the behavior of trump as

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia took the initiative to equalize the different spelling of the same names, surnames and geographic names at the legislative level and to recognize an equivalent use of personal data, the letters “e” and “e”. The initiative aims to make life much easier, for example, Nataly and to Natal or Gennadievichem and Gennadievichem. This told RT proposer, the Deputy of legislative Assembly of Leningrad region Vladimir Petrov. According to him, many citizens are faced with the fact that because of the different spelling of the name or patronymic of the same person some documents are considered invalid. The experts believe that to account for all discrepancies in law will be very difficult. In the near future to the legislative Assembly of the Leningrad region, for subsequent submission to the state Duma will arrive the bill (RT) on the amendments to article 3 of the Federal law “On

CBS: trump will announce going to Afghanistan 4 thousand soldiers WASHINGTON, August 21. /TASS/. The President of the USA Donald trump Monday announced the increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan and sending to that country advanced about 4 thousand soldiers. This was reported in the Sunday CBS TV channel, citing his sources in the Washington administration. According to them, trump will talk about the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia, which, in particular, “strongly encourage” the government of Pakistan to deny safe havens to terrorists. CBS also reported that the White house considered the possibility of adding Pakistan to list of countries sponsoring terrorism, the reduction of aid to this Islamic Republic and its exclusion from the list of major US allies outside NATO. The authorities do not exclude that the plan can be changed before the President will deliver an address. The press service of the Pentagon

Merkel accused the Turkish authorities of abuse of Interpol BERLIN, August 21. /TASS/. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Ankara is the case with the arrest in Spain of a German writer of Turkish origin Dogan Akhanli abused by Interpol. The head of government of Germany said on Sunday the TV channel RTL. The writer, whom Ankara considers a member of the opposition, was arrested during a holiday in Granada at the request of Turkey, according to Interpol. As noted by Merkel, international organizations such as Interpol, “cannot be used for such purposes.” “I am very pleased that Spain was it is now liberated,” — said Merkel. She reported that maintaining contact with the Spanish government in this case. Akhanli lives in Germany since 1991 and has the passport of Germany. According to local media reports, he wrote, in particular, about the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. His

Former adviser to trump’bannon said about disagreements in the US administration Former adviser to US President Donald trump on strategic issues Stephen Bannon said the disagreement within the US administration. He said this in an interview with The Washington Post. “No administration in history has been so divided among themselves about the direction in which it should move,” said Bannon. According to him, team trump is disappointed by the agenda of the Congress, which is more consistent with traditional Republican priorities than the goals that proclaims the American leader. “If members of the Republican party on Capitol hill will support the idea of the President, but not their goals, it will be one big happy family” — said the former adviser to trump. That trump has decided to dismiss’bannon, became known on August 18. However, according to close to’bannon source, the American strategist himself resigned 7 August. According to a

The Mayor Of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin © Artyom Geodakyan/TASS MOSCOW, August 20. /TASS/. The mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin considers a waste of time debate about the possible transfer of the Russian capital from Moscow, which the mayor called the head of the Supervisory Council of the Institute of demography, migration and regional development Yury Krupnov. About it the mayor wrote Sunday on his page in social network “Vkontakte”.

Photo: RIA Novosti American mayor of Seattle has officially requested the dismantling of the monument to Vladimir Lenin and the memorial to the armies of the Confederacy, reports Mynorthwest. “In the last few days, Seattle residents have expressed concern and frustration due to symbols of hatred, racism and violence in our city,” he said about the monuments. The head of Seattle stressed that the monuments should be removed despite the fact that they are on private land. Earlier, U.S. President Donald trump called nonsense the demolition of monuments to the Civil war in the United States.

Photo: RIA Novosti President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed the new permanent representative of the President in the so-called Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It was Boris Babin, who “has extensive experience” and “showed their best side during operation with the Ministry of justice” , reports RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ukrainian leader. The main task of the permanent representative, as noted on the website Poroshenko, will be ” the restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea.” Temporary representation of the head of Ukraine in the Crimea is located in Kherson. Earlier the post of Ambassador was occupied by Natalia Popovich. The Crimea became a subject of the Russian Federation according to the results of a referendum held in the spring of 2014 after a coup in Ukraine. For reunification with Russia voted 96,77% of voters of the Republic of Crimea and 95.6%

Photo: TASS Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to King of Spain Felipe VI in connection with the attack in the centre of Barcelona. About it reports a press-service of the Kremlin. “We strongly condemn this cruel and cynical crime committed against civilians. The incident once again reiterates the need for the real unification of efforts of all world community in the fight against the forces of terror,” — said in the telegram of the Russian President. Putin also expressed words of sympathy to the families and friends of those killed and wishes those injured a speedy recovery. Earlier, the President of the United States Donald trump condemned the terrorist attack in Barcelona. August 17 at about 17.00 local time (18.00 GMT), a white van drove into a crowd of people on the Rambla in Central Barcelona. According to the latest authorities, 13 people were killed and over 50 injured.