Category: Politics

The Pentagon confirms the strategic partnership of the USA with Ukraine WASHINGTON, 20 Aug — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. The Minister of defence of the USA James Mattis said on Sunday that during his visit to Ukraine intends to highlight the commitment of Washington to a strategic partnership with Kiev. On the eve of the Ukrainian Embassy in the USA reported that the visit of the Pentagon chief James Mattis to Kiev on 24 August. The press service of the Ukrainian President reported that Poroshenko will hold with the Mattis talks in Kiev. “I have scheduled meetings with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Minister of defense Stepan Poltorak, and I intend to emphasize our commitment to a strategic partnership and our support for Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity,” said Mattis journalists accompanying him on foreign trips. The transcript of the conversation circulated the Pentagon. The Minister said he also

Putin hoped to rise to power young politicians The President of Russia Vladimir Putin hopes that after the upcoming elections, the number of regions will be headed by young politicians. He told this at a meeting with participants of the youth forum “Tavrida”, reports RIA Novosti. Putin recalled that over the past few years, several Russian regions are headed by young politicians who have proved themselves and achieved results. The President also said that we should promote young people and in other spheres of activity, for example, in the field of culture and art. Educational youth forum “Tavrida” held in Crimea from July 3 until August 31. Its organizers are the Federal Agency for youth Affairs, which is subordinate to it “Repatriated” and the Moscow state Institute of culture. According to the organizers, during the forum in its work take part more than three thousand Russians at the age from

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS BAKAL SPIT /Crimea/, August 20. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin considers most important in their work, honesty and love for those for whom he works. “Most importantly – honesty in my band and love to those for whom you work, and what you’re doing,” he said at a meeting with participants of the youth educational forum “Tavrida”. “Without this it is impossible to achieve any success, simply no”, – the President added.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia and Japan held talks, the theme of which was the joint economic activity on the South Kuril Islands. It is reported RIA Novosti citing a statement by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia. “The parties discussed the list of possible priority projects of mutually beneficial cooperation in the framework of joint economic activities and agreed to present the results of joint work in the leadership of the two countries”, — said the Agency. From the Russian side the talks were attended by Deputy foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, with the Japanese Deputy Minister for foreign Affairs of Japan Takeo Akiba. It was the second round of consultations. The agreement on joint economic activities on southern Kuriles was reached in December 2016 during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan. The main focus of the joint activities on the Islands will be tourism, fisheries, environment

Photo: AP Photo / Oriol Duran ROME, August 18 — RIA Novosti, Sergei Elders. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Italy Angelino, Alfano in connection with the terrorist attack on Thursday in Barcelona, instructed to send to the city employees of the Crisis unit of the Ministry to assist the compatriots. On Thursday, the minibus drove into a crowd of people in the tourist center of Barcelona — near Las Ramblas. The authorities of the Spanish Autonomous region of Catalonia confirmed the death of 13 people, 100 wounded. Catalan police have classified the incident as a terrorist attack. The Italian Ministry of foreign Affairs, placed at the disposal of RIA Novosti, said about the strengthening of the Consulate General of Italy in Barcelona for the “support to compatriots in any way possible”. “Some of our staff Crisis group will fly to Barcelona on the first flight,” said Alfano. Earlier it

Putin urged to minimize the state’s influence on filtering of the information content The President has offered “to think together about the creation of such mechanisms.” BAKAL SPIT /Crimea/, August 20. /TASS/. The creative community should take action to filter television and Internet content, the influence of the state here should be minimized. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with participants of the all-Russian educational forum “Tavrida”, commenting on the proposal of one of the participants talks about the introduction of a filter for TV Internet content, to get rid of the domination of aggressive and criminal information, which negatively affects the younger generation. According to Putin, “it should be forbidden that which is forbidden in the law, everywhere — online, on television and in other media.” “But everything else can be accomplished only one way — filtering with the help of the

The project of moving the capital of the Urals transferred to the Ministry of economic development The project of moving the capital from Moscow to the Urals transferred to the Ministry of economic development of Russia. On Sunday, August 20, RIA Novosti was told by the author of the document, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of demography, migration and regional development Yury Krupnov. Also, the official commented on the possibility to organize debates on this issue with Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. “Under his post among others discussing I invited him to the debate, because I appreciated the wit and the irony. But the problem is so serious that I offered to discuss it outside of social networking. I don’t think you need some official invitation,” he explained. Earlier Krupnov suggested the Moscow mayor to hold a discussion on the topic of moving the capital. “Sure, Mr

Photo: personal page of Nikolay Choles in Facebook In 2010, Nicholas Cowls was a troubled British teenager who was arrested for assaulting a man at McDonald’s restaurant in Milton Keynes. By 2017, according to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Cowls already firmly entrenched in the secular circles of the Moscow elite, driving around in a Ferrari and traveling the world first class, and sometimes even on a private jet. Such changes, according to the Bulk, due to the fact that his father is the press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov. Bulk — corruption fighter who wants to challenge Putin in presidential elections next year, spoke in detail about the lifestyle Colza in your after published on Thursday, August 17, which was another salvo in his fight against the luxurious lifestyle of the Russian elite. “Nicholas Cols is an example of how in Russia, where 20 million people are below

Photo: Far East The Russian government plans to allocate more than 400 million rubles from the reserve Fund to complete the renovation of the three regional theatres and children’s center. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of culture of Russia. The money will go to the reconstruction of the drama theatre in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Ryazan state regional theater for children and youth, Izhevsk State theatre of Opera and ballet, and the children’s space center in Kirov. Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev stressed that these provincial agencies help to keep the citizens of the “common cultural space”. In may, the head of the Ministry of culture Vladimir Medinsky urged the regions to modernize the rural house of culture. According to him, the new model DK will help to strengthen the family values of Russians. The Agency also developed a program for the construction and repair of rural houses