Category: Politics

© EPA/Cem Turkel ANKARA, August 11. /TASS/. The Turkish authorities have not yet given any response to the request of the Russian Embassy in Ankara detained the Russian citizen who allegedly is a terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) and planned to commit a series of terrorist attacks in the Republic. This is stated in the message of the Embassy in Facebook.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Chairman of the Central election Commission, Ella Pamfilova urged the acting heads of the regions as carefully as possible to approach the organization of public events during the election campaign to avoid ambiguous situations. Her words Wednesday, August 9, reports RIA Novosti. At the Commission meeting, she cited the situation with prizes at the festival “Ural gems” in the Sverdlovsk region, which will be held at polling stations on election day, September 10. “I in connection with this case would like to warn and to appeal to everyone, first and foremost, the acting head of the region, very sensitive and careful approach to all public shares that will accompany this campaign,” — said Pamfilova. In particular, it refers to the acting Governor, who themselves plan to participate in the campaign. According to the head of the Commission, they need to be “triple strict to yourself” that

The defense Ministry has denied bringing the air defense forces in the far East on high alert So the office has responded to the media, Senator Viktor Ozerov about the reaction to the growing problem with North Korea. Moscow. August 11. INTERFAX.RU — the Russian military has denied reports of some mass media that because of the situation around North Korea’s defense forces (PVO) in the far East has led to a state of high alert. “Connections PVO hour serve in the mode of permanent combat readiness. No cast stationed in the far East air defense units in the “higher” degree of combat readiness are not true,” said Friday the source of “Interfax” in the defense Ministry. Earlier some mass media with reference to the words of the former head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security, Senator Viktor Ozerov said that the air defense forces and videoconferencing

The U.S. Embassy commented on the possible withdrawal of Russian Consulate The U.S. Embassy said that measures will be taken by 1 September. In the state Duma admitted that if the closure of the Consulate will follow the expulsion of diplomats, Moscow will not respond. The press Secretary of the US Embassy in Moscow, Maria Olson in response to the question RBC, will the US state Department in response to close one of the Russian consulates in the United States, recalled the statement of US state Secretary Rex Tillerson of 7 August. After a meeting with foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, us Secretary of state said that the Minister asked a few clarifying questions to understand what was behind the U.S. received diplomatic note. Tillerson said that the US will respond by September 1, recalled Olson. Moscow answer mirrored arrangements for the possible closure of the Russian Consulate, if it does

Corruption is reported in the black list for two years Officials and law enforcement officers, fired for corruption, is scheduled to be included in the black list for two years. The relevant provision was prepared by the Ministry of labour and social protection of Russia. According to it, in the registry will be populated with the name of the offender, his SNILS and INN. The corresponding regulation is published on the portal of legal acts on Friday, August 11. In the registry, according to the project, will be the name of the offender, insurance number of individual personal account (SNILS) and taxpayer identification number (TIN). However, the information about which specific violations made people in the civil service, in the public domain will not be published. The reason for the exception name involved in corruption from the registry, in addition to the expiration of the two-year period may be the

Photo: RIA Novosti Ukraine should not be anyone to specify where you can ride. So responded the Chairman of the state Council of Crimea Remzi Ilyasov to the statement of the Ukrainian Minister of infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan that “there is nothing to go” to Russia. “Not the time to indicate where to go. The task of the Ukrainian side, if they love their citizens, to organize a normal customs passage. If you’re going to be closed from everything, you become the product, which is interesting. Thank you for advertising, as they say,” Ilyasov said in an interview with RT, noting that Ukraine continues to escalate fear among its citizens. Omeljan earlier urged Ukrainians to refrain from traveling to Russia because of the Square “must go to Europe.” Also, the Ukrainian Minister explained, who “blame” the fact that Crimea returned to Russia. In his opinion, the reason became pensioners of the

Photo: zampolit.in.ua Fifty thousand in the streets and squares, 900 settlements have been renamed by the authorities of Ukraine in 2015 in the fight against the Communist and Nazi past. These data are presented in the report, published by Ukraine at the UN Conference on the standardization of geographical names. About it reports TASS. The law “About the condemnation of the Communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes and prohibiting propaganda of their symbols” was approved by Parliament two years ago. According to this law, the country is forbidden to name geographical objects names of Soviet statesmen, also names should not be mentions of the USSR, the Ukrainian SSR and other Soviet republics, as well as activities of the CPSU and the anniversary of the October revolution. According to the report, Ukraine was restored over 300 historic names of localities, 70 of which — “tribute to the cultural heritage of

Photo: RIA Novosti WASHINGTON, 9 Aug — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. The United States and Russia will hold next meeting in the framework of the bilateral Commission on POWs and missing in October in Washington, told RIA Novosti Deputy head of the Ministry of defense of Russia to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland Andrey Taranov. He noted that the meeting held “in the framework of a working group on Afghanistan and the cold war.” As said the interlocutor of the Agency, only the current year was a planned four such meetings. One of the working groups — the Korean war — meets in Washington now. Two panels — the Second world war and the Vietnam war — already took place earlier. “All negotiations are conducted within the framework of these groups, involved professionals on practice performing tasks that we set. They also answer