Category: Politics

“The main thing is not what the turnout, and that she was really reflected” The head of the CEC about the abolition of the municipal filter and preparation for regional elections. The Chairman of the Central election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova agreed with the first Deputy head of presidential administration Sergey Kiriyenko, the experts should further discuss the options for changing the municipal filter. Ella Pamfilova said the correspondent of “Kommersant” Maxim Ivanov, in “current form, the rule should be abolished”, but as a compromise you can reduce the filter to “5% or even lower.” According to her, there should be some system that organizes the “political process, but does not kill the competition.” — The CEC hosted a working group on the complaint of Vyacheslav Marhaeva (Senator, moved from the Communist party in Buryatia). It was expected that in Buryatia will be one of the most interesting elections. What

Media: Philippine President called Kim Jong UN a fool MOSCOW, 2 Jun — RIA Novosti. The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday called the North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN “fool” and “son of a bitch” on the eve of the ASEAN summit in Manila, which will take part the Minister of foreign Affairs of North Korea, reports Reuters. “It’s the pudgy face that seems good. This son of a bitch. If he makes a mistake, the far East will become arid territory. It is necessary to stop this nuclear war,” said Duterte at the conference with employees of tax authorities of the country. Calling Kim Jong UN a “fool”, Duterte noted that the leader of North Korea “plays with dangerous toys”, and also warned about the consequences of the conflict in the region. According to the President of the Philippines, the confrontation may lead to depletion of soil

Vassily Nebenzia © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS UN 2 Aug. /TASS/. Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia and his American colleague, Nikki Haley agreed to improve coordination in the UN Security Council, including in the fight against terrorism and respond to the situation around North Korea, Syria and Yemen. This was announced on Wednesday at the permanent representation of the Russian Federation in the first meeting between the two diplomats. As informed the press Secretary of the Russian Embassy Fyodor Strzygowski, nebesa and Haley “we also agreed to improve coordination at the site of the UN security Council, including in such matters as combating terrorism, the situation in North Korea, Syria, Yemen, Libya and other countries.” “Both sides have expressed hope to strengthen cooperation between the two delegations, who are permanent members of the security Council, despite the difficult moment in the history of bilateral relations,” he said.

Boris Gryzlov © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MINSK, 2 August. /TASS/. Increase Kiev’s military expenditure is the restoration of the Donbass alarming. This was stated on Wednesday the Ambassador of Russia in the contact group on settlement in the East of Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov. “A very alarming signal is also signing yesterday, August 1, President of Ukraine of amendments to the budget, increasing military spending,” he said at the meeting in Minsk.

The Russian Embassy in Damascus © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. Complex of the Russian Embassy in Damascus was attacked on Wednesday, mortar fire, no casualties. This is stated in the commentary of the Russian foreign Ministry.

Photo: RIGA, 31 Jul – RIA Novosti. A public activist from Latvia Vladimir Linderman said that the Prosecutor General’s office will consider his appeal on the criminal case against the Deputy of the Sejm Edwin Schnoor, comparing Russian with head lice. A statement to the Prosecutor General’s office, Linderman sent July 11. “I received word from the state office of public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation”, — he wrote on Monday on his page on Facebook, making it clear that the response of the Russian authorities stating that his appeal will be considered. Linderman writes, “assimilation of Russian-speaking residents of Latvia lice, and the use of the offensive phrase “Russian louse” in the overall context of the article is action aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, and also on humiliation of dignity of a group of persons on the grounds of nationality and language are implemented with the use of

Photo: RIA Novosti On behalf of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin established a Fund to support indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. This was told to the newspaper “Taimyr Telegraph” in the Association of indigenous peoples of the North (kmns), speaking on this initiative The Fund will accumulate funds to Finance the activities of the Association. The money will also go to the representatives of these peoples could obtain legal assistance from highly qualified professionals. According to the head of the Association of indigenous minorities of the North Gregory Styopa Ledkov, the Fund will “to implement large-scale projects aimed at the preservation and development of traditional lifestyle, language and culture”. In addition to Federal and regional institutions, partners of the Fund will become an international organization dealing with the problems of peoples of the North.

Moldova announced Rogozin persona non grata CHISINAU, 2 Jun — RIA Novosti. The government of Moldova at the meeting on Wednesday decided to declare persona non grata Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the correspondent of RIA Novosti. According to Galbur, Rogozin recently made several statements, which “are denigrating, offensive and hostile character”. He cited the example of an interview that Deputy Prime Minister gave channel Rossiya24, which allegedly “allowed offensive” words to the citizens and authorities of Moldova. “These statements are contrary to the nature of the relationship that is trying to build Moldova with the Russian Federation”, — the Minister added. Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip also said that “Rogozin made a Declaration of unacceptable.” Earlier Rogozin has accused the leader of the ruling party of Moldova, Vladimir Plahotniuc in the disruption of his visit to Chisinau and Tiraspol. “His goal was to push us to Romania,

Video surveillance on the election of the President of the Russian Federation will cost 2.7 billion rubles Earlier, the CEC has proposed to install cameras in areas where they vote 85% of voters. MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. Deputy Chairman of the Central election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation Nikolai Bulaev reported that the cost of CCTV in the upcoming 2018 presidential election in Russia will amount to 2.7 billion rubles. “We are confident that the proposals contained in the Ministry of communications, are stacked in the figure to 3 billion roubles, to be precise, 2.7 billion roubles. We believe this allows us to solve the tasks we set ourselves when the video surveillance on the election of the President of the Russian Federation”, — said Deputy head of the Committee. He recalled that the CEC suggested “to consider a scenario in which surveillance will be organized in the districts

The Kremlin has commented on media reports about Russian casualties in Syria MOSCOW, 2 Jun — RIA Novosti. The Ministry of defence — the only source of official information about Russian casualties in Syria, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. He urged journalists to be guided by exactly the data of the military. So the press Secretary of the head of state responded to a request for comment on the publication of the Agency “Reuters” about the growing number of casualties among Russian military personnel in Syria. According to official figures in the Arab Republic since the start of the year killed ten Russian military, but, according to estimates by the media, it is at least about 40 Russians killed since the beginning of the year. According to “Reuters”, among them 21 private military specialist military and 17, the status of two could not be established. On