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Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS PETROZAVODSK, July 26. /TASS/. The Kremlin will refrain from wording in regard to the new U.S. sanctions, until they received the status of the law. This was stated to journalists the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the approval, on 25 July by the House of representatives a bill providing for tougher unilateral American sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. “While we are talking about the bill, so any substantive assessments, we are not going to give. The attitude to this will be formulated after a thorough analysis and decision of course rests with the head of state, President Vladimir Putin,” – said the representative of the Kremlin. “Because there is still more to be the Senate, let’s wait when this bill becomes law,” he added.

The Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. Russia in response to the adoption in Poland of the act on the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers may cease to fulfill the obligation to care for Polish memorials in the territory of the Russian Federation. This was reported on Wednesday to journalists by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. According to him, it can happen if three months later the Polish law on demolition of Soviet monuments will come into force. As noted Kosachev, if the poles refuse “to return to pre-existing understanding of these agreements, from our point of view can come the next stage: we will cease to execute these two agreements with our side in terms of care for Polish memorials on the territory of the Russian Federation”. According

© Kurskov Yevgeny/TACC In the single voting day on September 10, elections of different levels will be held in 82 regions of Russia. From July 26, territorial election commissions begin to accept applications from citizens who want to vote where they actually reside, not at the place of registration. This is the first election in Russia, which will be tested a new system instead of absentee ballots. TASS tells, who it will affect and how now to vote no on residence registration.

Photo: EPA Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the concern of the U.S. regarding the purchase of a missile defense system s-400 from Russia, Anadolu Agency reports. “Why should it worry? Each country needs to take certain measures to ensure their own security,” he said. Erdogan also added that the negotiations for the purchase of s-400 “substantially” completed. Earlier, the Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Joseph Dunford during his speech at the security forum of the Aspen Institute stated that the purchase of Turkey-400 is a concern. “There is an erroneous media reports. They did not buy air defense system s-400 from Russia. And that would be a problem if they did it, but that’s still not happened,” said Dunford.

The Governor of the Ulyanovsk region declared the region a “decade of goodness” Moscow. July 26. INTERFAX.RU — the Governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov has signed a decree on the implementation of the regional program “Decade of kindness” aimed at the humanization of the social environment in the region. “Today, the society has accumulated a lot of negativity, and we need to make it so that people have become kinder, more sympathetic, more intimate. We decided in the framework announced by the President of the Decade of childhood to raise a generation of kindness. For yourself in the Ulyanovsk region we have identified this status”, — quotes the press service of the regional government words Morozova. The main objectives of the project should be the extension of citizens ‘ participation in charitable and voluntary activities, development of projects in the field of spiritual education, support of social initiatives,

The EU has threatened the US with retaliation in the event of damage due to sanctions The European Commission is ready to take emergency measures in case the US sanctions against Russia threaten energy security of the European Union, reads the statement of the Chairman of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, issued after his meeting with European commissioners on Wednesday. U.S. interests should not have priority over the energy security of Europe, said Juncker. “Approved in the U.S. the bill could have unintended unilateral effects that will affect the EU interests in energy security” — presented in the statement of the words of the head of the European Commission. So, in the EU fear that the new us sanctions may hamper development of the system of pipelines used for the transportation of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe. “We decided that if our interests are not sufficiently taken into account, we

Medvedev spoke about raising pensions and wages in 2018 The draft Federal budget for 2018 remains conservative, but it is necessary to provide for the implementation of all priority projects. On Wednesday, July 26, Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, reports “Interfax”. “Of course, we have a capacious social obligations on increase of salaries, indexation of pensions, to support the most vulnerable groups of the population, despite the fact that according to current projections for 2018 and 2019, the budget remains conservative” — leads the Agency of his word. Earlier, on 25 July, the Pension Fund of Russia announced that from August 2017 to working pensioners will increase the payments. The maximum size increase is approximately 222 of the ruble. In addition, it is expected that by 2020 the amount of insurance old-age pension will increase by 13 percent and will reach 14.9 thousand. 19 July, Medvedev also said that

Photo: RIA Novosti The chief architect of Yalta and several of his deputies have written the letter of resignation at the request of the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov. On Monday, July 24, the press service of the President. “In Yalta, on my behalf wrote a statement and resigned the architect and several deputies. After having carried out a full audit including an assessment will be given law enforcement agencies the actions of officials, a decision will be made for the rest of the deputies who work there”, — said Aksenov. He did not specify any names of officials, nor how many servants quit. 6 Jul resignation, Aksyonov has announced the resignation of the mayor of Yalta Andrew Rostenko. The head of the Crimea said that it was “a natural and necessary process aimed at improving the efficiency of government.” On 1 June the head of Crimea instructed the

Photo: The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Kurdish Rudaw channel said that Russia in the framework of the “provocation” issued at the end of 2016 sample text of the Constitution of Syria, with the aim to intensify the negotiations. The transcript published on the Agency’s website. “At the time we circulated a sample text of the Constitution as we saw it, but not as something imposed from outside parties, and as if you want a provocation,” – said the Minister. According to Lavrov, at the time of the Constitution, not many people wanted to speak, and in these efforts to resolve each pursuing its goal. “We make a rough draft of the Constitution largely served as a good trigger to ensure that all intensified in this region”, – said the head of the Russian Ministry. He added that the work on the

The European Commission does not intend to penalize Siemens for the sent to the Crimea turbine BRUSSELS, July 26. /TASS/. The European Commission does not intend to penalize the company Siemens in connection with the delivery to the Crimea turbines in its production. This was reported by TASS source in the EU institutions in Brussels. “We see no grounds for penalties against a German company, but we hope that it will draw conclusions from this situation, he said. — We expect the company in a judicial order will challenge all violations of the contract.” The source also confirmed that the EU is considering the introduction of a number of Russian citizens in the black list in connection with the situation in which the EU finds controversial. “We are exploring the possibility of expanding our list of individuals in response to Russia”, — he said. Germany will meet Earlier, the German