Category: Politics

Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak © Mikhail Metzel/ press service of the Russian President/TASS July 21. /TASS/. Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak may be appointed as a member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Mordovia, if elected Governor, acting head of the Republic Vladimir Volkov. This was announced by the wolves to journalists on Friday after registration as a candidate for the post of head of Mordovia, the Republic Central electoral Committee. “Three candidates: Sergey Kislyak – Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the USA Vladimir Sizganov – chief Federal inspector in the Republic of Mordovia Peter Tultaev, the head of the city district Saransk”, – told the journalists the wolves of candidates to the Federation Council.

Viktor Bout © Photo from personal archive of the wife of Viktor bout Alla Bout/TASS NEW YORK, July 21. /Offset. TASS Alexey Kachalin/. The information that the sentence of Viktor bout to the United States increased the punishment for violation of prison rules during a telephone conversation with the journalist of the Russian TV channel RT, no. Disciplinary proceedings on this matter is not completed. About it the correspondent of TASS said Tuesday the lawyer of the Russian citizen Alexei Tarasov. The trial is not completed Tarasov said that any development on the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the Russians, “at the moment”. The lawyer confirmed that the case is still under consideration. “The way it is. Yes,” Tarasov said, adding that accordingly the decision on punishment or nakazanii Victor bout was not taken. “While it [the decision] is made,” he said. Mentioned talking on the phone with the purpose of

Photo: Reuters The Russian foreign Ministry praised Jon Huntsman, the new US Ambassador. Deputy Minister Sergei Ryabkov reiterated in the broadcast channel “Russia 1” that Russian diplomats had given their consent to the appointment of Huntsman. According to Ryabkov, the new American Ambassador is a professional. He called Huntsman a very experienced person with strong beliefs. Earlier, the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko spoke about the new. According to her, the Huntsman behind remains a rich experience in the field of international relations. She urged people not to label it ahead of time.

Photo: depositphotos.com The US state Department urged Russian authorities to overturn the Supreme court’s decision banning the activities of the organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses”* in Russia. This is stated in a statement. “The decision of the Supreme court of Russia against “Jehovah’s Witnesses” is a manifestation of an alarming trend of persecution of religious minorities in Russia”, — said in a statement. US urges Russian authorities to lift the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses’ activities in #Russia & respect the #ReligiousFreedom. https://t.co/GiuoOfWcsg — Department of State (@StateDept) July 19, 2017 The Ministry also called on the Russian authorities to lift the ban on the activities of the organization in the country and “to reverse the process of closing the administrative centre “witnesses of iegovy”. Before the appellate chamber of the Supreme court of Russia dismissed the appeal of the “Jehovah’s Witnesses” decision on the recognition of their extremist organization, liquidation and banning

The state Duma adopted a law banning anonymizers MOSCOW, 21 Feb — RIA Novosti. The state Duma adopted in the third and final reading a bill that prohibits the use of anonymizer technology to bypass the blocking of websites with illegal information. The project was submitted in early June the deputies of Maxim Kudryavtsev (United Russia), Nikolay Ryzhak (“Fair Russia”) and Alexander Yushchenko (CPRF). As noted by the authors of the document, now access some websites allowing you to “bypass the lock” is restricted on the basis of the decisions of the courts, however, the use of technologies of circumvention is not prohibited. The bill also prevents search engines show in Russia links to blocked resources. To do this, the state Duma has offered to give owners and operators anonymizers search engines access to the registry of banned sites Roskomnadzor. It is stressed that the objective of the bill is

The state Duma adopted the law on the regulation of messengers The document prescribes the charges for such services, including the restriction of user access to it and electronic communications to state agencies. Moscow. July 21. INTERFAX.RU — the state Duma meeting on Friday, the last day of the spring session adopted in the third final reading the law governing the activities of messengers. The law introduces the concept of “messenger”, and also prescribes the charges for such services. According to the document, information about the subscriber number of messenger users may be transferred to third parties only with their consent. “Providing third parties information about subscriber number can be carried out only with the consent of messenger users — without our consent, clearly expressed at the time of registration in the messenger, such data to be transmitted can not” — said, commenting on this law, the head of profile

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma plenary meeting on Wednesday adopted in first reading a bill to provide from 1 January 2018 the tax benefits to Fund renovation of the housing stock in Moscow and to citizens-to participants of the program of demolition of five-story building and resettling them in new homes. In the document submitted to the state Duma Deputy Nikolai Gonchar (EP) States that benefits are provided to ensure effective use of budget funds and the additional tax burden on participants in the renovation program. The bill excludes from the number of payers of tax on profit of organizations assistance Fund renovation of the housing stock in Moscow and frees the operation of this Fund on realization of goods (works, services) and property rights from VAT. In addition, the income received by citizens in the property from the Fund in the form of real estate, are exempted from

Photo: TASS SIMFEROPOL, 19 Jul – RIA Novosti, Victor Liashenko. Crimea will continue construction in the border area to enhance security on the Russian-Ukrainian border, said the Vice-Premier of the Crimean government Igor Mickle. “For Crimea, one of the priority issues is the creation of protective structures in the border zone, these measures will allow to increase security on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Also important is the question of arrangement of territories adjoining to road checkpoints,” — said at a meeting of the boundary Commission of the Republic of Ukraine, quoted by the press service of the government. In addition, according to him, the most important is to create comfortable and safe conditions for persons crossing the border. At the meeting of Pogrankondushi decided to increase the capacity during the tourist season with the aim of smooth functioning of border crossing points. In addition, it was decided to improve the condition

South Korea proposed North Korea to hold talks between military representatives TOKYO, 21 Aug — RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Plyasunova. South Korea again urged North Korea to accept its proposal to hold talks between military representatives to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula; the last sentence of Seoul, Pyongyang gave no response. “The Ministry of national defense again urged the DPRK to respond positively to our proposal as soon as possible”, — quotes Agency Renhap a statement by the representative of South Korean military Department, mun sang-Kyung. The first proposal of South Korea to the DPRK to hold this week talks of the military representatives to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and to resume the dialogue between the red cross societies was made on Monday. Talks defense agencies are proposed to take place on July 21st, and representatives of the red cross — August 1. The official answer of the