Category: Politics

The Ship Arctic Sunrise © TASS/ Press service of Greenpeace MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. The decision of arbitration in the Hague, obliging Russia to pay compensation for the incident with the ship Arctic Sunrise, encourages illegal actions. This was stated on Thursday by Deputy Director of the Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry, Artem Kozhin. “The Russian Federation did not participate in the present proceedings, since adhered and continues to adhere to the position about the lack of arbitration jurisdiction in the case,” he said.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia removes obstacles to obtain citizenship for Ukrainians: Duma adopted a law establishes a declarative procedure in case of refusal of the Ukrainian citizenship for obtaining a passport and a residence permit in Russia. This provision of the law was a direct response to the appeal of the native of the Ukraine to the President of Russia during a recent “Straight line”. The President complained that are now for joining the Russian citizenship, or obtaining a residence permit should first obtain certificates from the Ukrainian authorities, confirming the citizenship of Ukraine. And those, of course, they do not give. Vladimir Putin promised a solution to the problem. The new norm may touch about one million Ukrainians The adopted law cancels the need to obtain paperwork from the Ukrainian authorities, it will be enough confirmation that the man turned to them. Renunciation of citizenship will be issued by

Photo: MOSCOW, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. The Federation Council approved on Wednesday at a meeting of the Protocol to the agreement with Syria about the location of the aviation group of the Russian Armed forces on the territory of this country. The document regulates the issues of deployment of a Russian air group of the armed forces, its movable and immovable property on the territory of Syria, as well as issues relating to its functioning. In addition, clarifies the status of the personnel of the air group, members of their families, as well as the competent authorities of the Russian side. According to the Protocol, the term of the agreement is changed from indefinite to 49 years. This provides for its automatic renewal for further periods of 25 years, if neither party notified the intention to terminate the agreement less than one year before the expiration of the next

The special representative of the President Krutskikh considered Russia CyberDengui Moscow. July 20. INTERFAX.RU — special Envoy of the President on cyber security Andrey Krutskikh called Russia CyberDengui and expressed the hope that the substitution of foreign equipment to domestic a year and a half. “It’s a pity that not all the equipment made by themselves, but as you heard our President, we are forming our own kebersamaan Western gadgets, and I think that in the next year and a half will be able to boast of our technological achievements, many of which already now,” he added. “Not only on foreign equipment to be CyberDengui, this is not the industry”, — concluded the special representative of the President.

The state Duma adopted the law about the new rules for truckers Now the form of the partnership limited to horticultural and vegetable, and also introduced the concept of “garden house”. The Russian state Duma on Thursday, July 20, adopted in the third final reading the law that regulates the conduct of citizens of the gardening, horticulture and country farms for their own needs. Now the number of legal forms of partnerships for management of this economy is reduced to two: non-profit horticultural and gardening non-profit. The minimum number of members of such associations to 7 people. The law stipulates the rights and obligations of all members of the associations, their membership and grounds for termination of membership. Also installed the principles for the calculation of contributions, their purpose and types. According to the document, on vegetable plots will not be possible to erect the permanent structures, temporary “garden homes”

The head of the Duma Committee described the reasons for the “scanty pensions of Russians” Moscow. July 20. INTERFAX.RU — the Chairman of profile Committee of the state Duma on labor, social policy and veterans ‘ Affairs Yaroslav Nilov (LDPR) has confirmed the findings of the rating on the situation of pensioners in Russia, and identified a series of problems of the pension system of the country. “That’s right. We retired miserable. Russia was in the top five worst countries in the world of pensions to our citizens at the level of India, Greece, China, that’s where we are, this is not the first year,” Nilov told Interfax. “Last votes “United Russia” was adopted the bill in the first reading, which establishes a new formula for the promotion of activities of non-state pension funds, and the Russians continue to complain that they are losing their savings when switching from one

Photo: Ondrej Deml / CTK / Globallookpress.com Foreign Minister of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, believes that the gradual abolition of anti-Russian sanctions makes sense. He told about it in interview to the German “Focus” magazine on Tuesday, July 18. “In accordance with the decision of the European Union, the Minsk agreements must be fulfilled at 100 percent before sanctions can be completely lifted. I believe that is impossible to implement. It would be better to consistently lift the sanctions, indicating that we need to move towards peace,” Gabriel said. In addition, the head of the German foreign Ministry called for a new policy of Berlin towards Moscow. Frequent meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he explained the presence of “many problems”. The Minsk agreement is the document agreed in February 2015, the leaders of the “Normandy four” — Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia. It is aimed at de-escalation of the armed

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexander Natruskin A member of the Russian delegation, the Deputy of the state Duma, the former sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko told RIA Novosti about the problems associated with the destruction of biological weapons, the characteristics of control over the use of modern biotechnology and the international fight against infectious diseases. Russia must achieve compliance with the international Convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction. This view was expressed by the MP. He recalled that the relevant document was adopted in 1971, but since then has not been elaborated by the international monitoring mechanisms for the implementation of its provisions. At the end of the last century, the world community tried to return to this subject, however, in 2001, the US actually used (almost immediately after the attacks) bio-weapons. Anthrax as an excuse?

Duma abolished the norm of free baggage allowance when non-refundable tickets Moscow. July 20. INTERFAX.RU — the state Duma on Thursday passed in the third final reading the law, which, in particular, makes it unnecessary to carry free of charge baggage with non-refundable tickets. For return tickets the amendments to the Air code the right to retain passengers to take their Luggage a minimum of 10 kg. But non-refundable “may not provide” free Luggage stated in the law. The carrier is also obliged to inform the passenger about the conditions of baggage and carry-on baggage when you purchase a ticket, noted in the law. Provision is made for introducing a carrier, the free baggage allowance hand Luggage (in accordance with the rules approved by Rosaviatsia, based on the requirements of the operational documentation of the aircraft). The dimensions of hand Luggage must allow you to place it in the aircraft