Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, 16 Jul — RIA Novosti. In society there was a demand for responsible government, which first needs to be able to hear and defend the interests of their constituents, said the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. “There was a demand for responsible government. Responsible government in the first place, especially if we are talking about legislative power — is the ability to hear and to keep up the interests and provide the population during decision-making, discussion, decisions. So the agenda really takes into account just the questions, the population translates to the deputies,” — said Volodin in the program “Time” on “the First channel”. He noted that since the start of the state Duma of the seventh convocation adopted 354 of the law. “We’ve still got a week (until the end of the spring session). Clearly, the number (enacted laws) will increase. But it

Photo: TASS The NTV television channel and website НТВ.Ru live July 21, shows a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin with students of the educational center “Sirius” in Sochi. Next Friday, Putin will meet with students from 66 regions of Russia. “At the meeting with the President the students will be able to ask questions to Vladimir Putin personally. But the opportunity to ask the President about what excites the young generation, everyone has. To do this, simply send your question via the official accounts of NTV in social networks “Vkontakte”, — said the channel. The most interesting questions sent to young audiences, get into the program “Grown-up conversation with Vladimir Putin” on NTV. Educational center “Sirius” was created in March 2013 by the Foundation “Talent and success” at the initiative of the Russian President in Sochi on the Olympic infrastructure. The center is engaged in early detection, development and

The court in the Hague ordered Russia to pay the Netherlands €5.4 million in connection with the case Arctic Sunrise The international Tribunal ruled that Russia must pay the Netherlands €5.4 million plus interest for the detention in 2013 of the vessel Arctic Sunrise owned by Greenpeace, and 30 activists of the organization. About it reports Reuters. The decision on compensation rendered an arbitral Tribunal consisting of five persons. In 2015, the Tribunal ruled that Russia was responsible for the incident in accordance with the UN Convention on the law of the sea. The Russian side did not participate in the consideration of this case. Recall, September 18, 2013 environmentalists Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise approached the oil platform Prirazlomnaya, owned by Gazprom. Several activists tried to climb onto the rig, but was detained by border officers. Publication of Denis Sinyakov (@sinyakov.denis) May 23 2017 at 9:51 am PDT During the

A bill to remove information from social networks approved by the Committee of the state Duma The parliamentary Committee on information policy recommended the state Duma to adopt in the first reading the bill obliging the social network to remove illegal information at the request of users. The authors of the initiative deputies from “United Russia” Sergei Boyarsky and Andrey Alshevskih. The bill on social networks and messengers made by the legislature last week, it was about “organizers of information distribution” with an audience of more than 2 million people. They need to remove information which is “clearly aimed at propaganda of war, incitement to national, racial or religious hatred and enmity” and “inaccurate and (or) discrediting the honor and dignity of another person or his reputation information” and “information, distribution of which criminal or administrative liability”. The deputies offered to establish liability for failure to remove such content from

Yevgeny Roizman withdrew the candidate from elections of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region Mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman was unable to collect a sufficient number of deputies ‘ signatures to pass the municipal filter at the election of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region and withdrew his candidacy. “The signature is not physically collect. I have in stock three to four signatures, but not more”, — quotes its words “Interfax”. On July 6, Yekaterinburg mayor had 39 signatures of deputies of the required 126. In addition, he said that together with the party “the Apple” will decide whether to apply to the constitutional court to challenge the municipal filter. “We will make a decision and articulate it. But now to appeal to the constitutional court — it’s the same thing again to get to play with the gambler may be lucky. Feeling all these,” said Mr Roizman. He also urged his

Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov explained that the word “almost,” said in response to a question by CNN about the negotiations on the return of Russian departmenti does not mean reaching a decision on this issue. He said this on Tuesday, TASS after talks with senior U.S. Deputy Secretary of state Thomas Shannon. “Yesterday I shouted CNN correspondent the word “almost”, but you understand that “almost” doesn’t count. Therefore, we will continue to work”, – said the Russian diplomat. How to improve relations At the talks with Shannon Ryabkov put forward the conditions for improved relations between Moscow and Washington, including the return of the Russian departmenti.

Director of the Center for political conjuncture Alexei Chesnakov © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Project on the establishment of the Ukraine, which was announced on Tuesday in Donetsk, for politics is irrelevant. This was stated by the Director of the Center for political conjuncture Alexei Chesnakov.

Photo: The Minister for foreign Affairs of Australia Julie Bishop said that those responsible for the crash of flight MH17 in the Donbas can be tried in absentia, Reuters reports. “Can it be that the case will be considered in absentia”, she said. Bishop urged Russia to comply with each paragraph of the resolution 2166 of the UN Security Council, the author of which is Australia. “It provides for the cooperation of all States to prosecute perpetrators of the Holocaust”, – said the head of the foreign Ministry. Earlier it was reported that the case of the crash of MH17 in Eastern Ukraine are scheduled in the court of the Netherlands. In the crash of a Malaysian airlines plane were killed including 38 Australians. According to the current results of the investigation by the international investigation team, it is believed that the plane was shot down by a missile fired

Photo: Reuters The President of France Emmanuel macron said that relations between Russia and France in the fight against terrorism in Syria has reached a new level after negotiations with Vladimir Putin. Macron commended the negotiations on the Syrian issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the outcome of the Versailles meeting, the French leader said in an interview with Le Journal du dimanche (JDD). “We are making progress in all matters. The exchange of information and cooperation between the official services of our countries have risen to another level,” said the French President. He noted that Paris is now more worried about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. France intends to give a hard answer to all who will apply it in the region. The second important question macron called humanitarian aid and rescue of the civilian population in the conflict zone. According to Macron, it does not

Photo: AP Photo / Gerald Herbert The President of the United States Donald trump is unable to negotiate with Russia – according to a survey conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, sure nearly half of Americans (48%). In addition, 47% of respondents do not trust Trump to negotiate with someone else from the world leaders. According to the survey, 60% of Americans are convinced that Russia “tried to intervene” in the election of the US President, and 44% believe that trump “benefited” from it. A rating of Donald trump in the first half of his work decreased to 36%, dissatisfied with his work, 58% of Americans. In June, according to a survey of Harvard-Harris Poll for the Hill newspaper, the approval rating of trump rose for the first time in a long time. Then the President of the USA has approved 48% of Americans. The change of public