Category: Politics

The CEC member Anton Lopatin © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/. The Council of the Federation could help the Central election Commission of Russia recommendations on identifying “foreign agents” intending to discredit the Russian elections. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, the CEC member Anton Lopatin at the first meeting of the expert group of the interim Commission of the Federation Council for the protection of state sovereignty and prevent interference in the internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini on the results of negotiations with Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that the parties agreed to a more private contact on international issues. She also noted that he discussed with Lavrov ways to support ceasefire in Syria from the EU.

Photo: RIA Novosti BRUSSELS, July 12. /TASS/. At the meeting of the foreign Ministers of Russia and Belgium the issue of the abolition of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation when discussing the situation in the East of Ukraine was not raised. This was stated on Wednesday, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks with Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders. “We talked in detail today about our feelings on the work in the “Norman format” in the contact group, about what’s really going on, but about sanctions, we are not talking” – said Lavrov. “When the EU talked about the fact that in the case of punishment of Russia policy should prevail over the economy, of course it speaks for itself, it should not be in a normal life,” he said. The Russian foreign Minister also noted that the formula EU to lift sanctions after Russia fulfils the Minsk agreements, in

Photo: RIA Novosti In the state Duma the restoration of relations between Moscow and Tbilisi will be engaged in the informal working group. This was stated by the Chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov, reports TASS on Tuesday, July 11. He said that the agreement was reached following talks between Russian and Georgian deputies. “While the official group of the Parliament of Georgia is not ready” — said Kalashnikov. According to him, during the meeting the MPs of the two countries also touched upon the issues of simplification of visa regime between the countries. The Committee on CIS Affairs, said that the representatives of the Parliament of Georgia visited the state Duma for the first time in ten years. The delegation included, in particular, the Chairman of the faction “Alliance of patriots of Georgia” George Lomia. According to “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”,

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of government held a meeting to discuss organizational issues of the upcoming national census. For the Cabinet of Ministers of its data is important, since it takes into account when preparing the budget, forecasting, development of state programs, including social support. “The work will be rather big. The time left is little, you need to consider the experience of the previous censuses, the latest of which took place in 2010, and to analyze the problems that arose early, to endeavour to ensure that the data was truthfully and in full,” – said Medvedev. The census in the budget, but there is still a significant portion of these money to learn, – said the Prime Minister. Much of the funding depended on what technologies will be used in the census. Stopped at three ways. As before, people will send scribes with the usual paper census sheets.

Donald trump spoke about the meeting with Vladimir Putin The President of the United States Donald trump in an interview with Reuters spoke about his conversation with President of Russia Vladimir Putin, which took place last week. Mr. trump added that relations between the two presidents was “very important”. According to the President of the United States, they could contribute to “saving many lives, such as in the case of a ceasefire (in Syria.— “Kommersant”)”. We will remind, the talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald trump was held on 7 July on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg. The meeting lasted more than two hours. According to its results, the parties announced agreements on Syria, Ukraine, cybersecurity and the exchange of ambassadors.

Photo: Russia’s Supreme court will continue to analyze the legislation to study the prospects for further decriminalization of the Criminal code, RIA Novosti press-service of the court. “On Tuesday at the meeting of the court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev with the delegation of the Supreme court of the Republic of Cyprus, headed by President Myron Nicolatos the head of the armed forces of the Russian Federation said that the court will continue to analyze legislation in the context of possible further decriminalization of the Criminal code,” — said the representative of the court. Since the work in this direction is only to talk about specific articles that may be withdrawn from the UK, prematurely, said in court. “It is also premature to talk about the fact that in the autumn, the court will send to the state Duma of the specific proposals for the decriminalization of certain crimes,” — said the

Photo: RIA Novosti The President of the United States Donald trump is fighting against the Congress political game — expressing support for sanctions against Russia, he makes concessions in order to retain the right to lift these restrictions, said the first Deputy head of the international Committee of the Federation Council Vladimir Jabbarov. On Monday, the Director of legislative activities at the White house mark short said that the United States supports the sanctions contained in the bill for Russia and Iran, but does not approve of measures that limit the powers of the President in this matter. “Speaking about the support of anti-Russian sanctions, Donald trump is some concessions in relation to the Congress, seeking to retain the right to lift the restrictions,” — said dzhabarov RIA Novosti on Tuesday, calling the actions of the President of the United States a “political game”. The Senator noted that the West

Russians have told, what topics they remembered the meeting between Putin and trump MOSCOW, July 13 — RIA Novosti. The vast majority of Russians (89%) know about the meeting of presidents of Russia and USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump, the most memorable were the issues on the situation in Syria and Ukraine, the survey showed the all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM). First personal meeting of Putin and trump took place on 7 July on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg. As shown by a poll conducted shortly after the meeting of leaders of Russia and the United States, it became a noticeable event in the country: 89% of Russians know what it held. The sociologists capture a higher level of awareness among respondents older than 35 years, and every fifth Respondent in age from 18 to 34 years old first heard about the meeting

Kim Jong-UN presented awards to the creators of Intercontinental missiles According to the leader of DPRK’s successful launch of a ballistic missile “And 14” “radically changed the strategic position of the country and the world political structure.” PYONGYANG, July 13. /TASS/. North Korea carried out the successful test of an Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) “Hwaseong-14” radically changed the strategic position of the country. On this, as reported Thursday by the news Agency KCNA, said the leader of the people’s Republic of Kim Jong-UN. The Chairman of the workers ‘ party of Korea and the state Council of Korea issued in the Pyongyang Palace of congresses “Mansudae” at the ceremony of awarding scientists and technologists involved in the implementation of this missile project. According to Kim Jong-UN, North Korea carried out the successful launch of ICBM “And 14” “radically changed the strategic position of the country and the world political structure.”