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Photo: RIA Novosti The revival of Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy Valaam monastery is an example of that in the end good will win, said the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill in the homily after the festive divine Liturgy at Valaam monastery on the occasion of the main feast day of the monastery. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church is annually visited Valaam monastery on memorial day its founders St. Sergius and Herman of Valaam (July 11). On this day the monastery was visited by the Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Patriarch, he first visited the island in 1969, and then it seemed that there was no hope for the revival of an ancient monastery, founded in the first century of Christianity in Russia. In Soviet times, half a century on the Balaam was not a monastic life, temples have been desecrated. The restoration of the monastery began in

Photo: MOSCOW, 11 Dec — RIA Novosti. The Senator Lyudmila Narusova has asked the Federation Council Committee on rules with a request to compensate her for expenses in connection with the rejection of the use of the official car Ford Mondeo. As reported at the meeting of the Committee Deputy Chairman Vladimir Poletaev, the current law “On the status member of the Federation Council and state Duma Deputy” provides for similar compensation for personal vehicle use for business purposes. However, because the Federation Council is the first case of such treatment, the amount of compensation is not defined. The Senator proposed to give instruction to the legal Department of the chamber to develop an appropriate regulatory document. According to the head of transport Department, office of the President Anatoly tukov who took part in the meeting of the Committee, General allowance calculations is indeed missing, but in the state Duma

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, answering the question of RT after the informal Ministerial meeting of OSCE, has commented on the lighting a number of media operations for the liberation of Eastern Aleppo. According to Lavrov, in the media “was just hysterical due to the fact that, allegedly, civilians suffer the most”. “We were accused of ethnic cleansing”, — he explained. The diplomat stressed that at the present time, the fact of people returning to Aleppo passes by its Western counterparts. “They prefer not to notice”, — said Lavrov. The Minister also noted that in the case of Mosul are no conditions to orderly withdraw of civilians was not, in Eastern Aleppo was able to release with much less damage to civilian infrastructure. In April the FAN was reported that in Aleppo began the restoration of residential areas and civilian infrastructure.

Photo: RIA Novosti Senator Viktor Ozerov at the meeting on Tuesday officially announced the resignation of the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security. Earlier Ozerov RIA Novosti has confirmed that he wrote a letter of resignation from the post of head of the Committee at his own request, a final decision on it will make the Federation Council on July 12. The Senator explained his decision by the necessity of the rotation and his desire to “change the rhythm of life.” According to him, he remains the Senator from Khabarovsk territory. The lake is also called speculation reports that his departure is associated with no existing relationship with defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. According to the Senator, with Shoigu, it “connects many years of joint work and mutual understanding”, and playing on the same soccer team.

Photo: RIA Novosti The majority of Russian citizens (90%) believes that young people should participate in public and political life of the country, with 62% against its participation in rallies and demonstrations. This is evidenced by the results of a survey released on Tuesday by the all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM). “Request for involvement of young people in public and political life in our society is formed: it is fixed at 90% of Russians – in comparison with 2007 (75%), this share has increased markedly,” – said in the message. Agree with this statement more than 80% of respondents in all age groups. According to the study, the Russians favour the participation of young people in different types of political activities: voting in elections (67%), discussion the political situation in private conversations and participation in activities of socio-political organizations (46%), discussion the political situation (44%). The participation

White house: new sanctions bill against Russia carries risks for US foreign policy In mid-June, the Senate passed a bill to increase pressure on Iran, which includes the amendment to expand the sanctions regime against Russia. WASHINGTON, July 12. /TASS/. The US government believes that the bill on sanctions against Iran, including the extension of restrictions in respect of Russia, carries certain risks for the possibility of the current administration to implement foreign policy. This was announced Wednesday at a press briefing, first Deputy press Secretary of the White house Sarah Sanders. “In its current form, the bill poses risks for the implementation of the current government’s foreign policy. While they [lawmakers] will not move forward in this process, we comment on it more will not,” she said answering the question of whether the President intends to veto this bill.

The building of the foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation © Gennady Homeland/TASS MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The Russian foreign Ministry considers the decision of the European court of human rights (ECHR) in the case of “Bayev, Kiselev, Alekseyev V. Russia” as an example of politicized complaints against Russia. “We believe that the decision of the ECHR in the case “Bayev, Kiselev, Alekseyev V. Russia” is another example of a politicized approach to dealing with complaints against our country in violation of the principles of subsidiary, i.e. the subsidiary role of the ECtHR and the margin of appreciation of States parties in the application of the provisions of the Convention on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms”, – is spoken in published on Wednesday a message to us.

Photo: AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, which met with the son of the President of the United States Donald trump in June last year, in an interview with NBC stated that she had no dirt on Hillary Clinton, but about the meeting, she asked only out of interest in the Magnitsky law. “I’ve never had damaging information on Hillary Clinton. I wasn’t going to do it,” she said. Also, commenting on the statements trump Jr. on the availability of specific information about Clinton, she stated that “maybe they wanted this information, they heard what they wanted to hear.” It is noted that many of the media considered her “confidant” of the Kremlin, but Veselnitskaya refuted such claims. Your interest in the meeting, she explained that many years worked on the case, which prompted the USA to impose sanctions against Russian officials accused of human rights

Photo: Kommersant The state Duma Committee on state construction and legislation supported amendments that would allow Ukrainians to join the Russian citizenship without confirmation of refusal from the Ukrainian from Kiev. It is reported by TASS on Tuesday, July 11. Under current law, to receive Russian passports, the person must provide a certificate from the relevant agencies of the state, from the citizenship which he refused. To obtain such a document from the Ukrainian authorities “almost impossible,” said the Chairman of the Committee Pavel Krasheninnikov. “The following schedule is proposed: citizens write a paper in which they indicate that they refuse the citizenship of Ukraine, the document must be notarized. One copy remains in the migration service of the Russian Federation, the other notary sent to Ukraine”, — explained the mechanism of the MP. He confirmed that the relevant amendments be made to the bill to revoke citizenship from persons