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Photo: Fotolia / smirno The story on regional air caused the Federal response The leadership of “United Russia” promised to deal with the regional deputies, who decided to raise their own salaries. The Deputy of the state Duma from region Raisa Karmazina has declared that decent wages — “this is an important anti-corruption element”. The scandal erupted because of the plot at the Krasnoyarsk television about the double indexation of salaries of deputies of the legislative Assembly. The first Deputy Chairman of the faction “United Russia” in the state Duma Raisa Karmazina, elected from the Krasnoyarsk region, said that the party will investigate the “sensational stories with a twofold increase of wages” of the members of the legislative Assembly. The occasion was a plot on Krasnoyarsk TV channel TVK: television presenter congratulated the regional MPs with a two-fold increase of salaries: “you Guys are just handsome! Wanted to raise the

MPs want to penalize citizens for the content in social networks In the Duma introduced a bill on fines for defamatory and inaccurate content. United Russia Sergei Boyarsky and Andrew Alshevskih submitted to the state Duma amendments to the law “On information, information technologies and protection of information” and Code of administrative offences. MPs propose to establish liability for failure to remove illegal and inaccurate content from your social networks. The initiative agreed with the expert Council of the faction. According to Boyarsky, bill, “meets the challenges of our time”. Deputies cited the experience of the “foreign colleagues”: “the Bundestag, also responding to the challenges of the modern information space, has passed a tough bill, establishing liability for failure to remove illegal and inaccurate content ranging from 500,000 to 5 million euros”, — told reporters the knights. The authors of the amendments propose to establish liability for individuals in case

The state Duma has allowed to put cyber attacks on the infrastructure of Russia The state Duma adopted in the third reading the bill on the security of information infrastructure and approved the amendments to the criminal code that allow to send people to prison for cyber attacks on critical infrastructure Russian infrastructure. Developed by the FSB and the government submitted the bill requires the establishment of a state system for countering cyber-attacks on government agencies, banks, enterprises, important communications centers and entire sectors of the economy such as energy, transport and defense industry. The full name of the new system is a State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks (Gossipy). Goscope already working — so, it was connected contractors of the recently held Confederations Cup in football. But the rules on mandatory connection to the system of constituent entities of critical infrastructure (SKI) is

The senators released Ozerov from the position of head of the defense Committee Moscow. July 12. INTERFAX.RU — the Federation Council Viktor Ozerov released from the post of Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security in connection with his application filed last week. The senators have considered this question at plenary session of chamber on Wednesday. On the eve of the defence Committee decided that the acting Director will be Yevgeny Serebrennikov, first Deputy Chairman. Earlier an informed source told “Interfax” that the silver coins only temporarily will head the Committee, and after the election in September this post can take Viktor Bondarev, who is the commander of aerospace forces of the Russian Federation. According to the source, after the September elections Bondarev can be delegated to Council of Federation from the Governor of the Kirov region, and then, probably, and will be headed by the defence

© Alexander Ryumin/TASS MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The state Duma adopted on Wednesday the amendments that remove obstacles to obtaining citizenship Russia former Ukrainians. The deputies allowed them to provide a certificate of renunciation of citizenship of Ukraine from the competent national authorities. The relevant rules were passed by the lower house in discussing the second reading of the comprehensive amendments to the laws on Russian citizenship and on the legal status of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation. In particular, declarative negotiated procedure without confirmation from the Ukrainian party to the renunciation of citizenship of Ukraine for obtaining residence permits and passports in the Russian Federation. “A waiver of the citizenship of Ukraine is carried out by means of a Declaration of renunciation to the authority of the state. A document confirming the refusal of a citizen of Ukraine having a nationality is a notarized copy of the application”,

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS BRUSSELS, July 12. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, speaking at a press conference after talks with Belgian foreign Minister Didier Reynders, said that it learned with amazement about accusations of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and the US President’s son Donald trump Jr. for communication.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The Kremlin has nothing to do with the history of correspondence of the US President’s son Donald trump Jr. and his meeting with a Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and considers the story of another round of a “long series”. This was reported to journalists the press-Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, noting that this issue is “understandable” appeared after a meeting of presidents of Russia and USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump.

Photo: © RIA Novosti / said tsarnaev MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the 25th anniversary of the founding of Ingushetia residents and the head of the Republic Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. The corresponding telegram published Tuesday on the website of the Cabinet. “For a quarter century, Ingushetia is developing as an independent region in the United family of fraternal peoples of our multinational country. During this short historical period of time there have been significant changes in the economy, successfully implemented many investment projects in industry and agriculture, the construction industry. Building of new schools, kindergartens, clinics, culture houses, comfortable housing,” – said, in particular, in the telegram. The Prime Minister said the growth and transformation of the capital of Ingushetia, Magas. “Every year it attracts increasing numbers of tourists who appreciate the hospitality, the unique cultural traditions of the Ingush folklore,” he added. Republic of Ingushetia was

Photo: © AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster The meeting of the US President’s son Donald trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya during the election campaign was “very short”, said at a press briefing, White house spokesman Sarah Sanders, reports Reuters. “Donald Jr. had a very brief meeting, following which there was absolutely no follow – up actions,” she said. Sanders added that “the only thing that she considers unacceptable regarding the meeting is that the meeting information was given after she was voluntarily disclosed”. Earlier it was reported that trump was not aware of meeting his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the Chairman of the campaign headquarters of Paul Manafort with Russian lawyer during the election campaign.