Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The government opposes the postponement of the entry into force of the “Spring package” for 2023, assuming that its requirements should be introduced in a phased manner from 1 July 2018, told reporters Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. A package of anti-terrorism laws signed by the President in July of 2016, requires operators and Internet companies for up to six months to store information about the content of the conversations and correspondence of the users, including photos, video and audio files to provide them on request of the security services. The rate of storage of user traffic shall enter into force from 1 July 2018. “We need to gradually introduce — this one no doubt. There is a General consensus of the government, which should gradually, beginning July 1, 2018, to impose certain requirements (“Spring package” — ed.). Bill took the starting date of the implementation of

Trump Jr. explained his silence on the meeting with Veselnitskaya Moscow. July 12. INTERFAX.RU the US President’s Son Donald trump Jr. did not feel the need to tell his father about the meeting in June last year with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya due to the fact that “there was nothing to say.” “There were no such things. There was nothing to tell,” — said in an interview with Fox News channel. Trump Jr. said that any useful information he Veselnitskaya not exchanged. According to him, meeting her was a waste of time. “Looking back, I probably would have done differently,” — said the son of an American leader. “Someone sent me an email. There’s nothing I can do that send me messages. I read and respond to them accordingly”, he added. Earlier foreign mass media appeared information, according to which in June last year, trump Jr. on the eve

Embassy of the Russian Federation: praising Basayev in the Turkish newspaper regrettable ANKARA, 11 Dec — RIA Novosti, Alain Palazhchenko. The Russian Embassy in Ankara has expressed a regret in connection with the publication in the Turkish Pro-government newspaper Yeni Akit, praising Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev, said to RIA Novosti, the acting press Secretary of the Embassy Alexander Leshukov on Tuesday. Turkish Pro-government newspaper Yeni Akit published an article on Tuesday about Basayev on the anniversary of his elimination. As the newspaper writes, his “remember with mercy and gratitude” and “mourn for him”. Mentioned about one of the terrorist attacks carried out by Basayev, in which he in 1991, he captured a Russian passenger plane and forced it to land in Ankara. According to the newspaper, this action “has made it famous around the world.” Also given are some statements Basayev a terrorist nature. “It is regrettable article in the

Photo: RIA Novosti In the state Duma proposed to simplify the process of renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship. This initiative was made by MP Natalia Poklonskaya. About the MP wrote on his account in “Vkontakte”. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//vk.com/js/api/openapi.js?146”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘vk_openapi_js’)); (function() { if (!window.VK || !VK.Widgets || !VK.Widgets.Post || !VK.Widgets.Post(“vk_post_390766055_26687”, 390766055, 26687, ‘P7dCjW0jmyPuP8c_IYRPDNSp7XI’)) setTimeout(arguments.callee, 50); }()); “In collaboration with colleagues, prepared and amended for the second reading of the bill on amendments to articles 22 and 38 of the Federal law “On citizenship of the Russian Federation”. Envisaged, in particular, the possibility of waiver of the citizenship of Ukraine citizens of the state by sending their statements renouncing the citizenship of Ukraine to the authority of this state,” wrote Taylor. Taylor added that the development and adoption of this bill

Photo: RIA Novosti Ukraine’s accession to NATO will contribute to stability in Europe. This statement was made by press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. His words TASS reports. “Russia has for many years greatly concerned about the approach of NATO’s military infrastructure to our borders. It will be a further step, potentially, this could be a further step in this direction, which, of course, will not contribute to strengthening stability and security on the European continent”, — said Peskov. On 6 July the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the law about the priority of membership of Kiev in NATO. On 10 July the head of state noted that Ukraine will apply for membership in the military Alliance only after conduct the necessary reforms in the main sectors of the state.

The head of the CIA has accused Russia and Wikileaks in bid to undermine Western democracy According to Michael Pompeo, the CIA is faced with the activities of “state and non-state actors who seek to “blur” democracy and the rule of law worldwide.” WASHINGTON, July 12. /TASS/. Russia and the organization Wikileaks is trying to undermine democracy in the West. And Wikileaks is essentially hostile toward the United States intelligence structure. Such allegations made on Tuesday by the Director of the Central intelligence Agency (CIA) Michael Pompeo. According to him, the number of threats faced by at this stage, the Agency entrusted to him, the activities of “state and non-state actors who seek to “blur” democracy and the rule of law worldwide.” “This includes groups like Wikileaks — a non-state enemy intelligence service who recruits spies, rewards people stealing legitimate secrets and uses this information to undermine Western democracy. And

Spectracolor the United States in Russia will hold a check upon meet the son of trump’s Russian lawyer According to CNN, the Robert Mueller will also examine previously published Donald trump Jr. e-mails relating to this meeting. NEW YORK, July 12. /TASS/. Appointed by the U.S. Department of justice special Prosecutor Robert Mueller with investigating the allegations of alleged Russian intervention in the American elections, will examine data on meeting the President’s son Donald trump with his Russian lawyer. This was reported on Tuesday by CNN. According to sources, Mueller in the proceedings of the Russian Federation will check on the fact this meeting. Spectacular including a study published earlier Donald trump Jr., emails relating to his meetings with a lawyer from Russia, said the TV channel. On Sunday, the newspaper The New York Times (NYT) reported that trump Jr. in June 2016 held in new York meeting with a

The Ministry of health of the Russian Federation centralizes the purchase of medicines for patients with rare diseases We are talking about orphan diseases, most of which are caused by genetic abnormalities and manifests itself in childhood. MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/. The Ministry of health of the Russian Federation plans in 2017 to centralize the procurement of drugs for the treatment of patients with orphan (rare) diseases. This was announced by the Minister of health of Russia Veronika Skvortsova at a meeting of the group intra-faction “United Russia” in the state Duma under the direction of Victor Pinsky. We really helped the meeting of the Chairman of the Federation Council (the Prime Minister) Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev on the subject. We hope that at least part of orphan diseases this year will be transferred to the Federal level.Veronica Skvortzowii of health of the Russian Federation Orphan diseases are a group of

Photo: RIA Novosti The Federation Council speaker Valentine Matvienko during a meeting with members of the Chamber of young lawmakers proposed to replace the student dormitories of the youth cooperatives or other forms of housing provision. “The word “dormitory” has been discredited over the years of Soviet power, and until now this legacy of hostels very rarely permitted because (living space) of the hostel can not be privatized, the hostel man becomes a “slave situation” — he can’t (housing) to sell, get a mortgage, buy an apartment” — gave an example of Matvienko at the meeting on Monday. The Senator proposed to abandon the hostels in their current form, however, the idea of private hostels, the MP is also not supported. According to her, there are many other options: youth cooperatives, houses with Studio apartments for young families and students. She stressed that projects for the provision of housing for