Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Party “the Apple” has addressed to the leader of group “Aquarium” Boris Grebenshchikov requesting permission to use one of his songs in his anti-war campaign. This is stated in the letter from the Chairman of the political movement the Emilia Kabanovoy published on the organization’s website on Monday, 3 July. We are talking about the text of the musical composition “Train on fire”: “I saw generals, They drink and eat our death Their children are going crazy From the fact that they have nothing more to want. And the land lies in rust, a Church mixed with ash. And if we want to come back to, Time to go home.” The philosophy of the song, according to Kabanovoy, in tune with the philosophy of the campaign of the party. “In this song we hear a protest against war and violence, in it we see hope for the

Photo: RIA Novosti The leader of China XI Jinping arrived in Moscow on a two-day state visit. As informs RIA Novosti, the plane of the President of China landed at the Moscow airport Vnukovo-2. He was met by Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Igor Morgulov and ambassadors of both countries. Earlier, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday evening, July 3, will hold in Moscow an informal meeting with XI Jinping. It is expected that the leader of China and the Russian head of state will discuss prospects of cooperation and coordinate positions on major international issues.

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the patience of the Russian authorities concerning the situation with the country residences of the Russian Embassy in the United States is already “on the wane”. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The representative of the Kremlin said that Moscow may respond to deprivation diplomatic “cottages” similar measures. “As for the principle, the principle of reciprocity we talked. <…> Already for the nuances, it is rather a question of our foreign Ministry”, – said Peskov. In December last year, the U.S. government deported 35 Russian diplomats along with their families and shut down the residence of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in new York and Maryland. Such a measure, the American authorities explained the alleged Moscow’s intervention in the presidential election. Then, the Russian authorities have refrained from the use of “mirror” responses, decided to look at

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the outflow of foreign capital from the country associated opportunistic processes and volatility. The correspondent reports about it “Газеты.Ru”. “We continue to believe that a certain volatility is always possible. Capital freely comes in and goes out freely. This is largely conjunctural factors,” – said Peskov. Earlier it was reported that foreign investors brought in four months on the Russian stock more than $1.6 billion, which is the maximum outflow for the last three and a half years. As it became known, at the moment, investors withdraw funds from Russian assets because of internal risks, which has led to the deterioration of the investment climate in the country.

Photo: Valery sharifulin/TASS Citizens of Russia ceased to be a traffic police the most corrupt structure, according to the poll. According to the survey, the most corrupt sector of respondents said medicine (27%), while the traffic police took the second place with 23%. According to the survey 2015, these figures were 21% and 32% respectively. Third place went to the housing sector, which was named by 22% of respondents (vs. 19% in 2015). The overall level of confidence in the police exceeded 50%: approvingly about the service spoke about 52% of the respondents, 41% did not trust her. In addition, more than half of inhabitants of the Russian Federation (57%) said that the Agency copes with its tasks. Did not agree with this statement 34% of respondents. A telephone survey was conducted June 24-25, 2017 year among 1,200 residents of Russia.

Konstantin Yaroshenko © Photo from the family archive/TASS MOSCOW, 5 July. /TASS/. Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, sentenced to 20 years in prison, appealed to the President of the United States Donald Trump asking for the return of the native, wrote in a Wednesday newspaper “Izvestia”, citing Yaroshenko. According to the newspaper, the letter was delivered to the White house through the Russian Embassy in Washington on 4 July. “It is an appeal to Donald Trump is my last chance to return to Russia in his right mind. I hope the US President will show humanity and mercy and will be able to transfer me to the Russian authorities,” – said Yaroshenko.

Photo: RIA Novosti All-Russian youth educational forum “Tavrida – 2017” the third time starts Monday in Crimea, there will come the best representatives of creative young people from all regions of Russia. This year the forum will host eight thematic shifts, in which will participate more than 3 thousand young people from all regions of the country. The first participants will be young architects, designers, urbanists, which will be held program thematic schools. Priority programmes will continue to work on practical cases under the guidance of outstanding masters, said in a release received in the editorial office of the newspaper VIEW. At the opening of the forum volunteer corps will meet young people flash mob-musical “Stop Tauris”. From 15.00 the participants of the session expect a quest like “Hey, Taurus!”, during which will go through nine stations to answer questions on the subject of change, to meet and unite during