Category: Politics

PACE decided to separate the sanctions from the people The “Magnitsky act”, called to spread to all of Europe. The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution calling on the parliaments of all member countries to create conditions for the development of laws like “Magnitsky act”. Such a document would deny visas and freeze the accounts of people who “are responsible for serious violations of human rights”. The resolution also aims to demonstrate that the PACE “do not trust the Russian justice”. Over the course of the discussion in Strasbourg was watched by the correspondent “” Ekaterina Mareeva. Resolution “Sergei Magnitsky and similar cases — fight against impunity through targeted sanctions” made a member of the British labour party Donald Anderson. Of the 318 members of PACE in the vote was attended by 104, 95 voted in favor, three against and six abstained. The document calls

Ex-lawyer trump refused to answer Congress questions on the investigation into Muller Moscow. 22 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — Two U.S. congressmen announced that the former lawyer for Donald trump, Michael Cohen, during testimony to Congress will not be answering questions related to the investigation of alleged ties trump with Russia, said Tuesday the newspaper the Hill. In a letter to two congressmen-Republicans Mark meadows and Jim Jordan, they sent a guy Petrillo attorney Cohen stated that to testify to Congress next month Cohen “pushed” his spokesman lanny Davis. According to the congressmen, Davis told them that Cohen refuses to issues related to the investigation that the special Prosecutor Robert Mueller about the alleged ties of the electoral headquarters of the trump of Russia. In addition, Cohen failed to respond to questions about his involvement in the scheme for payment of money to women who claimed that they had an intimate connection

The Kremlin said that the positions of Japan and Russia on a peace Treaty has not changed Moscow. 22 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — IN Moscow not recorded any change in the Japanese position on peace Treaty during the Tuesday talks of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, Moscow’s position has not changed, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “While we are not detecting any change in Japan’s position. Since then, as with the well-known initiative at East forum in Vladivostok, President Putin has not changed and our position”, — said Peskov “Interfax”, answering the question, were there any on the Japanese side during the meeting of leaders of the two countries any suggestions to resolve the problem of a peace Treaty in the light of the statements made by the Prime Minister of Japan on the eve of visit to Moscow.

In the United States presented a bill to prevent the possibility of “shutdown” in the future WASHINGTON, January 23. /TASS/ — the Document is called “Stop the nonsense”. U.S. Senator mark Warner (Democrat from Virginia) on Tuesday introduced a bill potentially allowing in the future to prevent situations in which the Federal government shuts down for lack of funds, and civil servants are sent on unpaid leave. The information is provided on the website of the legislator. “This bill will allow the government to continue work in the absence of budget funds, automatically providing a budget of exactly the same size, in which it was allocated in the previous fiscal year, but adjusted for inflation”, — reads the statement of the office of Warner. However, in accordance with this document, it is assumed not to automatically allocate resources for the work of the White house and the legislative branch in

The US state Department announced the resignation of assistant Secretary of state, who oversaw relations with Russia Moscow. 22 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — the Representative of US state Department Robert Palladino on Tuesday announced the resignation of assistant Secretary of state for European Affairs and Eurasian Wessa Mitchell. “Assistant Secretary of state Mitchell resigns as head of the office for European and Eurasian Affairs, February 15, 2019. Deputy assistant Secretary of state Elizabeth Millard will serve as the acting assistant Secretary of state,” Palladino wrote on his page on Twitter. Mitchell served as head of the office for European and Eurasian Affairs of the US state Department since September of 2017. In this post he, in particular, was responsible for the relations with Russia and Ukraine. See also: Tymoshenko called the main task for the new President of Ukraine CNN: Emin Agalarov has postponed a U.S. tour due to the breakdown

“Favorite Davos”: the WSJ noted the drop Macron The President of France Emmanuel macron was once “a favorite of Davos”, but this year was forced to miss the world economic forum (WEF) due to the ongoing protests of the movement “yellow jackets,” writes The Wall Street Journal. As the newspaper notes, his absence speaks to how quickly the pockets of populism can capture far from world leaders. Just a year ago the participants of the WEF was in near-euphoric state after electing Him President of France. The former investment banker was the epitome of the quintessential “Davos man”, the newspaper said. However, the introduction of fuel taxes to fight climate change has led to the emergence of the protest movement and turned into weekly anti-government protests, which involved burning of cars, smashing shop Windows and even storming the office of a Minister, writes the WSJ. Since then the French President

The U.S. Supreme court upheld the ban on transgender service in the army The Supreme court (SC) of the USA approved the plan of the administration of President Donald trump to ban transgender people to serve in the U.S. army. This January 22, reported AP. Five judges voted for the decision, opposed by four. The Agency noted that the plan did not support the liberal judges who are now in the armed forces are a minority. At the same time, the court immediately refused to consider cases that are now heard in the lower courts. The administration trump 23 November 2018 asked the Supreme court to review the decision that transgender people can serve in the army. The solicitor General of the United States, Noel Francisco, who represents the White house to the Supreme court, stated that this should be done before June. For 2018 the administration of the trump

Medvedev is preparing a reorganization in the government The goal of reforming the structure of the Cabinet is to reduce duplicating functions of the relevant departments and secretariats of the Vice-premiers. The Russian Cabinet of Ministers is preparing to reorganize the structure of the staff of the secretariats of the Deputy Prime Ministers and relevant departments. About it writes RBC with reference to sources. The aim of the reform is the reduction of overlapping functions of sectoral departments and secretariats of the Vice-premiers, who are now engaged in the preparation of solutions for the development of those sectors of the economy that fall within the competence of the Vice-premiers. “We eliminate duplication of functions and clearly outlined in the competence of Deputy Prime Ministers”, — told Agency in the press-service of the Cabinet. The reorganization should be completed within one month, noted in a press-service. See also: Shaken, not stirred