Category: Politics

The U.S. administration has disclosed the salaries of staff in the White house The annual salaries of officials varies from $30 thousand to $179 thousand WASHINGTON, July 1. /TASS/. 377 salaries of employees of the White house staff, including advisors and assistants to the President of the United States Donald trump, revealed on Friday the current administration sent to Congress a public report. The annual salaries of officials varies from $30 thousand to $179 thousand The report also confirmed the information that the son-in-law and a senior political adviser to trump Jared Kushner, and daughter of the head of state Ivanka trump also serves as the Advisor of the President of the United States, have not been paid. In the document of their annual income from the state Treasury equal to zero. Key White house officials — chief of staff, Bribes Raines, White house spokesman Sean Spicer, chief polystrate Steve

Trump urged countries to join the sanctions against the DPRK WASHINGTON, June 30 — RIA Novosti. The President of the United States Donald trump urged countries to join the sanctions against the DPRK. “The United States urges other regional powers and all responsible States to join the sanctions,” said trump at a press conference following the meeting with the President of South Korea, moon Jae Otherwise. Trump noted that “the U.S. will always protect themselves and their partners.” “We are working closely with South Korea, Japan and other partners around the world on a range of diplomatic, economic measures and measures of security to protect our allies and our own citizens from North Korea,” he added.

Russia has suspended the payment of contributions to the budget of the Council of Europe Moscow. June 30. INTERFAX.RU — Moscow suspends payment of a contribution to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) until the full restoration of credentials of the delegation of the Federal Assembly of Russia, stated the Russian foreign Ministry. “Given that the Russian Federation has decided to suspend the payment of its contribution to the Council of Europe for 2017 to the unconditional restoration of full powers of delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in PACE,” — said in a statement the Russian foreign Ministry posted on the website of the guardian. The head of Russian foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov has notified the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, during a telephone conversation on Friday. The delegation of Russia in 2014 was stripped to the PACE of authority

The Chairman of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova © Vladimir Gerdo/TASS MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Central election Commission of Russia has questions to the procedure for the nomination of the mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman from the party “Yabloko” in the elections of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region. This was stated on Friday, the Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova. “I now appeal to the leaders of the party “Yabloko”. In the Sverdlovsk region we have a number of questions on the nature and order of nomination. Now it’s not too late to fix anything, I ask the leaders of the “Yabloko”, contact the CEC, that we worked out in detail all the nuances, have until July 21 to fix” she said at the CEC session.

Photo: RIA Novosti Another accusation of the U.S. against the Syrian authorities was not substantiated. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. According to her, the statements of American politicians is similar to a large-scale provocation not only in Syria, but in the direction of Russia. “We can watch as planned and is now implementing a US scenario against Syria on the basis of alleged information about weapons of mass destruction. Historically, we have already had to deal with this. It was about the millions of victims in Iraq killed at least hundreds of thousands of innocent people,” – said Zakharov. The diplomat added that the US campaign, supported by Britain and France, not original, as this script already worked out in several regions.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov did not answer the question of whether appointed as the new Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the United States, putting these issues before the official announcement is kept secret. He declared it on Thursday to journalists. “These issues before the official appointment is kept secret,” he said. Answering specifying question, whether the taken decision on the appointment, Ushakov reiterated that “these issues are secret”.

In the state Duma announced the preliminary text of the oath for entry into citizenship MOSCOW, 30 Jul — RIA Novosti. The first Deputy Chairman of state Duma Committee on state construction and legislation Mikhail Emelyanov announced the preliminary text of the oath for entry into the citizenship of the Russian Federation, according to which the citizen will have to swear to observe the Constitution and respect its history. On Friday, a working group of the state Duma after a meeting with the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin has chosen the preliminary text of the oath for entry into the citizenship of the Russian Federation, the basis for it was a variant of the head of Committee Pavel Krasheninnikov. I (full name) voluntarily and knowingly taking the citizenship of the Russian Federation I swear to respect the Constitution and the legislation of the Russian Federation, rights and freedoms

Putin signed a decree on the extension of the counter-sanctions until the end of 2018 Moscow. June 30. INTERFAX.RU — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree prolonging the response to anti-Russian sanctions the EU until 31 December 2018. The decree was signed on 30 June and published on the official portal of legal information. That the government submits to the President a proposal about the extension of measures in response to another rollover of EU sanctions, on Thursday said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “We will react adequately. Yesterday this was the question we discussed with the President. The government will submit the proposal to extend the retaliatory measures by one year, until 31 December 2018”, — said Medvedev at a government meeting yesterday. Food embargoes acts of the Russian Federation, 7 August 2014 in relation to products from the US, EU, Australia, Norway and Canada. 13 Aug 2015 list

The Kremlin is waiting for the acting governors autonomy The administration of President distanciruemsa from manual management of regional political problems in the election. A new political reality in the gubernatorial elections will provide a team of regional leaders in the first place — acting who apply for these posts for the first time. The Kremlin will primarily monitor the implementation of the electoral process by all standards of law and will not interfere in internal political processes, including directing the campaign. The responsibility for the outcome of the election will be borne by the governors. On this approach, “Izvestia” said two people close to the leadership of the political block of the Kremlin. In presidential administration (AP) point out that changes due to the advent in the regions new generation of politicians. — The average age of candidates in governors — 44 years. They need to build a real

Leonid Slutsky © Sergey Skates/TASS MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The summer session of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which initiated the procedure of dismissal of the Chairman Pedro Agramunt, ended with the triumph of anti-democracy and Russophobes. On Friday told journalists the head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky on the results of the PACE session. “The June session of PACE in Strasbourg turned into a triumph of anti-democracy, Russophobes. Each day was marked by the manifestation of double standards and the adoption of decisions contrary to common sense”, – he stressed.