Category: Politics

Ella Pamfilova Photo: RIA Novosti The head of the CEC of Russia Ella Pamfilova is going to take part in the festival of rock music “Invasion”, which will take place on 7-9 July in the Tver region. It is reported TASS with reference to the press service of the Commission. At the festival it will help to choose the President of the event. The agreement was made during an interview Pamfilova gave the radio station “Nashe radio” in early June. According to information posted on the website of the festival, the election of “Invasion” will be held in three stages. From 21 to 25 June everyone is welcome to nominate any musician among the speakers. From 26 June to 2 July will be a preliminary selection (primaries), when you can vote for any candidate. According to the results of the primaries will be 10 presidential candidates “Invasion”. Direct elections will

Photo: TASS Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Oliver stone movie about the Russian leader created the “on the go”. “This film was created on the fly”, – said the head of state at a meeting with teachers. One of the participants referred to this film in which Putin said that he chose the profession including through movies. She complained that now no such film. “And when did I say that?” – Putin responded. He explained that the words were in the movie stone. In response, the President said that often he had to give comments to the Director “wheels”. “I really do not remember what is said (in some interview, stone)”, – admitted the Russian leader.

Switzerland arrested the guarantee of Ukraine for the successful holding of “Eurovision” The national public broadcasting company of Ukraine (NOTE), the organizer of the contest “Eurovision-2017” reported that the Geneva office of debt enforcement initiated the seizure of €15 million, which Kiev was provided by the European broadcasting Union (EBU) to guarantee the proper conduct of the song contest. “The international song contest was successfully held in Ukraine, therefore, the amount of the guarantee must come back”, says the NOTE. “We hired a law firm from Switzerland, because you need to find out all the circumstances of the case and to determine the order of application of the procedure of seizure in accordance with the Swiss legislation”, — said General Director of NOTE Zurab Alasania. We will remind, in Kiev’s International exhibition center hosted the 62nd European song contest “Eurovision”. For the first time in many years Russia in the

May has promised not to expel EU citizens from the UK after Brexit MOSCOW, 22 Aug — RIA Novosti. The Prime Minister of great Britain Teresa may has promised European leaders that the EU citizens will be able to remain in the United Kingdom after the completion of Brexit, reports Agence France-Presse, citing a source in the British government. According to the source, may have touched on this topic at the working lunch during the EU summit in Brussels. “She made it clear that EU citizens lawfully in the country, will be able to stay there after the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union”, — said the source. The spokesman added that Mei rejected the plans of Brussels, who offered to consider disputes about the rights of citizens in the EU court. In the UK, 23 June 2016 held a referendum on the country’s withdrawal from the EU. For

Der Spiegel found out about a long-term surveillance of German intelligence for the White house Moscow. June 22. INTERFAX.RU — the Federal intelligence service of Germany (BND) for many years, followed by military and government authorities of the USA, particularly the White house, said on Thursday the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing internal documents of the BND. “From 1998 to 2006, BND implemented for surveillance 4 million search queries: the so-called “selectors”, — said the publication. The magazine said that this concept means collecting information about telephone numbers, faxes and e-mail addresses. Thus, the officers had the opportunity to monitor the work of the White house, state Department and U.S. Treasury Department. According to Der Spiegel, German intelligence has also paid close attention to the surveillance of space Agency NASA, aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, Human Rights Watch and a number of other institutions in the United States. In addition, Germany

The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky © Sergey Skates/TASS MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. The extension of the EU anti-Russian sanctions due to the failure of the Minsk agreements is absurd, according to the Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky. “The wording [of the President of the European Council Donald] Tusk, “the lack of implementation of the Minsk agreements” is absurd and only causes bewilderment,” said Slutsky reporters on Thursday. According to him, Russia was “tired of repeating” that is not a party to the Minsk agreement, neither the conflict in Ukraine. “However, the EU continues to ignore the true state of things and prefers not to respond to blatant sabotage by Kiev, the implementation of the “Minsk-2″. The notorious double standard, and again to the detriment of themselves,” – said the head of the Committee.

Photo: RIA Novosti The last US presidential campaign was the most dirty and unprincipled from the standpoint of the use of fake news, said Wednesday the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “The most expensive presidential campaign in U.S. history, obviously the dirtiest, most unprincipled, I think, from the point of view of the use of fake news in the information technology, media,” – she declared in interview to TV channel “Mir 24”.

Photo: Permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the international organizations in Vienna The representative of the Russian Federation to the international organizations in Vienna Vladimir Voronkov will lead the counter-terrorism office of the United Nations in the status of Deputy Secretary-General. The appropriate appointment of the head of the world organization antónio Guterres made on Wednesday. Earlier Tuesday, UN Secretary-General reported that the head of the new office of the world organization for combating terrorism will be appointed “this week”. The UN General Assembly on 15 June decided to establish the office of the world organization for combating terrorism. The new structure will be transferred from the Department of political Affairs office for the fight against terrorism and the task force on combating terrorism and working in them are currently employees. The head of the new Department will have the status of Deputy Secretary-General.

North Korea has tested a new engine for a ballistic missile, media reported WASHINGTON, 22 Jun, RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky. North Korea has tested a new engine for an Intercontinental ballistic missile, reported the Fox News channel, citing sources in the intelligence community of the United States. According to him, the test was performed on Wednesday. Details are still unknown. Earlier, the President of South Korea, moon Jae-In said that the DPRK “in the not so distant future” will learn the technology of Intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of hitting targets on U.S. soil. In early June, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution expanding sanctions against North Korea in connection with the ongoing rocket launches. The last launch was conducted on June 9, when North Korea tested several anti-ship cruise missiles. The previous test took place on 29 may, was held the launch of a ballistic missile with a

The EU agreed to extend sanctions against Russia The EU decided to extend sanctions against Russia for failure to comply with the Minsk agreements. The European Union agreed to extend sanctions against Russia. About this in his Twitter wrote the President of the European Council Donald Tusk at the EU summit in Brussels. Agreed. EU will extend economic sanctions against Russia for their lack of implementing the Minsk Agreement. #EUCO — Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) June 22, 2017 “I agree. EU extends economic sanctions against Russia due to the lack of implementation of the Minsk agreements”, — he wrote. Before the U.S. expanded sanctions against Russian companies and individuals. Under the new restrictive measures hit private military company “Wagner”, the company of businessman Eugene Prigogine, IFD “Capital”, as well as several subsidiaries of Transneft. In addition, sanctions apply to the Deputy Minister of economic development of Russia Sergey Nazarov, Dmitry Utkin,