Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti In the state Duma Committee on defence has not received a bill to increase the lower threshold of service years to qualify for the military retirement. About this TASS said the head of the Committee Vladimir Shamanov. Earlier, on 15 June, “Kommersant” published an article that speaks of the impending increase from 20 to 25 years the minimum period of service of a serviceman, needed for calculation of his pension. In this regard, the Executive is to submit to Parliament amendments to the law on pension support of servicemen. The newspaper’s sources in the government and the presidential administration noted that the bill is problematic and carries with it considerable risks, but the potential to save the budget several hundred billion rubles per year (up to 350-400 billion according to the newspaper). The bill, writes “Kommersant”, is supposed to refer to the period after the presidential elections

Photo: RIA Novosti Chief of Regardie Viktor Zolotov has compared anti-corruption protests with “color revolutions”. “Protests have a clear systematic and is conducted according to similar scenarios, and the color revolutions in other countries. The true purpose of the fight against corruption are replaced by a total destabilization and creating chaos. Under the pretext of violations of human rights and democratic freedoms in Russia and the media Union, the UK and the US are the constant media attacks to discredit the political leadership of our country,” said gold in an interview to “Interfax”. According to him, for the “loosening” of the situation the company uses “the feelings of good citizens.” Gold outlined one of the main tasks of Department headed by it “counter attempts to destabilize the situation in the country.” The last time anti-corruption events were held in Russian cities on the day of Russia on June 12. One

The flight to the southern Kuriles from Japan moved to June 19 because of bad weather Former residents of the southern Kurils were going to visit the graves of relatives. TOKYO, June 18. /Offset. TASS Cyril Agafonov. Charter flight from Japan to the southern Kuril Islands, where they were to take their former residents to visit the graves of relatives, postponed to June 19 because of bad weather. This was reported today the Japanese foreign Ministry. The departure of the aircraft of the Russian company “Aurora” with 70 passengers on Board was scheduled for Sunday morning, but was initially postponed for a few hours. As a result, the flight and had to reschedule for June 19. According to plan, the aircraft should fly from the airport of the Japanese city Nakashibetsu (hokkaidō Prefecture) first, on Kunashir and Iturup then on. Back Board back in the day of departure via the

Maduro has accused Twitter to block the accounts of his supporters The Venezuelan President said that was also blocked the official page for Radio Miraflores, which leaves the transmission. MEXICO city, June 18. /TASS/. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the local branch of the company Twitter in the deliberate blocking of accounts of followers of late President Hugo Chavez, whose successor he is. Venezuelan Twitter today (Saturday) has disabled thousands of accounts of people, youth, workers, professionals only for the fact that they are chavistas.Nicholas Maduropeptin Venezuela He said this during a meeting with his supporters that was broadcast through the app Periscope. As the President noted, among other things, blocked the official page for Radio Miraflores, which leaves the transmission Maduro “Hour of salsa”. The head of state has called the bans a “manifestation of fascism”. “We will publish a photo of those in charge of Venezuelan Twitter to

Photo: RIA Novosti Straight lines, like those annually held by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, must arrange for all candidates to participate in presidential elections in 2018. This view was expressed by Deputy Chairman of the KPRF Central Committee Dmitri Novikov, reports “Interfax” on Friday, June 16. In his opinion, none of the candidates for the highest office in the country should not shy away from the debate, “everyone should get with the program” during the election campaign. “It is very important that the presidential election became an occasion for large, national discussion”, — said the Deputy. Novikov added that the Communist party is ready for this kind of discussion. In addition, he noted that the leaders of the major political parties should have more opportunities to communicate with nationals of the country for the presentation of his program. The next presidential elections will be held in March 2018. By

Photo: RIA Novosti Citizens of Russia can take part in the discussion of the text of the oath to obtain citizenship of the country. This was stated by the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. “We believe that in any case, it is important to discuss all the options (text of the oath. — RT), and then choose the best. And maybe even to have such a discussion with the participation of the population to understand what the text is correct, we should be as the norm of the law,” TASS quoted Volodin. He also stressed that decision-making in this area — “a really big step.” Previously, the newspaper “Izvestia” wrote that part of the group to develop the text of the oath to obtain citizenship of the Russian Parliament will examine the oath, which bring in the US and the Netherlands. On June 6 Russian President Vladimir Putin

The first flight from Japan sent to the southern Kuriles NAKASHIBETSU (Hokkaido, Japan), 18 Jul — RIA Novosti. The first Charter flight departs on Sunday morning from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the southern Kuriles to their former residents were able to visit the graves of their ancestors under the visa-free exchange between the two countries. So far for these trips were used Maritime transport, but in April of this year during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Moscow, an agreement was reached on granting the former residents of the South Kuril Islands to visit them by plane. As previously reported, the flight will perform Russian airline “Aurora”. According to the visit program, distributed the day before during a ceremony on the occasion of the flight in the town Nakashibetsu, a Charter plane will fly from the local airport at 08:30 local time (02:30 GMT) and

UAE suggested that the West monitor Qatar The Minister of foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Anwar of GARCIAs said about the complete lack of trust in Qatar. He suggested that Western countries to establish a system of monitoring the activities of the government of Qatar. United Arab Emirates invited the Western countries to create a mechanism for monitoring the actions of Qatar to force it to stop supporting terrorists. As reported by The Guardian, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of the UAE Anwar Gargash. According to the publication, Gargash arrived in London to organize diplomatic support of the embargo of Qatar, declared the Arab countries. “We are talking about changing behavior,” — said the Minister. “If we get a clear strategic signals that Qatar intends to change that it will cease funding Islamist militants, it will be the basis for discussion, but we need a monitoring system,”

The coast guard of Saudi Arabia opened fire on the Iranian vessels In the Persian Gulf, the coast guard of Saudi Arabia opened fire on two Iranian fishing vessels. As a result of incident one person was killed, according to Iranian television channel Press TV. Iranian fishermen off course due to the rough sea. The representative of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Iran Majid Aka Baba stressed that Saudi border guards opened fire without clarification. This move by the Saudis is not compatible with universal norms, and even if the court had crossed the border over the waves, they had no right to shoot him.Majid Aka-Babymonitor internal Affairs of Iran The interior Ministry of Iran also said that find out whether the fishermen entered the territorial waters of Saudi Arabia. #Saudi coastguard kills #Iranian fisherman https://t.co/1mpp7JwgBw#MiddleEast #SaudiArabia #Iran #law — Amir Daneshvar (@amirdaneshvar) 17 Jun 2017 Saudi Arabia and

Photo: RIA Novosti The company “Voentorg” has filed an application to Rospatent for registration of brands “Polite bears”, “the army delicious” and “the Russians are coming,” said TASS in the press service of the company. Previously, the firm has patented the brand “Polite people” and “Tank biathlon”. Internet-shop “Voentorg” you can already buy a box of sweets and t-shirts “Polite bears” in two colors. The press service did not specify how you intend to use the slogans “the army is delicious” and “Russian go”. JSC “Voentorg” was created by order of the Minister of defence of the Russian Federation in 2009. In addition to selling clothes and Souvenirs with symbols of the Russian army, the company has been catering the military, and in 2016 is the only supplier of the clothing service of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation. The phrase “the Russians are coming” was used extensively in