Category: Politics

Photo: Globallookpress.com Submitted to the Duma a bill to ban VPN services and anonymizers in Russia contains a paragraph which would save the bloggers from introduced in 2014 restrictions and to cancel the registry. Distribution rules for bloggers publicly available information “found to be ineffective,” reads the explanatory note to the bill. Starting in 2014, the bloggers, whose audience exceeds more than three thousand people per day, are required to register, then they bring in the special register of Roskomnadzor. They must abide by the same rules as media: for example, to be responsible for the accuracy of the information published and not to use foul language. In just three years the registry got about two thousand pages. None included in this list punished according to the law was not.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian authorities are waging an information war in the Czech Republic, filled the media space a large amount of information of ballast, according to Director of the Czech counter-intelligence BIS, Michal Koudelka. This opinion he expressed in an interview HlídacíPes.org. According to him, the purpose of the Pro-Russian media is the desire to fill the media space a large amount of information of ballast, which should deprive ordinary citizens of the fulcrum. “Nothing is clear, there is an alternative however… On a real basis is overlaid dangerous misinformation…”, — he explained. According to him, constantly provoked by the feeling that in fact the reality is another, around the deception that democracy is weak and Western society led by the European Union and NATO, is riddled with corruption and bureaucracy. Koudelka said that this is happening on both sides of the imaginary barricades. “The West should also

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of the Duma Committee on security and combating corruption Vasily Piskarev proposes to give the courts the right to impose the death penalty to terrorists, but with the postponement of execution of punishment until the lifting of the moratorium on capital punishment. As RIA Novosti reported, according to Piskareva, on this account, he wants to consult with experts, including well-known lawyers. According to the Deputy, Europe is also sooner or later come to understanding that the ultimate punishment is life imprisonment and the death penalty. According to him, it is necessary to give Russian courts the ability to impose the death sentence with a reprieve of their performances until the time when the political situation will change. When joining the Council of Europe Russia has signed Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms banning the death penalty.

© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Russia will do everything possible to reach agreement between the parties in the situation of Qatar. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, opening negotiations with the foreign Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdel Rahman al Thani.

The EU needs to issue biometric passports to residents of Donbass and Crimea MOSCOW, 9 Aug — RIA Novosti. The head of the EU delegation in Ukraine hug Mingarelli said that Kyiv should issue biometric passports to residents of DND and LNR and Crimea, UNIAN reports. According to Mingarelli, the EU does not support the idea of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to give the citizens living on these territories, only a passport of the old sample and thereby deprive them of the opportunity to travel without visas to Europe. “That is not our understanding,” — said Mingarelli. He noted that the EU has communicated to the Ukrainian authorities. The decision on granting Ukrainian citizens the right to visa-free travel to the EU was published on 22 may in the EU official journal, it will enter into force on 11 June. Earlier, Poroshenko ordered the Ukrainian passport of the old sample

The commander of Russian troops in Syria accused the US coalition in collusion with ISIS MOSCOW, 9 Aug — RIA Novosti. The coalition led by the USA and the “Union of democratic forces” collude with the leaders of the terrorist group “Islamic state”* that without a fight pass occupied settlements in Syria, said the commander of the Russian group of forces in Syria, Colonel-General Sergey Surovikin. “Instead of having to destroy the terrorists responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrian citizens, the coalition led by the United States, along with the controlled “Union of democratic forces” collude with the leaders of ISIL without a fight pass occupied settlements and sent to those provinces where they were active Syrian government forces,” he said. The commander of the Russian group of forces in the SAR noted that “the impression that under the legend of the fight against international

The Russian foreign Ministry called the condition for the transfer of the Embassy from tel Aviv to Jerusalem MOSCOW, 9 Aug — RIA Novosti. Moscow will not move its Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem before a final agreement on the fate of the city between Israelis and Palestinians, said to RIA Novosti, the Russian foreign Ministry. The unresolved status of the city and the sensitivity of this issue for relations with the Arab-Muslim world forced the US President Donald trump to act contrary to his campaign promises and a week ago to postpone for at least six months of relocation of the Embassy, which is now in tel Aviv. Yesterday the Minister for Jerusalem Affairs and national heritage of Israel Zeev Elkin urged Russia to take advantage of the delay of the US and become the first country in the world, which will move its Embassy to Jerusalem. In the

Photo: Reuters First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on defense Andrei Krasov told RT that in response to the approach of NATO Russia will respond to expansion of the CSTO and the SCO. “We will also support their allies, to find new alliances in response to such aggressive expansion of NATO. To expand unions CSTO, SCO. As well as economic alliances, such as BRICS. To minimize this threat, which comes from psevdoholinesterzoy such organizations as NATO,” said Krasov. The MP added that the CSTO can be extended by the admission of the countries of Central Asia, Pakistan, Iran, India and China. In addition, Russia country would strengthen military and economic cooperation with the countries of Europe, Asia and America who “understand that the world is not unipolar and that can pursue policies independent of the whip the United States.” Earlier in the Kremlin said that working on the response

Photo: RIA Novosti The mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov is still the most cited in the Russian media over the heads of the regions, says the data research company “Medialogia” in may. According to the data, Sobyanin and Kadyrov in April, also won first place in the ranking. “In may of 2017, the leaders of the media ranking — the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the Governor of Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov”, — said in comments to the published statistics. It is reported that Sergei Sobyanin in the media in may was mentioned almost 39 thousand times. It is noted that the most notable events Sobyanin: the message about the number of victims of the hurricane in Moscow, support of members of the Public chamber on the draft law with the guarantees for migrants during the

© AP Photo/Hassan Ammar MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Russian observers have recorded over the past day six violations of the ceasefire in the Syrian provinces of Damascus and Deraa, the representatives of Turkey – five such cases in the provinces of Deraa, Idlib and Latakia.