Category: Politics

The President of Russia advised US to switch to direct elections The United States, if important to them justice, it would be to change the electoral law and to make presidential elections direct. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC. The Russian leader pointed out that the American Constitution and election legislation is constructed in such a way that the candidate can vote a greater number of electors, which is a smaller number of voters. “And such cases in the history of the United States are. Really?” — said Putin. “So if we talk about some socio-political justice, then we need to change is the electoral law to bring the case to enable the direct secret ballot elected the head of state and was a direct calculation, which can be easily controlled,” said he. “That’s all. And there’s nobody to point to and blame

Putin hopes that the 17 years in power, it personally did not affect MOSCOW, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that the 17 years of his leadership has not affected his personality. “I hope not” — he said, responding to a question in an interview with U.S. television channel NBC. Meanwhile, Putin stressed that he feels a direct connection with Russia and its history, which was full of tragic events. “What am I feeling? I feel a direct living connection with the land, with history, with the country. You said that in St. Petersburg for a few days. Yesterday (June 1 — ed.) spoke with the Prime Minister of India, he visited the Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery, where are buried about 400 thousand of Leningrad, as a rule, civilians who died during the Second world war in the blockade. They died of starvation. And in one of

Photo: RIA Novosti Anti-Russian sanctions, despite the damage to the economy, gave impetus to the development of several industries, including high-tech, said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during the plenary session at SPIEF-2017. “Whether it caused damage to us? Yes, of course. These restrictions are detrimental to us. Mainly, this is due to limitations of funding and our financial organizations with transfer of technology. But there is a plus. Because we, for example, prompted the development of entire sectors of the Russian economy,” Putin said. A significant increase was observed in agriculture, but the stimulus received and the high-tech industry. “Our agriculture is growing at a rate above 3% each year. Well, about about 3%. This had never happened before. This phenomenon, to be honest. I had big concerns, how do we solve the problems. Solved. If this is ten years ago, it was, by the way, we wouldn’t

Vladimir Putin © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. The United States should stop interfering in the internal Affairs of other countries and our own to improve electoral legislation. This Council gave Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the leading American TV channel NBC Megyn Kelly.

Putin: there should be no doubt about the development of Russia in a democratic way MOSCOW, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that no one has any doubt about the development of Russia in a democratic way should not be. “I want to say that Russia is developing in a democratic way. It is by far, and this should not have any doubt,” Putin said an interview with the American TV channel NBC. “Why do you feel entitled to ask us such questions, and continuously engage in moralizing and teach us to live?” — asked the head of state.

Putin commented on the attacks on Kislyak in the United States WASHINGTON, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the current Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak was chosen as the line of attack on President Donald trump. “For me, it’s amazing: you scratch made a sensation and turned it into a tool against the current President. You just know that you are inventive people out there are so well done. You are bored to live, apparently,” said Putin in an interview with U.S. television channel NBC. He also answered negatively to the question if he’s talking with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. his meetings with the team members of US President Donald trump. “No, because if it was something significant, he would have reported to the Minister, the Minister reported to me. No reports even it was not… Nothing simple, nothing to talk

Putin called the rumors about the alleged presence of Russian dirt on trump’s nonsense MOSCOW, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin called another nonsense information that Russia allegedly has dirt on the us leader Donald trump, and stated that he never met. “Just another nonsense. Where we have some information? We have that with him there was some special relationship? In General, there were no relations. He came to Moscow at the time. You know, I never met him,” said Putin in an interview with U.S. television channel NBC, answering a question about Russia information, discrediting trump. Putin to @megynkelly: “In the grand scheme of things, we don’t care who’s the head of the United States” https://t.co/oWSKbSkrAq — NBC News (@NBCNews) June 4, 2017 The Russian leader noted that in Russia a lot of Americans, particularly many US officials took part in St. Petersburg economic forum. The

Photo: RIA Novosti Team US President Donald trump was more effective than the other in the course of the campaign, though sometimes it seemed that he “goes through”, said Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg international economic forum (SPIEF). “The problem isn’t us, the problem is within American politics. Team trump has proven to be more effective during the election campaign. I myself sometimes thought goes through the man, honestly. But it turned out that he was right, he found the approach to those groups and to those groups of voters on whom he relied. And they came and voted for him, and the other team miscalculated,” said President of the Russian Federation. Putin noted that the opponents trump don’t want to admit his mistake. “It’s easier to say that we are not to blame, it’s the fault of Russian, and they intervened in

Photo: RIA Novosti The North Atlantic Alliance, NATO is doomed to collapse because this organization has “no object of activity”. This was stated to journalists during the St. Petersburg international economic forum, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. “NATO starts to miss, very much to wither when they have difficult with the enemy. Now they are the enemy in the face of Russia formed, a little he quieted down, went out in the 90-ies, now he has risen again” – quoted policy TASS. Rogozin is confident that the policy of sanctions “degenerate”, hence sooner or later NATO will once again have a problem with the image of the enemy. “The economic and political situation will still develop in such a way that NATO will lose the meaning of existence”, – stated the Deputy Prime Minister. We will remind, Dmitry Rogozin worked as permanent representative of Russia to NATO in 2008-2011.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and host of the American TV channel NBC Megyn Kelly © EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin with irony reacted to the hype around the alleged contacts between the representatives of the presidential administration of the USA of Donald trump. In an interview with the leading American TV channel NBC he talked about his meeting with former US presidential Advisor for national security Michael Flynn, whom he had met once at an event in Moscow.