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Photo: RIA Novosti The proposal to create a Council of bloggers at the state Duma Committee on information policy is redundant, said Tuesday the head of the Committee Leonid Levin. Earlier, RT reported that a member of the Committee for physical culture, sport, tourism and youth Affairs Vasily Vlasov (LDPR) proposed to establish a Council of popular bloggers with the Committee on the information policy. According to the Deputy, bloggers could not only to inform the subscribers about the impending in the Duma the bills, but also to participate in the discussion of the initiatives. “Currently with the Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications actively works Advisory Council, which includes more than 100 people. Among them are those who represents the position of the state bodies, organizations and companies working in the field of Internet, media, various experts, prominent lawyers, experts in the field of IT. In this

Photo: RIA Novosti Construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of linear facilities will be simplified. The bill introduced by the government of the Russian Federation placed in the electronic database of the lower house of Parliament. Calculated in accordance with the current legislation term of registration of rights to land plots in state or municipal property, intended for placing of linear objects, is about one year. While existing legal acts oblige organizations who place linear objects, to carry out construction (reconstruction) of facilities for technological connection of facilities of the consumers in period of four months. This difference in timing leads to the fact that a significant portion of the linear facilities are built with violation of the established order. In this regard, the bill proposes to establish the possibility of placing linear objects in terms of a public easement. In particular, it is proposed to determine the basis for establishing

The Kremlin is not watching the new season of “house of cards” Moscow. May 31. INTERFAX.RU — the Kremlin said that too busy to watch the new season of the popular American TV series “house of cards”. Answering a question of journalists, whether in the Kremlin and in presidential administration of the Russian Federation for a series, the Russian premiere of the fifth season which will be held on Wednesday, press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said: “In the Kremlin a lot of other concerns, and therefore to raise this question is unlikely to be correct”. “House of cards” is coming in 2013, the Netflix television series, whose main character is an unscrupulous politician Frank underwood.

Peskov: Putin’s decree on the measures towards Turkey was not concerned with the supply in Russia “notorious tomatoes” MOSCOW, may 31. /TASS/. Date the decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin (On the abolition of certain special economic measures against the Turkish Republic) does not apply to supplies to Russia from Turkey, “the notorious tomatoes”. “When was the negotiations (of the presidents of the Russian Federation and Turkey) on may 3 in Sochi, then the two presidents stated that repealed restrictions that had previously been introduced,” — reminded the press-Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov. According to him, the signing of the decree of Putin “a formalization of these agreements.” Answering the question can now return to the Russian market for Turkish tomatoes, Peskov stressed that. removed restriction “in this case does not relate to the most notorious of tomatoes”. “We are talking about other…”, — he said.

Putin has eased restrictions on visa-free regime with Turkey MOSCOW, may 31 — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded the list of categories of Turkish nationals entitled to travel in Russia on a visa-free regime, the press service of the Kremlin. In November 2015, Putin among the special measures against Turkey has suspended visa-free regime with this country, making a number of exceptions. It quotes the text of the decree, now exceptions also apply to “citizens of the Turkish Republic, members of the crews of the Turkish Republic, and Turkish citizens holding valid official passport and sent to Russia for short-term visits, including diplomatic missions and consular institutions of the Turkish Republic in the territory of the Russian Federation, and members of their families.” In addition, the decree of the President of the Russian Federation emphasized that the expanded list of categories is valid “subject to the adoption of

Photo: RIA Novosti In the state Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications may establish a Council of popular bloggers. The proposal was made by a member of the Committee for physical culture, sports, tourism and Affairs of youth Vasily Vlasov. “We have to understand that now the new time. A huge number of our citizens have their pages in social networks and watching those or other bloggers, sometimes even more than television. Experience bloggers can contribute to the development of a competent strategy for interacting with citizens online” — said Vlasov.

Kyiv hopes for assistance of Putin in securing the truce in the Donbass KIEV, may 31 — RIA Novosti. Kiev has offered in the negotiations in the “Norman format” in Berlin at the level of Deputy foreign Ministers to declare in the Donbass once the silence and insisted first of all on the ceasefire, the participants heard the reports of the groups of the contact group on settling the situation in the region, said the head of the Ukrainian delegation, first Deputy foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadim Pristayko. Working meeting in the “Norman format” on Ukraine at the level of Deputy foreign Ministers and political Directors was held on Tuesday. From the Russian side it was attended by the state Secretary, Deputy foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, with the German state Secretary of the foreign Ministry Markus Ederer and political Director Andreas Michaelis, the French Minister for European Affairs at the

Photo: EPA U.S. Senator John McCain said that Russia is a greater threat than the terrorists of the “Islamic state” (IG, an organization banned in Russia). “I think that Russia is the main threat. More important than the IG (banned in Russia). I think that IG (banned in Russia) can do terrible things. But the Russians tried to destroy the Foundation of democracy, to change the outcome of elections in America,” McCain said in a broadcast by Australian TV channel ABC. However, McCain acknowledged that there is no evidence of Moscow’s interference in the presidential elections in the United States or in France, but he is confident that “the Russians have tried and continue to try to influence elections.” He also noted that he hoped the increasing pressure on Moscow and the introduction of new sanctions. Russia has repeatedly denied accusations of alleged interference in the Affairs of other States,

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Mikhail Fomichev The Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea Embassy in the Russian Federation will sign on Tuesday a Memorandum of understanding and cooperation to the festivals of Russian and Korean culture in 2017-2020, according to the press service of the Ministry. The ceremony will be held in Moscow theatre “New Opera”, it will be attended by Deputy Minister of culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhuravsky and Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Russia, Pak Ro Beck. “The parties shall closely cooperate in order to promote and expand cooperation among countries in the field of culture and tourism, agreed on the holding of festivals of Russian and Korean culture in 2017-2020, with the support of governments and cultural and tourist institutions of the two countries”, — said in a Memorandum. The document requires the

Submarine “Krasnodar” inflicted a rocket attack on the area of Palmyra The Russian Navy launched a missile attack on the positions of militants near the Syrian Palmyra. The operation involved the submarine “Krasnodar” and the frigate “Admiral Essen”. As reported by TASS, citing data from the Ministry of defense of Russia, only on the positions of militants “Islamic state” (banned in Russia as a terrorist organization) made four launch cruise missiles “Calibre”. Shooting produced in the Eastern Mediterranean in the frigate “Admiral Essen” and the submarine “Krasnodar”, which, at the time of missile launch was under water. As explained, the military, the purpose of a rocket attack was including heavy equipment and manpower of militants of the IG throws under the Palmyra of Raqqa. “All the targets”, — stressed in the Ministry of defence. In Moscow, stressed that the US, Turkey and Israel were warned in advance of impending missile