Category: Politics

Photo: © RIA Novosti The attitude of the administration and experts in the US to the BRICS becomes more serious interest, told RIA Novosti on the sidelines of the conference Doing Business with BRICS head of the economic Department of the Russian Embassy in the United States, Andrey Bondarev. “We see how the attitude from the administration and experts, mass media (BRICS). I have been trying not to notice, treated leniently, (believing) that nothing but political declarations is not” — said the Agency interlocutor. “The attitude has changed dramatically, and it happened before our eyes in 2014, when the meeting in Fortaleza, announced the establishment of the BRICS development Bank and currency reserve pool. We saw that especially the US has seen a kind of future hypothetical threat to financial instruments created by the West, such as the international monetary Fund, the world Bank”, — he said. “Over the past

Trump might not know about the source of information, which he shared with Lavrov WASHINGTON, may 16 — RIA Novosti. The US President Donald trump may not know, is the source of the information, which he shared with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, told reporters Advisor to the President for national security Herbert McMaster. “May I make a statement, but the President did not know about where the data came, he was also not informed about the source or method (the collection of) information,” McMaster said at a briefing in the White house. The Advisor stressed several times that the administration considers all the information that the US President gave the Russian foreign Minister was “appropriate”. Previously, the newspaper the Washington Post made a statement that trump last week shared with Lavrov at the meeting at the White house top-secret information on banned terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG). The newspaper

Ukraine blocks Russian social network: causes and consequences The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree imposing sanctions against several Russian companies, including social networks “Vkontakte” and “Odnoklassniki” company “Yandex”. The decree Poroshenko has not yet entered into force: it will happen after publication in the official Gazette of the Ukrainian government newspaper “Uryadovy Kurier”. It is expected that this will happen in the coming days. Preparation of the decree occurred in a secret mode, said Bi-bi-si, the Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Dmytro shymkiv. He, like many representatives of the Ukrainian authorities, got acquainted with its contents only on Tuesday morning when the text of the document posted on the website of the President. Lock the most popular social networks and services came as a surprise to the expert community — not to mention the millions of ordinary users. Bi-bi-si tried to obtain answers to

Photo: REUTERS President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that Russia could use against Ukraine kibervoyska. Earlier in mass media there were messages that Russia is among five countries with the most highly developed cyberpassage. “We have seen cyber war, when the Russian kibervoyska tried to influence the outcome of elections throughout Europe, in the United States of America. We expect that they will try to make in Ukraine. I am confident that our determination and solidarity will not leave them any chances,” said Poroshenko on Monday evening in the program “Svoboda words” on ICTV channel on videovelocity from Malta. Kiev has repeatedly accused Moscow of meddling in Ukraine’s Affairs. Russia denies it and calls such accusations unacceptable. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to domestic conflict, uninvolved in the events in Donbass and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. Accusations of “Russian hackers”

Photo: NEWS/Alexander Kazakov First, the Ministry of economic development of the Russian agencies will apply the corporate approach to management. The plans of the Ministry to change the system of bonuses to its employees, corporate culture, and to introduce a project approach to work. All structural divisions of the Ministry will be set key performance indicators (KPI), said in a “Public Declaration of the goals and objectives of economic development of Russia in 2017”, which acquainted “Izvestia”. Another innovation that will appear in the Ministry of economic development, — electronic authentication of documents, which will significantly simplify the life of all the employees of the Ministry, said the Agency staff. Popular in world practice of corporate management of design method of working is gaining popularity in the government. First, the White house had established a project office, and “project” work began to implement in the implementation of the state programs

Leonid Levin © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, may 16. /TASS/. The head of the Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications Leonid Levin did not rule out the emergence of the “Ukrainian great firewall” (firewall – the firewall does not allow the computer to download viruses) in connection with the decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko about the blocking of access to Russian social networks “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”. The MP suggested that such measures have had a sobering impact on the Ukrainians, as well as on the countries that continue to insist that Ukraine is in the process of democratization.

© Donat Sorokin/TASS YEKATERINBURG, may 16. /TASS/. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman to run for elections of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region from the party “Yabloko”. This was reported in Twitter of the mayor.

The Verkhovna Rada has banned the use of St. George ribbons in Ukraine KIEV, may 16. /TASS/. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has banned the use of the ribbons, setting for this administrative punishment. For a decision voted 238 deputies from 226 necessary. “This law provides for administrative fines for wearing the so-called St. George ribbons during mass events”, — said the author of the bill, MP from the faction “people’s front” Anton Gerashchenko, speaking from the rostrum of Parliament. He explained that the way the Ukrainian Parliament opposes “the Russian aggression on Ukraine”, as it believes the St. George’s ribbon its symbol. Administrative punishment would not apply to veterans of the great Patriotic war, in awards where there are elements of ribbons, as well as museums. Under the new law, the punishment for a public demonstration of the St. George ribbon on Ukraine will include a fine from UAH

Zakharova called the decision of Parliament to ban St. George ribbon anti-democratic MOSCOW, may 16. /TASS/. The decision of the Verkhovna Rada to ban St. George ribbon on Ukraine is anti-democratic and ahistorical. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “Seriously, the decision anti-democratic and anti-historical, questioning the basic possibility of any unification of the country, he wrote on his page in Facebook. — But, interestingly, next year Ukraine will celebrate Victory Day and to the March of the Immortal regiment?”. “Contest ended — that the Kiev regime and suffered, — said Zakharov. — To solve these problems neither strength nor will not. And repainting tigers money now and then.”