Category: Politics

Photo: Khalid Mohammed / AP At the St. Petersburg international economic forum (SPIEF), which will be held June 1-3, 2017, will arrive UN Secretary-General, antónio Guterres and the Federal Chancellor of Austria, Christian Kern. This was reported by press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, reports TASS. He also said that the forum will be visited by Prime Minister Narendra modi. “The President is very extensive and interesting program [of money laundering],” added Sands. In the middle of April was approved the program of SPIEF-2017. This year the forum is held under the motto “In search of a new balance in the global economy”. The discussions will cover five main topics: “the Dynamics of the global economy”; “Shaping the agenda of the Russian economy”; “Technologies that change the reality”; “Human capital as a key vector of development” and “Conversations about the future.” St. Petersburg international economic forum is

Photo: RIA Novosti The procurement of weapons was not discussed at the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Palestinian national authority, Mahmoud Abbas, told RIA Novosti the Minister of foreign Affairs of Palestinian authority Riyad al-Maliki. The talks between Putin and Abbas took place on Thursday in Sochi. “We talked about the procurement of wheat, on joint projects in import and pharmaceutical industry, agricultural projects. Discussed the import of agricultural products to the markets of Russia and the EAEC, poultry and meat, and also discussed the possibility of purchase of Russian oil. Not talking about anything associated with the military sphere, we have not discussed this topic, as focus on the needs of the Palestinian people. This question is not on the agenda,” said al-Maliki.

© Andrei Luzik/press service of the Northern fleet/TASS MOSCOW, may 15. /TASS/. Operation of Russian Armed forces in Syria contributed to the radical change of the situation in this middle Eastern country and created favorable conditions for the promotion of inter-Syrian dialogue, Deputy Secretary of the Russian security Council Mikhail Popov. “They (coordinated with Damascus actions of the Russian military – approx. TASS) caused by international terrorist groups in Syria significant damage, contributed to the radical change of the situation, have created favorable conditions for promoting inter-Syrian dialogue to achieve a political settlement of the conflict”, – said Popov in an interview to the newspaper “Red star”.

© Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, may 14. /TASS/. The sequence of lines of the US President Donald trump on the development of relations with Russia was never broken. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in the program “Sunday time” on channel one. According to him, the American leader during the election campaign or since he became acting President, not saying that wants to have bad relations with Moscow. “On the contrary, he said he wanted with all countries, including Russia, to have a normal, mutually respectful relationship, which will be based on a properly lucid, common interests, – said the Minister. – With common interests first and foremost is the fight against terrorism.” “In fact, the sequence of President trump, in my opinion, was never broken,” – said Lavrov.

Russian aircraft will perform observation flight over great Britain MOSCOW, may 14 — RIA Novosti. RF experts will perform an observation flight over great Britain and Northern Ireland under the international Treaty on open skies, said the head of the Russian national Centre for reducing nuclear danger Sergey Ryzhkov. The flight will take place on the Russian Antonov An-30B under the control of UK specialists who will monitor the utilization of observation equipment and compliance with the stipulated agreement provisions. This is the fifteenth observation flight of the Russian Federation in 2017 over the territories of the States parties to the Treaty on open skies.

Lavrov: the mode of de-escalation is planned to extend to the whole of Syria The head of the Russian depodesta said that Moscow and Washington have a common understanding of principles of settlement of the conflict in Syria, but agreement on them is easier than you realize. MOSCOW, may 14. /TASS/. Operating in four districts of the Syrian regime of de-escalation in the future it is planned to extend to the rest of the country. This was stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the program “Sunday time” on channel one. The text of the interview posted on the website of the Russian depodesta. “Now were in the middle of our conversation, the initiative that President (USA Donald) trump spoke at an early stage of his presidency, namely the creation of security zones, or zones, de-escalate, in which there will be no fighting, except against the terrorists who are

Photo: RIA Novosti Special plans to discuss with the parliamentary opposition the presidential elections of the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s, and the usual working contacts is not planned, said the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the “News” soon about the upcoming meeting with leaders of the parliamentary opposition. Speaking about the publication, Peskov said that “the news” “slightly run ahead” and reminded that the President communicates regularly with representatives of parliamentary factions. “It’s constant communication, which occurs all year round, especially it occurs when a session begins when the session ends. So, to say that such a special meeting is not necessary, because he is in constant communication,” he added. “While some meetings in the next few weeks about it write “news” — not scheduled, this information is not true. But as soon as such meetings will occur, and they occur regularly, we will

The UN security Council will hold an emergency meeting in connection with the missile tests of the DPRK UN, may 14 — RIA Novosti, Olga Denisova. The UN security Council will hold an emergency meeting in connection with another missile test of the DPRK, said the permanent mission of Uruguay to the UN. Uruguay is Chairman of the Board in may. According to preliminary information, the meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, may 16. In the night on Sunday North Korea fired a rocket from its West coast of County cuson province’s Do. The rocket flew 30 minutes, range was 800 kilometers. She fell into the Japan sea, 400 kilometers East of the Korean Peninsula, presumably, outside the economic zone of Japan. The altitude, according to the Japanese government, amounted to more than two thousand kilometers.

Photo: mk.EN Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Yevgeny Bushmin said about the need to adopt a law on self-employed citizens, because at the moment all of them, he said, engaged in illegal activities. “They all engaged in illegal entrepreneurship — quotes bushmina the Agency “Moscow”. — At any moment the police comes and takes them all, we don’t want to.” The need for the law Senator justified the concern of the population: “We don’t want any COP had a right to come to them and to initiate criminal proceedings”. According to bushmina, the self-employed should be exempt from income tax, however, obliging them to pay a “municipalities in the bulb, fences, roads and yards”. In this case, the politician believes, will avoid social upheaval. While self-employed he took and those people who cultivate their own gardens, doing “personal subsidiary economy”. The bill, prepared by Bosmina and his colleague Sergey