Category: Politics

Photo: © AFP 2017 / Stringer The headquarters of the leading in the second round of the presidential elections in France Emmanuel Makron doesn’t know who might be behind the cyber-attack against the movement “Forward”, and is waiting for the outcome of the official investigation, said Sunday RIA Novosti the official representative of the movement of Macron Laurence Aim. For a few minutes before declaring Saturday a “day of silence” movement Rules “Forward” stated that the e-mail accounts of employees has been hacked. “At the moment we don’t know, the Prosecutor’s office is investigating, see what happens,” said Ayim, responding to a question.

Head of SMM OSCE requires a response from the DNR after harassment to the employee of the mission VIENNA, may 8 — RIA Novosti. The head of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in the East of Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan condemns the attempts of sexual harassment of one of the officers patrol observers of the militia in the Donetsk people’s Republic, demanding a response from the leadership of the DNI. This is stated in the statement Apakan, released on Monday, the press service of the organization. In the mission’s report for may 5, said a man, armed with a gun (AK-47), “sexually abused a female member of the patrol and threatened to stop the movement of the group on East from the city of Petrovsk to Razdolnoe as long as his demands are not met”. Observers SMM left the area in another way and reported the incident

The head of the European Commission warned Turkey on the introduction of the death penalty BERLIN, may 8. /Offset. TASS Anton Dolgunov/. Introduction by Turkey of the death penalty will mean its rejection of the negotiation process for accession to the European Union (EU). This was stated by the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in an interview that was published in the German newspaper Rheinische Post. “If the introduction of the death penalty will be something more than just rhetoric, then it will be a clear renunciation of Turkey from the European family. That would be tantamount to termination of negotiations (the accession to the EU — approx. TASS), as the basis of our community are respect for democracy, human rights and international law. These values exclude the death penalty”, — he said. Juncker also said that despite the current disagreements between Brussels and Ankara hopes for close

Photo: RIA Novosti The party “United Russia” will examine the question of the legal status of the symbols of Victory and their use in commercial advertising. This was stated by the Deputy Secretary of the party’s General Council, Duma Deputy Yevgeny Revenko. According to him, the recent cases of “cynical” use obscheuznavaemoe symbols of victory in the great Patriotic war in commercial advertising. The legal status of these characters is not fixed in the current legislation. “Currently, the legal status of the St. George ribbon is nowhere spelled out, also there is no definition and other symbols of Victory, which include the image of the soldier – liberator of the red Army, the images of marshals of Victory” — quoted by TASS Revenko. According to the Deputy, it will allow to develop a number of amendments to the Federal legislation, including the law “On advertising”, and, accordingly, to protect “the

Photo: TASS Roscomnadzor made in the register of banned websites ‘ messengers BlackBerry Messenger, Imo and Line, as well as audiovisual chat Vchat, reported the website of the project “Roskomsvoboda”. The services were blocked after he refused to give the Russian authorities the data about users and their activity. They also refused to recognize the organizers of the dissemination of information. Also yesterday on the Facebook page, Roskomnadzor said that Telecom operators have begun to limit the distribution of pirated content, blocking IP access to the auxiliary service the torrent trackers-anonsery. Anonsery collect data necessary for sustainable sharing. Roman Rozhkov

Photo: RIA Novosti The participants of the international rally “Roads of Victory to Berlin!” encountered problems when entering the territory of Poland. This was announced by the leader of the motorcycle club “Night wolves” Alexander Zaldostanov, known as the Surgeon. His words leads edition of the “Evening Brest” on Sunday, April 30. “I have information that our convoy, launched from Kaliningrad to Braniewo was stopped. Polish border guards deliberately sought among motorcyclists of the “Night wolves”, comparing all the bikes in the rooms, and turning the guys on the border,” — said Zaldostanov, adding that some of the participants in Motomura are unable to cross the border. He noted that his group of bikers will try to enter Poland from the Belarusian city of Brest. In addition, the Surgeon recalled that in 2016 and 2015 Russian activists also obstructed on the way to Berlin, without passing into the territory of

Sergei Lavrov and Rex Tillerson © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, may 8. /TASS/. The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold on may 10 in Washington, talks with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson. This was announced on Monday at the foreign Ministry. “On may 10, the scheduled talks in Washington with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, during which it is expected to exchange views on key international issues and topical issues of bilateral relations, said Russian depodesta. – Then Sergei Lavrov will attend a Ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in Fairbanks”. The state Department said that the leaders of the foreign Ministers will discuss Ukraine, Syria and the issues of development of bilateral Russian-American relations. “The sides will discuss the need to end the violence in Eastern Ukraine and the settlement of the conflict through the full implementation of the Minsk agreements”, – said the foreign Ministry of

Emmanuel macron became the youngest President of France PARIS, may 8. /Offset. TASS Dmitry Gorokhov/. The founder of the non-partisan movement “On the March” (En marche!), in the past the Minister of Economics and investment banker, Emmanuel macron on Sunday won a convincing victory in the presidential election in France. According to the interior Ministry, published in the night after counting 100% of the ballots, he was supported of 66.06% of voters — in total, the Macron voted 20.7 million of the French. His rival, the leader of “National front” marine Le Pen got 33,94 percent of the vote. All your voices in support gave over 10.6 million French — for the “National front” this is a record for all history of participation of its candidates in the presidential election. The total turnout in the second round amounted to 74,62%. In this case is 6.33% of voters (3 million people)