Category: Politics

More careful than expected: Matvienko praised the actions of trump against Russia MOSCOW, 28 APR — RIA Novosti. Unleashed against Russia in the US media war, as well as the existing Russophobic lobby led to the fact that the first steps of a new American President Donald trump to normalize relations with Russia was “more cautious than we expected,” admits the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. “Attempts to put Russia in a negative light, plus the information war that was unleashed against us, — all this, of course, to a certain extent, ties the hands of the new President. I see this as the reason that the steps of the President of the United States in the direction of establishing our cooperation to be more cautious than we expected,” she said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Matviyenko called the political situation in the US “very difficult”, due

South Korea rejected the idea of a trump about paying for the placement of THAAD Donald trump said that Seoul will put the expense at $1 billion and will reconsider the terms of the agreement on free trade. Moscow. April 28. INTERFAX.RU — South Korea is not planning either to revise the free trade agreement with the United States, or to pay for the hosting of a missile defense system THAAD, the Associated Press reports, citing the South Korean authorities. So, Korean Deputy Minister for trade told the news Agency that he knew nothing about the possibility of revising the agreement. The Minister of defense of South Korea in turn said that no changes in the terms of placing THAAD in the country no These comments Seoul gave in response to the words of the President of the United States Donald trump who in an interview with Reuters said that

Photo: RIA Novosti The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko believes that Russia and the EU countries need to intensify the dialogue, as the lack of cooperation does not benefit any of the parties. She stated following the meeting with the head of the Senate of the Cortes Generales of Spain, PIO Garcia-Escudero Marquez. “Today is sobering, after a period of cooling between Russia and the EU comes to an understanding of the constructive, the hazards and futility of any sanctions. Comes the understanding that we need dialogue, we need to find mutually acceptable solutions,” she said. The speaker noted that the need to establish dialogue, say politicians and business representatives. “Russia is part of Europe, the lack of cooperation does not benefit neither the EU nor Russia. Sanctions had lost all” – has concluded Matvienko. In her opinion, the sanctions have not brought the parties to “nothing useful”.

Photo: RIA Novosti The abduction of girls for marriage will be punished with up to three years in prison. The bill deputies of the National Assembly of Ingushetia in the Duma introduced. The document is published in the database of the Parliament. “To amend the criminal code of Russia… changing, adding to it the following article: “the abduction of persons for the purpose of marriage was punishable by hard labor for a term up to three years or imprisonment for the same term”, — stated in the bill. Earlier, a proposal to punish the abduction of girls was made by the speaker of the Parliament of Ingushetia, Zelimkhan Yevloev. According to the politician, it often happens that incidents of abduction of brides end in bloodshed. On 8 April the village of Kantyshevo in Ingushetia, a young man kidnapped the girl to marry her. During the abduction, the man’s accomplices caused

In the state Duma a draft law transforming the Crimea in the offshore — “Kommersant” A package of bills on the actual introduction in the Crimea offshore regime, prepared by the Chairman of the Duma Committee for international Affairs, MP from “Fair Russia” Alexey Cepoi. According to “Kommersant”, one of the bills proposes amendments to the Tax code, the second to the Civil code and to a half dozens of laws. In GK, the author proposes to introduce the article about the “international trusts” and “family funds” and to legitimize a new form of “international company”. It trusts must ensure investing in Crimea businessmen anonymity. If the usual trust management of the owner is known, the Crimean trusts transfer assets, resulting in the beneficiary becoming invisible. The bill also introduces the concept of “international transit zone” — areas of the port with spetsrezhimom. To a lesser extent, they are already

The Pentagon has invited hackers to take part in the program “Crack United States air force” The Pentagon has invited hackers to take part in a program called “Crack the air defense of the United States” (“Hack the Air Force”), launched to search for vulnerabilities of cybersecurity, the U.S. air force. The official announcement is posted on the Agency’s website. “The U.S. air force invite trusted security professionals from the United States and some partner countries to make every effort to crack some of the key state web sites”, — stated in the message Department. Registration for participation in the program will open on may 15, the contest will be held from 30 may to 23 June To participate in the program invited specialists from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The us defense Department noted that the program is running in order to find “talents both inside and

Tillerson summed up his visit to Moscow MOSCOW, 28 APR — RIA Novosti. U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, in an interview with radio station NPR said that during his visit to Russia in mid-April, Moscow and Washington has not solved any issues. He added that Russia needs to decide if she wants to become a “positive part of the global world order, not undermining.” The U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson took place in Moscow, April 12. He held talks with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to both sides, the meeting was constructive: Lavrov and Tillerson was able to convey to each other their point of view on bilateral relations, major international problems.

Photo: RIA Novosti In an interview to the leading program SophieCo Sofiko Shevardnadze, Sergey Ivanov, and special presidential envoy on the issues of environmental activities, the environment and of transport of Russia, told about the problems of climate change, volatile politics trump and the development of renewable energy sources. Ivanov stressed that Russia will continue the development of the Arctic. In addition, the official mentioned the threat of terror and revealed the secret, what will happen if a huge airliner crash into nuclear power plants. — First, let’s talk about Paris climate agreement. Politicians and scientists are calling it a historic. However, the US President Donald trump has repeatedly stated that the issue does not interest him and promised to withdraw the United States from this agreement. But to predict that it will take Mr. trump is very difficult — today he says one thing and tomorrow the opposite. So

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he would not sign documents about the renovation of the housing in the event if they violated the rights of Muscovites. About it reports TASS. “I want to say that anything that violates the laws in force to date, and the rights of citizens, signed by me can not be”, – he said. The head of state also instructed the government to draft the bill “as it should, thoroughly, including in the dialogue with the public.” According to him, the proposals should be adopted in accordance with the voluntary consent of the residents of the five-story building. Before the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Muscovites don’t need to worry about violations of their rights in connection with the renovation of housing. According to him, the city administration is ready to answer all questions of

Trump has offered South Korea to pay $1 billion for missile defense system The US President Donald trump said that South Korea should pay for the deployment of an American anti-missile complexes THAAD. In Seoul this option is called “impossible”. The President of the United States Donald trump in an interview with Reuters reported that Seoul should pay stationed in South Korea missile defense system (NMD). Complexes THAAD were deployed on the Peninsula to protect Seoul from North Korea. I have informed South Korea that it would be appropriate if they supratrigonal Trepresent USA The U.S. President said the missile defense system deployed in South Korea and would cost Seoul about a billion dollars, reports Reuters. He also wondered why at is hosted in Korea ABOUT the pay system of the United States. A former employee of the US state Department told Reuters that the cost of THAAD is estimated