Category: Politics

© Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Society’s demands on the stability and development will continue during the election campaign before elections of the President of the Russian Federation in 2018. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during the annual report in the state Duma, noting that the fight will be serious, but it should act without conflict and populism.

Him and Le Pen retains the lead in the polls for the elections in France PARIS, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. The leader of the movement “Forward” Emmanuel macron and the Chairman of the party “national front” marine Le Pen maintains leadership in the presidential race in France, a recent poll by research firm Ifop commissioned by the magazine Paris Match, Cnews TV channel and radio station Sud Radio. According to the study, the Makron in the first round is ready to vote for 23.5% of the respondents, Le Pen is 22.5%. The third should be the candidate of the party “the Republicans”, the ex-Prime Minister Francois Fillon — it 19.5% of the votes, the fourth — the leader of the “Rebellious France,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon is 18.5%. Only in the presidential election involved 11 candidates. In the second round of voting, the macron, according to the survey, bypasses Le Pen

In Russia developed a project to block anonymizers and VPN services MOSCOW, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. A bill providing for a ban on the use of information systems and programs that allow users to bypass the blocking of websites with illegal content developed in Russia, should be at the disposal of RIA Novosti text of the project. As noted in the explanatory note to the draft of the 2012 practice of restricting access to prohibited Internet sites in Russia have demonstrated a lack of effectiveness. The operators of search engines are not obliged to stop providing links to the blocked sites and visit them now by using technologies that route traffic of the Russian Internet users through foreign servers, anonymous proxy servers (also called anonymizers, ed.), virtual private networks (VPN services), and so on. To prohibit and penalize Therefore, the authors propose to prohibit the use in Russia of

In Caracas began a large-scale protest action of opposition Moscow. April 19. INTERFAX.RU IN the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, the opposition began mass protest against President Nicolas Maduro, called the “Mother of all marches”, said on Wednesday the American TV channel Fox News. According to the TV station, the protesters began the March of the 26 points of the capital toward the building of the local Governance on human rights. The protesters intend to achieve full restoration of the rights of Venezuela’s Parliament, most of whose members are representatives of the opposition, establish a timetable for the election of a new President and begin the process of restoring Venezuela’s economy. Earlier, opposition leader Henrique Capriles said that the opposition will not stop until in the country will have presidential elections. In the television report noted that the protests in Venezuela have been going on for over two weeks, during this

Photo: RIA Novosti The new acting head of Vladivostok appointed Constantine Mezhonov, told RIA Novosti the representative of the municipality. “In a city administration there was a new appointment. Deputy head of administration of Vladivostok became Constantine Mezhonov. He is acting head of the city, provides overall direction to the management of international relations and tourism, as well as control of outdoor advertising and information. To the duties of Mironov began on 14 April,” — said the source. Earlier Mironov was a member of the legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai, chaired the Committee on rules, Deputy ethics and organization of work of the Parliament. The former head of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev the investigation accused in the theft of 160 million rubles. 75 million rubles. According to the UK, in the period from 2009 to 2016 Pushkarev has ensured the purchase of building materials subordinated to the city administration MUPV “Roads

Photo: RIA Novosti A number of deputies made a proposal to cancel the decision of obtaining Russian citizenship in respect of persons convicted of terrorism. On Tuesday, April 18, reports “Interfax”. According to him, the relevant bill in the state Duma introduced the leaders of the four parliamentary factions: Vladimir Vasilyev (United Russia), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR), Gennady Zyuganov (Communist party) and Sergei Mironov (Fair Russia”). The authors of the initiative proposed to amend the article 22 of the law “On citizenship of the Russian Federation” according to which “the basis for cancellation of the decision on acquisition of citizenship of the Russian Federation will be the conviction of a person to the punishment of the legally effective court sentence for committing crimes of a terrorist nature”. The head of the Duma Committee on state construction and legislation, Pavel Krasheninnikov, told TASS that the draft law could be considered in the

Photo: © RIA Novosti. Vadim Bradow Large-scale command and staff exercises of EMERCOM of Russia to simulate floods and wildfires will take place from 19 to 21 April in all regions of the country, told RIA Novosti on Friday in management of the organization awareness of the Ministry. “In all 85 subjects of the Russian Federation will work out actions for liquidation of emergency situations connected with spring flood and wildfires. The exercise will involve a specially prepared forces and means of Federal Executive authorities, Executive authorities of constituent entities and organizations intended for prevention and liquidation of emergencies and fire-rescue units of EMERCOM of Russia”, — said the Agency interlocutor, noting that special attention will be placed on the use of airmobile groups, aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. The feature of command-staff exercises is the fact that the subjects of the Russian Federation, where seasonal risk already entered a

The headquarters of the OPCW in the Hague © EPA/BAS CZERWINSKI The HAGUE, April 19. /Offset. TASS Vitaly Chugin/. Russia April 20 will submit for a vote of the Executive Council of the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) proposal on the situation in the Syrian province of Idlib. This was announced on Wednesday, Russia’s permanent representative at the organization of Alexander Shulgin. on his words, “the vote on the updated proposal will be held April 20 in the second half of the day.” Earlier, Russia together with Iran offered to create a special Commission to investigate the incident with the possible use of chemical weapons in the Syrian province of Idlib. The updated proposal provides that it will be engaged in an existing finding of facts of use of chemical weapons in Syria, but it will have to go to the place of the alleged incident and

© AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File The HAGUE, April 19. /Offset. TASS Vitaly Chugin/. Russia has presented the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) some evidence that the incident with the possible use of chemical agents in the Syrian province of Idlib is staged. This was announced Wednesday in an interview with TASS, Russia’s permanent representative at the organization of Alexander Shulgin. According to him, in the Hague hosted a meeting of the Executive Council of the OPCW in the course of which the word, in particular, was given to the Director of the Department for nonproliferation and arms control, the Russian foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov. “Upon learning that the Russian representative is planning to accompany his speech with demonstration photos, Western partners tried to prevent it, – said Shulgin. – Ultimately, however, Ulyanov was allowed to show photos from the scene of the incident.”