Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti State Duma Deputy from St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov with sadness the news of the death of Senator Vadim Tyulpanov and believes that the memory should be immortalized, said Sunday RIA Novosti. Tulips in 2003-2011 was the head of legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, and then became a Senator. Milon himself for a long time was the assistant to the group when he was head of the Chairman of legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. On Tuesday, the Tulips died on 53-m to year of life. A law enforcement source previously told RIA Novosti that the Senator died of a fractured skull in the accident. “Of course, Vadim Albertovich deserves perpetuation of memory about him and his contribution to the development of St. Petersburg. It is true in spirit honorable citizen of our city. His departure is a huge loss for all of us,” said Milon. The MP stressed

Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoev has arrived in Moscow with the first post-election state visit. The plane of the head of Uzbekistan landed at the capital airport Vnukovo. 5 April Mirziyoyev meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. At the talks with head of the Russian government will focus on cooperation in energy, industry, agriculture, mutual investment and infrastructure and projects. During the summit, as reported in a press-service of the Kremlin, “will discuss key issues of bilateral relations and identified measures for further development of mutually beneficial cooperation in political, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and scientific areas.” Earlier, first Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Achilbay of Ramatov reported that the visit Mirziyoyev 55 timed the signing of documents between departments and companies of the two countries totaling about $16 billion.

Permanent representative to the UN Vladimir Safronkov © EPA/JUSTIN LANE UN 5 APR. /Offset. TASS Oleg Zelenin/. Prepared by Western countries draft resolution on the recent incident of chemical weapons in Syria “is characterized by extreme negligence”, and to invite the Security Council to adopt its “just not right”. This was stated by the Deputy permanent representative to the UN Vladimir Safronkov. Speaking at the security Council meeting, he announced changes which, in the opinion of the Russian side, should be made to the text. According to the diplomat, the draft resolution “prepared in haste and is characterized by extreme recklessness.” “To suggest that the Security Council approve such a text well, just not right,” concluded Safronkov. “You see that writing?” he added, referring to Western partners.

Speaker of the Kremlin cheered hall reservation about the head of the Ministry of interior and the phrase “ugh, sorry” In the Kremlin during the ceremony of the exchange of signed agreements between Russia and Uzbekistan, the speaker spoke and failed the first time to get the name of the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltseva. Video is available on YouTube. “The Minister of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir… Vladimir… Ugh, sorry,” said speaker Eugene Horoshavtsev, and in a hall the laughter was distributed. Present at the two countries ‘ presidents Vladimir Putin and Shavkat Mirziyoev smiled, and Kolokoltsov visibly amused. A new attempt Horoshavtsev who is 72 years old, has been successful. However, by submitting of the head of the Uzbek interior Ministry of abdusalami Azizova, he again made a mistake in the name, but quickly recovered.

The Duma supported the equating of meetings of deputies with voters to rally The state Duma has approved in the first reading the bill of United Russia Irina White on equating the meetings of deputies of all levels from voters to rallies, the correspondent of RBC. If the bill is passed, to apply to hold the event for seven days. Against the initiative was supported by all opposition factions. The amendments propose to introduce a special procedure for notification of these meetings, wishing to communicate with the electorate MPs will have to submit a request for approval of the event no later than seven days (for ordinary meetings minimum ten days). While meeting with voters in designated places the law will not apply. The main objective of the project, according to White, is to ensure the safety of participants of public events. Deputy Oleg Shein (a just Russia) asked the

US deported to Moscow, convicted of spying for the Russians Convicted of espionage citizen of Russia Evgeny Buryakov was deported from the United States, according to the U.S. immigration and customs service. In March 2016, he was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment and released on parole on March 31. US deported a Russian citizen and a former employee of Russia’s Vnesheconombank Eugene Buryakov, who was convicted on charges of espionage. A message posted on the website of the immigration and customs enforcement Agency (ICE). The service distributed a photograph of beets filmed in the cabin of the aircraft “Aeroflot” on the way to Russia. Buryakov was arrested in new York in January 2015 on charges of illegal work for the Russian government in the U.S. and in collusion with this purpose. In March 2016, he pleaded guilty to one article: action as an agent of a foreign government without

Photo: kremlin.EN The President of Russia Vladimir Putin on April 5 at the meeting with heads of security agencies of CIS countries will discuss the coordination of intelligence services of the participating countries. This was reported on the Kremlin website. “Fifth of April the President of Russia Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with heads of delegations of the FOURTEENTH meeting of the conference of heads of security bodies and intelligence services of States-participants of the CIS”, – stated in the message. The Kremlin also stressed that the improvement of coordination in the activities of the intelligence community of the CIS countries is the most important part of the work in the context of growing international terrorist threat. Earlier, the head of Germany and France Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande in the framework of a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin agreed to intensify the exchange of information German, French and

Photo: TASS The acting head of the Udmurt Republic appointed Secretary of the Public chamber Alexander Brechalov, reports RIA Novosti. “Putin took Brechalov and in connection with the decision taken earlier impeachment from office in connection with loss of trust of a former head of the Republic Alexander Solovyov suggested Brechalov to take the position of acting head of the Udmurt Republic”, — said Peskov. Brechalov holds the post of Secretary of the Public chamber in 2014. In addition, he is co-Chairman of the Central headquarters of the popular front and the first Vice-President “Support of Russia”. Earlier Tuesday, the head of Udmurtia Alexander Solovyov was detained and transferred to Moscow. The investigative Committee of Russia brought an action against Soloveva criminal case. According to investigators, the head of Udmurtia received bribes totaling 139 million rubles from companies which conduct construction of bridges over the rivers Kama and Bui in

Photo: EN.wikipedia.org The state Duma Committee on state construction and legislation recommended for adoption in the first reading a package of amendments to the electoral law, was developed by members of the Federation Council Andrey Clisham and Anatoly Shirokov. It is reported by TASS on Tuesday, April 4. The bill, in particular, provides for the abolition of absentee ballots on elections of the President of Russia in 2018. It is assumed that citizens will be able to vote at their place of stay in advance by submitting an application to a special area of the CEC. The bill makes it mandatory broadcast from polling stations on election day. This practice has been applied in the course of election campaigns, but has not been enshrined in legislation. In addition, the package of amendments intended to increase the penalty for unlawful issuance of a Bulletin by almost 10 times — from 3,5