Category: Politics

Lenin Moreno wins the election for President of Ecuador RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3. /Offset. TASS Darya Yuryeva/. The candidate of the ruling left bloc “Alliance Country” (“Alianza país”), former Vice President Lenin Moreno received the largest number of votes in the second round of the presidential election in Ecuador. This is evidenced by the first official results released by the National electoral Council (NEC) of the South American country. According to preliminary data obtained after processing 92,35% of the ballots, Moreno enlisted the support of 51,05% of the voters. His opponent, the representative of the center-right Movement CREO, a former banker Guillermo Lasso has received 48.95% of the vote. Relevant information was published on an electronic Board placed in the press center of NIS, broadcast which leads the TV channel Televisentro.

In the UK, ready to fulfill its obligations to the EU BERLIN, April 3. /Offset. TASS Mikhail Shcherbakov/. The UK is ready to fulfill its obligations to the European Union, but urged Brussels not to dwell on this topic during the negotiations on the Kingdom’s exit from the Commonwealth. In an interview with Handelsblatt newspaper said British Finance Minister Philip Hammond. “The UK will always be to meet their obligations, but we are not talking about a specific figure. We must first under a thorough process to determine what rights and obligations we have in relation to the European Union,” he said. According to him, on the subject “cannot be fixed”. “We need to think about how to disassemble these numerous weave should look like in the future our relations will be organized in the transitional period”, — said the Minister. According to him, in case London and Brussels on

The head of the HRC said about the need to change the law on rallies The head of the Council on human rights (HRC) under the President of Russia, Mikhail Fedotov, said that the legislation on meetings and relevant articles in the Code of administrative offences (Cao) regarding responsibility for violations at public events needs to change and edits. He said this in comments to the Agency “RIA Novosti”. The interviewee believes that the main proof of the offense should be videos, not compiled by the police protocols. “We need to change, of course, and the rules relating to the consideration of cases on administrative offences: the main proof should be a video, not a faceless police protocols,” Fedotov said after visiting the Metropolitan police, which are detained during the opposition’s protest on March 26. The head of the HRC also spoke about the complaints that he received from those

Photo: the page fragment tutorial The authors of the textbook of German language for migrants outlined the Crimea as Russian territory. It is reported by Ukrainian edition of “true European”. The development of this manual was done by the drafters of the language tests TELC (The European Language Certificates) with the support of the German government and the Goethe Institute. Obtaining a TELC certificate allows you to apply for a residence permit. In February 2017 Ukraine was a collection of crossword puzzles, where the map of the country was depicted without the Crimea. The printed products released in circulation of 30 thousand copies. Crimea became part of Russia in March 2014 following a referendum.

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the head of state Vladimir Putin and all the officials of the Kremlin will hand over the Declaration of income and major expenditures over the 2016 to 1 April. About it reports TASS. “By April 1, all declarations, of course, be filed,” – said Peskov. Earlier it was reported that the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin urged deputies to hurry up with the delivery of disclosure statements.

The ruling party of Armenia will have the opportunity to form a government Moscow. April 3. INTERFAX.RU — the Ruling Republican party of Armenia will be able to single-handedly form a government following the results of last Friday’s parliamentary elections, said the Vice-speaker of the Parliament, press-Secretary of the party Eduard Sharmazanov. “The Republican party has all chances to form the government,” Sharmazanov said at a briefing in the night of Monday. As of 02:00 Monday (01:00 GMT) the Central election Commission has processed the data of 363 polling stations from 2009. According to the CEC, the leader of the Republican party 53,20%, in second place led by one of the largest businessmen, the head of the party “prosperous Armenia” Gagik Tsarukyan block “Tsarukyan” — of 26.56%, in the third place, the Armenian revolutionary Federation “Dashnaktsutyun” and 8.04%. Party “Dashnaktsutyun” is in a coalition with the Republican party.

Media: IG used women snipers in the Western neighborhoods of Mosul KUWAIT city, April 3. /Offset. TASS Pavel Prokofiev/. Grouping “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) has deployed squads of women-snipers against the Iraqi military in the Western part of Mosul. This was reported by the TV channel As Sumaria, citing a source in law enforcement bodies of the province of Nineveh, which includes Mosul. According to TV channel, “IG snipers took up positions on the roofs of buildings in the militant-controlled areas of Mosul and conduct aimed fire on positions of government forces”. Field command of the IG decided to connect women-gunmen after the “lost most of the snipers during the operation, Iraqi soldiers in Western Mosul,” the source says. According to the latest data, under the control of the radicals remains about 30% of Western neighborhoods of Mosul. The militants are using civilians as “human shields” that hampers

Photo: RIA Novosti In the Federation Council consider the possibility of limiting the time of operation of hypermarkets on weekdays and weekends. This was stated by first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on agrarian and food policy Sergei Lisovsky, reports RNS. The Federation Council together with the working group of the Deputy Irina Spring counts, according to him, to submit to the state Duma amendments to the law on trade. “Limitations of supermarkets, no 24 hours, limit work on the weekends. We believe that the only way we can rid the market of your (Federal retail chains – RNS) monopolistic dominance in the major cities,” said Lisowski. He recalled that in Europe everything is “going exactly”. “I just a week ago, German farmers were reported to our trade network, they looked at me and asked, how did you survive? To a grocery hypermarket worked 24 hours a day

Photo: RIA Novosti “The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people” has filed a complaint with the European court of human rights (ECHR) because of the inclusion in the list of extremist organizations and banned its activity in Russia. Informs the human rights centre “memorial”, which represents the interests of enterprises in court. The statement indicated the alleged Russia’s violation of several articles of the European Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. In addition, the Majlis, as human rights activists, never imagined that their activity violates the anti-extremist legislation. “The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people” was included in the list of prohibited in Russia organizations from April 2016, following consideration of the claim of Natalia Poklonskaya, who at that time was the post of the Prosecutor of the Crimea. In September, the Association protested against the ban, but the Supreme court of Russia upheld the decision