Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The staff of the Museum “St. Isaac’s Cathedral” sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to suspend the transfer of Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). An open letter published on the website of the Museum. “From the media, we know that the government of St. Petersburg, without the consent of You, preparing a “holiday” program of the Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in an expedited manner on 16 April 2017. Formally, it has the right to make this decision, but in this case the question is not about the city, and public property”, — said in the letter. Staff also noted “the ambiguity of interpretation of the law № 327-FZ of 2010.” “We ask You to pause the action to the consideration, discussion and decision about the peculiarities of its application in relation to facilities used by state agencies in the cultural order, including

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS ARKHANGELSK, March 30. /TASS/. Preliminary promises of the organizers of the protest rallies to help each detainee on the stock to sue in the Strasbourg court of €10 thousand from the state is indirect bribery of potential participants. Such opinion expressed press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov on the request of journalists to comment that the unsanctioned rally on March 26 was promised a reward.

For NATO exercises are looking for “Russian” German recruitment Agency, collaborating with NATO and the armed forces of the United States, began to search for extras for the role of “Russian”. The actors who will portray the civilian population, need for training on the us ground Hohenfels in Bavaria. The announcement of the recruitment of extras for the image of the “Russian” appeared in the careers section of the website berlin.de March 22. It was hosted by the German employment Agency HR Optronic GmbH, specializing in the selection of scenes for military exercises of NATO and the US armed forces. Judging by the photos and data on the website of the Agency, previously it was looking for extras mostly for supervised military maneuvers of the NATO International security assistance force (ISAF), during which it was necessary to create conditions close to the Afghan. What kind of exercises needed “Russian”, from

Photo: RIA Novosti The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko instructed the Committee on constitutional legislation and state construction to develop proposals for the creation of platforms for dialogue between the authorities and society. About it reports TASS. According to Matvienko, the government can afford not to keep silent about problems and engage in dialogue with society. “Of course, we cannot pretend that nothing is happening, hiding the head under the wing,” she said. Earlier, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov commented on the West’s reaction to the arrest during an unsanctioned rally in Moscow, which took place on March 26.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the Federal security service (FSS) will be able to withdraw needed for the ground objects. The corresponding document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Item 12 of the regulations of the Federal security service of the Russian Federation is supplemented with the subparagraph under which FSO “decides on the withdrawal of land plots for state needs of the Russian Federation for construction and reconstruction of objects of Federal significance, which are necessary to exercise the powers of the FSO of Russia”. The implementation of the decree must be based on the established regular number of military and civilian personnel of bodies of Federal security service, as well as through budgetary allocations, provided for in the Federal budget for the FSO to leadership and management.

Photo: AFP The President of Russia Vladimir Putin dismissed the Plenipotentiary of Russia at the European court of human rights (ECHR) Georgy Matyushkin, the corresponding decree posted on the official portal of legal information on Wednesday. “Dismissed… Georgy O. Matyushkin, representative of the Russian Federation at the European court of human rights — Deputy Minister of justice of the Russian Federation”, — the document says.

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS ARKHANGELSK, March 30. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the most important task is to keep the Arctic a space for dialogue and constructive engagement. He said this, speaking at the plenary session of the forum “Arctic – territory of dialogue”. “Essentially to save the Arctic space for constructive dialogue, creativity and equal cooperation”, – said the head of state.