Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Wife of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving a prison term in the United States on charges of drug smuggling, stated that have not yet received a response to the letter sent to his mother the US President Donald Trump. About Victoria Yaroshenko said in an interview with the National news service (NSN). Lyubov Yaroshenko sent 13 Feb Trump a letter with a request for return of her son Constantine to Russia. As written previously, the newspaper “Izvestia”, Yaroshenko in a letter, urged the American President to show humanity “the innocent, the unjustly accused and dying in an American prison to a Russian citizen”. Together with the text of the letter Yaroshenko also sent evidence in the Russian pilot — 61 sheet in English. “No, there’s nothing yet. No news, no news. While we didn’t get anything”, — quotes Agency her words. Spouse Yaroshenko added that

Photo: RIA Novosti United Russia signed a cooperation agreement with the Communist party of Cuba, reported on Thursday a press-service of the Deputy of the state Duma Sergei Zheleznyak. According to the release, the signing of the document at the meeting, which was attended by Zhelezniak, was held in the headquarters of United Russia in Moscow, with the Cuban side it was attended by the Ambassador in Russia Emilio Lozada Garcia. “We are very pleased with our brotherly cooperation. I am confident that the agreement will make a significant contribution to the long-term friendship between the peoples of Russia and Cuba, and between our parties, which play a leading role in the politics of our countries,” — said Zheleznyak, whose words are quoted in the message. According to the parliamentarian, both States are not indifferent to what is happening in the world. “I am sure that the serious humanitarian and

The President of Moldova told about the gift for Putin MOSCOW, 17 Mar — RIA Novosti. The President of Moldova Igor Dodon has told, that brought Russian leader Vladimir Putin a few dozen bottles of wine. “Today I brought you a gift. You have your own collection in Cricova even with the 2002-2003 year,” said Dodon in a meeting with Putin. Vladimir Putin and Igor Dodon met today in Moscow. The heads of Russia and Moldova discussed economic and trade cooperation between the two countries and relevant regional issues. Cricova — a city in Moldova. There is the famous Cricova wine cellars — the former stone mines. Humidity and temperature optimal for wine storage. Now there is one of the world’s largest repositories of this drink.

Russia gave Ukraine 12 prisoners from the Crimea Federal service of execution of punishments (FSIN) of Russia gave Ukraine 12 citizens who served sentence in the Crimea at the time of its accession to Russia. This is stated in the message published on the website of the Federal penitentiary service. The Ministry clarified that the transfer took place at the checkpoint “nehoteevka — goptovka” in Belgorod region. In the process, was attended by Commissioner for human rights in Russia Tatiana Moskalkova. Transfer 12 Ukrainian citizens were agreed in February. Then, the Deputy Minister of justice of Ukraine Sergei Petukhov said that we are not talking about political prisoners, and the people convicted by the Ukrainian courts. In early March, the Commissioner for human rights in Russia Tatiana Moskalkova held an informal meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Valeria Lutkovska, during which they discussed the movements of prisoners from the Crimea.

The foreign Ministry explained the confusion with the request of Yanukovych, Russian troops entered Ukraine The former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych really appealed to Russian authorities with a request to send troops to the territory of a neighboring state, but did so via a statement, not a letter. The radio station “Moscow speaking” told the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “This is not a letter. This statement of Yanukovych. He never denied that he signed,” she said. Zakharova confirmed that this statement was cited in 2014 in the UN Security Council then Russia’s permanent representative at the organization Vitaly Churkin. “The statement was circulated as a document of the security Council — a common practice of informing the Council members of relevant material. Technology send instructions to the Russian representatives abroad is the issue of internal harmonization”, — said the representative of the foreign Ministry. On

Photo: RIA Novosti In Russia may appear universal election Commission, for citizens who did not apply in advance to vote at the place of stay. On Thursday, March 16, Chairman of the Central election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, reports TASS. According to her, against the possibility of abolishing absentee ballots, the CEC is developing a system that will allow voters to vote not in the place of registration. The options discussed provide that the citizen will proactively address the CEC with a request to include it in the appropriate lists. “We anticipate that, despite a broad information campaign, it is still a fairly large group of people leave everything for last. Many appear time travel, different situations, when were not where expected,” — said Pamfilova. For this category of people developed a universal system of election commissions, it is expected that they will be established on the basis of the territorial

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin during a conversation on the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs, admitted that not once could read notes in his notebook taken during the performance of the participants. He said this after the speech of the businessman Vladimir Potanin – he spoke, in particular, on productivity, reports RIA “Novosti”. “It was only yesterday that discussed this topic. It is, as you said, no reason for… for what? For pessimism. I wrote like chicken scratch, he can’t read. Like in school,” – laughing, said Putin. During the Congress, Putin said that revenue growth without productivity growth is alarming and a reason to think. In the fall of 2016, the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said that the increase in revenue outpacing the increase in productivity creates inflation risks.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Deputy of the state Duma of Russia Natalia Poklonskaya told how the decision on its appointment to the post of the head of the Prosecutor’s office of Crimea in 2014. “Until March 5, I was in Kiev. The entire period of this craziness – and the Maidan revolution, all this I saw as he worked in the Prosecutor’s office of Ukraine. All the offences and crimes recorded, collected materials. The soil to “the Crimean spring” has created this terrible winter Kiev”, – says Taylor in an interview with “Komsomolskaya Pravda – Crimea”. After arriving on the Peninsula Poklonskaya said the current head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov and the Russian presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal district Oleg Belevantsev, “we need to save the Crimea”, and asked to take her place. According to her, after the conversation, already at the exit, Poklonskaya heard Belavenets Aksenov

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. A temporary measure for the recognition of documents of LC and the DNI is not incorrect, Moscow continues to be guided by humanitarian considerations. Such opinion expressed press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.