Category: Politics

“Good news for Europe” The radicals lost the election in the Netherlands. People’s party for freedom and democracy under the leadership of incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte won the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. Second place was taken by the far-right freedom Party of Geert Wilders. Thus, the results of the vote not become a new round of global trend — a sharp increase in Europe in the positions of nationalists and right-wing populationpolicy after “Breccia” said “Stop!” unacceptable populism. Now we need to form a stable government and lead the country forward.Mark Rutaremara Minister of the Netherlands German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Minister of foreign Affairs of France Jean-Marc Ayrault congratulated Mark Rutte with his win. In the Netherlands completed the counting of votes in 362 of 388 municipalities in the aftermath of 15 March parliamentary elections. According to preliminary data released today, won

The LDPR in the Duma introduced a draft resolution on Crimean “Amnesty” Amnesty, according to the document, not be convicted of serious crimes and hard-core recidivists. MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. A group of deputies of the LDPR faction introduced to the state Duma a draft resolution on declaring Amnesty on the occasion of the third anniversary of the reunification of Crimea and Russia, which is celebrated on March 18. Its initiators are Vadim Denikin, Yaroslav Nilov and Mikhail Degtyarev, Alexey Didenko, Elena Strokova, Sergei Ivanov and Alexander Kurdyumov. The initiative is placed in electronic base of documents of the lower house of Parliament. As appears in the explanatory Memorandum, I propose to extend the “Crimean Amnesty” for persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty for minor crimes for up to five years. It is also proposed to grant Amnesty to minors, pregnant women and mothers of young children, women over 55

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma adopted in the second reading the draft law regulating the transformation of municipalities. This was reported on the website of the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday, March 15. The document was supported subject to the amendments of the Deputy Mikhail Terentyev (“United Russia”), elected from the Moscow region. They allow you to merge with the urban districts of the settlement, contained in one municipal district. After the merger, such settlements will lose the status of the municipality. “Many rural settlements are not self-sufficient, they are subsidized, they are waiting for subsidies. Themselves can not solve the problems neither with communication nor with the investment, investors do not come because no grounds,” — said, commenting on the document, first Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Federal structure and local self-governance Irina Guseva (“United Russia”) . In its opinion, the merger will allow the

Family of Kim Jong-Nam gave Malaysian authorities the right to dispose of his body BEIJING, Mar 16 — RIA Novosti, Zhanna Manukyan. The family of the deceased at the airport of Kuala Lumpur Kim Jong-Nam — brother of North Korean leader, left to the discretion of the Malaysian authorities ‘ decision about what to do with his body, reports channel CGNT, citing Malaysian police. On Wednesday, Malaysian police said that the identity of Kim Jong-Nam was confirmed by the DNA of his child. As reported, on Thursday, the Malaysian police told reporters that the family of Kim Jong-Nam gave Malaysian authorities the right to dispose of his body. On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the Malaysian government is considering to pass the Korea the body Kim Jong-Nam in exchange for permission from Pyongyang to leave North Korea nine Malaysians who are denied exit from the

The budget of the state Department planned to cut by 28%, Pentagon — to increase by 10% Also the cost of the activities of NASA in the next fiscal year will be cut by about 1% WASHINGTON, March 16. /Offset. TASS Dmitry Kirsanov/. Funding of the US state Department in the coming year is to reduce by 28%, while the Pentagon is to increase by 10%. This was announced at a press briefing the Director of the office of management and budget the White house Mick Malvani. “I would say that we are talking about a reduction of 28%,” — said the head of the Department. “What you will see in the budget of the Department of state, is a reflection of the impairment of foreign aid programs”, — he explained. The latter are provided mostly through the Agency for international development (USAID), which is part of the U.S. state

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that Russia has no Imperial ambitions, and especially the plans to recreate the Soviet Union. “The allegations of “neo-Imperial” ambitions, especially about the plans for the restoration of the USSR belong to the genre of science fiction and not worthy of serious discussion,” he said in an interview with the magazine “international life”. The Minister stressed that Russia always was respectful to the peoples of the former Soviet republics to opt for independence. “Cooperate with them in a variety of formats exclusively on the principles of equality and respect of interests each other” — he said. Lavrov reminded that Russia has a serious assistance to some countries in the former Soviet Union, particularly Central Asian States. “For almost ten years Russia has provided Central Asian States with assistance in the amount of 6.7 billion. To grant financial

Photo: Reuters The President of Russia Vladimir Putin can theoretically take U.S. Secretary Rex Tillerson during his planned visit to Moscow, but the exact dates yet. “No, so far no exact dates (visit Tillerson) there is, therefore, in the schedule of the President yet (the meeting with U.S. Secretary of state),” – said the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. According to him, “will first have an accurate understanding (of dates), but because there will be the issue (of the meeting with Putin)”. “When I come, what dates, how this will be the work schedule of the President,” he listed questions that should give answers representative of the Kremlin. Asked to clarify whether it is possible in theory, the meeting of Putin and Tillerson, he said: “Theoretically, everything can be”.

Party Prime Minister of the Netherlands is leading in the elections after counting 54% of the vote MOSCOW, 16 Mar — RIA Novosti. Dutch right-wing liberal “people’s party for freedom and democracy” (VVD), headed by Prime Minister mark Rutte is leading in the parliamentary elections on the results of counting 54% of the vote, reports Agence France-Presse. According to the preliminary results, the party of the Prime Minister will receive 32 of the 150 seats in Parliament, far-right “freedom Party” (PVV) led by Geert Wilders — 19. Second place with the “Party of freedom” share “Christian democratic appeal” and the party “Democrats-66”, says the Dutch news Agency ANP. The first data of exit polls showed virtually the same results. The turnout, according to preliminary data, amounted to 81% The lower house of the Dutch Parliament (the States General), elected for four years, consists of 150 seats. That is the bottom

US Ambassador to the UN said the lack of trust in Russia The situation with the prosecution of Russians in hacking Yahoo! specifies that the U.S. “should never trust Russia” from Moscow threat “should be taken seriously,” said U.S. permanent representative to the UN, Nikki Haley. The U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Nikki Haley in an interview with NBC News said the lack of trust in Russia after reports about the involvement of Russian citizens, including two employees of the FSB, to hacking accounts Yahoo! . “Take it seriously. We can’t trust Russia. We should never trust Russia,” she said in the broadcast American TV channel. Earlier, the court of Northern California has formally charged the FSB Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Susino and hackers Alexey Belan and Karim Baratova in hacking Yahoo! and illicit access to 500 million accounts. From the press release, who yesterday, on March