Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Macedonia unilaterally has extended the validity period of a visa-free regime for Russians to March 15, 2018. This was reported on the website of the Embassy of Russia in the Balkan country on the social network Facebook. “The attention of the Russian citizens, intending to visit Macedonia, – stated in the message of the diplomatic mission. the government of the Republic of Macedonia adopted a decision to extend a unilateral visa-free regime for Russian citizens for one more year – to March 15, 2018.” “This means that the citizens of Russia to enter the territory of Macedonia, it is sufficient to have a passport and insurance – clarify at the Russian Embassy. This procedure is applied only for a short trip to stay in Macedonia without a visa can not exceed 90 days within every six months from the date of first entry”. This decision, however, does

The court in the state of Hawaii suspended the new immigration decree trump WASHINGTON, March 16 — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. The judge in the us state of Hawaii on Wednesday suspended the new migration decree of the President of the United States Donald trump, told the news Agency the associated Press. According to him, judge derrick Watson issued his order after examining the relevant request of the authorities of the state. The US President Donald trump on March 6 signed a new decree, which introduced a temporary ban on entry for citizens of the six countries in the Middle East and North Africa with predominantly Muslim populations, which, according to American data, provide assistance to terrorists or where terrorists find sanctuary.

Media: Clinton did not rule out the possibility of running for mayor of new York Former U.S. Secretary of state formerly a Senator from the state of new York. NEW YORK, March 15. /Offset. TASS Kirill Volkov/. Former U.S. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who lost the presidential election Donald Trump is considering running for mayor of new York. About it reported the Internet-the resource TMZ. According to his sources, Clinton in a private conversation with representatives of political circles, which was held in new York last month, did not rule out that he may run for mayor of the largest city in the United States. As writes portal, the Democrat stressed that “really considered” that possibility As noted by the sources, Clinton, who earlier also held the position of Senator of the U.S. Congress from the state of new York, “talked to people from their environment to measure the

Exit polls: the elections in the Netherlands were won by the party of Prime Minister Rutte According to the exit poll, the turnout in the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands amounted to 81% The HAGUE, March 15. /Offset. TASS Denis Dubrovin, Vitaly Chugin/. People’s party for freedom and democracy (NPSD) Prime Minister Mark Rutte won at the end in the Netherlands parliamentary elections. According to the exit poll, conducted by Ipsos, this political force has received 31 seats in Parliament. The far-right freedom Party of eurosceptic Geert Wilders has got 19 seats and shares second place with “Christian democratic appeal” and “Democrats-66” Third place in the “Green left” — 16 Deputy mandates, the fourth — from the Socialist party — 14 seats. Next come the labour Party (9), the “Christian Union” (6), Party for the animals (5) and others. As the findings of an exit poll, voter turnout reached a

Photo: © RIA Novosti. Sergey Maligawa The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov said that Western countries increases the positive perception of the Crimean region as part of Russia. “The dynamics of positive and it is obvious… the Situation is changing in European countries. In my opinion, clearly the leadership of those politicians who insist that Russia withdrew to the Crimea was recognized, and so on. It is gaining popularity, despite the fact that the information field does not give objective and fair information about what is happening in Russia and Crimea. There is a complete information blockade”, — said Aksenov in the air of TV channel “First Crimean”. In his opinion, the recognition of Russian status of Crimea on the international arena is inevitable. This Aksenov I am sure that a referendum carried out repeatedly to confirm the Russian Crimean choice, pointless. “A second referendum is not, and there

© EPA/VALDA KALNINA MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. The permanent mission of Russia to NATO ironically commented on NATO’s intention to investigate the possibility of using Russian political talk shows and humorous programs, including “Club of the funny and inventive” (KVN), as a means of strategic communications and psychological warfare. “Hurrah! Finally figured out the most terrible weapon of Russia. I wonder how much time and money it took?” – stated in the message published on the page of the permanent mission on Twitter.

The Pentagon is ready to double the number of us troops in Syria Moscow. March 15. INTERFAX.RU — the Pentagon plans to send at least 1 thousand troops to Syria on the eve of the attack on the city of Raqqa, according to The Washington Post, citing a Ministry official familiar with the situation. According to the newspaper, the us military had prepared a plan, which involves the deployment of up to 1,000 extra troops in Syria in the coming weeks, thus expanding the “American military presence in the country before the offensive operations on the de facto capital of the Islamic state (a terrorist organization banned in Russia — if) Raqqa”. It is noted that in the case of the approval of the President, Donald trump and Minister of defense James Mattis of the plan, the number of American troops in Syria will potentially be doubled In the newspaper

The U.S. Senate approved the candidacy of Dan Coates for the post of head N. I. Moscow. March 15. INTERFAX.RU — most members of the US Senate on Wednesday endorsed the candidacy of Daniel Coates for the post of Director of national intelligence. As the correspondent of “Interfax”, the voting has not ended, however, for the candidacy Coates voted 54 members of the Senate out of 100, against — seven. March 10, the relevant Committee of the U.S. Senate approved the candidacy of Coates as Director of N. I., voted “for” 13 members of the Senate intelligence Committee of 15, against — two. Daniel Coates is an American politician and member of the Republican party. From 1989 — 1999 was a US Senator from Indiana, during the work in the upper house of Congress was in the armed services Committee, intelligence Committee and in the Committee on labor and human

The U.S. justice Department accused of hacking into Yahoo two employees of the FSB MOSCOW, 15 Mar — RIA Novosti. The U.S. justice Department brought charges against four Russians, including two employees of the FSB, in the case of breaking the 500 million accounts of Yahoo, said the representative of the Minister at a press conference. We are talking about a senior operative of the second division of the operations Department of the Centre for information security Dmitry Dokuchaev and its head Igor Sushchyn, as well as two hackers — Alexei Belene, which is located in the us list of most wanted cybercriminals, and Karim Baratova. Earlier, the Washington Post reported that the charges include burglary, fraud, theft of trade secrets and economic espionage As written media, Dokuchaev, along with the head of one of divisions of information security Center (Tsib) of the FSB Sergei Mikhailov member of the Department

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia needs to abandon the democratic institutions and to become the monarchical power. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov. The words of the policy transfers TV channel “First Crimean”. “When there is no unity of command, comes collective irresponsibility. Therefore, when there is external challenges, pockets of resistance to external, you need to take more rigid measures. […] Today, in my opinion, Russia needs a monarchy,” said Feldman. Aksenov added that the Russian society does not need democracy “in the form in which it is presented by the Western media”. According to him, Russia should be based on the Orthodox tradition. As an example of “bad democracy”, Feldman led the Ukraine. According to the Constitution, Russia is a democratic Federal legal state with a Republican form of government.