Category: Politics

The party of pensioners intends to participate in elections of the mayor of Moscow The organization announced that the party will decide on participation in presidential elections at the Congress at the end of the year. MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The Russian party of pensioners for social justice plans to nominate its candidate for the Moscow mayoral elections to be held in September 2018. This was reported on Saturday a member of the Presidium of the Central Council of the party Vladimir Vorozhtsov. “We, in principle, have picked up very good, we think, a candidate for the elections of the mayor of Moscow. Completes the development of his very interesting pre-election program,” he said at the party Congress. In the program of this candidate, whose name is not called Vorozhtsov, take into account the positive and negative experience of the capital’s mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Sergei Sobyanin. Vorozhtsov also said

The Netherlands refused to allow into the country foreign Minister of Turkey The Netherlands withdrew permission for the landing of the plane of the Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu on Saturday, March 11, a few hours after he threatened to impose “serious sanctions” against Amsterdam. It is reported by the Hürriyet Daily News. The statement of the Dutch government it is noted that the decision was made “in connection with a public danger” posed by the visit of the Turkish foreign Ministry in Rotterdam. Turkish officials had planned to hold in some European countries where Turkish citizens, a series of rallies. The authorities of Germany, Austria and the Netherlands banned to host such events. The mayor of the Dutch city of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb 8 March said that the planned campaign rally with the participation of Cavusoglu will not take place.

Assad believes that the US will help defeat the terrorists in Syria DAMASCUS, March 11 — RIA Novosti. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad does not believe that the presence of U.S. troops in Syria will help his country to defeat the “Islamic state” (IG)* and other terrorists. “We do not believe that it will help. What are they going to do? To fight ISIS*? The Americans lost almost all wars. They were defeated in Iraq, in the end they had to withdraw. Even in Somalia — not to mention Vietnam and Afghanistan, the neighboring country,” — said Assad in an interview with Hong Kong TV channel “the Phoenix”. “They have not succeeded in any place where they send their troops — they are only creating problems. They are very good at creating problems and destroy, but they are very bad at finding solutions,” added the Syrian leader. * A terrorist organization

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, denied information about the plans to rename the Republic in Alanya. Earlier in the Internet appeared the petition with the proposal. After dissemination of this information in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz held an unauthorized rally of opponents of the renaming. According to preliminary information, the author lives in St.-Petersburg for a few days on its petition responded to a total of about 200 people.

Turkey stopped the ferry communication with the Crimea SIMFEROPOL, March 11 — RIA Novosti, Victor Liashenko. Turkey stopped the ferry communication with the Crimea, Turkish ports have two weeks closed to Crimean courts, said the Director of the company-operator of ferry lines “Crimean sea Agency” Stanislav Gvozdyov. Ferry connection between Crimea and Turkey resumed in late October last year. Then the first ferry of the Russian “Varyag” left the port of Sevastopol in Zonguldak. “Ferry service with Turkey have been suspended… From the Crimea ferries do not accept, it has lasted two weeks,” — told RIA Novosti Gvozdyov. According to him, the reasons for its decision, the Turkish side did not specify. To Turkey from the Crimea there were a few ferries. Gvozdikov stressed that the suspension of the ferry service made it impossible for the supply of goods and products from Turkey to the Crimean region.

Peskov called the ordinary work of a diplomat meeting Kislyak in the United States Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation recalled that the Russian Ambassador met with representatives of Hillary Clinton, but that does not mean that Moscow interfered in the elections. Moscow. March 11. INTERFAX.RU — Russian Ambassador in Washington Sergey Kislyak has performed the usual work of a diplomat, when in the course of the election campaign in the United States met with representatives of Donald trump and Hillary Clinton, said in an interview with CNN, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “It’s his job. He talked about the bilateral relations, he talked about what is happening in the United States to have a better understanding in Moscow. Are any of the Russian Ambassador abroad, any US Ambassador abroad, including in Moscow, because the large number of people talking in the Ambassador’s country,

Malaysian authorities have not yet decided what to do with the body of Kim Jong-Nam Deputy health Minister of the country noted that the body of the deceased should be granted to the next of kin. SINGAPORE, March 11. /Offset. TASS Yevgeny Solovyov/. Malaysian authorities have not yet decided what further steps need to be taken in relation to the body of Kim Jong-Nam, who was killed in the capital’s airport on February 13. This was reported on Saturday to journalists the Deputy Minister of health of the country Hilmi Yahaya. According to him, “the police on March 10, has completed forensic examination and sent the body to the custody of the Ministry of health.” Under the law, “there is no time restrictions on when the body may be issued” However, he said that in practice the body of the deceased should be granted to the next of kin. “Given

Photo: RIA Novosti Minsk will expose the Moscow account if the Kremlin will continue to remind Belarus of its dependence on Russian gas. This statement was made by the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko. The experts commented on how great the likelihood of such actions by the Belarusian authorities. The words of experts reports “Moskovsky Komsomolets”. “His attacks Lukashenka hopes to prove the ruling in Belarus’s political elite that he is still able to achieve from Moscow, continue annual transfers to the Belarusian economy 8-9 billion dollars, without which the country will worsen the crisis”, – said Deputy Dean of the faculty of world economy Higher school of Economics Andrei Suzdaltsev. According to Suzdaltsev, in order for these claims is not like extortion, Lukashenko often recalls the enormous losses of the Belarusian people during the great Patriotic war. Lukashenko is sure that Belarus remains the last ally of Moscow

Photo: Reuters The Russian Orthodox Church will now be noted on 30 March, the St. Patrick’s Day, passes “Interfax”. This was stated by the head of the Synodal Department for Church and society and the media Vladimir Legoyda. “An important issue discussed during today’s meeting of the Holy Synod, was the inclusion in a calendar of the names of ancient saints who labored in the countries of Central and Western Europe until 1054. In total in a calendar included the names of more than a dozen saints who labored in Western countries, including Saint Patrick, enlightener of Ireland, better known among the faithful of our country as St. Patrick,” said he. According to him, the formation of the list of saints was based on information about their worship of the Orthodox in Western European dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church, and also on the basis of the tradition of their

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected in Moscow does not mean the resumption of the Russian-German interstate consultations. “No. It does not. This mechanism until the break,” Interfax quoted Peskov response to a question, does a visit Merkel the resumption of Russian-German interstate consultations. Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to visit Moscow.