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Media reported about the dismissal of the organizer of the arrest of the speaker of “Rosneft” The organizer of the arrest of the Minister Alexei Ulyukayev dismissed from Rosneft and the FSB, according to sources, “Novaya Gazeta” In oil company information about the dismissal call nonsense. Vice-President and head of the security service of “Rosneft” Oleg Feoktistov was fired from the oil company and the FSB. It is reported by “Novaya Gazeta”, citing a source in “Rosneft” and the FSB. The representative of “Rosneft” Mikhail Leontiev, in a conversation with RBC, called the information about the dismissal of “nonsense”. Oleg Feoktistov was in charge of the operation in the case of Alexei Ulyukayev. He was appointed Vice-President of “Rosneft” in September 2016. The speaker was arrested on the night of November 15. According to TFR, the Minister was caught red-handed when receiving a bribe of $2 million (over 130 million);

Pamfilova supported the postponement of the presidential elections in 2018 for a week Moscow. March 7. INTERFAX.RU Head of the Central election Commission, Ella Pamfilova supported the postponement of presidential elections from 11 to 18 March 2018, said the press service of the CEC, placed at the disposal of “Interfax” on Tuesday. “The CEC head Ella Pamfilova considers it appropriate to transfer for a week of presidential elections from 11 to 18 March 2018, if the legislative amendments are adopted”, — stated in the message. Thus in the message it is noted that the head of the Central electoral Commission considers that in future “it would be possible to consider the possibility of holding all the elections in April or in October” “From the point of view of elections for us the later the better. Since elections are announced somewhere in December, over 100 days. And the second half of

The state Duma has approved in the first reading a ban to call children by numbers and abbreviations Moscow. March 7. INTERFAX.RU — the state Duma on Tuesday adopted in the first reading the draft law limiting the right of parents to give children names in digital, lettering, numerals, symbols, or any combination of abbreviations of profanity. The bill, sponsored by Senator Valentina Petrenko, aimed at establishing at the legislative level, the legal balance between the rights of the parents and the child’s right to a name that would not violate its own interests, it is told in accompanying documents. The bill proposes to establish that the child’s name is given by agreement of the parents and must meet the requirements established by the legislation on acts of civil status. Under the name of the citizen is understood as a means of individualization, which cannot consist of digital, lettering, numerals,

Photo: RIA Novosti The world’s first woman-cosmonaut, Deputy of the state Duma, Valentina Tereshkova, invited his colleagues in the lower house of Parliament to join the cosmonaut corps. It is reported TASS on Monday, March 6. “I hope [the speaker] Mr Volodin [Volodin], which can be one of the deputies will come to us in the cosmonaut detachment,” said Tereshkova at the opening of the state Duma of the exhibition “the Seagull. First flight” timed to its anniversary. The head of fraction of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed the candidacy of the Chairman of the Duma Committee on physical culture and sport Mikhail Degtyarev, adding that he is ready to go sailing. “With you though on Mars,” — said the leader of the liberal Democrats to the proposal of the celebrant. Earlier on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Tereshkova with the 80-year anniversary. He handed her two presents, alluding to

Photo: EPA Military aircraft the U.S. Navy has conducted reconnaissance near the Crimea and the Kaliningrad region. About it reports “Interfax” with reference to the foreign sites that track the movement of aircraft. Anti-submarine patrol aircraft P-8A Poseidon took off from a base Sigonella in Sicily and conducted a reconnaissance to the South-West of Sevastopol. Aircraft number 168855. Near the Kaliningrad oblast’s strategic aircraft RC-135W spent many hours intelligence operation. Aircraft number – 62-4138, call DANIC3. The plane took off from the base Mildenhall in the UK. The plane was in the airspace of Poland on the South-Eastern part of the Baltic sea, where the exercises of the Baltic fleet. The intensity of flights of reconnaissance aircraft of the North Atlantic Alliance has increased greatly over the last year. Most often, the flights of foreign razvedshkolu are off the coast of Crimea, near Kaliningrad, close to the Russian bases in

Photo: RIA Novosti The reunification of the Crimea with Russia, as well as the successful holding of the Olympics in Sochi have increased the level of trust of Russians to power. This is stated in the report “Russia surprises: five eras in Russian public opinion (1987-2017)”, published on the VTSIOM website March 6, Monday. “The annexation of Crimea was the reset in relations between the authorities with society: trust in government, declining in the previous period (2008-2013 — approx. “Of the tape.ru”), was restored. On the background of the Crimean events and the Olympics for a few months — from January to may 2014, has significantly increased the approval rating of the President (from 61 percent to 86 percent)”, — the document says. The return of the Crimea and Sevastopol a part of Russia contributed to raising the population’s feelings of national pride and dignity, say sociologists. The accession of

Putin approved the ratification of agreement with Turkey on legal assistance and extradition Turkey has not yet ratified the Treaty, but, according to the Deputy Minister of justice Maxim Travnikova, from a purely technical point. MOSCOW, March 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on ratification of the agreement between Russia and Turkey on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and extradition of persons for criminal prosecution. The law was passed by the state Duma on February 17 approved by the Federation Council on 1 March. It is published on the official portal of legal information. The document was signed in Ankara on 1 December 2014. According to the agreement, the parties undertake to render each other legal assistance in investigations, court proceedings or other legal proceedings and to extradite to each other persons on the territory of one country for criminal prosecution or execution of sentence in