Category: Politics

Ex-assistant Le Pen, accusing her party of financial irregularities Gael Nofri, a former aide of marine Le Pen, has made new revelations about the illegal financing of the extreme right French party “national front”. As stated Nofri, “national front”, which Le Pen is running for President of France in 2012, hired him to work in the campaign headquarters under the fictitious contract of the European Parliament. Thus, apparently, the party was trying to understate the numbers of the official costs of the election campaign Le Pen. In respect of the “National front” already under investigation in connection with allegations of misuse of funds by the European Parliament. According to the latest polls, marine Le Pen has every chance to succeed in the first round of presidential elections, which will take place in April. However, the growing popularity of centrist Emmanuel macron, if you believe all the same survey should bypass

Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia Vladimir Putin submitted to the state Duma a bill on ratification of the agreement on cooperation of CIS countries in the field of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations. The document was in a database of bills in the lower house of Parliament. “To ratify the agreement on cooperation of States-participants of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the field of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations, signed in the village of Burabai (Kazakhstan) on October 16, 2015”, – said in the text of the draft law. In the explanatory note to the document States that the agreement is aimed at establishing forms of cooperation in the field of prevention of emergency situations in the CIS countries, as well as the definition of procedures for mutual assistance in elimination of such situations.

McCain called the planned increase in the military budget of the United States is insufficient Moscow. 27 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — increase the defense budget of the United States in the amount proposed by the President, is not enough: the military needs more funds to ensure national security, said Monday the head of the U.S. Senate Committee on armed services John McCain. “The white house announced that the President intends to request a military budget of $603 billion thus, the budget will increase by $18.5 billion compared to the level proposed by President Obama for the 2018 fiscal year. In other words, the President trump intends to provide the defence budget, which is just three percent more of the defense budget President Obama, which left our military underfunded,” — said in a statement Monday statement, Senator. Earlier on Monday the Agency Associated Press with reference to the employee of the White

The Times: “Putin will not go to early elections” British newspaper the Times believes that unearthed the true reason that the presidential elections in Russia will be held in the statutory period, and not before. “Putin will have to carry out unpopular reforms. And to go to them, he first purposed to establish in his post, shares his thoughts with the readers correspondent Tom Parfitt. The leader of the Russian Federation does not consider that there should be early presidential elections to accelerate the transition to reforms, in his opinion, early elections can be interpreted by the opposition and the people as a sign of weakness and hesitation of the President in their forces.” “Just calculated leaks from the Kremlin to press administration officials have hinted that early elections cannot be and speeches, and at the same time and dispelled speculation that 64-year-old Putin is ready to retire, continues Mr.

Photo: RIA Novosti Most Americans believe that the U.S. Congress should initiate an investigation aimed to find out whether there had been contacts between the members of the electoral headquarters of Donald trump and representatives of Russia during the election campaign last year. This is evidenced by published on Friday the results of a nationwide sociological poll carried out by broadcaster NBC in cooperation with the newspaper The Wall Street Journal. About 53% of the respondents believe that Congress should investigate periodically appearing in the us media allegations that such contacts were alleged to have taken place. 25% of respondents oppose it. While 54% of respondents are also convinced of the need for a congressional investigation of alleged RF interference in American elections. About 29% of the respondents considered that such verification is not carried out. Unsubstantiated insinuations that Russia has somehow interfered in the election of the President of

The white house has called the goal of increasing military budget of the USA Moscow. 27 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the desire of the President of the United States Donald trump to increase defense spending caused only by necessity to provide military to all necessary for effective service, said Monday the White house spokesman Sean Spicer. To a journalist’s question about, are there fears in Washington that such a decision will provoke an arms race in the world, he replied: “No. If you look at the state of our army, its infrastructure, it becomes clear that we need very much to repair, restore”. According to him, the Senate proposal by trump to increase defense spending get the support of both Republicans and many Democrats. “When it comes to security, it is a topic that is important to both parties,” said Spicer. For increasing the defense budget of the US administration to

Trump has stated that it is not called in Russia ten years WASHINGTON, 27 Feb — RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky. The President of the United States Donald trump amid speculation about his links with Russia said “not called in Russia” for ten years. Journalists presidential pool asked trump at a meeting with businessmen, whether it supports the appointment of a special Prosecutor “in Russia”. Trump did not reply, but, turning to businessmen, said: “I didn’t call Russia a decade.” Earlier, unnamed us officials told the New York Times that the members of the presidential campaign, trump repeatedly was in contact with senior officials of Russian intelligence in 2016 before the elections in the United States. The Russian foreign Ministry called the publication media further indication that the States are the major domestic political games and bargaining. In the Kremlin, in turn, stressed that such reports are not based on facts.

Photo: TASS The special representative of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly on combating terrorism, the Deputy of the state Duma Nikolay Kovalev said that he agreed with the Israeli delegation in the PA OSCE on cooperation in the fight against terrorism. About it reports TASS. Kovalev meeting with the Israeli delegation was held on the sidelines of the winter session of the OSCE. He said that “outlines specific steps for improvement, especially the exchange of information”. The parties also agreed to develop concrete steps “to combat this phenomenon,” said Kovalev. “Given the fact of experience that there is, and Israel, and Russia, have agreed to share not only practical information on situations related to people suspected of terrorism, but also about the exchange of literature and other developments that have and the other country,” – said the Russian parliamentarian. Earlier it was reported that Kovalev was appointed Russia’s representative in the

Photo: RIA Novosti The government of Japan agrees on the exact date of the visit of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Russia, which is expected to take place in April-may this year. This was announced on a press-conferences in Tokyo the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Acehide Suga. “The Prime Minister would visit Russia this year in the shortest possible time. However, the exact date of the visit at the moment, considering” – he said. “The agenda is not set,” – said Suga when asked about a possible meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and planned topics for discussion. As previously stated the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, Abe is going to visit Russia twice this year. “Abe’s coming, he wants to make two trips, it is obvious that it will arrive in the far East economic forum, and this wants to come too,”