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Georgian citizens can travel to Europe without visas since late March Moscow. 27 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — IN the European Union appreciates the efforts of the Georgian authorities aimed at carrying out serious reforms, said on Monday in Tbilisi the representative of the European Commission for migration, home Affairs and citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos. “The citizens of Georgia can benefit from short-term visa-free travel to the Schengen area since the end of March,” said Avramopoulos. He spent in Tbilisi a meeting with the Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili. The sides discussed issues related to the liberalization of the visa regime, and stressed the importance of this decision from the point of view of rapprochement of the Republic with Europe. After the meeting, the Secretary of the President of Georgia on issues of international relations Tengiz pkhaladze stated that Georgia moved to the final stage of visa regime liberalization, which involves the

© Mikhail Sokolov/TASS DUSHANBE, February 27. /TASS/. The Kremlin is surprised by the unwillingness of Kiev to resolve the transport blockade of the Donbass region. This was stated press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “In Moscow repeatedly said transport blockade seriously destabilizie the situation, it hinders the settlement process, it prevents de – escalate the situation,” he said. “In the end, it further distances us from the fact that at least to approach the implementation of the Minsk agreements”, – said the press Secretary. “The inability or unwillingness of Kiev to get rid of this transport blockade, of course, causes bewilderment,” – said Peskov.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon © Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS DUSHANBE, February 27. /TASS/. Russia and Tajikistan have agreed to use opportunities located in the Republic of the 201st Russian military base to protect the Tajik-Afghan border. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin after talks with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon. According to him, Moscow and Dushanbe share concerns related to the spread in Afghanistan terrorist groups, including ISIS (banned in Russia), as well as the rapid growth of drug trafficking and crime. “In this regard (Russia and Tajikistan) agreed to intensify joint action for the protection of the Tajik-Afghan border, including use of located in Tajikistan the Russian military base,” – said the Russian leader. According to first Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, at a meeting today the President of Tajikistan has told about strengthening of border

Photo: RIA Novosti Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday will take part in the opening ceremony of the III winter World military games to be held in Sochi. As reported in the press service of the Cabinet, the Prime Minister will also visit Westminster winter World military games. III world winter games will be held in the period 22 to 28 February at the Olympic sports venues of the coastal and mountain clusters of Sochi in seven sports: ski racing, biathlon (including patrol race), skiing, orienteering on skis, ski mountaineering, climbing, short-track. The opening ceremony of the competition will be held in the arena “Ice cube”. The games will be played 44 sets of medals. In competitions will take part more than 400 military athletes from 26 countries: Russian Federation, Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Greece, Iran, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, China, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Republic

Photo: The next five years will be difficult for the labour market. About it today, 27 February, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking Russian investment forum “Sochi-2017” in the Krasnodar region. According to him, we are not talking about unemployment, and the shortage of skilled workers. As for unemployment, it is, according to Medvedev, was able to cope. “The situation in the labour market is stable. We dealt with unemployment,” he stressed. The shortage of skilled workers is associated, as explained by the head of the Russian government, with a demographic failure 90-ies. In the action plan of the government of the 2017-2025 years, the draft of which is now being discussed, is expected to lay a number of steps, allowing the most efficient use of available labor resources and attract highly qualified specialists from abroad, said the Prime Minister. In the medium-term plans — the adoption of measures to overcome

Photo: Lenta.EN In the international arena became less of a cliché in relation to Russia, says Vice-speaker of the state Duma Pyotr Tolstoy. This opinion was expressed on the basis of participation of the Russian delegation in the parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA), reported RIA Novosti on Monday, February 27. “Much easier it was to talk less cliché in terms of what Russia is doing in the international arena. Receding into the past somewhat hysterical tone of our colleagues from Ukraine, the Baltic States and Poland,” he said at a press conference. He noted that anti-Russian statements did not cause the applause in the hall as before. The head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky considers that the Assembly is tired of anti-Russian rhetoric, but its complete elimination is too early. “But contacts like never before was constructive and

Trump has hit a record low of popularity The activities of Donald trump as President positively estimated 44 percent of Americans. This is evidenced by the results of a survey by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. According to the study, 48 percent of respondents unhappy with the new occupant of the White house. In addition, a third of Americans believed that the new President can not cope with their responsibilities. For the first time in U.S. history the President has a negative level of support in a month after the inauguration According to Gallup, the forerunner to trump Barack Obama early in his first term, was supported by 83 percent of Americans. The popularity of George W. Bush and bill Clinton’s was 61 percent and 68 percent, respectively. The survey also demonstrated the persistence of party division in American society. So, the trump positive about 85 percent of

Ella Pamfilova © Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. The Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova said that the polling day should be in October, not in September. She announced this to journalists after a meeting with the leader of “Fair Russia” Sergei Mironov. “If there is a single day of voting and he has a right to exist, in the interests of voters, participants of the electoral process it would be better if he was at least in October,” she said, stressing that it was her personal opinion and not a consolidated position of the CEC.

Dmitry Peskov © AP Photo/Seth Wenig DUSHANBE, February 27. /TASS/. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov has called on Washington to be more carefully study the situation before giving the assessment of the situation in Ukraine, particularly after the attack on missiu monitoring of the OSCE. “We believe it is necessary to be more attentive in the assessment of the situation, especially in determining the source of provocative actions,” he said, commenting on the appeal of a US facing including Russia, to ensure the work of the OSCE in South-Eastern Ukraine. “The OSCE observers have repeatedly recorded that the source of provocative actions are APU,” reminded Sands. “We can only be the hundredth time to repeat that Russia is in no way a party to this conflict,” added the spokesman.

Photo: On the sanctions policy of Europe towards Russia will largely affect the relations of the Kremlin and the new administration of the United States. However, it is clear that anti-Russian sanctions have not achieved their goals, dealt with European countries, economic damage, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Siyarto. “From the point of view of economy, it is clear that we hurt more than Russia. Where we attacked Russia, it had an impact on us. As if we ourselves in the foot shot” — he said in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to him, from a political point of view, the restrictions against Russia had to facilitate full compliance with the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. However, progress in this question is missing for the last three years. “Then I ask the question — why should we maintain sanctions and not