Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of construction and housing and communal services of the Russian Federation jointly with the Moscow government to prepare a Federal law that will give the opportunity to implement an ambitious program to resettle people from dilapidated housing, told RIA real Estate Minister of construction, Mikhail Men. “We will assist the city government in developing this bill,” he said. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the city authorities are ready to develop the law for the new program of demolition of dilapidated five-story building. He noted that he sees financial opportunities Moscow has to run the program. Now in Moscow, completes the program of demolition of dilapidated five-story building, involving the demolition 1722 buildings of the first period of industrial housing (1959-1966 years) with a total area of 6.3 million square

© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, February 23. /TASS/. The plane with the body of the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin has landed in the capital airport Sheremetyevo. The Russian diplomat died in the USA on 20 February, the day before your 65th birthday. On Wednesday, Churkin said goodbye to the staff of the permanent mission in new York, diplomats and staff of the UN Secretariat. In Moscow, a memorial service will be held on February 24. “The ceremony of farewell to the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vitaly Churkin will be held February 24 at 10:30 in the Great hall mourning CDB YAC President (street of Marshal Timoshenko, 25)”, – informed the Russian dipvedomstva. Diplomat will be buried on Troekurov cemetery.

In the United States to repeal the law Obama on the toilets for transgender people in schools WASHINGTON, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. The administration of U.S. President Donald trump reversed the order of his predecessor, Barack Obama for public schools of toilets for transgender persons, the statements of the press service of the Ministry of justice. Earlier, the Obama administration issued a Directive for public schools, according to which educational institutions must allow students transgender to choose the bathrooms and locker rooms according to how they define their sexual identity. “The Ministry of justice and the Ministry of education has cancelled a guide for educational institutions, released in 2015-2016… for object access based on gender identity, not biological sex,” — said in the message. “The Ministry of justice is obliged to enforce the law. Previous documents did not provide sufficient legal analysis and does not explain how this interpretation

McCain secretly visited the Syrian Kurds before the visit to Erdogan Before his visit to Turkey and meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Senator John McCain made a secret trip to the North of Syria, in areas under Kurdish control. Republican Senator John McCain made a secret trip to the North of Syria, which discussed the possibility of accelerating the operation against the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (banned in Russia) with the us military and representatives of the Kurds. This is with reference to American officials, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal. According to sources, McCain visited the Syrian city of Kobani on the border with Turkey, which since 2012 is controlled by the Kurds. The publication notes that McCain became the first US Congressman, who visited the area. The talks focused on the upcoming storm Syrian “capital” of ISIS city Raqqa. In the Senator’s office with information about the

Media: trump will sign a new decree on immigration on Friday WASHINGTON, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. The US President Donald trump will sign a new decree on immigration on Friday to replace existing, said Wednesday the Fox News channel, citing the US administration. According to TV channel, the new decree will be talking about the “extreme checking” migrants entering and staying on the territory of the United States. Previously, the administration trump refused at the time of appeal from the decision of the court to suspend the immigration of the presidential decree signed in late January. It is anticipated that trump will sign a new decree on this issue. The Department of homeland security on Tuesday, the US issued two memoranda, which contain a complex of measures on implementation of already existing legislation in the field of immigration. From the Memorandum, it follows that the administration intends to significantly

Photo: globallookpress.com Acting head of Karelia, the former head of the Federal service of court bailiffs Arthur Parfenchikov saw in his appointment “a sign”. He told this at a meeting with Metropolitan of the Petrozavodsk and Karelian by Konstantin on Tuesday, February 21, passes “Fontanka”. In turn, the head of the Karelian Archdiocese noted that the appointment Parfenchikov “blessed by the Lord God.” “You have to make every possible effort to fully implement the entrusted to you the trust of the President. We think and believe that you will succeed”, — he stressed. Parfenchikov also expressed hope to the aid the clergy in their work. “I really hope and count on your help, your prayers,” he said, referring to the Metropolitan. On 15 February it became known that President of Russia Vladimir Putin has accepted the resignation of Alexander Khudilainen, who led the region since 2012, and has appointed temporarily

Photo: RIA Novosti On execution of the state defense order in 2017 will be allocated more than 1.4 trillion rubles. This was stated by Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov in an interview to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”. “The main share, more than 65 percent of the funds aimed at the procurement of modern weapons and technology. As of January 1, 2017, the level of modernity of weapons and equipment in the units of permanent readiness was more than 58 percent,” said Borisov, noting that the defense Ministry has confidence in the implementation of 100% of the assignments in terms of strategic weapons in 2017. He also said that in 2016 the state defense order was fulfilled by 97 percent. Currently, Russia is implementing the state armaments Program for the period 2011-2020 (GPV-2020), under which the modernisation of the armed forces must spend about 20 trillion rubles. Three trillion needs to be spent

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of defence of the Russian Federation General of the army Sergei Shoigu said that Russia and the United States could begin to cooperate with the joint action in the Syrian raqqa. He said this, answering questions of students during the II all-Russian youth forum “International military-political and military-economic cooperation: current trends” at MGIMO. “Our goal is to combine efforts. We have all possibilities for this. We have a common enemy — international terrorism. We Americans recognize it as the enemy,” — said Shoigu, Recalling the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that terrorism cannot be defeated alone. “We must stop scaring us the whole world and start a calm, constructive and consistent work to establish those relationships that were at least five to seven years ago,” the Minister said. “We have everything in order to cooperate effectively, everything. And nothing prevents us to start this

Medvedev appoints new Deputy Minister of agriculture MOSCOW, 22 Feb — RIA Novosti/Prime. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed Deputy Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Nepoklonov, who previously held the post of Deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, the orders published on the website of the Cabinet. “To appoint Evgeniy Nepoklonov Deputy Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation, relieving him from his post”, — the document says. Nepoklonov held the position of Deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor since August 2011. Previously, from 2008 to 2011, he was Vice-President of the Institute for diagnosis and prevention of diseases of humans and animals.