Category: Politics

© EPA/DIMITAR DILKOFF, POOL MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 summit, which will take place in Hamburg in July, said the assistant to the President Yuri Ushakov. “Our participation in the summit of “twenty” is envisaged at the level of the President,” he said. The G20 summit will be held on 7 – 8 July in Hamburg. The group of twenty leading international forum specializing in global economy and Finance. It includes 19 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, UK, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Canada, China, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA, Turkey, France, South Africa and Japan) and the European Union.

Zhirinovsky proposed to call the governors “Your Excellency” LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that Russia should approve appeals to officials are similar to those that were adopted in the Russian Empire. On Wednesday, February 22, the Agency reports city news “Moscow”. “”Comrade President” — doesn’t sound “Mr. President” — not sound. “Your Majesty” — that it sounds”, — the politician told reporters. Generals the leader of the liberal Democrats proposed to give the title of “Your Excellency” and the governors “Your Excellency”. In addition, Zhirinovsky called on to move the celebration of defender of the Fatherland Day in April. “The army is not created on February 23, 1918, 99 years ago, and lake Peipus, 5 April 1242”, — he said. In September last year during a ceremony in the Kremlin, Zhirinovsky has quoted the national anthem of the Russian Empire “God save the Tsar!”, he repeatedly offered to return along

Foreign Ministry reacted to the statements of Russian interference in the Affairs of Montenegro MOSCOW, 22 Feb — RIA Novosti. Moscow calls baseless allegations about Russian intervention in the internal Affairs of Montenegro, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “The Chairman of the government of Montenegro, Mr. Markovic, could not resist to join and also to participate in the use of widely used in recent U.S. and EU thesis and accused Moscow and some Russian intelligence services meddling in the electoral processes in this country. Spectracolor (Montenegro) Mr. (Milivoje) Catnic went further, tried this idea to develop, mentioned the presence on the Montenegrin territory “of the FSB special forces”” she said. “All these statements are absolutely groundless, unfortunately, they are duplicated by the media, in principle, without consideration for Russia’s position. If the Russian position is mentioned, it is casual and, of course, disproportionately to the

US suspected China’s missile deployment on disputed Islands American military experts suspected China in placing the disputed Islands in the South China sea (SCS) missiles “ground-air”. About it reports Reuters with reference to sources in the Pentagon. US intelligence recorded on the Islands Subie, Mischif, firi Cross and the spratlys, which also hosted the runway for the Chinese air force, the construction of nearly two dozen concrete objects with a retractable roof. “The Chinese did not build just like that. It’s not like them. Structures resemble silos for anti-aircraft missiles, so it is likely that they are,” — said on condition of anonymity, the representative of the security services. 19 Feb carrier group, the US Navy began patrolling in the South China sea amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the disputed borders in the region. A month before that, in the Chinese edition of Global Times has predicted

Photo: RIA Novosti Federal Agency on Affairs of nationalities has begun to develop a Federal law on the social and cultural adaptation of migrants, said the head of FADH Igor Barinov. As previously reported, at the last meeting of the Presidium of the Council under the RF President on interethnic relations, it was agreed to on 4 may to determine the Executive authority, which will subsequently be empowered to tackle the problem of sociocultural adaptation of migrants. Barinov said that if FADH is likely to be a question of drafting a law on social and cultural adaptation of migrants. “Now we have begun to develop a Federal law on the social and cultural adaptation of migrants, it turns out that here the language factor is at the forefront,” said Barinov at a press conference dedicated to the International mother language day. He explained that the adaptation processes of migrants due

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the death of the Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin is a heavy, irreparable loss for Russian foreign policy. His condolences to the relatives of the deceased Ambassador was published on the official Kremlin website. Putin noted that Churkin was a true patriot, a professional of the highest calibre, a man of profound intelligence and extraordinary energy, of rare charm and sense of humor. “Please accept my deepest condolences in the passing Your husband and father Vitaly Ivanovich. His untimely death is a severe, truly an irreparable loss for Russian foreign policy. And because it happened so suddenly, the pain of loss is felt especially sharply”, — stated in the statement of the President. According to the head of the state, Vitaly Churkin hard to overestimate. He was entrusted with responsible posts in the Central apparatus of the Ministry of foreign

Franz Klintsevich © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. The first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Franz Klintsevich believes that the position of Amnesty International against Russia was one-sided. This opinion was expressed by TASS, commenting on published 22 February report of the organization devoted to human rights in the world.

Yanukovych sent a letter to world leaders MOSCOW, 22 Feb — RIA Novosti. The former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has appealed to world leaders with a letter in which he described his vision of the events on the Maidan, and suggested steps to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. The letter, the text of which is available to RIA Novosti, addressed to presidents Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of Poland Andrzej Duda, the head of PACE Pedro Agramunt, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland, President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani. “I want to inform you about certain facts that took place in Ukraine in February 2014 and led to the escalation of the armed conflict in the heart of Europe. These events must give an objective legal assessment in Ukraine and at the international level,” —

Yanukovych said that he has not asked Russian troops to enter Ukraine in 2014 MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. The former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych appealed to Russia with a request to send troops to the Republic. He stated this in an interview with the group of Russian and Ukrainian journalists on the occasion of the third anniversary of the coup in the Ukraine. “I did not ask to send troops to Ukraine. This is not so,” he said. Yanukovych added that any letter to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on this score was not. “This is not a letter, and the statement in the first place. Second, there are laws, — added ex-the President. — I didn’t betray my people, I was trying to protect the people, and to do so in the framework of their powers”. He explained that the main goal in this was to “stop

Putin’s rating in the United States peaked in the last 14 years Moscow. 22 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the approval Rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the United States peaked in the last 14 years, said on Tuesday The Hill, citing the results of a study of the Gallup Institute. The activity of the Russian leader endorses 21 percent of respondents. Such indicators were last recorded in 2003. At the same time in 2015 about Putin spoke positively only 15% of respondents. This surge is primarily due to the change in attitude of supporters of the Republican party: if in 2015 the President of the Russian Federation has approved only 12% of them in 2017, its popularity has increased to 32%. Supporters of the Democrats, by contrast, are more reserved attitude to the head of the Russian Federation. In 2015 in his favor had been 15%, in 2017 — only