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In the Netherlands supported the legalization of marijuana cultivation The lower house of the Dutch Parliament voted to legalize the cultivation of marijuana. Under the bill, persons engaged in professional cultivation of cannabis will be exempt from punishment for their activities. This initiative became law, it will have to obtain the approval of a majority of representatives Senate — the upper house of Parliament. In the Netherlands, have long allowed to purchase small amounts of marijuana in so-called coffeeshops. However, the cultivation and sale are outlawed. The bill was put forward by the representative of the liberal party “Democrats 66”, which has long pushed for the weakening of the laws relating to marijuana. The bill was approved by a narrow margin: its adoption voted 77 deputies voted against it 72. The project has little chance of being adopted in the Senate, because the parties that supported the document, there is

Photo: RIA Novosti The Deputy of legislative Assembly of Sevastopol, “the people’s mayor of Sevastopol” Alexey Chaly in an interview with TASS stated that Sevastopol has long wanted to be part of Russia, and attempts were made even before 2014, before the events of the so-called “Russian spring”. “We can say that suitable conditions were a few, but until 2014 there was no legal opportunity to do so. In 2004-2005, the first time we were preparing for the coup in the “orange revolution”, – he said. Chaly explained that the legal basis for such action could only occur at the occurrence of a period of lawlessness, but in 2004-2005, it did not happen. According to him, this is a critical period was in 2008, during the war in South Ossetia, when the President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko gave the command not to let the Russian black sea fleet at its

Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has appointed the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and permanent representative of the Russian Federation at the organization of Islamic cooperation Sergei Kozlov. The presidential decrees published on the official website of legal information. Oleg Ozerov is still Russia’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and permanent representative to the organization of Islamic cooperation — dismissed by another presidential decree.

Viktor Bout © EPA/NARONG SANGNAK NEW YORK, February 22. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Defense of Victor bout sent the documents to the U.S. Supreme court to undo the previously made in the case of Russia the verdict. About this TASS was reported by the attorney of bout, who is serving a prison sentence in the US, Alexey Tarasov. “The case filed in the Supreme court of the United States,” he said. As said Tarasov, the documents were sent by priority mail from Houston (Texas). The Supreme court, which is located in Washington, will get them during the day. The main argument “The main thing in our petition is that the court of appeal and the district court in new York applied the wrong legal criteria to assess the presented facts that the new York public Prosecutor withheld from the defense evidence that was exculpatory, – said the lawyer. In this

The British Parliament approved the analogue of “Magnitsky act” The amendments will allow to freeze the assets of foreign human rights violators. Moscow. 21 Feb. INTERFAX.RU the House of Commons of the UK Parliament adopted an amendment to the legislation aimed at combating the laundering of illicit funds through the purchase of UK residential property by foreign officials who violate human rights in any country of the world. The initiative was caused by the case of the deceased employee of Fund Hermitage Capital of Sergei Magnitsky, wrote on Tuesday The Independent. These measures will send a clear message that the United Kingdom will not stand by and let those who have committed serious abuses and violations around the world, to launder their money here.Ben Wholessale Ministers of Britain We are talking about one of those official persons of foreign States who have committed abuse against corruption fighters and human rights

“Speak Russian — they say one thing, Ukrainians — more” The head of the Swedish foreign Ministry told “Kommersant” about the outcome of his visit to Moscow. Moscow on Tuesday was attended by the Minister for foreign Affairs of Sweden MARGOT WALLSTRÖM. After talks with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, she explained to the correspondent of “Kommersant” GALINA DUDINA, why not consider the EU’s relations with Russia “frozen,” but it will not accept the invitation to the Crimea. — Your meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov mentioned that the bilateral relations between Russia and Sweden almost frozen. Do you think during the visit they managed to unfreeze? — I would not call the relationship a “frozen”. We Minister Lavrov met under different circumstances. I think the fact of the meeting, like the one I just got is good. After all, a lot has happened since, as the European Union has

The Pentagon recalled about legal restrictions of military cooperation with Russia The United States responded to the invitation of Sergei Shoigu to launch a joint action against ISIS in Syria’s raqqa. Moscow. 21 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Military cooperation between Russia and the United States are still suspended, it was enshrined in legislation in the country, said to “Interfax” the representative of the Pentagon Michel Baldanza. “The defense Ministry has suspended military cooperation with the Russian armed forces after the illegal actions of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and this limitation is spelled out legally in the framework of the law on the powers of the national defence (National Defense Authorization Act),” said Baldanza, commenting on statement of Russian defense Minister Sergey Shoygu about the possibility of cooperation between the military of the Russian Federation and the United States for the liberation of Raqqa. According to the representative of the military Department,

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, commenting on the proposal of the Ukrainian Deputy Andriy Artemenko about renting Crimea to Russia for 30-50 years, said that rent from themselves something impossible. “It is difficult to comment, because myself to rent anything is possible”, – said Lavrov, reports TASS. He also appeared in the media “the plan” an attempt of Kiev to distract attention from the failure of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to implement the Minsk agreements, as well as from the failure of Berlin and Paris to influence Poroshenko and force him to keep his word. “These plans give with one hand manilovism, and on the other, show that the system will continue to attempt to rewrite the rules of the game,” said the Minister, RIA “Novosti”. On Monday morning, the media reported that until mid-February at the White house were transferred to

Shoigu called for joint actions of the Russian Federation and the United States against ISIS in raqqa Moscow. 21 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the joint action of Russia and the United States in the Syrian raqqa could be the beginning of Russian-American cooperation to combat terrorism in the region. “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, answering questions of students during the II all-Russian youth forum “International military-political and military-economic cooperation: current trends” at MGIMO. He recalled the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that terrorism cannot be defeated alone. “We have everything in order to cooperate effectively, everything. And nothing prevents us to start this work. Today, if we do point to talk, it would be possible to begin joint

The media found more than three thousand belonging to the Trump sites CNN employees found 3643 resource owned by the President of the United States Donald Trump. This was reported on the channel’s website. According to the journalists, since 1997, trump has acquired thousands of existing domains with the mention of his name to promote the network of various commercial enterprises and the future of political campaigns, and in order to protect yourself from Internet trolling. Among its own resources was DonaldTrumpSucks.com (“Donelectrosetstroy”), IHateTrumpVodka.com (“Anenvironmentally”) and TrumpFraud.org (“Moshennichestva”). According to the head of the image of the company SpiderBoost Armando Martinez (Armando Martinez), buying sites with offensive domains is not surprising. “When you prepare for the flood of slander and insults, you buy such resources,” he said. In the material of the channel it is noted that just before the beginning of the campaign, the politician has acquired 93 of