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The interior Ministry has proposed to deprive of liberty for poaching For sale via the Internet red book animals organized group members will face up to nine years in prison. Moscow. 21 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the Ministry of internal Affairs suggests to enter punishment in the form of imprisonment for the poaching and trafficking of natural resources in connection with the ineffectiveness of existing sanctions. The relevant amendments to criminal and Criminal-procedural codes (criminal code and criminal procedure code) of the Russian Federation developed by the Ministry of internal Affairs, placed on the portal of projects of normative legal acts. The bill, in particular, imposes a penalty of imprisonment for a term of two to five years (depending on acts) to article 253 of the criminal code (violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation), providing responsibility

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov heard “Freudian slip” from the heads of the foreign missions of the European Union Federica Mogherini. Mogherini misspoke, saying that the EU will wait “until Russia will give way, depart from Minsk-2”. According to the head of the Russian foreign Ministry, the clause carries hidden meaning that Kiev is doing everything right. About it reports TV channel RenTV. Recall that the Munich security conference began yesterday Feb. Today representatives of a number of Western countries have accused Russia of violating the Minsk agreements.

Photo: Reuters No facts about the alleged Russian interference by hacker attacks to the electoral process in the United States, France and Germany no, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov in his speech at the Munich security conference. “Show us the facts,” said Lavrov. As noted by the head of the foreign Ministry, he had not seen any fact of the tampering of the electoral system of the Russian hackers. “For some reason, when we are being accused of something, no facts, no demands. Any fact I have not seen any on what we tried to hack some websites of the Democratic party, nor about what we supposedly did in France and Germany”, — said the Minister. In addition, Lavrov said that Russia already long ago suggested the Western colleagues to deal with cyber security, however, serious discussion so far was not. In this regard, he

© Ministry of defence of Russia/TASS, archive MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. Four Russian soldiers were killed and two were injured on Thursday in the Syrian province of HOMS in the car explosion, which was followed in the composition of the motorcade of Syrian troops. This was reported in the defense Ministry.

© EPA/KCNA MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. The Russian foreign Ministry has drafted a presidential decree to toughen the sanctions regime against the DPRK in accordance with Security Council resolution (security Council) UN 2321.

Permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. The news of the death of the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin equally saddened and his friends, and his opponents. The Russian Ambassador could love or not to love, but and colleagues, and journalists, and even ordinary people recognized him as a gifted diplomat, able to defend the interests of his country. USA as a starting point In the first trip of a young diplomat Vitaly Churkin went to the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Then our American colleagues pointed out that the young Soviet diplomat is not just brilliantly knows English, but speaks it almost without an accent.

The Kremlin claimed about the need for a high turnout in the presidential election The Kremlin is working on legitimate ways of increasing voter turnout in the presidential election, reported from the three news agencies — TASS, “Interfax” and “RIA Novosti” a source in the presidential administration. “The criterion of success is greater than in previous campaigns, the number of votes for the candidate — both in percentage and absolute terms,” — said the informant, adding that “the absolute number of votes cast must be greater than candidates in previous campaigns.” The source also said that the Kremlin continue to think about, “how to encourage citizens to come to polling stations”. As one of the ways to increase turnout source agencies called the rejection of absentee ballots. “The obstacle is the lack of a single database, he said.— If it is able to form, try to go this route, so

Photo: EPA Vice-President Michael Penny said that Russia is obliged to bear responsibility for the war of Kiev with the republics of Donbass and to abide by the Minsk agreement . This was reported in Twitter. We must hold Russia accountable and demand that they honor the Minsk Agreements, beginning by de-escalating the violence in eastern Ukraine. — Pence Vice President (@VP) February 18, 2017 “We need to engage Russia accountable and demand that they respect the Minsk agreements, starting with the de-escalation of violence in Eastern Ukraine,” said Pence. The politician spoke at the Munich conference. He also said that the President of the United States Donald trump is sure that Russia and the United States will be able to find new points of contact.