Category: Politics

Elections in Ecuador will determine the fate of Julian Assange MEXICO city, 19 Feb — RIA Novosti. The fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will largely depend on the outcome of the presidential election in Ecuador on Sunday. In the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Assange is hiding in 2012. If the official Quito in the face of foreign Minister Guillaume long has previously stated that he intends to continue to grant asylum to Assange, then the right-wing candidates for the presidency of Ecuador are set up to deprive him of this opportunity. So, a former banker and a representative of the center-right Alliance “KREO-SCRIP” Guillermo Lasso has promised in case of victory to ask Assange to leave the Embassy within 30 days. According to analysts, that Lasso is the main rival candidate from the Pro-government “Alianza país” Lenin Moreno has a chance to compete with him in the second

Photo: Reuters The suspects in the attack on the Russian plane su-24 in Turkey, may be granted Russian Federation as potentially subject to the submitted for ratification in the state Duma of the Russian-Turkish Treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and extradition. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of justice of the Russian Federation Maxim Travnikov, reports TASS. In the process of discussing the ratification of the contract between Russia and Turkey, Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on defence United Russia Yuri Svitkin reminded about the downed su-24. He noted that a criminal case was opened on the territory of Russia and asked, “how does this look on this example in the framework of today’s ratification”. “Potentially, individuals who may be suspected or accused of committing crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation can be issued on the basis of this agreement,” said

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma has ahead of schedule stopped powers as a Deputy of Alexander Medina (“United Russia) at his own request. It is reported RIA Novosti on Friday, February 17. Metkin out of the lower house of Parliament due to the fact that he received an offer from my former work in the enterprise in the Krasnodar region and decided to return to production, said the Agency. Also the house approved the addition of the Duma mandate of United Russia Nikolai Lyubimov. On 14 February he was appointed acting Governor of the Ryazan region. Lyubimov was succeeded by Oleg Kovalev, who led the region since 2008. Prior to joining the state Duma of the seventh convocation of the 45-year-old Lyubimov was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Kaluga region (2015-2016), in September of 2015 became its Chairman.

In the U.S. Senate proposed to simplify the transfer of medium-range missiles to allies A group of Republican senators introduced the house of representatives and the U.S. Senate is a bill that allows the United States to develop a missile system of average range and to transfer the relevant technology to allies. This step should be a response to the alleged violation by Russia of the Treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), said on Saturday, February 18, PBS. In the case of adoption of the document will allow the Congress to accuse Russia of a “serious breach” of the contract and at the legislative level will allow the development of ground systems, launch cruise missiles. It will also allow the United States to build a nuclear Arsenal in Europe. In addition, the bill facilitates the transfer to the allies of the US missile systems under the INF Treaty. The senators

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to President of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif in connection with the tragic consequences of the attack in Sindh province. This was reported on the Kremlin website. “This barbaric crime cannot have any justification. We hope that its customers will not leave from the deserved punishment”, – said the Russian President in a telegram. He added that he would like to confirm the readiness to further enhance counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan on bilateral basis and within the framework of a broad international effort. “Please convey words of sincere sympathy to the families and friends of those killed and wishes a speedy recovery to all the injured”, the telegram reads. 16 February it was reported that the group “Islamic state” (IG) claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing on the territory of the mausoleum of Lal Shahbaz Kalandar in the Pakistani city of Sehwan-Sharif. The

Photo: RT Russian foreign Ministry Commissioner for human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov in an exclusive interview told RT about at what stage are the talks on the situation with the Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, whom the United States sentenced to 20 years in prison. According to him, the rights of Russians, whose charge has not been proven properly, continue to be violated in prison. In particular, he was not given adequate medical care instead of to cure the teeth, he just deleted. We will remind, recently the mother Yaroshenko sent a letter to Donald Trump asking to return her son to Russia from-for problems with health. — At what stage are the negotiations about the fate of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko? Stage is, unfortunately, still the same: we are actively working on this story with the former U.S. administration, the Obama administration. Unfortunately, the rights of

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the attack on which in 2009 became one of the biggest in the Russian regions, said that it was not the only such attempt. “There are different attempts, about all will not tell. And, secondly, even the security services I say, once again not to disturb” — said Yevkurov in an interview with RIA Novosti, answering a question, whether there were attempts on his life since 2009. Answering the question of whether the revised measures to ensure his safety after the first assassination attempt, the head of Ingushetia noted that while a complex situation was everywhere. “Security measures — of course, this need was in Moscow and in other regions”, — he reminded. Yevkurov spoke about the participants of the assassination attempt on him in 2009, one of which is still in the international wanted list. “All the participants are arrested