Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in an article in Time magazine stated that Russia and the United States needs to “resume political dialogue” and to get out of the situation of the nuclear threat. “Today, the nuclear threat once again seem real. Relations between the great powers are getting worse and worse for several years. Supporters of arms buildup and military industrial complex are rubbing their hands. We need to get out of this situation. We need to resume political dialogue, aimed at joint decision and joint action,” – said Gorbachev. Gorbachev noted that the focus should again be paid to the prevention of war, and come to the gradual abandonment of the arms race and reduction of arsenals of weapons. The ex-President addressed the members of the UN Security Council with an appeal “to take the first step to achieve these goals, and the

Photo: twitter.com The Minister of foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Siarto said that the EU sanctions against Russia are useless, adding that in the end they led to missed opportunities for exports worth billions of dollars. He said this in an interview with Reuters. “Sanctions are useless — this is the position of Hungary,” — said Siyyarto. According to the diplomat, Hungary lost $6.5 billion, having lost export opportunities as a result of anti-Russian sanctions. Szijjártó said that Budapest supports the lifting of sanctions against Russia and does not regard it as a threat. Earlier it was reported that supporters of lifting anti-Russian sanctions in the Belgian Parliament intend to re-submit for consideration by colleagues a resolution on the suspension of restrictive measures against Moscow.

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma adopted on Friday in the first reading the government draft law on the introduction of penalties in the amount of 5 thousand rubles for dangerous driving. The deputies made amendments to article 12.38 RF code of administrative offences (administrative code), which establishes “administrative responsibility in the form of a fine in the amount of 5 thousand rubles for committing the driver of the vehicle actions defined as dangerous driving”. In the accompanying documents to the draft law explains that the need for the introduction of sanctions for dangerous driving is dictated by the changes in traffic rules (SDA), which explicitly prohibits this riding style. In the explanatory note it is reminded that at the end of may 2016 the government has introduced the SDA concept of “dangerous driving”. It is expressed “in committing one or more successive actions, namely the failure of the rebuilding

Photo: RIA Novosti Former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in an article in Time magazine stated that Russia and the United States needs to “resume political dialogue” and to get out of the situation of the nuclear threat. “Today, the nuclear threat once again seem real. Relations between the great powers are getting worse and worse for several years. Supporters of arms buildup and military industrial complex are rubbing their hands. We need to get out of this situation. We need to resume political dialogue, aimed at joint decision and joint action,” – said Gorbachev. Gorbachev noted that the focus should again be paid to the prevention of war, and come to the gradual abandonment of the arms race and reduction of arsenals of weapons. The ex-President addressed the members of the UN Security Council with an appeal “to take the first step to achieve these goals, and the

Photo: RIA Novosti Vice-speaker of the state Duma Pyotr Tolstoy (“United Russia”) became the head of the Russian delegation in the parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA), reports “Interfax”. This decision was taken on Friday, January 27, at the meeting of the delegation. Earlier it was reported that the speaker of the state Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin has distributed responsibilities among its Vice-speakers. Peter Tolstoy will coordinate and monitor the committees on culture, information policy, information technologies and communication, for physical culture, sport, tourism and youth Affairs. He also organizes the cooperation with the European Parliament and the European Commission, inter-Parliamentary Union and the OSCE PA.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the current state of Russian-American relations with the permanent members of the security Council of Russia. This told the press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, according to the Rambler/news citing TASS. “They exchanged opinions on the current state of Russian-American relations,” he said. The President also discussed the results of the held in Astana on 23-24 January of Syrian peace talks, the future efforts of the Syrian political settlement and the issues of domestic socio-economic agenda. Previously Peskov said that for the coming weekend planned telephone conversation of Putin with the President of the United States Donald trump, during which the leaders will discuss on the basic parameters of the current state of bilateral relations.

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin know nothing about the plans of U.S. President Donald trump to lift sanctions against Russia. This is reported by the Rambler/news citing TASS. Peskov said that information about the intentions trump the lifting of sanctions, “impersonal”, so he doesn’t know “how it is true.” Earlier the journalist of the American edition of Politico, Susan Glasser wrote in his Twitter that several of its sources have reported on the preparation of the team trump the decree lifting the sanctions against Russia. She noted that the document allegedly referred to a unilateral lifting of the measures. In January, trump said in an interview that he is ready to consider lifting sanctions in exchange for the agreement with Russia on reducing nuclear weapons. The Kremlin said that such proposals were not received.

Photo: TASS The state Duma in the first reading accepted a package of anticorruption amendments of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, reported on the website of the Duma. Under the bill, governors will be obliged to check information about the income of mayors, officials were permitted to lead the parties, and entering the universities of the FSB will have to declare the income information. In addition, the bill imposes on the governors duty to verify the accuracy and completeness of information about income and property of persons occupying municipal positions. If anti-corruption legislation is violated, the Governor is obliged to apply for early termination of powers of the employee in the local authority or the court. Also, according to the bill, “participation in the management of political parties these persons, state and municipal servants are allowed without any restrictions.” Earlier, the international organization Transparency International published the corruption perception