Category: Politics

NEW DELHI/MOSCOW, January 26. /TASS/. Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin died in new Delhi. About TASS reported in the Russian Embassy in India. Also, a diplomatic source confirmed to TASS that “the Ambassador died today at 8 a.m. as the result of cardiac arrhythmia”. Prime Minister Narendra modi expressed his condolences in connection with the death of kadakina.

Photo: facebook.com Another memorial plaque in St. Petersburg went “under demolition”, smolninskiy district court of the Northern capital made the decision to dismantle a memorial plaque to Admiral Kolchak, appeared in the end of 2016 at Large of Zelenina street. Against the appearance of the memorial said the residents who filed the application to court. They argued that the perpetuation of the self-proclaimed Supreme ruler of Russia, the city authorities are trying to conduct his extrajudicial rehabilitation, which can not be allowed. In support of their position they presented to the court rulings of the Military Collegium of the Supreme court and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme court’s refusal to rehabilitate Kolchak in 2001. In turn, the city authorities insist on the fact that Kolchak is revered not as a war criminal, agreed to the partition of Russia between France and England, and as a scientist and military, who for

Photo: RIA Novosti At the intra-Syrian talks in Astana, the armed opposition Syria has demonstrated a “misguided attempt at blackmail”. This statement was made by the special representative of the President of Russia Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, noting that those wishing to derail the process in the Kazakh capital was “enough”. His words convey the Rambler/news citing RIA Novosti. “We, of course, fixed by the Syrian armed opposition some attempts, awkward, shall we say, blackmail”, – said the Lavrentiev. In addition, Lavrentyev said that it often happens that some preconditions from the opposition “simply impracticable”. In particular, the opposition demanded an end to completely fighting in Wadi Barada. Also, the representative of the Russian side noticed that at the moment all efforts are made to ensure that the ceasefire in the Damascus suburbs was respected by both conflicting parties, however, to completely prevent provocations impossible. The ceasefire was declared on 30

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Russia topped the rating of countries who believe that the Republican Donald trump be a good President of the United States. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the international sociological center of Ipsos. Publishes the Spanish Agency EFE. According to his information, 74% of Russians believe in the success of trump as President of the United States. After the RF is India, where 65% of respondents believe that it will be a worthy occupant of the White house. More pessimistic in relation to the new American leader tuned citizens of Spain, 84% of whom believe that trump will not be a good President for the United States. For Spanish, followed by Mexicans (81%), Britons (80%), Germans (78%) and France (77%). In the US there is almost a “draw”: 52% of respondents believe trump, 48% of Americans think that the Republican’s choice

Photo: RIA Novosti The Chairman of the Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications Leonid Levin believes the current idea of the regulation of messengers at the legislative level. “Now you can call the direction in the direction of regulation of instant messengers timely, as every day the number of users is growing steadily and is already tens of millions of people in our country,” Levin told reporters, commenting on the information in the media about the amendments to the law “On communication”, which are designed to regulate the messengers. However, he noted that the information policy Committee did not participate in the development and discussion of this bill. “Therefore, it is difficult to evaluate a proposed action,” added the MP. Levin pointed to the fact that there is a growing use of these services for illegal purposes. “Proliferation risks through instant messengers extremism, advertising drugs, gambling, and

Photo: TASS The leading countries of the West are still trying to falsify the history of Russia with the purpose of discrediting her as the successor of the USSR, declared to the Deputy chief of the Military Academy of the General staff of the Armed forces of Russia the General-Lieutenant Sergey Charkov. “Recent events show that Russia and its people became the objects of open information-psychological war with the leading countries of the Western world,” he said, noting that the falsification of history is part of it, and pursues the goal of “impact on the historical consciousness of Russians and their historical memory”, RIA “Novosti”. He noted that the West is also trying to undermine Russia’s potential through the formation of public opinion within the country that rejects the most important public historical value. As an example he cited the work of the parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, which in

Photo: RIA Novosti Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin congratulated Pedro Agramunt on his reelection as speaker of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and expressed hope that under his chairmanship, the PACE will confirm its pan-European status. This was reported on the official website of the state Duma. “We hope that under your leadership, the Assembly of all 47 member States of the Council of Europe will be able to confirm its special status as the most wide-ranging parliamentary organizations in Europe,” – said in greeting. The re-election of Agramunt occurred on January 23. Spanish politician was the only candidate for the post of President of the Assembly. His nomination caused no objections. Pedro Agramunt was first elected PACE President in January 2016, replacing Anne Brasseur. The PACE Chairman is elected for a term of one year, renewable on re-annual period. The first in the 2017