Category: Politics

Photo: © AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik American intelligence is looking for, but have not yet found confirmation of the relations of staff of the US President Donald trump with Russia, announced on Monday, the CBS TV channel, citing sources. “Investigators are trying to figure out was coordinated by the team of trump with the Russians before and after the elections. However, at the moment, according to sources, they found no evidence of any violations”, — stated in the message. According to CBS, “American investigators are studying at least one phone conversation between trump’s adviser for national security by Michael Flynn and the Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak at the end of December”. It is emphasized that Flynn is not the only member of the team trump, whose actions in connection with Russia considers the us intelligence. “Sources said that investigators are examining whether shared with other Russia

Photo: RIA Novosti Anti-Russian sanctions “ineffective and harmful” for the European economy and for the Russian Federation. In an interview with “Kommersant” said the head of the foreign Ministry of Hungary Peter Siarto. In particular, the loss of his country from restrictive measures on exports for three years amounted to $ 6.5 billion. “Given that annual volume of Hungarian exports is about $ 90 billion, is a sensitive loss.” Szijjártó expressed hope for an easing of sanctions in March during the EU summit, however, “much depends on the Russian-American dialogue”. “This will not impact directly on the position of Budapest, but may have an impact on the EU as a whole: if in dialogue of Moscow and Washington there is a positive shift, it will be easier to convince our friends in Europe to follow the same path. It is obvious that business is against the policy of sanctions,” he

Photo: RIA Novosti The Ministry of justice of Ukraine in 2014 has filed five inter-state lawsuits against Russia in European court of human rights (ECHR). This was stated by the head of the Ministry Pavel Petrenko. “There are five big Affairs of Ukraine against Russia in ECHR”, — he said on air of the Ukrainian “Fifth channel”. According to him, we are talking about claims related to the events in Crimea and the Donbass. In addition, there are cases of orphans, brought from the Donbass in Russia, which Ukraine regards as “illegal kidnapping”. On 16 January Ukraine submitted to the international court of justice in the Hague a lawsuit against Russia in the framework of the International Convention for the suppression of the financing of terrorism and the International Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.

Photo: RIA Novosti The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that the so-called “children’s bill of war” postponed, since its implementation, there are no financial possibilities. Her words Monday, January 23, reports “Interfax”. “We don’t want broken promises,” — said Matvienko, adding that the bill will be back, having gone through a difficult time. Thus, according to the speaker of the Federation Council, existing social commitments of the Federal and regional budgets for different segments of the population remain in force. January 20, during consideration in the first reading the state Duma has rejected the bill “About additional measures of social support of separate categories of citizens who suffered during the great Patriotic war.” The document refers to citizens, who at the time of the end of world war II was less than 18 years of age. The bill, in particular, to pay monthly “children of war” one

Photo: RIA Novosti Finland has no plans to build a fence on the border with Russia following the example of Norway. This was stated in conversation with journalists the Prime Minister Juha Sipilä, participating in the international conference “Arctic frontiers” in the Norwegian Arctic city of Tromso. “No, we have no such plans. We solved the problem (refugees) through dialogue and discussion with Russia,” – said the head of government. In 2015, the asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa have begun to arrive in Norway and Finland through the territory of Russia, but the problem was soon solved thanks to the cooperation of the authorities. At the end of 2016 in Norway, completed the construction of a 200-metre barbed wire at the Storskog – Borisoglebsk is the only crossing through the 200-kilometer land border of Norway with Russia. The Ministry of justice of Norway claim that the

Photo: RIA Novosti The Deputy of fraction of LDPR Sergey Ivanov introduced the state Duma a draft law which introduces administrative arrest for threatening doctors who are not causing harm to their health. The document is available in the Duma electronic database. The parliamentarian, in particular, proposes to Supplement the article “Small hooliganism” the Code about administrative offenses, the subparagraph on tougher sanctions for “violation of public order expressing clear disrespect for society, accompanied by obscene abuse in public places, offensive molestation to citizens, as well as the destruction or damage of property”, if we are talking about the actions associated “with the threat of violence, committed against staff of the medical institutions in the performance of official or professional duties.” The bill provides sanctions for it in the form of a fine in the amount from 1 thousand to 2.5 thousand rubles or administrative arrest for up to 15

Photo: TASS Deputy Chairman of Committee of the Federation Council of Russia on international Affairs Alexander Babakov believes that anti-Russian sanctions of the EU are the United States, therefore, at the initial stage of the removal of restrictions will depend on Washington. “It is clear that for all this mess are Americans. Another thing is that they imposed sanctions by proxy of the European Union, and many here at first will depend on Washington. In General, everything should turn out as in matters of business: to log someone in, you need to understand from the way out”, — quotes the words of FAN Babakov. In his opinion, the EU “did not think, the sanctions imposed, and now I think more than we do about how to remove them”. Earlier, former Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi urged the EU to cancel anti-Russian sanctions.