Chairman Of The State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. 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
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Waltz said he intended to defend France from the right, the US and Russia
Photo: © AP Photo/ Remy de la Mauviniere PARIS, January 23 — RIA Novosti. Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, which came out in the second round of the primaries of the ruling Socialist party, said he intends to continue the fight to protect the country from the threat of right-wing, from the USA, Russia and other possible challenges. In France on Sunday was the first round of the primaries of the socialists. According to preliminary results, former Minister of education Benoit Amon gains of 36.12%, ex-Prime Minister Manuel Valls — 31,24%, former economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg — of 17.69%. “I refuse to leave the French to their fate before the face of the extreme right, which will destroy our country, right françois Fillon — hard, conservative and liberal as ever, in the face of the United States Donald trump and Vladimir Putin, in this complex world, fear of globalisation,
The CIA released Soviet military secrets
Photo: Reuters Central intelligence Agency (CIA) published Soviet military documents related to the conduct of hostilities in Europe in terms of conventional and nuclear war. This is reported by the Rambler/news with reference to “Izvestia”. In addition, in the book published by the CIA, contains excerpts from the textbooks of the Academy of the General staff of the USSR and the “hundreds of Soviet documents, which, even in modern Russia is available only to those with “security clearance”. All documents from this collection Dating from 1955 to 1985. As explained to “Izvestia”, this collection was mainly created to illustrate the work of U.S. intelligence to gather information about the main enemy. A full description of the content of the book is over 170 pages, there is an analysis of the images from the reconnaissance aircraft, instruction on the use of various types of armed forces and reports on exercises. Digitized
Moscow handed the Syrian opposition a draft Constitution
Deputy foreign Minister of Turkey Sedat Onal, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Kairat Abdrakhmanov, head of the Russian delegation Alexander Lavrentyev, the UN special representative for Syria Staffan de Mistura and Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Jaber Ansari © AP Photo/Sergei Grits ASTANA, January 24. /TASS/. Moscow has transferred to the armed opposition, the draft Constitution of Syria, prepared by the Russian specialists. This was stated by the special representative of the President of Russia on the Syrian settlement, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Astana, Alexander Lavrentiev.
Volodin first entered the Supreme Council of “United Russia”
Photo: RIA Novosti The Congress of the party “United Russia” approved the new composition of its Supreme Council, which first became Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, RIA “Novosti”. According to the Charter of “United Russia”, the high Council is elected by the Congress delegates list by open vote from among the “prominent public and political figures of Russia who had great authority in Russian society and in the international arena, including non-members of the party.” Earlier it was reported that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was re-elected Chairman of the party “United Russia”.
Putin called on the EP to become more efficient
Photo: RIA Novosti President Vladimir Putin urged United Russia, whose program is a program of development of the country, become more responsible and effective, noting her professionalism, says the appeal of the President to the Congress participants, which was read by the Chairman of the party, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. As Putin said in an address to the members of the Congress, the party will sum up the work over a five-year period, to determine plans for the future, reports RIA “Novosti”. Putin added that it is necessary to use the potential of the party, its readiness to solve complex problems. “The fact that you can do it, already proven by many specific cases. The EP has made a huge contribution to building a free, strong and prosperous country”, – said the head of state. The President added that “the party program is a program of development of Russia. This
In the state Duma do not exclude that the trump course will lead to a new arms race
Photo: RIA Novosti The statements of the new US President Donald trump on the tasks in the field of foreign policy and strengthening the power of the American army in case of realization can lead to a new arms race, said the RNS, the Chairman of the state Duma Commission on assistance to defense enterprises Vladimir Gutenev. “Turn towards domestic policy, which declares the trump, along with international political discharge, which can occur with high probability will lead not only to a revival of economic power of the American state, particularly the middle class, but also to increase defence spending, qualitative strengthening of the us army. And, in some cases – to the necessary, albeit asymmetric, but still the reaction from the Russian side in order to reduce potential threats,” – said Gutenev, commenting on the thesis to increase defence spending, expressed in the inaugural address of the 45th President
The Governor of the Omsk region will not recall Mizulina of the Federation Council
Elena Mizulina © Michael Pochuev/TASS OMSK, January 24. /Offset. TASS Alexey Petrov/. The Governor of Omsk region Viktor Nazarov will not revoke Yelena Mizulina, Senator of the Federation Council, where she represents the Siberian region, told TASS press Secretary of the Governor Julia Sokolenko.
The Kremlin perceives as a threat ballistic missiles of China near the borders of the Russian Federation
Teachings of Chinese soldiers on the border with Russia © REUTERS/China Daily MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Moscow does not perceive as a threat to the placement of China’s Intercontinental ballistic missiles near the border with Russia. “Any action in terms of the development of the Chinese Armed forces, if this information (about the accommodation of Intercontinental ballistic missiles near borders of the Russian Federation) is true, military construction in China is not perceived as a threat to our country”, – said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.
The Ministry of construction has proposed to assess the feasibility of providing land
Photo: RIA Novosti The Ministry of construction has proposed to analyze the feasibility of granting land plots to large families, given the quality of these lands, this was stated by Deputy head of the Ministry Nikita Stasyshyn on Saturday at a Congress of the party “United Russia”. “Over the past two years we have looked at the locations of the land that entities transmit large. You know, we need to look into the feasibility of granting land plots”, — said Stasyshyn. He explained that in order for these plots has been mastered, it should take quite a large amount of time. The problem, he said, lies not in the number of granted land, and in their quality and the amount of subsequent cost of providing infrastructure. “The problem is that some entities no funds for providing the infrastructure of these lands, and after the provision of infrastructure in a number