Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to allocate funds to provide their employees with housing, said Friday the newspaper “Kommersant”. “The signatures of Yuri Chaika and Alexander Bastrykin on the President of Russia Vladimir Putin received a request for “improving the security of prosecutors and investigators residential premises”, — writes the edition. According to the letter, on December 1, 2016 in the Prosecutor’s office for apartments expect of 3.69 thousand people. To provide them with housing oversight Agency must be almost 19 billion rubles, reads the additional letter of the Prosecutor General, The Investigative Committee was 3.8 thousand people on the waiting list for apartments, but the Agency asked for 7.6 billion rubles. According to “Kommersant”, the TFR in the calculations focus not on the family of three, and only one employee. As explained

Photo: RIA Novosti In a press-service of Pacific fleet (TOF) has informed that a detachment of ships of the fleet arrived in the South Korean port of Busan. “During the visit, the sailors of the Pacific fleet will meet with representatives of the Navy command of the Republic of Korea, mayor of Busan and the Consul General of the Russian Federation. The Russians will also hold a series of friendly football matches with Korean sailors,”— TASS quotes an excerpt from the message.

Photo: EPA Aircraft NATO AWACS conducted a rapid reconnaissance near the border of Russia to the South of the Kaliningrad region. It is reported by Interfax, citing data from websites, tracking the movement of military aircraft. It is reported that the radar reconnaissance aircraft, tail number LX-N90447 and call sign NATO06 a long time led the exploration of the Russian territory, while in the airspace of Poland. Earlier the Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu said about increasing the number of flights of Russian fighter jets from NATO intelligence.

Photo: EPA White House spokesman Josh Ernest said that Russia at the right time fulfilled the obligation to reduce nuclear weapons agreement from 2010 start-III, reports Interfax. “We have seen that Russia has taken measures on reduction of nuclear weapons, which us especially pleased. But we continue to focus on the assurance that all necessary steps are taken to protect the United States,” said Ernest. Earlier, Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow counts on the implementation under the new administration of U.S. President Donald trump Russian-American Treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (start Treaty) in 2010.

Photo: Okla Michal / CTK / Globallookpress.com In the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada officially began its work, the Consulate General of Russia. About it RIA Novosti said the head of the diplomatic mission, Consul General Dzhamshed Boltaev. The diplomat noted that, despite the temporary suspension of tourist flow from Russia, the Consulate General has already received a lot of requests from the Russians. “Colony of Russian citizens living in Hurghada, consists of about 20 thousand people. This Russian citizen, married to Egyptians, and the people living here in the season. There are also those who live in the resort for medical reasons,” explained Boltaev. While the mission is running in test mode, as yet not fully configured computer hardware. Full operation of the new Consulate General, which includes the issuance of visas and passports, according to the Consul General, will begin in late February. The Consulate building is located