Category: Politics

The newspaper learned about the plans of Russia and Japan to ease visa regime The authorities of Russia and Japan can declare about simplifying the visa regime between the countries 15-16 December, during the visit of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. On Saturday, December 10, the newspaper the Asahi, citing its own sources in diplomatic circles. According to the publication, it is about mitigating the regime of granting visas, involving multiple entry and prominent for a long time. To date, such permission is granted for a maximum of three years. However, after the cuts, the expiration date may be increased to five years. See alsoAbe is going step by step to solve the problem of a peace Treaty with Russia Tokyo suspended talks with Moscow on the issue of visa facilitation in March 2014 because of the situation in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Then it was frozen negotiations on a

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian artists Leonid Yarmolnik and Nikolai Fomenko, on air of the Latvian radio Baltkom who called the Russians “vulgar people” who do not know who Stalin, Lenin, and where is the Crimea, has refused a request by the newspaper VIEW, to comment on his statements. “You already 25th today who asks me this question. I want to say that everything in this article is distorted, all our words were taken out of context, we were talking about something else,” – said the newspaper VIEW Leonid Yarmolnik. On the remark of the journalist that published in the Internet a video recording of the broadcast, where sound these statements, Yarmolnik said, “Well, here, and must understand that our words were distorted, do not know why members of the media all the time present our words as they were spoken”. On the question of whether Yarmolnik to ask a question

Syria sent 200 American troops Moscow. 10 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — at least 200 American soldiers from the units in the special operations were sent to Syria to assist Kurdish militias and the Syrian armed opposition in mastering the city of raqqa, which captured militants “Islamic state” (ISIS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia). According to the head of the Pentagon Ashton Carter, the backup will include employees of special forces that will assist local forces in operations to capture Raqqa. The direction of additional troops to Syria was approved last week, U.S. President Barack Obama, said Carter. Now in Syria there are about 300 American servicemen.

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma at the meeting on 9 December passed in the third reading the law on the Federal budget for 2017-2019. About it reports “Interfax”. “For” vote of 315 deputies, against – 99. The document, among other things, involves the gradual reduction of the budget deficit from 3.2 percent of GDP in 2017 to 1.2 percent of GDP in 2019. Revenues for 2017 should be 13,488 trillion rubles, expenses – 16,241 trillion rubles, and deficit – 2,753 trillion rubles. In the previous, the second reading, the parliamentary majority has redistributed part of budget expenditures on socially important objectives, for example, to support the regions and small businesses. The volume of transfers amounted to about 540 billion rubles.

Abe is going step by step to solve the problem of a peace Treaty with Russia TOKYO, December 10. /Offset. TASS Cyril Agafonov. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will try step by step to advance the solution of the territorial issue and the problem of concluding a peace Treaty with Russia. With this statement he made on Saturday during a meeting with journalists in the Japanese Prefecture of Fukushima. “This is a difficult problem which was not solved for over 70 years. I intend to exert every effort to consistently promote (her decision) forward step by step” — led the Agency Kyodo. See alsoJapan decided not to give Putin another dog breed Akita inu Touched the topic of Russian-Japanese relations and Secretary-General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Acehide Suga. During a speech in Tokyo, referring to the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan, he expressed the

Congress passed the law on the financing of the government until April 2017 WASHINGTON, 10 Dec — RIA Novosti. The U.S. Congress passed a budget act that includes funding the government until April 28, 2017, according to the results of the vote in the Senate. Voting is still ongoing, but the law has already received required to pass 60 votes of senators. The house of representatives passed the bill on Thursday. Until midnight Friday the law was to take both houses, he must now be signed by President Barack Obama. The adoption of the law allows to avoid a “shutdown” (the interruption of) of the US Federal government funding which was meant to end at midnight on Saturday. The new budget will be developed when President Donald trump, who takes office January 20. The adoption of the interim budget by the Senate was delayed due to the fact that a