Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The faction “United Russia” suggests to create in the state Duma inter-faction group to bring the minimum wage to the subsistence level for the autumn session, said the first Deputy Chairman of the faction Andrei Isayev. “Today we lay in the draft resolution, the decision whether to create an inter-faction working group, which, according to our proposal, should be headed by Alexander Zhukov, first Deputy Chairman of the state Duma,” — said Isayev. According to him, this group is for the autumn session, will need to prepare a proposal to raise the minimum wage to the subsistence level. “There will Union leaders, employers, Ministers of Finance and labour of the Russian Federation”, — said Isayev.

Ukraine is recognized as the most corrupt country in Europe Moscow. 7 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — Most corrupt country in Europe is Ukraine, said in a statement document, the European court of auditors. Despite the fact that Ukraine is making efforts in implementing reforms, she still viewed as the most corrupt country in Europe.The European court of auditors. Report on EU activities in support of reforms in Ukraine According to the court, in Ukraine the leading role in the economy, politics and the media play the oligarchs. “The clans of oligarchs continue to exert a dominant influence on the economy, politics and media in the country”, — the document says. The task of the European auditors is to assess the accuracy and efficiency of spending of funds of the European Union.

Obama: U.S. mistakes in the invasion of Iraq became one of the reasons of the birth of ISIS Also, the American leader said that the terrorist group has lost more than half its controlled territory. WASHINGTON, 7 Dec. /Offset. TASS Dmitry Kirsanov/. The mistakes made by the United States for military operations in Iraq aimed at overthrowing Saddam Hussein, became one of the reasons for the emergence of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). It is recognized by President Barack Obama, speaking on Tuesday on the basis of the U.S. air force MacDill in Florida with a speech which set out his approach to the problem of combating terrorism. We refused to repeat some of the mistakes of the 2003 invasion, which initially contributed to the growth of the organization, which became known as ISIS.Barack Obamapresident USA Also, the us President said that ISIS in the

Photo: RIA Novosti The leadership of the Duma Committee on security and combating corruption introduced Tuesday in the state Duma a bill offering to grant employees of Regardie a number of additional powers. In the explanatory note the authors recall that members of Regardie is vested with the custody of offenders in premises of internal Affairs bodies, territorial bodies of Regardie or premises of local government of rural settlements by identifying a number of administrative offenses. However, the staff of private security, which became part of Regardie, is not empowered by bringing offenders to compile a Protocol on administrative offense. The bill proposes to eliminate this defect. Also, the bill proposes a change in authorising the Deputy chief of military automobile inspection of the operational-territorial associations (connections) troops Regardie powers to consider cases on administrative offences on behalf of military automobile inspection in respect of officers of the military unit

TFR filed a case to the senior investigator of the TFR for a bribe Moscow. 6 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — the investigator of the Central office of the TFR detained and arrested on suspicion of receiving a bribe in $50 thousand, reported the official representative of Department Svetlana Petrenko. “The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against senior investigator for particularly important cases of GSU SK of Russia the Colonel of justice Alexander Sorokin under part 6 of article 290 of the criminal code on the fact of receiving a bribe in especially large size”, — Petrenko said on Tuesday, “Interfax”. According to the investigation, Sorokin received from the lawyer a bribe of $50 thousand for the performance of procedural acts on the criminal case before it in production. Sorokin detained and arrested, said Petrenko, the criminal investigation is charged with the first investigation Department of the main investigation

Medvedev and Yildirim discussed the issues in the energy sector In addition, they also discussed the issues of industry, high technologies, agriculture and tourism. GORKI, December 6 — RIA Novosti. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim held talks on the topics of energy, nuclear and oil and gas industry, this is Medvedev said at a press-conference following Russian-Turkish talks. “We had substantive talks. Discussed with a wide range of topics. This trade and investment, energy, oil and gas, and nuclear power, and industry, high technologies, agriculture, tourism,” — said the Russian Prime Minister.