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Kudrin doubts that the speaker had solicited a bribe According to Kudrin, he can’t even imagine that the speaker could behave this way “with such a significant person with authority, as Sechin”. MOSCOW, Nov 19 — RIA Novosti. Ex-Finance Minister of Russia, head of the Center for strategic research (CSR) Alexei Kudrin said that he could not imagine that a former Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev, in fact, could extort a bribe. “We don’t know, so of course we need more information. My doubt is that all this could be associated with a difficult configuration in his talk on the territory of “Rosneft”, — Kudrin said in the program “Vesti on Saturday with Sergei Brilev” on TV channel “Russia 1”. According to Kudrin, he can’t even imagine that the speaker could behave this way with “such a significant person with authority, as Sechin”. “Questions still remain”, — said Kudrin.

Photo: EPA In Peru, the summit of the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation adopted a Declaration. “Today, eight years later, after Peru first for myself has carried the chairmanship in APEC, the global economy continues to gradually recover, but faced with increasingly serious and interrelated challenges”, – stated in the document. “Stressing the importance of achieving quality growth, we will focus on our policies and strategic plans contributed substantially to improving the quality of life of people and increasing social equality in the region, – quotes TASS the text of the document. Thus we recognize that our efforts to implement the goals and objectives of APEC should be consistently aimed at improving the lives of our peoples.” The leaders called for cooperation to improve the system of education in the region. “Given the significant importance of full and effective employment of all population groups to build human capital in the region, we

The sources of the state Department reported that “the air force strikes” hospitals in Syria Source of information about allegedly bombed in Syria five hospitals and a mobile hospital was the Turkish office of the Syrian American medical society, whose headquarters is in Washington. MOSCOW/DAMASCUS/GENEVA/WASHINGTON, Nov 19 — RIA Novosti. Source of information U.S. state Department about the alleged bombed in Syria five hospitals and a mobile hospital than the official representative of us state Department, John Kirby was quick to blame Russia, was the Turkish office of the Syrian American medical society, whose headquarters is in Washington. See alsoLavrov told why videoconferencing strikes in the provinces of Idlib and HOMS The US state Department on Thursday gave the RT data on “air strikes” for 5 hospitals and one mobile hospital in Syria, where the coalition accuses Russia and Damascus. This happened after a public squabble between the representative of

Photo: RIA Novosti In the state Duma proposed to establish on the basis of Ministry of economic development new body called Replan, reports TASS. It is clarified that the proposal at the meeting of the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov with members of the Communist party faction, Deputy head of the Committee on industry Pavel Dorokhin. “We propose on the basis of the Ministry of economic development, knowing the more recent upheavals associated with the Ministry, maybe it makes sense to repurpose as a new Roplan, where two-thirds of the departments would be engaged in intersectoral, inter-regional, dynamic, balance control,” — said the Deputy. He added that the law on strategic planning. previously adopted, provides for the creation of a body “responsible for coordinating and conducting strategic planning”. In his opinion, that such a body could be created based on the MAYOR of Resplan. Siluanov said that the Ministry and

Bernie Sanders ready to be a trump ally in the fight against the corporations NEW YORK, November 19. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Former rival Hillary Clinton in the presidential race among Democrats — Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders has expressed readiness to become an ally elected President of the USA of Donald trump, if he decides to weaken the position of large corporations in the country. This was announced on Friday, the broadcaster CNN. “If trump has the guts to fight the corporations, he will have an ally in my face” — quoted by CNN, an excerpt from the speech of the legislator to the social policy conference, organized by the American newspaper Christian Science Monitor. The Senator also indicated that approves and other items in the socio-economic agenda of the elected President of the United States. These include initiatives to reduce the cost of drugs, raising the minimum wage

Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexandr Kryazhev The Russian government is discussing the possibility of eliminating one of the state corporations Fund of assistance to reforming housing and communal services. This “Izvestia” said a member of the Supervisory Council, President of the Union of cities Arctic and the far North Igor Shpektor. He wrote the request to maintain the Fund’s President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. — The issue of the closure of the Fund of assistance to reforming housing and communal services was discussed in the Ministry and is now pending with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, told Shpektor. — From my point of view, posed this question completely wrong. Under the current system, the Fund receives money from the Federal budget and directs them to support the regional programs of resettlement and demolition of dilapidated housing and capital repairs, modernization of municipal infrastructure. Together

Militants in Eastern Aleppo has dispersed a rally of civilians from the gun MOSCOW, Nov 19 — RIA Novosti. Militants in Eastern Aleppo on 17 November broke up a rally of about 300 civilians from the gun and mined all the approaches to the checkpoint in the Bustan al-Qasr, said Saturday the official representative of the defense Ministry major-General of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov. He noted that residents of the Eastern areas of the city do not stop the protests and try to go to safe areas. According to the refugees from the Eastern part of Aleppo, on Thursday at about 10.30 in the district of al-Kalasa about 300 civilians were protesting against the terrorists and “local Council”. During the rally they tried to break through the checkpoint in the Bustan al-Qasr. “The militants dispersed the demonstration, the protesters firing from a heavy machine gun, and then mined all