Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes it is necessary to track not only the attendance of deputies, but the number of their speeches in the plenary. The relevant policy statement published on the party’s website on Thursday, November 17. “Voters here chose not deaf, and those who will defend their rights! Therefore, discipline should be based more on the performances — here we would need criteria to decide. Three criteria — frequency of performances, number of topics and vocabulary,” said liberal Democrat. For frequency tracking performances of the parliamentarians could be established a special office, according to Zhirinovsky. He recalled that members should also participate in round tables, parliamentary hearings and the reception of citizens. The leader of the liberal democratic party proposed to set the rate of a thousand admissions annually for one people’s choice. “Here present, that you accepted five thousand voters [for convocation] — the

State Duma deputies were more likely to take sick leave and vacation The deputies were more likely to take sick leave and unpaid leave, found RBC. This allows them to avoid fines for truancy plenary sessions, which reach 60 thousand. According to statistics from the website of the state Duma at a meeting on Wednesday, never for a day did not register in the hall 14 of United Russia, two Communists and one Deputy from the liberal democratic party. All the deputies from “Fair Russia” participated in the meeting, to the data. See alsoCouncil has established fines for truancy plenary sessions All missing United Russia had a good reason, said RBC executives intra-faction groups. “We have if anyone was absent, it was absent for a good reason: who hurts who the leave without pay took who to the mission”, — told RBC, the head of one of the groups of

Volodin gave his assessment to the adopted state budget MOSCOW, November 18 — RIA Novosti. The Federal budget was formed in difficult economic conditions, in the end managed to reach the optimum, but hard draft budget, the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. “The budget was formed in a rather difficult economic conditions, and his discussion was not easy. To solve all the questions were difficult, had to prioritize. However, in the end we managed to remove most differences, and to reach the optimum, but a tight budget”, — said Volodin, whose words are quoted in the message on the official website of the state Duma. “Among the priorities of the document — the execution of all social obligations of the state, “may decrees” of the President, and support key industries, agriculture and business”, — said the MP. He recalled that the budget for the next three years laid

Cash in Venezuela is limited to five dollars a day Venezuelan authorities have banned public and private banks to lend through branches and ATMs more than 10 thousand bolivars (about five dollars) a day. This writes the newspaper El Nacional. The restrictions will take effect from 1 December, but the population and legal entities have difficulty obtaining funds from mid-November, the newspaper notes. The country’s Central Bank took such a decision due to lack of cash. Over the last month inflow of cash in public and private financial institutions decreased by 50 percent. The controller waits for receipt of new banknotes of large denominations, which should be included in circulation from 15 December. The first will be released banknotes in denominations of 200 and 500 bolívares, then one, five, 10 and 20 thousand bolivars. October 24, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that he intends to invite US to the next

Obama and EU leaders agreed to extend sanctions against Russia Moscow. 18 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — President Barack Obama and leaders of several EU member States at a meeting in Berlin expressed their common opinion on the necessity of extending sanctions against Russia in connection with the situation around Ukraine, transfers on Friday Agency Bloomberg. At the same time, he noted that “it is in our interest to cooperate with Russia to solve the problems in the world.” The Berlin meeting was attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama, French leader Francois Hollande, Prime Minister of great Britain Theresa may, the head of the Council of Ministers of Italy Matteo Renzi and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.