Mikhail Fradkov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The former head of the foreign intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov headed the Board of Directors of the concern “Almaz-Antey”, reports the website of the company. Information about the appointment appeared in the section “Guide” on the website of the concern. Earlier this post was held by General Director of state Corporation “rostec” Sergey Chemezov. The decision on the appointment was made in early November at the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Fradkov and Chemezov. According to Putin, Fradkov’s experience in the foreign intelligence Service will help him in his new post. Also Putin asked Fradkov to head the Russian Institute for strategic studies.
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Shoigu has criticized a proposal to include the military in the mandatory medical insurance system
Photo: Russian Newspaper The Minister of defence of the Russian Federation General of the army Sergei Shoigu spoke about expressed during the discussion of the state budget for 2017 in the state Duma the proposal to include the military in the mandatory medical insurance system. According to him, the relevant reasoning initially – incorrect formulation of the question. “Military medicine is an integral part of military organization, it has always been and still is the most efficient and innovative part of national health care, – said the head of the military Department. – We need to think not about how to lead military medicine to the average denominator, and Vice versa – how public to raise medicine to the level of the military”. The Minister of defence is convinced that military medicine will continue to develop in the structure of the Armed Forces. “It is our firm position”, – said
After preliminary calculations, at the election of the President of Moldova, leader Igor Dodon
After preliminary calculations, at the election of the President of Moldova, leader Igor Dodon Moscow. 13 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — Pro-Russian candidate, Igor Dodon, most likely, won in the elections of the President of Moldova, according to preliminary data the Central electoral Commission. According to these data, it was processed 80% of protocols for voting, which include just over one million votes out of 1.6 million took part in the elections. Igor Dodon has received 620 thousand votes (56.8 per cent), Maia Sandu — 470 thousand (43.2 per cent). The tabulation continues.
Peskov told about the content of the “lovely letters” Putin’s Trump
Donald Trump © EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The US President-elect Donald trump has called “the beautiful letter” a congratulatory telegram from Russian leader Vladimir Putin that was sent on the day of summarizing the results of the American elections. This told the press Secretary of Putin, Dmitry Peskov, answering the question. A summary of the message was published on the Kremlin website.
McFaul was banned in Russia for damage to bilateral relations
McFaul was banned in Russia for damage to bilateral relations MOSCOW, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti. Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul entered in the list of banned in Russia for deliberate damage relations between Moscow and Washington, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Previously, McFaul said in his account on Facebook that can’t come to Russia because of the fact that included in the sanctions list. “What he started to write that it was included for its proximity to (U.S. President Barack — ed.) Obama… We just didn’t know about the closeness, but all this is irrelevant. We are talking about deliberate damage to bilateral relations (from the McFaul — ed.)”, — said Zakharov was the TV channel “Russia 1”. According to her, the McFaul — the man “who purposefully spoil bilateral relations.” The representative of the Russian foreign Ministry stressed that the inclusion of the
Viktor Zolotov has announced the completion of the formation of Regardie
Photo: RIA Novosti The formation of the structure of Regardie, including translations from the interior Ministry troops special forces, aviation units of the private security and licensing system is completed. This was stated by the Director of the Federal service of national guard troops – chief of the troops of the national guard, army General Viktor Zolotov, inspected the St. Petersburg SBM “Granite”, where he presented awards to the most distinguished officers. According to the commander, since the creation of Regardie to the newly-formed structure has entered more than 160 thousand now former employees of the interior Ministry. Now Regardie – 340 thousand “bayonets”. Organization this Federal service is divided into two components – a military and territorial. Military – I see: shelf, operational brigades and divisions and other units, formerly part of the internal troops. And territorial bodies made up of divisions before entering in the bodies of internal
The government and the Venezuelan opposition agreed on the way out of the crisis
The government and the Venezuelan opposition agreed on the way out of the crisis According to the Vatican representative Monsignor Claudio Maria Celli, the parties agreed to work together to combat economic sabotage and work on providing the population with food and medicines. MEXICO city, 13 Nov. /Offset. TASS Ivan valueK/. Representatives of the Venezuelan government and controlling the country’s Parliament of the democratic unity Bloc (BDE) has agreed to follow the road map to resolve the political and socio-economic crisis in the country. The corresponding agreement was reached at the end of the next round of talks between political opponents. See alsothe Nobel peace prize was awarded to the President of Colombia According to the Vatican representative Monsignor Claudio Maria Celli, who is involved in the negotiations as the international mediator, the parties agreed to coexist peacefully, to deal with the economic sabotage and work on providing the population
The state Duma suggest to establish a Day of patriotism on the day of the introduction of Russia grocery embargo
© Catherine jaeckel/TASS MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The proposal to establish in Russia the Day of patriotism and to celebrate it on 6 August, the day of the introduction of Russia grocery embargo in response to Western sanctions, directed to the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the heads of all four Duma factions. The author of the initiative made by the President of the Association of entrepreneurs for development of business of patriotism “Avanti” Rahman Anshukov, which has also prepared a draft Federal law (a copy is in TASS).
In the state Duma explained the new mechanism of work with addresses of voters
Photo: RIA Novosti Member of the Committee on rules and organization of work of the state Duma Victor Pinsky believes that the attraction of the MPs to work with citizens “will put everything in its place”. This opinion was expressed in a conversation with “ru” on Tuesday, November 8th. “First of all, to the Deputy treated his own constituents. Therefore it was his duty, his task to take care of their voters and to answer their queries. They sent him here,” — said the MP. He explained that now the regulations will clearly have a mechanism for the reaction of the deputies to the treatment. “Before Deputy, as a rule, sent a letter to the corresponding profile Committee and requested the machine to answer, said Pinsky. Now Deputy, if something is not clear, may request information from the relevant Committee himself to answer the appeal.” However, changes to be made
The media learned about the transfer of the NATO summit due to trump
The media learned about the transfer of the NATO summit due to trump The NATO leadership has decided to transfer planned for the beginning of 2017 summit of the Alliance. According to the magazine Der Spiegel, the event could be held later next summer. According to the publication, the postponement of the summit was a victory of Republican Donald trump on the US presidential election on 8 November. See also US third evening in a row are protests against trump Prior to that, the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg has been invited to the event being planned rival trump’s, of the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, having in mind that she will become President. The journal notes that the leadership of NATO needs time to the new us President decided on the strategy of the Alliance. In particular, the cancellation of obligations trump’s presence in Eastern Europe of American