Category: Politics

The Iraqi military stormed another area in the East of Mosul MOSCOW, 3 Dec — RIA Novosti. The Iraqi military stormed the area of al-Intisar in Eastern Mosul, the Agency Rudaw. The operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia and other countries) continues from October 17. The Iraqi military, Kurdish forces and militias are fighting from all four directions, support for them has aviation coalition, headed by USA. “The army stormed the district of al-Intisar on the left Bank of Mosul”, — reported in his Twitter. The left Bank called Eastern part of the city on the left Bank of the Tigris river. Earlier it was reported that the military in the East managed to occupy the area of Kardjali and advance in the areas of al Karama and Judaydat al-Mufti. One of the commanders of the Iraqi army

UN 5 Nov. /Offset. TASS Oleg Zelenin/. The UN Council on human rights (HRC) has become a platform for advancing market interests, and passing in the format of the debate increasingly turned into political struggle and defamation States. This opinion was expressed on Friday, the Deputy Director of the Department for humanitarian cooperation and human rights Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory lukyantsev at the meeting of the UN General Assembly on the work of the HRC.

Photo: RIA Novosti The first Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on information policy, Samail sarailiev proposed to equate the media industry to the Ministry of defence. It is reported by RIA “Novosti”. “The media industry and journalists equate, in my opinion, to the Ministry of defence, these people, often early fight, who are constantly on the front lines, which convey information on which it is impossible to push, even taking into account the difficult economic situation,” said sarailiev, speaking at a meeting of the Committee. In addition, he believes that it is impossible to reduce funding for the media, especially given the difficult situation in the world.

The British foreign office explained the demonstration at the Embassy of the Russian Federation public concern The official representative of the British foreign Ministry said that the foreign Ministry staff learned about the action from the police. LONDON, 4 Nov. /Offset. TASS Igor Brovarnik/. The British foreign office explained the demonstration at the Russian Embassy in London concern the British public and rejected the assumption of the involvement of the authorities of the United Kingdom. About it the correspondent of TASS said Friday the official representative of the British foreign Minister. According to his statement, “the UK public remains very concerned” by the actions of Russia and the government of Syria. According to him, members of the British foreign office “learned from the police that a peaceful protest was held yesterday in front of the Russian Embassy”. “The place was attended by members of diplomatic police, remaining in close contact

Photo: Kommersant The day before the deadline for submitting documents for registration of candidates on a post of the mayor of Perm was not filed a single application. On Wednesday, November 2, reports URA.ru. The deadline for applications from potential participants expires at 16:00 on 3 November. The contest is to be held on November 21. Candidates for mayor will have an interview and present the program “Creation in Perm of a comfortable urban environment”. The competition Commission, which included six deputies of the city Duma and the same number of representatives of the Governor, must determine the strongest candidates. The head of the Perm city Duma will adopt, said a national news service (NSN). The documents filed including the acting head of Perm Dmitry Samoilov. However, he claims that he will run for mayor. “Are you going to participate and do not hide it,” said he to the Agency.

Theresa may not be able to start Brexit without the approval of Parliament Moscow. 3 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — the UK Supreme court ruled that the government could not begin the procedure of withdrawal from the EU without the consent of Parliament. On Thursday, reports Sky News. The lawsuit was filed by businesswoman Gina Miller and Barber Deir DOS Santos. The court stood on their side, citing the text of the Treaty on European Union, which says that States may resign from the Council “in accordance with the requirements of their constitutions”. The country’s Prime Minister, Theresa may, insisted that the results of the referendum and the Ministerial powers sufficient to activate article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and to start the procedure of withdrawal from the EU without consultation with the Parliament. However, the court decided that it does not correspond to the main law of the country. The office

Russia does not rule out the possibility of a visa-free regime with Georgia MOSCOW, 3 Dec — RIA Novosti. Russia does not rule out the possibility of a visa-free regime with Georgia, but in this issue it is necessary to consider the negotiations of Tbilisi with the EU, said in an interview with RIA Novosti, state Secretary, Deputy foreign Minister Grigory Karasin. The diplomat recalled that the Russian Federation almost a year ago radically eased conditions for citizens of Georgia, Russian visas, and today any citizen of Georgia can come to Russia by private invitation, issued by any Russian citizen or residing in the Russian Federation a foreigner. “In principle, do not exclude the possibility of a visa-free regime with Georgia. And, of course, in approaching this question it is necessary to consider the relevant processes between the EU and Georgia,” — said Karasin. In his opinion, deserve attention, for

Photo: RIA Novosti The elevators of the state Duma do not contain all the deputies and government representatives. On Wednesday, November 2, said the Chairman of the Duma Committee on physical culture, sport, tourism and youth Affairs Mikhail Degtyarev, the Agency reports city news “Moscow”. “Due to the fact that the attendance of deputies on plenary sessions of the state Duma was an unprecedented turnout of representatives of the government too high, and in this context we have overloaded the elevators, especially in this building,” — said the MP. According to him, the stairs, in particular, had to use the Minister of sports of Russia Pavel Kolobkov and his Deputy Natalia Parshikova. Rose walk, and the Degtyarev. At the plenary meeting on Wednesday, according to the Agency, it is 399 out of 450 deputies. Two weeks ago the meeting was attended by nearly 440 members. On 21 October it was