Category: Politics

Deputy Chairman of the state Duma Committee for security and combating corruption Natalia Poklonskaya © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. The Deputy of the state Duma Natalia Poklonskaya does not believe that should leave the faction “United Russia”, despite the decision to vote against the consolidated position of the parliamentary majority on the draft law on changing the pension legislation.

The state Duma rejected the draft law equating cohabitation to the official marriage MOSCOW, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. The state Duma rejected a bill which proposed to equate the “actual marriage” to the official marriage. The document was submitted to the lower house of Parliament in January. According to the explanatory Memorandum, the signs of a “de facto marital relationships” are maintaining a common household and living together for five years, and maintaining a common household, living together for two years and the presence of a common child. In the project it was specified that such couples should apply to family and civil law. The responsible state Duma Committee on family, women and children not previously supported this initiative. In particular, it noted that “the upcoming five-year period of cohabitation” could be the cause of a breakup between a man and a woman. In addition, in the Committee’s view,

The BRICS leaders adopted the Johannesburg Declaration JOHANNESBURG, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. Leaders of the BRICS countries at the summit in South Africa, adopted the Johannesburg Declaration. Signatures under the document was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President XI Jinping, Prime Minister of India Narendra modi, President of Brazil Michel Temer and the owner of the current jubilee summit, the leader of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa. The motto of the summit is “BRICS and Africa: cooperation with developing countries to achieve inclusive growth in the era of the Fourth industrial revolution”. As reported in the information materials by the tenth summit of the BRICS, as one of the priorities of its presidency in 2018, South Africans marked the establishment of the working group on peacekeeping issues. In Pretoria believe that the establishment of a permanent mechanism of the BRICS and the peacekeeping will help to bridge the

Photograph of the leaders of the BRICS countries failed because of the confusion with flags MOSCOW, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. In the Internet appeared the frames from the ceremony photography at the BRICS summit, which none of the leaders got up in front of the flag of their country. The confusion occurred because of an error of the organizers. In the comments to the video users said that the heads of state took place in accordance with standing floor signs. Noticing the error, the policy was reversed, but their situation still did not meet in back of them flags. So, the Chinese leader, XI Jinping stood in front of the flag of South Africa, Prime Minister of India Narendra modi before the Brazilian, South African President Cyril of Ramaphosa — in front of the Russian flag, Brazilian leader Michel Temer is located at the flag of India and the

The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky considers that it is necessary to make every effort, including parliaments, to return to Russia arrested in the USA’s Budinoi, and ready to personally go after her in the United States.

© Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS JOHANNESBURG, July 26. /TASS/. In the context of digitalization in the world, it is important to ensure the safety of society, business and citizens. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the BRICS in the extended format. “In terms of digital reality, it is important to ensure the safety of society, business and citizens. Take the necessary legislative and other measures to build an open, reliable and secure Internet environment was under strict observance of guarantees of protection of personal data and privacy in the digital space,” he said. Putin called for greater partnership in the field of digital economy within BRICS.

The Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. The strategy of Washington’s non-recognition of the Crimea part of the Russian Federation is doomed to failure. On Thursday said the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev in connection with the publication of “Crimean Declaration” signed by U.S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo.

Russians warned about the possible closing all visa centers Moscow. July 26. INTERFAX.RU — the Criteria for granting accreditation, which is offered to introduce the deputies, such that none of the existing visa application centres to. The introduction of mandatory accreditation, the companies operating visa application centres (VAC) in Russia, could lead to their closing and the appearance of a huge queues at the consulates, said on Thursday “Interfax”press Secretary of the Russian Union of travel industry (PCT) Irina Tyurina. “Today in Russia there are six companies that control the visa service centers under the brands of VFS Global, GVCW — SVC, Greece, VMS — Italy, BLS — Spain, India, TLS UK, Switzerland, Belgium, the Pony Express. Information about each is contained in the state register of legal entities and published in open sources,” — said Turina. According to her, the proposal for the amendments to the FZ-114 “On the

In Ecuador said that Assange can not always be in their Embassy MOSCOW, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. Foreign Minister of Ecuador, josé Valencia stated the need to resolve the situation with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is hiding from the British authorities in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. “The question of asylum, which was agreed at the time, it is necessary to solve, as it cannot be in the eternal refuge. However, it is difficult to predict how long it will take for this decision,” said Valencia in an interview with ABC. So he answered the question about the possibility of failure in the future Assange asylum from Quito. The diplomat urged to discuss the problem in the framework of international law with three parties: the UK government, the government of Ecuador and Assange’s lawyers. He also recalled that under the terms of asylum, Assange can’t make political statements,