Category: Politics

View Of Nizhny Tagil © Donat Sorokin/TASS YEKATERINBURG, June 5. /TASS/. Deputies of Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk area on Tuesday at a meeting in the third reading voted for the abolition of direct elections of the mayor of Nizhni Tagil, told TASS in the press service of the regional Parliament. Earlier Tuesday, the deputies of the legislative Assembly voted in first and second readings. “The deputies adopted in the third reading. For – 37 deputies, against – four,” – said the press service.

Tbilisi municipality are unable to agree with the driver on resume metro Moscow. June 5. INTERFAX.RU — Two rounds of negotiations, which the mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze held at midnight and on Tuesday night the first in the city hall with representatives of the striking motormen of the Metropolitan “subway”, and then in Gldani depot with all are there participants, ended without any concrete result. The first round of negotiations took place over 40 minutes, during which the parties failed to reach a particular result, the second lasted about two hours, after which they never came to a final agreement. Meanwhile, as has declared to journalists by the mayor of Tbilisi, he hoped that in the near future an agreement will be reached and the metro will work. #Tbilisi metro drivers have begun a hunger strike. They say #metro may be closed tomorrow as they might not be fit

First in history: the people of San Francisco elects a new mayor WASHINGTON, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Mayoral elections will be held on Tuesday in San Francisco in the U.S. state of California. Regardless of who wins, this person — he or she will go down in history for a particular “feature”. The fight for the honorary and responsible post of the head of one of the most famous cities in the United States took place between the former head of its Supervisory Council and ex-mayor London breed, a lawyer and city administrator Jane Kim, as well as former California legislator mark Leno. Color, race, and orientation are of value The victory, though not certainly, the first tipped — brides. If that happens, she will become the first African-American to be elected mayor of San Francisco. In General, for the US case will not be unique — black women

Mitrokhin lost primaries “Apple” by definition of the candidate in mayors of Moscow MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. The head of the Moscow municipal district “Tver” Jacob Yakubovich became the winner of the preliminary vote (the so-called primaries) of the party “Yabloko” on the nomination of the candidate in mayors of Moscow. This was announced at the end of counting of votes. His opponent was the Chairman of the Moscow branch of the “Yabloko” Sergei Mitrokhin. Yakubovich in 2017 was nominated by Yabloko candidate to the municipal Council and after a victory on elections was headed by the municipal district “Tver”. Preliminary voting started on 27 may and was held in two rounds. The first round closed on 29 may, was attended by 21 candidates. None of them scored more than 50% of the votes in the second round out Yakubovich and Mitrokhin. As electors, the party has identified 22 categories

One of the main achievements trump the White house called “a tough stance on Russia” Moscow. June 4. INTERFAX.RU — a Tough position toward Russia is one of the major foreign policy achievements of US President Donald trump for his 500 days of his presidency, said the press Secretary of the White house Sarah Sanders. “I think there are a number of important foreign policy achievements. Of course, I think that strengthening relations with a number of leaders of foreign countries. I think the talks that we look forward here over the next few weeks, certainly a step in the right direction. The transfer of the Embassy in Israel is also in this list. Tough stance against Russia’s tough stance on trade issues (…)”. “It’s only a small number (of items — if), but I think the whole list is very long,” she said Monday at the briefing, responding to

Putin stressed the importance of neutrality of Ukraine to Russia MOSCOW, 4 Jul — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the neutral status of Ukraine not to join NATO are important factors, but the decision should be taken by the Ukrainian people. “It (the neutral status and the refusal of NATO membership) questions that should guide the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian leadership. For us, for Russia, it is important from the point of view that in Ukraine there are some military targets that would threaten our security. For example, the new missile defence that would have tried to stop our nuclear capability. Yes, it is important for us, I’m not. But in the end it is the choice of the Ukrainian people and the legitimate elected government,” said the President in an interview with the Austrian TV channel ORF, answering the question, will decided the “Ukrainian problem”

Putin on Bulk: we don’t want we slipped another Saakashvili MOSCOW, 4 Jul — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking about Alexei Navalny, said that the country needs people with a positive agenda, and noted that on the political stage, Russia does not need policies akin to former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. “We don’t want we slipped one more, second, third, or fifth Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia. We don’t want to get us on our political scene appeared Saakashvili in the second, third, fourth edition”, — Putin said in an interview with the Austrian TV channel ORF. The text of the interview published on the official Kremlin website. Putin stressed that “Russia, we need people with a positive agenda, who know not just represent problems, which we have enough.” He noted that there are problems everywhere, in any country. “You can catch the problem and begin

Speaker of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/. Russia has been informational provocations on the case Skrobala, said the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin at a meeting with Chairman of the Advisory Council of Qatar Ahmed bin Abdullah al Mahmoud.

Putin responded to the comparison of himself with king MOSCOW, 4 Jul — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering the question that he had as a king in Russia, said that this is not true, Russia is a democratic state which lives in the framework of the Constitution. “No, you’re wrong. This was of course untrue and does not correspond to absolutely no reality, because we have a democratic state, and we all live in the framework of the Constitution”, — he said in an interview with the Austrian broadcasting company ORF. The text of the interview published on the official Kremlin website. The President also added that the Russian Constitution stipulates that only “two consecutive terms and no more, the President can be elected”, and that is why after two legitimate terms, Putin left the post, “did not change the Constitution” and moved to the position of Prime

Putin said that Russia is not aimed at section of the European Union VIENNA, 4 June. /TASS/. Russia is not seeking to divide anything in the European Union, because the more risks within the EU, the more the uncertainty for Russia. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin shown on Monday an interview with the Austrian broadcasting company ORF on the eve of his visit to Austria. “We have no goals of anything or anyone to divide in the European Union. On the contrary, we are interested that the European Union was United and prosperous, because the EU is our largest trade and economic partner. And the more problems inside the EU, the greater risks and uncertainties for us,” said the President in response to the question of why Russia is developing contacts with the political forces in Europe that are configured are critical to the EU. According to