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Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Alexei Druzhinin/press-service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, may 31. /TASS/. New personnel decisions of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the governors on Thursday is not expected. As reported, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the head of state on Thursday, in particular, will continue to deal with regional issues – will hold a meeting with Governor of Novgorod region Andrei Nikitin. On the question of whether you expect today personnel decisions of the head of state in the regional sphere, as it was in previous days, Peskov said: “No.” Earlier this week, Putin appointed temporarily fulfilling duties of the Governor YANAO 30-year-old Dmitry Artyukhov, who became the youngest regional Director in the country. Other presidential decrees from Monday to Wednesday was appointed acting head of the Tyumen, Magadan and Amur regions, Altai Krai and Yakutia instead of submitting

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon © Alexander Astafyev/press service of the Russian government/TASS DUSHANBE, may 31. /TASS/. Russia and Tajikistan signed three documents on cooperation at the end of his official visit to Dushanbe, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. In the presence of heads of governments of the two countries signed an intergovernmental agreement on conditions of activities of secondary school number 7 in Kulyab, a Memorandum of understanding and cooperation between the Federal service for state registration, cadastre and cartography and the State Committee on land management and geodesy of Tajikistan, and a Memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of competition policy between the Federal Antimonopoly service and Antimonopoly service under the government of Tajikistan.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, may 31. /TASS/. Law enforcement bodies of Ukraine must be able to answer for his words about the alleged involvement of Moscow in the preparation of the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko, in order not to repeat the mistakes of colleagues from London. This was stated to journalists the press-Secretary of the Russian President in response to a request for comment on appropriate charges against the head of the security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak.

Potential career relationship Experts have made a rating of the success of the children of senior officials. In the report of the Fund “the Petersburg policy” says that in Russia showed a tendency to promote the employment of close relatives of powerful political figures. Of the 80 people (children among them governors, heads of state corporations and officials of various departments) experts have identified 14 of the most successful. One of the reasons for the trends — “samepoint social mobility”, the report said. The choice in favor of the employment of children of officials in business structure is due to the lack of legislative restrictions that exist in the civil service, he said. The Fund “Petersburg policy” noted that the rejuvenation of the administrative corps in 2018 has not occurred, and “the average age of the government has increased by four years in comparison with the composition of 2012 (from

Budget summer New settings the state Treasury will reconsider in the fall. The government introduced yesterday to the state Duma a bill on the revision of the current Federal budget for 2018. Due to increased oil prices and actions of the budget rule, which allows not to spend additional incomes of oil and gas for the first time in seven years the state Treasury will be in surplus. However, as acknowledged by the White house in the accompanying documents to the draft, the new settings of the state Treasury and inaccurate and will be revised again in the fall — because they do not take into account any risks that have arisen after the introduction of the April sanctions, or new goals set by Vladimir Putin. In General, admitted yesterday to the Duma a Number of amendments to the law “On the Federal budget for 2018 and the planning period

The acting Governor of the Amur region became participants of the contest “Leaders of Russia” President Vladimir Putin has appointed a member of the all-Russian competition “Leaders of Russia” Vasily Orlov, the acting Governor of the Amur region is Alexander Kozlov, who was appointed Minister for development of the Far East. “Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Vasily Orlov, in which he announced the decision to appoint him as acting Governor of the Amur region”, — said in a statement on the Kremlin website. Vasili Orlov was born in 1975 in Blagoveshchensk. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as General Director of the regional state unitary enterprise “the Cupid-quality”, then the year was listed as the General Director of JSC “the Amur crystal”. From 2008 to 2010 he worked as Deputy mayor of Blagoveshchensk, and in 2012 served as adviser to the head of a city administration of Blagoveshchensk.

The Plenipotentiary of the RF President in the Urals Federal district Igor Kholmanskikh, acting Governor of the YNAO Dmitry Artyukhov (left to right) © The Department of internal policy of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district MOSCOW, may 31. /TASS/. Plenipotentiary representative of RF President in the Urals Federal district (UFD), Igor Kholmanskikh on Thursday presented in Salekhard, the acting Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YANAO) Dmitri Artyukhova, told TASS in the press service of the Governor YANAO.

The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-UN © Valery sharifulin/TASS PYONGYANG, may 31. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov at the meeting with the DPRK leader Kim Jong-UN gave him success in resolving issues on the Korean Peninsula from the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and has invited the head of the DPRK to visit Russia. The video of the meeting posted on Thursday on the channel, the Russian foreign Ministry in YouTube.

The Federation Council approved the law on the contracti The Federation Council (SF) at today’s meeting approved the law on the response to the “unfriendly actions” of the US and other countries. The law “is a framework and gives the government broad authority to respond” in those situations, when necessary, reminded the head of the profile Committee of the Federation Council on economic policy Dmitry Mezentsev. The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko noted that parliamentarians do not accept the sanctions and counter-sanctions, and they will be applied “to those States that affect the containment of Russia”. The discussion of the law was not. 152 voted for the Senator. The state Duma approved the law in the third and final reading on may 22. Initially the project was supposed to give the government the right, in particular, to introduce a ban on the import of medicines, agricultural, alcohol and

The Commission of the Federation Council will keep track of attempts to interfere in regional elections Interim Commission of the Federation Council for the protection of state sovereignty and prevent interference in the internal Affairs of the Russian Federation will monitor attempts to “outside interference” in regional elections in September. This item was included in the list of activities of the Commission given in its report, examines the assassination attempt on the Russian electoral sovereignty, TASS reported. Among the tasks of the Commission is to study in detail the “threats in the spheres of education, upbringing and culture, with particular emphasis on the risks associated with destructive influence on young people, including underage citizens and students.” In addition, the Commission must consider “the risks associated with the use of environmental topics in order to provoke protest activity and the subsequent politicization of such protests, and for using explicit economic harm