Category: Politics

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, may 18. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called “winners fortune-telling” about the prospects of foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to take the post of foreign Minister in the new government, listing the most drastic, sometimes in the nature of stuffing the assumptions that were made in recent months. The list of such “Champions” assigned “medals” she posted on his page in Facebook. “I think it is fair to remind the names of the characters divination government in the midst of our office, she said in the introduction to the list. The entire press office had to read dozens of thoughts on the subject: from the analysis to outright ballot box stuffing”. Third place Third place and bronze medal Zakharova divided between editions “Russian planet” and “the Russian press”. It brings the most intriguing

Director General of the Agency for strategic initiatives Svetlana Cumshewa © Alexei Druzhinin/press-service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, may 18. /TASS/. The experience of regional former heads of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, who was appointed new Ministers of government will be demanded at the Federal level, they are effective managers. This opinion was expressed by TASS on Friday Director General of the Agency for strategic initiatives Svetlana Cumshewa.

© Valery sharifulin/TASS TASS, may 18. Heads of regions and representatives of the authorities of the great hopes for the new government of the Russian Federation and I count on constructive interaction through which they will be able to fulfill all the orders of the President, which he made in his address to the Federal Assembly. Views on the prospects of interaction with the new composition of the Cabinet, representatives of the regional authorities shared with TASS.

Trump has threatened the leader of North Korea Libyan scenario The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Ynu should choose Korean way of development in order not to repeat the fate of the ex-dictator of Libya Muammar Gaddafi. This was stated by the President of the United States Donald trump, answering questions before the meeting with the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg. Transcript of replies posted on the White house website. “We destroyed this country. We never told Gaddafi: “Oh, we’re going to give you protection. We are going to give you military strength. We are going to give you all this. We went in and destroyed it,” reminded trump about the fate of the deceased in 2011 Gaddafi. “And we did the same thing with Iraq,” said the American leader. Now “this model is likely to take place if we don’t make a deal [with the DPRK]. But if

Merkel on Friday to meet with Putin in Sochi Moscow. May 18. INTERFAX.RU — the Situation around Iran’s nuclear program, the Ukrainian crisis and the Syrian settlement will be discussed Friday at a meeting of the Russian President with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It will be the first European leader with whom Vladimir Putin will meet after assuming the office of President. The following will be the leader of France Emmanuel macron, with whom the President of Russia will hold talks on may 24-25 on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg international economic forum. Merkel was in Russia more than a year, her last visit to our country took place in early may 2017. Then, in Sochi, the two leaders discussed about the same range of problems, in particular, Syria, and Ukraine. July 8 of last year in Hamburg also hosted a trilateral meeting between Putin, Merkel and Macron in

In the Duma introduced a bill on fines for abuse of the right to hold rallies In Cao may be a new article providing for a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles. Moscow. May 17. INTERFAX.RU — IN the state Duma a draft law on fines up to 100 thousand rubles for abuse of the right to hold rallies. A draft law published on Thursday in the basis of legislative activities of the lower house of the Russian Parliament. Was sponsored by deputies from the faction “United Russia” Alexander Gribov, Dmitry Vyatkin. The draft Federal law proposes to Supplement the Code of administrative offences (Cao) of the new article 20.2 “abuse of the right to hold a public event”. The article will provide for administrative liability to a fine for filing a notice of holding a public event without a goal, its implementation, failure to notify authorities about the

Russia’s Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko © AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth LONDON, may 18. /TASS/. The Russian Ambassador in London Alexander Yakovenko in connection with news about hospital discharge ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, who have been at Salisbury, according to the British side, effects of nerve agents, expressed the hope to meet him. About this Yakovenko said Friday at a press conference in London.

© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool MOSCOW, may 18. /TASS/. The Chechen Parliament introduced a bill on opportunities to hold the office of President of the Russian Federation for three consecutive terms. This information is published Friday in the electronic database of the lower house of Parliament. Chechen lawmakers for their initiative proposed to amend part 3 of article 81 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation concerning the terms of office of the President. According to the text of the bill, the same person cannot be President of Russia for more than three consecutive terms. Now the Constitution does not permit the election of the same candidate more than two times in a row. According to the authors, at this stage of development of the country “there is a need of extending the tenure of the head of state of one person to three consecutive terms.” The explanatory note says

Medvedev will announce Putin proposals on the personal composition of the government Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on Friday will present to Russian President Vladimir Putin their proposals on the candidates for the posts of Vice-premiers and Ministers, and staff numbers at the office of the Cabinet. MOSCOW, may 18 — RIA Novosti. Earlier in the week, Medvedev presented to Vladimir Putin the structure of the new government. Drastic changes have occurred. Transformation touched by the Ministry of education and science, which we decided to divide it into two departments — the Ministry of education and Ministry of science and higher education. The structure of the new government ministries represented by 22 against 21 in the previous part, the Prime Minister will have 10 deputies instead of nine. Created position of first Deputy Prime Minister- Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Five ministries, reporting directly to the President,