Category: Politics

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS SOCHI, may 15. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new structure of the Federal bodies of power in Russia. She has not undergone major changes; we are talking about optimization. Among the key changes: the division of the Ministry of education the Ministry of education and Ministry of science and higher education, renaming the Ministry of communications in the Ministry digital development, communications and mass communications, the transmission of trade missions from the Ministry of economic development, the Ministry of industry, the abolition of the state Commission on coordination of open government, as well as an increase in the number of Deputy Prime Ministers from nine to ten. At the meeting with the President of the Russian Federation on Tuesday in Sochi, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, presenting the draft decree, explained the lack of a principled, large-scale changes that “the current structure of the government has

Under U.S. sanctions were more than 400 Russian companies and 200 Russians Under U.S. sanctions were more than 400 Russian companies and 200 citizens. This was stated by the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. “US sanctions are totally unfriendly, we have got more than 400 legal entities and about 200 citizens of our country, and we must do everything in order to protect the interests of our state, to ensure the security of the country, to guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizens”, — quotes Mr. Volodin “RIA Novosti”. Today the state Duma will consider in the first reading the bill on the counter. It spells out 16 measures to introduce the President and the government in response to sanctions the U.S. and other countries. These include a ban on imports from the United States and other countries of medicines, agricultural, alcohol and tobacco products. It is

Palestine was going to submit the claim to the ICC on war crimes of Israel Moscow. May 15. INTERFAX.RU — Leadership of the Palestinian national authority (PNA) intends to file a lawsuit to the international criminal court, accusing Israel of committing war crimes “because of the construction of settlements in the occupied territories”, reports the Associated Press referring to the representative of the Palestine liberation Organization Saeb Erekat of. According to him, the decision was made on the evening of 14 may at the meeting of the leader of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas and senior representatives of the Palestine liberation Organization. Abbas has previously made critical statements in connection with the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on may 14. “This is not an Embassy, and the new Jewish settlement. United States, which has long promoted the establishment of the Palestinian lands for Jewish settlements are founded this

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, may 15. /TASS/. Moscow expects Berlin, impersonal comments, and a clear position in connection with the arrest Tuesday of journalists of RIA Novosti Ukraine in Kiev. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS SOCHI, may 15. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin presented his proposals on the structure of the new government. The Prime Minister greeted the head of state a draft decree. Medvedev believes that fundamental changes in the structure of the new government should not be. “Given the fact that the current structure of the government has proved its efficiency, some fundamental changes in the structure of a scale not offered”, – said the head of the Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kremlin lawyers worked on the law on anti-sanctions But until the state Duma adopts it in its original form. On Tuesday, the state Duma adopts in first reading bill on the counter USA. All Duma factions, Kommersant said that the vote in support of the document. The second reading of the bill will undergo significant changes. According to “Kommersant”, serious comments expressed by the state legal Directorate of the President (GPU), which helped to correct it for future adoption. Initially, the presidential administration (PA) opposed the adoption of the document even in the first reading. On Monday, after the Duma Council the speaker of Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin said that he hoped for the support of all factions in the consideration of the first reading of the bill on the counter. “If the bill under the signature of our members (referring to Gennady Zyuganov.— “B”), how we will not vote for

Alexei Kudrin went on the extension He did not intend to abandon its NCOs at the head of the accounting chamber. Alexey Kudrin has agreed to be nominee for the Chairman of the accounts chamber (JV). In the case of appointment to this post he is going to keep and continue to post — the head of the Center for strategic research (CSR) and the Chairman of the Committee of civil initiatives (CGI). He said this after consultations with the Presidium of the Duma faction “United Russia”, which nominated him for the post. The President will choose the head of the joint venture at least three candidates. After a meeting with United Russia Alexei Kudrin announced that “agreed to run for the post of Chairman of the joint venture”. Vladimir Putin and his nomination for the Chairman of the SP Alexei Kudrin, he said, are not discussed. “But he informed,”

AFP: the death toll in clashes on the border between Gaza and Israel, Palestinians have risen to 59 According to the Agency, among the dead are eight-month-old girl died of tear-gas inhalation. 10фотографий10фотографий10фотографий TASS, may 15. The number of Palestinians killed on Monday in clashes with Israeli security forces on Israel’s border with the Gaza strip, has increased to 59 people. This was reported on Tuesday Agency France-Presse, with reference to the management of health in Gaza. The Agency notes that among the dead Palestinians has eight-month-old girl who died from tear-gas inhalation. Mass demonstrations in Gaza in the framework of the “March of return” does not end with the end of March, when the Palestinians marked land Day in memory of the six Arabs killed in 1976 during protests against exclusion by the Israeli authorities of hundreds of land. Seven Fridays in a row they turned around collisions and

The speaker of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic Magomed Daudov © Yelena Afonina/TASS GROZNY, may 15. /TASS/. The speaker of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic Magomed Daudov considers allegations of foreign Minister of France Jean-Yves Le Drian about the violation of the rights of citizens in Chechnya, and about a thousand Chechens allegedly fighting in the ranks of the “Islamic state”(IG, is prohibited in Russia).