Category: Politics

The Committee of the Federation Council supported the amendment banning contact pritravki dogs The Committee of Federation Council for agrarian policy and environmental management supported the amendments to the hunting law relating to the prohibition of contact pritravki dogs. The document in edition of the conciliatory Commission of the lower and upper chambers of Parliament, the senators intend to consider at session of the Federation Council on Wednesday. Now with the adoption of the document on so-called “testing and training stations” will be possible only contactless dog training, that is, if the corresponding protective structures that should not only eliminate cruelty to animals, but in principle, applying them to any physical harm. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on agrarian and food policy and environmental management, co-Chairman of the conciliatory Commission Vladimir Lebedev noted that the text agreed by the Parliament “does not infringe upon hunters, puts barriers in

The Deputy Pushkin is preparing amendments on sexual harassment amid a scandal with the Deputy Slutsky The Deputy head of the Duma Committee on family Affairs Oksana Pushkina told RBC about the intention to amend the responsibility for sexual harassment in the speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a bill on gender equality. The Deputy reminded that the criminal code article 133 “Coercion to sexual actions”, but according to her, the norm does not actually work. Oksana Pushkina said that the initiative was developed against the background of the scandal around the head of the international Affairs Committee of the Duma, Leonid Slutsky. Several journalists accused parliamentarian accused of harassment. In response, the party of Mr Slutsky, Vice-speaker from the LDPR Igor Lebedev told about the possibility of de-accreditation of those who distribute “slanderous information”. “If there is evidence, bring the case to the end. It is rampant in our society”, — explained

Problems in relations of Russia and the USA will always be, said the huntsman Problems in relations of Moscow and Washington will always need to be resolved gradually, not otchityvayasj ago, said U.S. Ambassador to Russia John huntsman. “Problems in relations with Russia always will be. They need to be solved gradually, but you need to remember that not (should) fall back in the development of business relations, investments, contacts between people,” said the huntsman at the meeting with students and professors of the Kazan University.

More than a million Russians will vote not on their sites As of February 26 of 1.16 million Russians have expressed a desire to not vote at the place of registration, and by place of residence, told RBC Deputy Chairman of the Central election Commission (CEC) Nikolai Bulaev. “The number of those wishing to vote at the place of stay is growing very quickly,” said Mr. Bulaev noted that for five days, the number of applications increased by almost 50 thousand and continues to grow. We will remind, on elections to the State Duma 2016 absentee ballots voted of 1.03 million Russians, nearly 1 million less than in the 2012 elections, when the residence voted to 1.97 million people, however, this record could be beaten if statements will arrive in the same amount. Meanwhile, the CEC staff count by approximately 1.5 million people, noting that not all applicants really will

The Minister of Finance of the USA declared that new sanctions against Russia will follow within 30 days In addition, Steven Mnuchin promised that Washington will keep all the previously imposed restrictive measures. NEW YORK, February 27. /TASS/. Washington will impose new restrictive measures against Moscow in the next 30 days. This was stated on Monday the Minister of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin during a speech at the University of California in Los Angeles. “You can expect that sanctions will follow for the next 30 days, — quotes the words Mnuchin Bloomberg. — We comply with all existing sanctions and introducing new”. Last week, Mnuchin said at a press briefing that the U.S. Treasury is preparing new sanctions against Russia and will announce them in a few weeks.

Cairo international airport ready to receive flights from Russia The company responsible for the maintenance of aircraft at the airport of Cairo, made preparations in anticipation of the return flight from Russia. As told local media the head of the company Mohamed Kamel, all of the requirements for the resumption of flights was agreed upon during a visit to Egypt Russian President Vladimir Putin with the leadership of “Aeroflot” in December 2017. He noted that during the talks the Russian side focused on security issues, equipment performance Luggage of passengers and service personnel. In particular, Kamel announced that the company will use the new containers for the transportation and security of Luggage, which will be closed on locks with numeric codes and open directly at the aircraft before loading. We will remind, the flights from Russia to Egypt has been banned after the terrorist attack on the plane A-321 of

The Russian Ambassador will call upon the British to influence the militants in Eastern ghouta LONDON, 27 Feb — RIA Novosti. The Russian Ambassador in London Alexander Yakovenko at a meeting in the British foreign office on Tuesday to urge the British side to influence the militants in Eastern ghouta in order to comply with the truce, according to RIA Novosti sources in the Embassy. Yakovenko plans to discuss with the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain Alan Duncan the implementation of the resolutions of the UN security Council 2401, which “served the British side to the public fairly one-sided, with a fundamental shift of emphasis”, said the source. The meeting is held on the initiative of the British side. “The Ambassador will urge the British side to use its influence, and it is in London available, to the armed groups operating in Eastern ghouta and not just

The United States warned Turkey about the consequences of buying the s-400, the media are writing MOSCOW, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti. The United States urged Turkey to abandon the purchase of anti-aircraft missile systems s-400 from Russia, or against Ankara may impose sanctions, writes Haberturk citing a source in Washington. The publication reports that an unnamed us official has expressed concern over the purchase by Turkey of the Russian air defense system, because they can “affect the interoperability of NATO”, and admitted that in light of the act of Congress of the United States may impose sanctions against Ankara. “We want to help Turkey to find a better alternative to meet its needs in air defense,” — said the official. Earlier, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu called unacceptable the language of threats because of the procurement of s-400, adding that Ankara had originally planned to

Russia’s Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS LONDON, February 27. /Offset. TASS Ilya Dmitriev/. Russia’s Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko during the scheduled Tuesday meeting in the British foreign Ministry will call on London to use its influence on armed groups in Eastern ghouta for full implementation of UN security Council resolution. About it the correspondent of TASS reported the press service of the Embassy. “The Ambassador will urge the British side to use its influence, and it is in London available, to the armed groups operating in Eastern ghouta, and not only, with the purpose of full implementation of the resolution (2401 UNSC), which is key to successful implementation of these UN security Council task”, – said the Agency interlocutor.

The x-files: Forbes found two secret division of the FBI The presence of these units may indicate internal surveillance of citizens across America. After September 11, Federal law enforcement Agency and intelligence service of the United States was heavily criticized for failing to coordinate the information that would allow the state to stop attacks before they happen. The FBI took into account their mistakes and since then conducts a strictly confidential and secret intelligence work, which has long gone beyond the domestic legal order and turned the Bureau into a huge American freak show. Despite the super secrecy of the operation, Forbes has discovered two previously unknown units that, according to sources, are essential elements of the intelligence mechanism of the FBI. FBI known as the Collections Operations Group (COG — Operative Group data collection FBI) and FBI WiFi Group (Group WiFi FBI), they don’t appear in any public documents.