Category: Politics

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will announce the Message to the Federal Assembly on March 1, was confirmed by press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. “Yesterday it became known, and I can confirm that the message really will be announced by the President on March 1,” he said. Press Secretary of the head of state said that “tomorrow (22 February – approx. TASS) will be announced the accreditation of the Kremlin’s press service”.

Boris Gryzlov © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. The signing by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko law on the reintegration of Donbass in fact confirms that the Ukrainian authorities refuse military solution to the conflict in the region. About it on Wednesday was declared by the Plenipotentiary of Russia in the Contact group Boris Gryzlov.

The speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Vice-speaker of the state Duma Irina Yarovaya, the first Vice-speaker of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov and Ivan Melnikov (right to left) © Marat Abulhasan/photo Department of the state Duma of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. The state Duma immediately after the announcement of the President’s address to the Federal Assembly will hold a meeting of the Duma Council to make decisions related to the implementation of this document. This was announced on Wednesday during the plenary session of the lower house of Parliament by its Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.

The state Duma adopted a law allowing the military pay in the currency of the The state Duma adopted in the third final reading a law allowing companies to pay the salaries of the employees of Russian companies abroad, in foreign currency. The law also provides for the transfer of military pay in the form of foreign currency on their accounts. Such a decision can be taken by those who sent the military outside of Russia. In January the state Duma adopted a law introducing the corresponding amendments to the Labour code of the Russian Federation. Russia’s President signed it on February 5. The law allows living abroad to citizens of Russia to be paid in foreign currency based on prisoners with a legal entity-resident of the employment contract. Also to be paid in foreign currency will be able to Russian diplomats, permanent representatives of the Russian Federation to the

The US state Department: our new sanctions frustrated contracts of $3 billion? The US state Department said that because of the sanctions, the Russian military-industrial complex lost about $3 billion After the publication of “Kremlin report” and the indictment in the case of “Russian intervention” in Russia increasingly there are concerns about the introduction of new sanctions. The experts say that Russian businessmen have already felt a greater alertness on the part of foreign partners. The official representative of U.S. State Department’s Heather Nauert said at a briefing that because of the sanctions against Russia in the framework of the law “On combating the enemies of America by sanctions” military-industrial complex has lost billions of dollars. “We believe that we can stop the transaction at more than $3 billion Termination of such transactions, in fact, is a punishment. Why? Because it means that less money goes into the Russian budget.

The head of the foreign office described the situation around the “Breccia” with the word “mess” The British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson described the word “chaos” the situation around “Breccia”. As told sources of The Telegraph in the European Union, Mr. Johnson said this at a meeting with senior officials of Germany during visits to Berlin. One of which was held in November 2016 and another in April 2017. The interlocutors of the newspaper said that the Minister was probably talking about the difficult negotiations on the “Broksita” and had in mind the decision of the country to secede from the EU. According to the publication, at the meeting, Mr. Johnson made a call to German officials to turn “Brakcet” in economic opportunity. Between London and Brussels remain divided on the conditions of the transition period, which must begin after the British exit from the EU on 29 March 2019.

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS LJUBLJANA, 21 February. /TASS/. The US state Department acknowledged that the American ambassadors in all countries of the world have instructions to discourage cooperation with Russia. This was stated on Wednesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov following talks with Minister of foreign Affairs of Slovenia Karl Erjavec.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov categorically rejected allegations that Russian troops involved in the death of civilians in the Damascus suburb of East ghouta. “It’s groundless accusations. It is not clear where they are based. Any specific data is not given, and thus we assess such charges. We do not agree with them”, – said the press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

© Sergey Fadeichev/TASS LJUBLJANA, 21 February. /TASS/. The law on the reintegration of Donbass, signed on Tuesday by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, encourages the use of force to restore the territorial integrity of this country, which is unacceptable. This was stated on Wednesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov following talks with Minister of foreign Affairs of Slovenia Karl Erjavec.

DPRK delegation at the Olympics refused to meet with the Vice President of the United States The North Korean delegation at the Olympic games in Pyeongchang at the last moment cancelled a planned meeting with the Vice-President of the United States, Mike Pence, reports Reuters. It was expected that the representatives of the DPRK headed by the sister of the country’s leader Kim Jong-UN Kim-Jeong hoped thus to soften the speech of Mr. Pence on human rights in North Korea. According to the U.S. state Department spokesman Heather Nauert, the American side, in turn, intended to use the meeting as a way to “force North Korea to abandon its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.”