Category: Politics

The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev skeptical about the rationale for entering the United States the second USS Carney in the Black sea: according to the Senator, the statement about the need to increase U.S. military presence with the aim of “desensitizing” of Moscow in relation to the activity of us forces in the region without logic. This opinion Kosachev voiced on Tuesday on his page on Facebook, noting that the US presence in almost all hot spots is becoming a factor of destabilization of local and global environment.

Patrushev told about the intelligence of foreign intelligence services in Russia Foreign intelligence agencies have greatly improved their task of holding the computer intelligence in Russia, said the security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. “There is a significant extension of the range of applications in computer intelligence special services of foreign States. Developed and implemented complex scenarios of application software and technical means”, — said Patrushev at exit meeting. According to him, the purpose of intelligence is to obtain information circulating in the information and communication networks and information systems of objects of critical informational infrastructure of Russia.

Media: family Grudinina a real estate in Latvia The son of a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation from the Communist party businessman Pavel Grudinina owns real estate in Latvia. This statement is contained in the material published on Tuesday by the portal Life.ru. Citing information from the land registers of Latvia the portal notes that “the eldest son of Pavel Grudinina Artem owns a house in the Latvian city of Riga, which is literally in ten kilometres from the centre of Riga”. In addition, the article argues that Artem Grudinin “a few years ago received Latvian residence permit, he was given a personal code, which is available for each resident of the country and acts as a personal identifier”. According to the publication, spouse Artem Grudinina also owns a house and land in Latvia.

Ksenia Sobchak © Artyom Geodakyan/TASS MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. The candidate in presidents of Russia from party “the Civil initiative” Ksenia Sobchak, said that the appeal against the decision of the Supreme court (SC) that upheld the registration of Vladimir Putin as a candidate in the election, ready. “We’re not giving up, today’s lawyer Ilya Novikov has prepared documents for the next step – appeal to the appellate division of the Supreme court of the Russian Federation”, – said Sobchak at a press conference in TASS.

Scientific Director of the International discussion club “Valdai” Fyodor Lukyanov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, February 20. /Offset. Maria Khrenova TASS/. Russia will have to deal with the unraveling of the complex tangle of problems in the middle East, but the expectations from the role Moscow should not be overestimated. This opinion in an interview with TASS on Tuesday was expressed by the chief editor of the magazine “Russia in global politics”, the scientific Director of the International discussion club “Valdai” Fyodor Lukyanov, summing up the club organized a two-day conference “Russia in the middle East: playing on all fields”.

What the US accuses the defendants in the “case of Russian intervention” The FBI announced the names of Russians allegedly involved in attempts to interfere in the presidential race of 2016. TASS explains who appears in documents of the FBI and that they are charged with. The U.S. justice Department has indicted 13 Russian citizens associated with the Agency online research, ostensibly funded by entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin. The businessman is accused of sponsoring anti-American information operations during the presidential race of 2016. The gist of the charges? The document States that “the Organization [online studies] sought to do, as she is called, the information war against the United States.” The funding she received from the company “Concord Management and Consulting” and “Concord catering” owned by Eugene Prigogine. The operation was codenamed “project Lakhta” involved “hundreds of people” and was worth about 73 million rubles per month. The strategic goal of

The foreign Ministry reported dozens of wounded Russians in the recent military conflict in Syria Victims are helped to return to Russia. In a recent armed clash in Syria have killed citizens of the Russian Federation and CIS countries and several dozen wounded, who were assisted to return to Russia for treatment, said the Russian foreign Ministry. “Given that we are talking about the citizens of Russia living abroad, I would like to note the following. During the recent military confrontation, which in no way participated servicemen of the Russian Federation and not used regular technical means, have killed citizens of Russia and CIS countries, this has already been mentioned, there are wounded — dozens of them,” — said in the comments of the Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry posted on the Ministry’s website on Tuesday. The Russian foreign Ministry noted that “they have been

The Secretary of the Russian security Council Nikolai Patrushev © Mikhail Metzel/TASS ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 20. /TASS/. The Secretary of the Russian security Council Nikolai Patrushev held in Rostov-on-don, a retreat dedicated to the information security of state systems and networks. He warned about possible cyber attacks on the state automated system (GUS) “Election” before the upcoming elections of the President of Russia, as well as to streamline activities of foreign intelligence services who want to develop complex scenarios of cyber-attacks against Russia. Speaking on the topic of Patriotic education, Patrushev suggested that the educational organization has not yet become a necessary basis of the system of Patriotic and spiritual-moral education of children and youth. Elections under threat “On the eve of the presidential elections should be expected to increase the use of political, economic and informational actions,” said Secretary of the Russian security Council. According to forecasts, in relation to