Category: Politics

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS./ Russian President Vladimir Putin has not made a decision on how to classify information about those killed in Syria. This was reported by press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “No, the President didn’t make the decision. All we can say on this topic, we have said, we have nothing to add,” – said the representative of the Kremlin.

The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS./ Russia is grateful to Turkey for assistance in the return of the body in Syria shot down su-25 Roman Filipov. This was stated on Thursday the head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev at the meeting with the Ambassador of Turkey in Russia by Huseyin Dirioz.

South African President Jacob Zuma has resigned The President of the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) Jacob Zuma has resigned from his position. About this 75 – year-old President announced in a televised address to the nation. The resignation took effect immediately. Before in Pretoria were intense negotiations representatives of the ruling party the “African national Congress” (ANC), with Mr Zuma. The leadership of the ruling party said that the issue of resignation of Jacob Zuma “should be resolved urgently”, but to agree on a specific time frame participants are unable. Attempts to remove the President was adopted in the Parliament of South Africa on numerous occasions, but this time against Jacob Zuma are not only the opposition but also former supporters of the ANC.

The defense Ministry denied the information about the incident between the ships of the black sea fleet and the Royal Navy SEVASTOPOL, February 14. /TASS./ The Russian defense Ministry denied on Wednesday media reports about the incident in the transition of the Bosphorus Strait between the vessel black sea fleet and a ship of the Navy of great Britain. “There are no “dangerous” maneuvers, crossing collision course, “Kyzyl-60″ and the Enterprise was not” — said the head of Department of information support the press service of the southern military district on the black sea fleet captain 1st rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev. Information about the incident when crossing the Bosphorus Strait between the auxiliary vessel of the black sea fleet “Kyzyl-60” and ship of the Royal Navy Enterprise appeared in the British publication Daily Star. .@RoyalNavy encounters Russian Navy while transiting Bosphorus: Mediterranean-bound Echo class @SNMCMG2 flagship & survey vessel @HMSEnterprise crossed

In FNS denied the words Grudinina the deadline for processing account data MOSCOW, 14 Feb — RIA Novosti. A statement of the candidate in presidents from the Communist party Pavel Grudinina that the tax on processed documents on the closure of the foreign accounts for five days, isn’t true, told journalists the head of the Inspectorate of the Federal tax service in city Vidnoye of the Moscow region Pavel Shagin. Earlier media reported that Grudinin described the reason for the confusion with the accounts work of the tax service. According to Grudinina, documents on closing them accounts were transferred to the tax 1-2 February, but the inspection took a while to process the information she contributed data for five days. “The statement of the candidate in presidents of the Russian Federation Pavel Grudinina about the processing of notifications to the tax authorities within five days is not true,” said Shahin.

The Minister of Finance again, the United States announced the imminent expansion of sanctions against Russia Moscow. 14 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — administration of the President of the United States Donald trump is actively working on new sanctions against Russia, said Wednesday Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the hearings in the Senate. “These sanctions should be expected in the near future”, — quotes Agency Bloomberg statement by Minister in the Finance Committee of the Senate. The Minister on Wednesday called the report the “first stage” of preparation for sanctions. Thus Mnuchin repeated his statements about sanctions made after the publication by the Ministry of Finance so-called “the Kremlin list” at the end of January. In a list of 210 people who joined including senior Russian officials, businessmen, heads of state companies. “Kremlin report” was one of the measures taken in the framework of the adopted in the USA in early August,

The CEC called a complaint Sobchak Putin for the registration of a candidate untenable MOSCOW, 14 Feb — RIA Novosti. Ksenia Sobchak, who announced his candidacy in the presidential election, has appealed to the Supreme court with the complaint to the registration of Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the presidency. The CEC gave its arguments untenable. In the statement of claim, a copy of which is available to RIA Novosti, Sobchak indicates that Putin “has no right to run”, as repeatedly held the position of President, and in addition, performed the duties of head of state from 31 December 1999 to 7 may 2000. Secretary of the CEC, Maya Grishina told RIA Novosti that he had not seen this lawsuit, but called these arguments “untenable”. The Supreme court has announced that it has received a complaint Sobchak and pass it in the first instance, which will decide whether to

Xenophobia ceases to be an acute problem for Russia The Moscow Bureau for human rights presented a report on the level of nationalism in the country. The Russians are concerned primarily socio-economic and international problems and therefore much less than in previous years, fear of ethnic and religious conflicts. Such a conclusion contains the report of the Moscow Bureau for human rights on the aggressive manifestations of xenophobia and radical nationalism in Russia in 2017. Experts note that “fan xenophobia” remains at a high level, and urge the authorities to pay attention to it on the eve of the world Cup. The report was prepared by the Moscow Bureau for human rights within the framework of a project carried out with funds of the presidential grant. Member of the Council under RF President on development of civil society and human rights, Director of the Moscow Bureau for human rights Alexander

The building of the Russian Embassy in Washington © AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta WASHINGTON, February 15. /Corr. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. The practice of abduction of Russians in third countries is illegal and contrary to the agreements on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. About it the correspondent of TASS said the Russian Embassy in the United States in response to a request to comment on the sentencing of Russian citizen Vladimir Drinkman.

The Plenipotentiary of Russia in the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov © EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV MINSK, 14 February. /TASS./ Without a political solution to the conflict in the Donbass will be permanently “frozen”. On Wednesday following the meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine, said the Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov.