Category: Politics

The contest “Mentor” will release an Atlas of successful projects Atlas of best practices in mentoring will be compiled by the all-Russian contest “Mentor”, for participation in which received more than 4 thousand applications, said the CEO of the Agency for strategic initiatives (ASI) Svetlana Cumshewa. “At the end of the competition we traditionally will do a satin best practices of mentoring, which will be proposed for implementation in different regions, schools,” — the words Courseway RIA “Novosti”. She also said that practices were selected “with the requirements of the ability to replicate them, describing how ready methods.” The ceremony of awarding the winners of the contest will be held on Wednesday, February 14. About the competition was announced on January 16. It includes five main categories: mentoring at work, mentoring in business and entrepreneurship, mentoring in the social sphere, as well as mentoring in education and sectarian movement.

Foreign Minister of Netherlands, lied about the meeting with Putin, resigned MOSCOW, February 13 — RIA Novosti. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra confessed to lying about the meeting with Vladimir Putin, resigned, reports the Telegraaf. It’s a decision he made on the eve of talks with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In the foreign Ministry reported that waiting for the arrival of the Dutch Minister and no changes from the Russian side. What lied to the Minister of foreign Affairs In an interview with Volkskrant Zijlstra admitted that his story about how he attended the meeting with the Russian President at his dacha in 2006, were untrue. According to him, he went for deception to protect the real participant of this meeting, who shared with him information about what Putin allegedly called Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic States and Kazakhstan parts of the “great Russia”. Starting in

© Anton Taibarei/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ The electoral Commission of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YANAO) signed a contract for about 500 hours of helicopter flights for the tundra-dwellers shift workers and early voting in remote areas of Yamal at the election of the President of Russia. On Tuesday TASS reported in the district electoral Commission. Early voting starts on February 25. The Russian presidential election will be held on 18 March.

The foreign Minister of the Netherlands Zijlstra Halba © EPA-EFE/OLAF KRAAK MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ The Hague officially informed Moscow about cancellation of the visit of the foreign Minister of the Kingdom Have Telstra in connection with his resignation. This was stated on Tuesday by TASS in the Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry. “The Dutch side officially informed about the cancellation of the foreign Minister’s visit to Russia”, – said in the Ministry.

The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and foreign Minister of Belgium Didier Reynders © EPA-EFE/SERGEI CHIRIKOV MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ In Moscow appreciate the desire of the leadership of Belgium to overcome problems in relations of Russia with the EU and NATO, but will not ask to cancel the policy of sanctions. This is the leitmotif Tuesday, during talks of foreign Ministers of the two countries Sergey Lavrov and Didier Reynders.

The CEC told when to start election debates MOSCOW, February 13 — RIA Novosti. The debate on the presidential elections in Russia will begin after the defender of the Fatherland Day, the first working day after the holiday weekend, said Secretary of the CEC, Maya Grishina. Free airtime for campaign commercials and joint debates, the candidates will be provided at the regional and Federal TV and radio channels. We are talking about five Federal TV channels (channel one, Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24, OTR, TVC) and three radio stations (“Mayak”, “Radio Russia” and “Vesti FM”). “The debate will begin with the second campaign of the week, ie after the holiday of the Day of defender of the Fatherland on the first working day,” she told reporters after the meeting in CEC on Tuesday the draw for the allocation of free airtime. Presidential elections will be held on 18 March. Candidates for

The fate of the Commonwealth: the Queen will be succeeded by Prince Charles? The Commonwealth of Nations, became known as bi-Bi-si, the beginning of the process of consideration of a question on transfer of powers of the head of the organization. At the moment the Commonwealth is headed by Queen Elizabeth II, which in April marks 92 years. Question about the transfer of powers is highly sensitive: as head of the Commonwealth is not a title and is not inherited, so it may not pass automatically to the Prince of Wales after the death of the Queen. For the consideration of the management of the Commonwealth was formed “high level group”. A meeting of the members of this group have yet to take place. Officially, the theme of the meeting is stated as “discussion of questions of management of the organization”. The source bi-Bi-si said that at the meeting, to

In Kiev, the Russian military was sentenced to 13 and 14 years in prison Ukrainian courts were convicted of treason and desertion of Russian soldiers Maxim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov, told RIA Novosti lawyer Valentin Rybin. “The Podolsk district court of Kiev recognized Baranova guilty, he was sentenced to a 13 years in prison, now we got the copy of the verdict. We have a month to appeal,” said Rybin. Darnitskiy district court of Kiev sentenced Odintsova to 14 years in prison. According to the lawyer, protection is considering filing an appeal. Facts In November 2016, the security Service of Ukraine detained Baranov and his colleague Maxim Odintsov in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea. Later, the RIA Novosti source said that the SBU has lured Russian contract to the checkpoint “Dzhankoi” allegedly for the transfer of documents on higher education, where he was detained. Both the military

© Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ Russian President Vladimir Putin during yesterday’s telephone conversation thanked the President of the United States Donald trump for offering to help in the investigation of the crash of An-148. The journalists said the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov urged not to use media reports as a primary source of information about the alleged victims the Russians in Syria and considers that these reports should be verified. “In this case we appeal to all not to use media reports as the source. Of course, let us be aware that in many countries there is a considerable number of our compatriots, Russians and, of course, here to have some information very difficult. Although, of course, that these reports need verification,” said a Kremlin spokesman told reporters.