Category: Politics

Ksenia Sobchak © Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS WASHINGTON, February 7. /TASS./ The candidate in presidents of Russia Ksenia Sobchak has expressed the view that NATO is not a threat to Russia, and also spoke about what will be her first steps in power in case of victory on forthcoming elections of the head of state. His thoughts on these matters she shared, speaking Tuesday at the National press club in Washington. Sobchak sees NATO as a threat Answering the question of reporters whether it is to support the aspirations of Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO and the European Union, Sobchak has expressed the opinion that “the aspiration of an independent state – it is purely his desire”.

Medvedev has charged to understand the reasons for the dismissal of a teacher College in Taganrog Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Minister of education Olga Vasilyeva and the Governor of Rostov region Vasily Golubev to understand the reasons for the dismissal of the teacher Taganrog metallurgical College Victor Makarenko. This was reported by TASS in the press-the servant of the government. Earlier it was reported that Mr. Makarenko was fired January 30 after the teachers wrote a letter to the Prime Minister in which they complained about the lack of indexation of salaries of teachers. Later, the Director of the College Love Lizogub denied this information. According to her, the reasons for the dismissal were disciplinary the recovery associated with “repeated failure to perform official duties without valid reasons”. February 5, Rostov oblast Prosecutor’s office began checking on the appeal of Victor Makarenko.

Mnuchin: U.S. to impose sanctions against persons of “the Kremlin list” in the coming months WASHINGTON, 6 Feb. /TASS./ The American administration is not configured to use restrictive measures in relation to sovereign debt of Russia and its derivatives. This was stated by the Minister of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, speaking on Tuesday at a hearing by a Committee of the house of representatives of the Congress of the United States. “We are focused on specific sanctions against “bad” individuals and companies not on the sanctions in respect of the debt,” — said the Minister of Finance, speaking about the restrictions concerning Russia. Any other comments on this subject from him was not followed. This theme Mnuchin touched on in his speech with the filing of Congressman ed Perlmutter (Democrat from Colorado). Earlier, the U.S. Treasury sent to Congress the enclosed report acknowledged that the use of the mechanism of

CEC has published data on incomes Putin for six years Moscow. 6 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the Candidate in presidents of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin for six years from 2011 to 2016 earned 38.5 million rubles, this amount includes wages, income from investments and military pension. This information contains information about the size and about sources of the income, on property and obligations of property character of Putin, which he presented to the CEC for participation in presidential elections of the Russian Federation. The document published on the website of the Central election Commission on Tuesday. “Sources and total revenues for the six years preceding the year of elections: salaries, administration of the President of the Russian Federation, income from Bank deposits, military pension — 38 528 817 rubles,” — said in the document. There it is specified that on 13 accounts in banks, Putin has had 13 million 824

Acting head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev © Vladimir Smirnov/TASS MAKHACHKALA, February 6. /TASS./ From the new government of Dagestan, which must be formed within 14 days from the date of the resignation of the previous, will wait not only address key socio-economic issues of the region and change the traditional political order, which meant the so-called “national quota” in the allocation of positions in the national government. A number of key posts in Dagestan, the Cabinet can hold managers drawn from other regions. The first of them may become the Minister of economy of Tatarstan Artyom zdunov, whose candidature of acting head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, invited for the post of Prime Minister. TASS said politicians and experts, commenting on the upcoming changes in the government of Dagestan.

© Yegor Aleev/TASS MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS./ All applicants for the post of President of the Russian Federation, who passed to the CEC signatures of citizens in support, successfully passed the stage of verification of signatures and will be allowed to vote. Thus, in the newsletter, which will get the Russians on the day of the presidential election on March 18, 2018, according to the current time, can mean eight names. The situation became clear after the announcement of the results of the working group of the CEC, verified petitions, the returned candidates of the party “Communists of Russia” Maxim by Caricinum and “Civil initiative” Ksenia Sobchak. They passed autographs for review to the CEC on January 31, the last day allotted in the schedule to the stage of collecting and submitting signatures. The fact that one of the most organizationally complex and time-consuming stages of the campaign were who