Category: Politics

Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov © Vladimir Smirnov/TASS BRUSSELS, 24 Jan. /TASS/. Statements by the President of the United States Donald trump on Iran’s nuclear program is to blackmail the European Union. This was stated Wednesday in the interview with TASS, Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov on the sidelines of the remembrance Day of the Holocaust in the European Parliament organized by the European Jewish Congress.

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Supporters of a military solution to the conflict in the Donbass, seeking to undermine the Minsk agreement. This was stated on Wednesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the opening of the XXVI International Christmas educational readings “the Moral values and the future of humanity”.

Chairman of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova © Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Informing every voter about the presidential elections in Russia costs about 5-7 rubles. This was stated by the Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, commenting on the report of the movement in defense of voters ‘ rights “Golos”. According to Pamfilova, “the Voice” in his report points to high costs of the Central election Commission on the campaign for informing about the elections – 770 million roubles.

The state Duma adopted the law on currency salary working abroad Russians MOSCOW, 24 Jan — RIA Novosti. The state Duma plenary meeting on Wednesday adopted in the third final reading of a government bill that allows people living abroad to the Russian citizens working in Russian companies, to be paid in foreign currency. “The bill passed”, — said the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin in the voting. The purpose of the adoption of the law is to “provide opportunities for outside of territory of the Russian Federation citizens of the Russian Federation of a salary and other payments connected with performance by them outside the territory of the Russian Federation of their duties under an employment contracts concluded by them with legal entities — residents, in foreign currency,” reads the explanatory note to the bill. The document also provides for the possibility of salaries in foreign currency

Kostin said about the developed West, the economic war to change the President of Russia Sanctions policy of the West is a full-scale economic attack on Russia with the aim of changing the government and the President, the President — Chairman of VTB Andrey Kostin. “I think they want to use sanctions to exert pressure on Russia, to the Russian Federation changed the government, the President, someone more suitable for them,” Kostin said at a business Breakfast VTB within the framework of the Davos economic forum (quoted by “Prime”). This is an economic war is not just a trade war, when you just restrict a little import or export. This is a really full-scale attack on Russia, in the Russian society, with a lot of pressure on the economy. This is a very big economic valandra Costin Earlier Kostin in an interview with the Financial Times warned about the threat

Media: canadian Transagentstvo came under attack by hackers from North Korea OTTAWA, January 24. /TASS/. Canadian Transagentstvo Metrolinx was allegedly attacked by hackers from North Korea. On Tuesday reported the TV station CBC with reference to the representative of the company Anna-Marie Aikins. According to her, the cyber attack on the servers of Transagentstvo happened earlier in January, but “has not led to a breach of confidentiality and does not interfere with the operation of any safety systems”. Details she lead was not. Source CBC in this company on condition of anonymity, said that a cyber attack allegedly was committed by hackers from North Korea, “running through Russia, the virus that struck the computers Metrolinx”. Transagentstvo Metrolinx is engaged in the operation of public transportation systems and airports in Toronto, all its suburbs, and the city of Hamilton. The company is managed by the government of Ontario, in which there

The leader of the Monarchist party of Russia Anton Tanks © Donat Sorokin/TASS YEKATERINBURG, January 24. /TASS/. Entrepreneur, head of the Monarchist party, Anton Bakov has declared that will not participate in the presidential elections in 2018 and is forced to withdraw his candidacy, as has dual citizenship. “I am forced to withdraw his candidacy, as have citizenship of the Gambia. It does not allow me to participate in the elections”, – said Tanks at a press conference in Yekaterinburg, adding that he has long consulted on this issue with lawyers, who gave him the day before that.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin © Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. The Chairman of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia Alexander Bastrykin held at the Russian military base in Syria Hamim meeting with military investigators, SK. This was reported by the official representative of Department Svetlana Petrenko.

PACE calls on Russia “to stop military support to Donbass” The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution which calls on Russia to stop the “military support to illegal armed groups” in the DNI and LC. PACE also urged Moscow to cease to recognize the passports of the Donetsk and Luhansk self-proclaimed republics. The Russian delegation refused to participate in the January session of the parliamentary Assembly. The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) urged Russia “to stop financial and military support to armed groups in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions”. The corresponding resolution entitled “On the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine” was published on the website of the Assembly. The author of the document was made by Lithuanian parliamentarian Egidijus Vareikis. It says that the Assembly is alarmed by the humanitarian situation in the war in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of