Category: Politics

Former state Duma Deputy withdrew from the elections in favor of Putin at the meeting of the CEC Roman Khudyakov, who came to the Central election Commission to hand over 105 thousand signatures as a candidate for the presidency, said that he decided to withdraw his candidacy. He was given access to the rostrum before the beginning of consideration on the main agenda of the CEC meeting. “We must unite around a single candidate Vladimir Putin”, — said the former Deputy. This is the conclusion Khudyakov, according to him, came in the process of collecting signatures in support of his nomination (in the elections from the party “HONESTLY”). “Act not a boy, but her husband”, — said the Deputy Chairman of the CEC Nikolai Bulaev. After that he asked the former candidate to take the signatures collected in support of the nomination. Roman Khudyakov was the Deputy of the state

© REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. The task of suppressing some terrorist hotbeds in Syria persists, start an inter-Syrian dialogue will allow to unite efforts to suppress this threat. This was stated on Monday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov at the meeting with the head of the United Syrian opposition delegation Nasr al-Hariri.

Head of the center for gifted children “Sirius” Elena Shmeleva and co-Chairman of a staff of Vladimir Putin, Alexander Rumyantsev © Alexei Druzhinin/TASS MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. The Central election Commission of Russia at session on Monday registered second part of the list of Trustees of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is running for a new term, in the amount of 154 people.

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who in France were charged with money laundering, I am sure that I will be able to prove his innocence. This was stated by the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko at the meeting with the Senator, who within three days was in Russia with the permission of the authorities of the French justice. “Suleiman Kerimov considers himself innocent and is confident that will be able to refute the charges imposed. Therefore, do not intend to hide, is configured to cooperate with the investigation and hopes to return home”, – quotes Matvienko, the press service of SF. The Arrest Kerimov A member of the Federation Council Suleiman Kerimov, was detained by members of the French police at nice airport on the night of November 21. Immediately after receiving information about the

The Golden ring of Russia is going to expand Moscow. 22 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation announced the collection of bids from the candidate cities for inclusion in the tourist route the Golden ring of Russia, told reporters on Tuesday the Deputy Minister of culture of Russia Alla Manilova. She also reported that the route of the Golden ring will fight for entry into the world heritage list of UNESCO. “Each country wants to enter the UNESCO list. In Russia two objects of Tatarstan included in this list — Bolgar and Sviyazhsk. We decided that the Gold Ring you need to do the same job. For example, if the route will get the certification of the Council of Europe, will come to European tourists, because you’ll begin to trust,” — said the Deputy Minister. According to her, including for this purpose the Ministry established

Syrian Kurds said the retreat of the Turkish troops from Afrin Syrian Kurds forced the Turkish army to leave the territory of the city of Afrin, said “RIA Novosti” the representative of the Syrian Kurdistan in Moscow Rodi Osman. P. According to him, the Turkish army and associated groups have carried out the attempted attack on the position of the Kurds in the Afrin with the support of the air force. “However, the Syrian democratic forces (SDS) hit on five positions (the Turkish soldiers and the Syrian armed opposition.— “Kommersant”). In the province of Rajo SDS struck at three positions, in the province of Bylbyl — two positions,” said Rodi Osman. He argues that in the end the Turkish military had to retreat from the Afrin. According to the representative of the Kurds in the fighting were killed 10 Turkish soldiers and 20 Pro-Turkish rebels. “According to some, in a’zaz

Marriage question Russia has proposed to legalize cohabitation. Cohabitation in Russia has proposed to equate to a formal marriage with this initiative was made by Senator Anton Belyakov. The bill has already been submitted to the state Duma. What prompted this initiative and what it could mean for civilian couples understood the portal iz.ru. What are you talking about? The authors propose to introduce in Russia at the legislative level, a new concept of “de facto relationship”. It will be distributed on a childless couple who lived together for five years or more. If the couple has a child together, the minimum period of cohabitation will be reduced to two years. “The actual marriage is not registered in the prescribed manner the Union of a man and woman living together and having a common economy. Signs of a de facto relationship are living together for five years; living together for

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Moscow hopes that parties to the conflict in Yemen will shift from military action to negotiations and a political settlement. This was stated on Monday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov at the meeting with the foreign Minister of Yemen Abdelmalek al-Makhlafi.

Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko © AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Alexander Grushko from duties of the permanent representative of the Russian Federation at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The corresponding decree of 22 January published on the official portal of legal information.