Category: Politics

What awaits the Russians from 1 January Brief overview of the main legislative changes of the coming year. From 1 January to obtain public services will be available in either MFC or the relevant institution in the territory of the Russian Federation regardless of the place of residence. The list includes such operations as obtaining a passport, vehicle registration, issuance of driving licenses, registration of citizens and others. For banks with General license from January 1 to set the minimum size of own funds in the amount of 1 billion rubles. For credit institutions with the basic license — 300 million rubles. From January 1 will impose fines for violation of the law on messengers. In case of failure to identify users with administration services can collect up to 1 million rubles. in addition, if the messengers will not fulfill the requirement to limit the distribution of prohibited information, the

Putin explained why gas fuel leads to massive layoffs MOSCOW, 28 Dec — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a state Council meeting that the transfer to natural gas belonging to Gazprom cars has led to the fact that there started to quit the drivers because of the inability to drain the gasoline and diesel fuel. “”Gazprom” your vehicle has started to transfer to gas fuel, which has led to from: to mass dismissal of drivers — nothing to merge”, — said the head of state, noting that a similar situation also exists in the Ministry of defence and other departments. “I think that comment is superfluous,” — said the President. At the same time, Putin called for a translation belonging to companies of vehicles to natural gas. Of course, we have great competitive advantages in this because we have fuel enough, and the realization, say, of oil

The government introduced a bill on target training It is expected that the contract on target training will set the term of the employment activities of a graduate in the organisation and period of employment in the organization. MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on introducing to the state Duma a draft law on improving mechanisms for targeted training. The document was published Thursday on the government website. “The purpose of the bill — establishment of an effective mechanism to meet the needs of the economy with qualified personnel with secondary vocational and higher education, including those aimed at high priority to ensure the staffing requirements for those entities where the regional labor market cannot be filled by existing personnel shortage,” — said in the explanatory note to the order. It is expected that the contract on target training will set the term of the

Russia’s envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov © Grigory Sysoev/TASS MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that there is a possibility of cancellation of sanctions of the EU against Russia in 2018. The diplomat said in an interview with the newspaper “Izvestia”.

Putin gave an assessment of the work of governors The President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with former and current governors of several regions. The head of state noted that the heads of regions worked in difficult conditions, reports the website of the President. According to the President, it is necessary to maintain continuity of government in the regions. The governors should have the opportunity to implement their plans. “It is necessary that the new head of the region, and on his shoulders a huge responsibility for people, their welfare, well-being, so he felt a full head of region, otherwise the operation will fail. At the same time he could rely, once again, that was done to him, and on your experience, on knowledge”, — said the President. During the meeting, Vladimir Putin congratulated those present on the upcoming new year and wished them all the best.

© Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met with the elected 10 September 2017 senior officials and acting of the highest officials of constituent entities of the Federation and retired leaders in these subjects, discussing with them the need for continuity in the work. “We never intended, but such a meeting makes sense. This is, firstly, to demonstrate continuity. The new leaders can build and develop all the achievements that came before them,” he said.

Gryzlov: in the Donbass, will continue to exchange prisoners “all for all” MOSCOW, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti. Work on the exchange of detainees between Kiev and self-proclaimed DND and LNR will continue, said the Plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov. “Today, at the Donbass exchanged. This is an important event in the first place, for people who have returned home and celebrate the New year in a circle of friends and relatives. This is the first stage of the exchange in the format of “all for all”, — said Gryzlov. On Wednesday at the Donbass, it was the biggest prisoner exchange since the conflict began. The procedure was observed by representatives of the Special monitoring mission of the OSCE and the International Committee of the red cross. Earlier it was reported that Kiev intends to transfer to 306 people

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko is confident that successful completion of the operation videoconferencing in Syria had a positive impact on the mood of the Russians.

Catherine Gordon © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Singer Catherine Gordon, positioning itself as a human rights defender in the sphere of family relations, on Wednesday presented the journalists his presidential election program, in the form of a paper airplane. She advocates a transition to a parliamentary Republic and elections to the state Duma only in single-mandate constituencies.