Category: Politics

The Chairman of the Federal political Committee of the party “Yabloko” Grigory Yavlinsky © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The Congress of the “Yabloko” has officially nominated the founder of the party and the President of its Federal political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky candidate on presidential elections, the correspondent of TASS.

The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain Boris Johnson © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Russian-British relations are at a very low point not on the initiative of Moscow. This was stated on Friday, the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov at the meeting with British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The representatives of Russia can return to the Joint center for control and coordination of ceasefire and stabilization of the line of resistance of the parties (JCCC) in Ukraine, if Kiev will provide normal conditions for their work.

The state Duma adopted a law on mandatory labeling of products Moscow. 22 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — the state Duma meeting on Friday adopted in the third and final reading a bill that gives the government the right to introduce mandatory labeling special identification marks. You will also need the introduction of additional details of cash receipt, the application of which will allow you to identify and track not only the commodity nomenclature of goods, but also its origin. Under current law, the term “labeling” is used exclusively in the law on technical regulation and applied in narrowly restricted purposes, to inform consumers about the quality of the product and its compliance with statutory requirements. Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Lavrov, during the discussion of the bill at the session of the Duma Committee on economic policy, explained that identification of the goods will help you to track the legality of its

Volodin told how much the state Duma saved for the year MOSCOW, Dec 22 — RIA Novosti. The state Duma in the course of the year have saved about 500 million rubles, including on wages, said Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. The state Duma on Friday closes fall session. “We have many items of expenditure for the year savings. We will more accurately be able to say at the beginning of next year, when to summarize. But that savings will be about 500 million. And one of the articles on which we have significant savings, that savings on the wage Fund,” said Volodin at the last plenary session. He noted that deputies of the state Duma during the autumn session worked a lot of overtime — there have been six more “pleneros”. But we have savings on the wage Fund, when one who could not take part in the plenary session,

The government decided to close down unpopular sites of ministries and departments The new concept of development of sites of state agencies provides for the closure of unpopular departmental portals and translation services on a single resource gov.ru. Of the more than 7,000 government websites 80% are resources with low attendance. A new window The government is discussing the reorganization of the official websites of ministries and departments, one scenario is to combine the Internet-the resources of government into a single portal, abandoning the development of their own websites of government agencies with low attendance. This option contains the concept development of the unified digital environment of the Internet sites of government agencies (a copy is in RBC). The second option is to retain the existing websites of government agencies, but to use consistent methods of development, common principles of organization of user interfaces and published data, the document says.

Chairman Of The State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin has described as absurd the US sanctions against the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, included in the Magnitsky list and warned about the imminent symmetric response of the Russian Federation.

Johnson said about the impossibility of normal relations with Russia and flew to Moscow The British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson flew to Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. He said this in his Twitter. “There can be many differences, but we must continue to work together on Syria, Iran and North Korea,” he wrote. On the eve of the visit, Johnson said “cannot restore normal relations with Russia while Moscow is trying to destabilize the situation in Europe,” and his visit is not an attempt to establish them. “However, for international security, it is vital that we engaged in dialogue, as the consequences of miscommunication or misunderstandings are fatal. My visit to Russia comes at a critical time when we need to work together to solve the most pressing problems in the world,” reports The Guardian. 17 Dec Johnson compared the confrontation between Russia and the West with

New UN sanctions will not affect the export of Russian coal through North Korea UN, December 22. /TASS/. New sanctions against the DPRK under the US introduced the draft resolution of the Security Council (SC) of the UN, if approved, will not affect the export of Russian coal through North Korea. The relevant provision is included in the document, a copy of which was read Thursday to the correspondent of TASS. The draft resolution envisages a significant tightening of restrictions against Pyongyang, including a ban on oil imports into the country without the prior consent of UN security Council restrictions on the supply of almost 90% of the refined products, and will require countries to expel North Korean migrants within 12 months from the date of adoption of the resolution. In addition, the document gives States the powers to intercept are in their territorial waters vessels suspected of coal exports