Category: Politics

Gordon declined to name the party, which will run MOSCOW, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti. Journalist Catherine Gordon said he plans to run as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation from the party, but refused to call it. Regular elections of the President of Russia will be held in March 2018, the campaign is supposed to start in December 2017. The stage of registration of candidates for presidential elections will be preceded by a stage of advancement. “The party was found… Is an existing registered party,” said Gordon, the radio station “Echo of Moscow” on Wednesday, refusing to call it. She also believes that a previously declared their desire to participate in presidential elections “to the CEC will not come.” “I’ll go there (to the CEC), and we are doing this rather tedious routine procedure (collection of documents),” said the journalist. Last week, acting President

The state Duma adopted the law on the informal use of the coat of arms of Russia MOSCOW, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti. The state Duma adopted in the third and final reading a bill that provides people and organizations a respectful use of the state emblem of the Russian Federation in the informal purposes. The authors of the initiative by the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the head of the Committee on legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov. At present, the use of the state emblem of the Russian Federation is possible only in cases specified by law. If the state emblem is used in other cases and in ways not relevant to the rules of its official use, it may pursue administrative and criminal liability. In fact, citizens and organizations do not have a legal possibility of informal use of the state emblem, said earlier the Deputy. According

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Statements by the President of the United States Donald trump about the US victory over the terrorists in Syria are unfounded and illogical. This was stated on Wednesday by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “These statements are endless in their illogical, unfounded and variability, she said. – Statements of official representatives of government agencies of the USA are changing endlessly until the opposite.” “Only one question is stated for some of his political activity, to attract voters, or that the official position of the United States?” – she added.

Speaker of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. The state Duma before the end of the year ratifies submitted by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin the agreement with Syria about the expansion of the centre of logistics of the Navy of the Russian Federation in the area of the Syrian port of Tartus. It was declared to journalists on Wednesday, the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. Putin on Wednesday submitted to the state Duma the agreement with Syria about the expansion of the territory of point of logistics Russian Navy in Tartus for 49 years. Russia may place this database at the same time to 11 warships. “We will do everything in order to ratify the agreement before the end of 2017”, – said Volodin. “Our military has protected civilians from the terrorist threat and,

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Washington is unable to produce evidence of a violation by Moscow of the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty) because they are not. This was stated on Wednesday by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

Trutnev supported the development of renewable energy in the far East The Plenipotentiary of the President in DFO has abandoned the idea of creating a special Fund for renewable energy development in the region, said Anatoly Chubais. MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Vice-Premier, the presidential envoy in the far Eastern Federal district Yuri Trutnev supported the development of generation based on renewable energy sources (RES) in the far East, the previously proposed “Rosnano”. About this informed the head of “RUSNANO” Anatoly Chubais at the conference “Future of renewable energy in Russia.” “The basic conclusions are as follows. First, the idea of renewable energy development under this scheme in the far East supported,” he said. Chubais also reminded that “Rosnano” has suggested to create special Fund for renewable energy development in the far East. However, this idea, according to Chubais, and Yury Trutnev was not supported. “He proposed a separate Fund as

Big press conference of Vladimir Putin. History and facts Thursday, December 14, at 12:00 Moscow time held a press conference of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin — a traditional annual meeting of heads of state with Russian and foreign journalists. In the course of it the President sums up the year and talks about the economic, political and social life in Russia, her foreign and domestic policy, etc. The practice of holding large press conferences for the year Putin introduced in 2001 during the first term. Annual meeting with journalists was interrupted only in the period when Putin held the post of Prime Minister from may 2008 to may 2012. In 2005, Putin held a large press conference, instead he answered the questions of Russians in a straight line. Aify gathered are some interesting facts about the big press conferences of the President. 13-I account The current big press

11 “friends” Roskomnadzor: what are the websites banned in Russia The Prosecutor General’s office demanded to ban Russian access to sites 11 foreign non-governmental organizations whose activities and so is prohibited in Russia. What are these organizations and whether their sites state system, as the fear of the authorities? The requirement of Roskomnadzor to block access to Internet sites and their mirrors the General Prosecutor’s office published on its official website. Roskomnadzor has already said that would make 11 sites in the special register of prohibited resources for service providers — that is, in Russia access to them and their mirrors will now be restricted. This is the first case of application of the law on extrajudicial blocking of websites of unwanted organizations, adopted in November this year. Under this law, the Prosecutor is entitled to request the prohibition of access to the sites of organizations that were previously recognized

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. The Russian side urged Kiev to hold consultations with national minorities to develop solutions that would ensure equal linguistic rights for all citizens of Ukraine. This was stated on Wednesday by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

The Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. The Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova said that candidates for presidential elections in Russia in the upcoming campaign will be much more than it was in the early 2000’s, when she ran for the presidency.