Category: Politics

Zhirinovsky said that Sobchak and Gordon arrange elections of Halloween MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. The Chairman of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes that Ksenia Sobchak and Catherine Gordon, has declared his intention to run for President of the Russian Federation, suit of the election extravaganza and Halloween. According to the politician, it is not necessary to aspire to the highest public office, having no management experience. “Let them all move in, just need to have a conscience. If you are ever the area is not supervised, bath, no crew, a sector — how to go for the presidency. The soldiers that you say: I tomorrow the Minister of defence going to be?” — Zhirinovsky said to journalists at the opening of the exhibition “Key personnel: the Telegraph opens the archives” in response to a request from TASS to comment on the nomination Sobchak and Gordon. According to the leader of the

OIG Kudrin: protests grow along with the economy The Committee of civil initiatives former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin reported on the growing number of Russian regions, where political risks and the possibility of mass protests. Among them were 13 Russian regions, including such big as Moscow, Dagestan, Chelyabinsk, Rostov, Samara region. The economic situation in Russia improves. Why, then, brewing discontent? Information about the protest regions are contained in the report of the experts Committee of civil initiatives Alexander Kanev, Nikolay Petrov and Alexey Titkova. The calculations are based on the index of socio-economic and political tensions in Russian regions as of 1 July 2017. The method of calculating the index covers three dimensions — the economy, politics and protest activity. The socio-economic situation, experts estimate on the basis of official statistics on incomes, trade and indicators of the budget of the region. The political situation, the experts assess the

What is criminal misconduct, and whether for him to be tried in Russia The Supreme court of Russia has proposed to enshrine in law the country’s new type of violation of the law, which will be called “a criminal offense” and will occupy a niche between crime and administrative offense. What is this concept and why it is needed? The proposal to introduce such a concept contained in the draft amendments to the criminal code, which has already received approval from the Supreme court and will soon be sent to the state Duma, have informed in a press-service of the court. What is it? Criminal offense is something between administrative offence and criminal offence. NewsCrime becomes a misdemeanor The main difference from a felony is that a misdemeanor does not entail deprivation of liberty and criminal record. According to the initiators of the amendments, the criminal offence can be called

The court of Spain recognized the independence of Catalonia illegal The constitutional court of Spain suspended the Declaration on the independence of Catalonia, approved by the authorities of the region on 27 October, said the official representative of the court. On Friday, the Catalan Parliament voted to secede from Spain, having approved the corresponding Declaration. Immediately after that Madrid imposed in the autonomy of direct rule, and announced the dissolution of the Catalan Parliament. Meanwhile, the ousted head of the government of Catalonia Carles Putteman said at a press conference in Brussels that Spain has launched an aggressive campaign against the Catalan people. According to the former leader of Catalonia, the Spanish court has no grounds for a case against him and his Ministers, and threats in their address say about the aggression of Madrid. About leaving Pokdemon in Belgium said yesterday his lawyer. However, he did not specify whether

Media: the constitutional court suspended the resolution on the independence of Catalonia MADRID, 31 Oct. /TASS/. The constitutional court (CC) of Spain suspended the resolution declaring the independence of Catalonia, which was approved on 27 October, the Parliament of the region. This was announced on Tuesday, the newspaper La Vanguardia. According to her, the COP took into consideration the petition of the government of Spain against the decision of the Catalan chamber. Thus, the resolution is automatically paused.

The crime becomes a misdemeanor The Supreme court offers to dramatically mitigate criminal law. The Supreme court (SC) has prepared a bill, offering a few dozen types of crimes under the criminal code, to transfer to the status of the criminal offense. We are talking about the acts for which now does not provide imprisonment. In the case of the adoption of the law on misdemeanor for unlawful acts committed as a punishment can be imposed the obligation to pay damages or a judicial fine. The idea is to simplify the proceedings with the least serious violations of the law, which now belong to the category of criminal offences of minor gravity, expressed long ago. The leadership of the Supreme court of the Russian Federation decided to seek its implementation through the enactment of the law. To date, the Plenum of the armed forces was promulgated provisions in the Agency’s

Departed from Sobchak the political strategist said about the lack of money in its headquarters The political strategist Alexey Sitnikov, the departure of which from a staff of Ksenia Sobchak became known on the morning of 31 October, told about the financial difficulties and confusion in her team. In his opinion, the campaign was “invented on the knee.” One of the key team members Ksenia Sobchak political strategist Alexey Sitnikov told about the reasons for the passing of her staff, in particular, about the lack of money for tickets and security. During the download an error has occurred. “It is impossible even to call headquarters, the team is”, said Sitnikov RBC. “There (in the staff) all clear, even to list pointless, what, — said political consultant. — With regard to Finance, I took office.” According to him, during the visit Sobchak seminars in Ekaterinburg and Krasnodar’s staff members have chipped

© AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. Google has proven that the TV channel Russia Today (RT) does not abuse the use of advertising on online platforms, including during last year’s presidential election campaign in the United States. This was stated on Tuesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. “You know, I prefer to confine the reaction to the Google – said the head of the Russian depodesta, when asked to comment on the intervention of the Russian media. Not heard of Google, we were accused of it.”