Category: Politics

Khodorkovsky did not support Navalny calls for a boycott of the elections Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged to vote in the presidential election for any “suitable candidate”, but “pre-determined winner.” This tactic, he suggested that instead of Navalny calls to boycott the elections. The founder of the “Open Russia” and former head of the YUKOS oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, made in his Facebook with the programmatic statement about the upcoming presidential elections in Russia. A boycott of the vote in a low number of participants Khodorkovsky called “self-justification of inaction for the layman”. Instead, in his view, the democratic movement has three objectives, namely, “to achieve the registration of all willing candidates can collect votes”; “to support promotion of the candidate of fundamental issues that are important to the future of Russia”, and also “to take part in the protest will”. Under the last thesis, as explained by the opposition leader, he

The Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu © Mikhail Metzel/TASS CLARK /Philippines/, October 24. /TASS/. Russia strongly condemns nuclear test by North Korea and opposed provoking the DPRK excessive military activity in several countries in the region, said the Russian defense Minister, army General Sergei Shoigu.

Service border control: Browder has the right of entry into the United States According to the service, the permission for travel to the United States was approved on 18 October, and it remains in force. WASHINGTON, October 24. /Offset. TASS Anatoly Bochinin, Alexander Pahomov/. British financier, founder of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, may enter the territory of the United States at any time. About TASS said the representative of service of customs and border protection (STPC), which is part of the Ministry of internal security. GREAT NEWS! My ESTA (US visa waiver) was restored. I successfully checked into a US flight. Now we need to fix bogus Interpol arrest warrant — Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) 23 Oct 2017. During the download an error has occurred. “Issued by William Browder permission to travel to the United States remains in force. It was approved by STPC 18 October, which gives him the right

International corporations continue to work with Russia, despite sanctions MEXICO city, October 24 — RIA Novosti. Many of the largest transnational corporations continue to work with Russia, despite sanctions, said Monday Minister of industry and trade of Russia Denis Manturov. “This interest stems from the fact that we established a clear, attractive and unchanged in the long term conditions work on the Russian market”, — said Manturov during his speech at the meeting of the business mission “Trade and industrial dialogue Russia and Mexico” in Mexico city. According to him, for major new investment projects, irrespective of the national capital, in case of the conclusion of the special investment contract is a package of preferences for 10 years. “But in areas such as investment technology, where our country does not have the competence, we are ready to give such companies preferential terms for the period up to 20 years”, —

Revolution is not a matter of pride among Russians The Communist party is going to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Oct for a week. The Communist party plans to mark the 100th anniversary of the revolution of 1917 the mass festive events in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. The party leadership considers the October revolution as the main event of the twentieth century for Russia and for the world. Citizens perceive it is not so clear, from surveys of the Institute of sociology. A source of pride for the revolution itself called 6% of the respondents. Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov intends to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the October revolution, the first week of November. He is convinced that “the October revolution was an event of epoch-making scale” because it “rescued the Russian statehood”. The creation of the Soviet Union has pushed the authorities of other European countries to the development

The Mayor Of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin © Stoyan Vasev/TASS MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin did not rule out that it will nominate its candidate for the post of mayor in the elections of 2018. He reported about it in interview to the newspaper “Vedomosti”. “With the big share of probability it is possible to say that Yes, although we still have to wait for the announcement of the election campaign,” he said, answering the question about intention to run again for mayor. He stressed that he considers it his duty to finish the job in the capital: in particular, to complete health care reform, to continue the subway construction and transport communications. Commenting on statements of some experts about his possible appointment to the post of Prime Minister, the mayor stressed that it does not discuss rumors. “I have no desire to change their current position,” he

Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco © AP Photo/Eric Risberg WASHINGTON, October 24. /TASS/. The American authorities did not allow Russian diplomats in the building of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, closed their decision on September 2, for the removal of consular files. This is stated in a statement Monday statement, the Russian Embassy in the United States.

Russian diplomats accused the US government in the removal of consular archives Actions by the us authorities violate the provisions of the Vienna Convention, stated at the Russian Embassy. Moscow. 24 Oct. INTERFAX.RU — Authorities in the United States alone were taken from the building of Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco inviolable consular archives and gave it to the Russian Embassy in Washington on 23 October in spite of repeated protests from Russia, said the Russian Embassy in the United States. “The us authorities have not granted us access to the building of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, closed their decision on September 2, in order of export of the consular archives. Instead, they independently Packed and transported him to Washington. This was done in spite of repeated protests from the Russian foreign Ministry and the Embassy. On 23 October, the archive was transferred to

The media learned about the entry of ex-top Manager of the “First channel” in the headquarters Sobchak At the headquarters of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who declared their intention to become a candidate, will operate the former top Manager of the “First channel” Sergey Kalvarsky. This was told by two friends Sobchak, reports “Rain”. According to them, Kalwarski will focus on creating videos for the election campaign of the presenter. Himself a former producer, declined to comment. Kalvarsky the Director of such television programs as “50×50”, “ten”, “song of the year”, “Morning mail”, “Sound track”. In addition, he directed more than 150 music videos and many commercials. Kalwarski was the Director and the author of the program “Sati”, which was shown on “the First channel”. He has also produced programs Love story” and “Beyond the law” for the TV channel TVs. From 2003 to 2007 he held the position of