Category: Russia

A mass grave from the Second world war, discovered during the construction of a residential building in Kaliningrad. About it reports on Wednesday, March 1, “Interfax” with reference to the representative of the municipal enterprise “Alta” Ruslan Khisamova. During the excavation, the builders discovered the remains of more than 50 people, including the skeleton of a Wehrmacht officer. “Some bones found fragments of shells, bullets and medical tourniquets. We can say that these people were killed during the storming of Koenigsberg (former name of Kaliningrad — approx. “Of the tape.ru”) in the spring of 1945,” Khisamov said. All found the remains reburied in the municipal cemetery in accordance with local legislation, and the bones of the officer will be buried in the cemetery of the German military, said the representative of “Violas”. Construction will continue as usual. In 2008, in North Ossetia during the work on the extension of the

Ella Pamfilova The CEC Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova expressed hope that senior officials responsible for election violations, will incur the appropriate penalty. It is reported by TASS, on Wednesday, March 1. According to her, the CEC will undertake all necessary efforts “in this direction”. Pamfilova also stressed that the control of the campaign lies primarily on the heads of subjects of Federation. “And if elections are held this way, as in Dagestan, and Dagestan — almost the most problematic region, we evaluate the quality of elections conducted at the lowest level, that is the responsibility of the head of the Republic in full measure,” she said. According to RIA Novosti, 16 February the delegation of the CEC of Russia headed by the Chairman of the Commission held a meeting in Dagestan. Currently, work is under way to reformat the system of election commissions of the Republic, conducted inspections of more than

Members of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg adopted in the third reading a bill on renaming the municipal district Parnas. New name of “Sergievskaya”, adopted in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh will become official from July 1 this year, reports RIA Novosti. The name change in an explanatory note to the bill due to the need to reflect cultural, historical and other local traditions and peculiarities, writes “Fontanka”. In addition, the renaming was requested by many locals. How Sergius of Radonezh is associated with the territory of the municipality, the document is not explained. However, in his text States that “in our days, St. Petersburg residents revere the name of the monk”. “In the name of St. Sergius of people remember their moral revival that has made possible the revival of the political”, — stated in the bill. The document was presented to the St. Petersburg legislative Assembly

Vladimir Putin Publishing for children “high school journal” is collecting questions from their readers for the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. This was reported on Wednesday, March 1, on the magazine’s website. Share “My question for the President” held for the second time. “The result of the first action were the answers of Vladimir Putin to the five questions from young readers at the time of the lines 14 APR 2016”, — stated in the message. For example, 11-year-old Angela from the Perm region asked about the goldfish, and nine-year-old Anastasia from St. Petersburg — about unloved porridge. In addition, one of the children asked Putin the question, went to the camp “Artek” and visited the SKOLKOVO innovation city. In total by results of last year’s campaign received more than 11 thousand individual and collective children’s letters, noted in the edition. Among the most active regions in the log call

Russian President Vladimir Putin during trip to Krasnoyarsk gave the symbol of the Universiade, which will be held in the Siberian city in 2019, toy husky. About it reports “Russian newspaper” on Wednesday, March 1. U plush-husky and a pennant to the head of state handed a two-time winner and silver medalist of the winter Universiade-2017 in biathlon Sergey Korastylev. Putin congratulated Russian athletes on winning the competition, held this year in Almaty. “Recently, a couple of days ago I met with the President of Kazakhstan [Nursultan Nazarbayev], he talked about the performance of their athletes, and your speech. They’re not really worried… proud of my second place”, — said the Russian leader. He expressed hope that the athletes participating in the winter Universiade-2017, will perform at competitions in Krasnoyarsk in two years. “You will be a good change in the sport of high achievements,” the President added. On 26

Kyrgyz authorities are interested in maintaining the Russian military contingent in the country, said the Chairman of the Duma Committee on defence Yury Shvydkin. His assessment he shared in an interview with “Tape.ru” on Tuesday, February 28. “Until it was time to make a statement on the withdrawal of the Russian military base from the territory of Kyrgyzstan. I think that the leadership of Kyrgyzstan at present interested to our military base was, as it is a source of stability,” said Switchin. He also added that he fully supports the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin regarding the withdrawal of the military base. The MP stressed that from the moment of placing the property in the Republic situation in the region has improved, but “full stabilization is too early to speak”. “The establishment of a military base was dictated by the need to ensure the security of Kyrgyzstan.

Olga Vasilyeva Info about what is salary of teachers in the Ivanovo region is seven thousand rubles, turned out to be false, reported on Tuesday, February 28, Minister of education and science of Russia Olga Vasilieva in an interview with TASS. According to her, it became clear that data on earnings, the amount of which complained one of the teachers region, do not correspond to reality. “The information is not confirmed, there is the salary of 15 thousand. Why such a small amount is concerned the January payment and great January holidays. Now more or less flat situation,” — said Vasilyev. She also added that she had a conversation with Ivanovo Governor Pavel Konkov. During the conversation, he said that now the situation is normalized. At the meeting, Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of the Federation Council, with social workers February 3 teacher at one of the schools in the region

The Patriarchal metochion of the Moscow Alexeevsky monastery seeking the return of the Russian Orthodox Church buildings all-Russian research Institute of fisheries and Oceanography (VNIIR), reports RIA Novosti. As stated by the abbess of the monastery, the head of the legal service of the Moscow Patriarchy Xenia (Chernega), the reason for going into law was the ruin of the institution of the tomb of the abbess. According to her, the remains of the superiors of the monastery were taken out of the tomb in bags, after which place their final resting place was constructed a swimming pool for the breeding of crabs. VNIIR building was rebuilt in the Soviet years, from the Church of the exaltation of the cross. According to superior, the use of the building for purposes other than the purpose of its creation, or the reconstruction, re-planning is not enshrined in the law “On transfer to religious

Gennady Onishchenko First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on education and science, the former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko believes that stray dogs must be euthanized because they are a threat to human life and also carry the threat of infection. This opinion was expressed on air of TV channel “Russia 24” on Tuesday, February 28, reports TASS. “Where there is an established culture in Moscow, for example, send the dogs to shelters, those who are not taken, you need to kill with humanitarian methods, that is, the injection of the Dog is a carnivorous animal that’s on her mind, we don’t know… No animal on the street should not be”, — said Onishchenko. On February 27 Deputy Chairman of State Duma Committee on ecology and environmental protection, the member of fraction of LDPR Cyril Cherkasov said that in the lower house of Parliament for several years

In Bashkortostan, the student died after skiing with friends on the boats. On Tuesday, February 28, reported on the website of the regional Department of the Investigative Committee. According to RIA Novosti, the three to seven year old children from the village Chingizov baymaksky district of the Republic on 27 February after school went to is not equipped for skiing the slope with a height of over 30 meters. Sliding down to the boats with mount Alsin Bai, located 600 meters from the village, the students called avalanches. As a result, two were discarded to the side, and the third was filled with snow. Arrived at the relatives dug up the baby. He was hospitalized, but despite medical assistance he died. Doctors diagnosed him with a fracture of the vault of the skull base. In fact the incident investigators are checking, is appointed is judicial-medical examination.