Category: Russia

Eugene Chudnovets The Deputy General Prosecutor Leonid Korzhinek has made to the Supreme court cassation representation on a sentence concerning the inhabitant of the Kurgan region Eugenia Chudnovets, convicted repost in the social network. About it “lente.ru” the press service of the Prosecutor General. As said the representatives of the Supervisory authority, the Prosecutor’s office puts the question is not about mitigation, but about the abolition of the sentence “and the termination of the criminal proceedings for lack of corpus delicti”. “This decision can take the Kurgan regional court, if the Supreme court agrees with the proposal of the Deputy attorney General and Institute the appeal proceedings”, — noted in press service. Previously it Korzhinek asked to cancel the verdict of the opposition leader, Ildar Dadina convicted of repeated violations of the rules of picketing. The wording was the same — lack of evidence. February 22, the Supreme court overturned

In Salekhard, the children threw snow at the Eternal flame located on Victory square, the monument to the fallen in the great Patriotic war. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district. Information about the incident entered the police station on 20 February. After reviewing records from CCTV cameras installed at the memorial, the officers managed to identify four suspects aged 10 to 12 years. Children explained his action by curiosity, they did not know about the value of this symbol. Students and their parents were conducted preventive conversations. Materials sent to the Commission on Affairs of minors. Police officers with his hand out the checks, the results of which procedural decision will be made. As writes the local newspaper “Krasny Sever”, in the words arrived on the scene the employee of gas service, such cases in Salekhard occur at least once

The electoral Commission of the Samara region has deprived of powers of all members of two precinct election commissions in the village Rozhdestveno of fraud in last September’s elections. On Tuesday, January 21, reported on the website of the regional electoral Commission. “In conclusion, the working group identified a number of violations of electoral legislation committed by members of the PEC number 0707 and 0708 room during the elections”,— stated in the message. The new composition of district election commissions with deliberative vote will be assigned from the reserve of the territorial election Commission of the Volga district of the Samara region. The inspection was initiated after a video message of the Deputy of regional Duma Michael Matveev. The MP claimed that the two areas were recorded “carousel and stuffing”. In November last year the Investigative Department of the TFR in the Samara region initiated two criminal cases under article

Sergey Katanandov Proposed by deputies of the state Duma from fraction of LDPR the bill of deprivation of mandates of senators for skipping unnecessary and far from the modern reality of the initiative. This opinion was expressed by first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee for Federative structure, regional policy, local government and Northern Affairs Sergey Katanandov in his interview to the National news service (NSN) on Tuesday, February 21. According to him, members of the upper house of Parliament are disciplined. “We have such things impossible. At the meeting, are almost all senators who are not sick,” Katanandov said, adding that it is a merit of the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. According to him, the Federation Council members can miss a meeting only because of illness or visits to the regions. February 20, deputies from LDPR Igor Lebedev and Sergey Ivanov has submitted for consideration

The state Duma has honored the memory of the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin, who died February 20, with a minute of silence. About it the correspondent “Tapes.ru” on Wednesday, February 22. “We all knew and respected for his position, a man who defended the interests of our country, a brilliant diplomat, a man who loved our country. At the forefront of the diplomatic work at the UN he did everything in order to protect the interests of our citizens”, — said the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin. On the eve of President of Russia Vladimir Putin awarded the diplomat of the order of Courage posthumously “for the dedication, fortitude and professionalism”. In his message of condolences directed to the spouse of the diplomat, the Russian leader noted that Churkin was one of the most distinguished diplomats and a true patriot. Vitaly

Dmitry Peskov The settlement of the situation in Eastern Ukraine requires, first and foremost, of the agreements between Kiev and self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, said the official representative of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov. About it the correspondent “Tapes.ru” on Wednesday, February 22. “Certainly, the role of a mediator requires the consent of all parties to the conflict. (…) Russia is not a party to the conflict, so Kiev and the Donbass must first come together in that understanding,” Peskov said, commenting on the letter of former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych world leaders with proposals for settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine. A spokesman for the Russian President noted that Russia, France and Germany — the participants of the talks in the “Normandy format” — is the guarantor of the implementation of the Minsk agreements. “But, unfortunately, together we can not yet boast that they managed to do

Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 summit, which will take place in Hamburg in July of this year. This was stated by the assistant to the President Yuri Ushakov on Wednesday, February 22, the correspondent “Tapes.ru”. “Our participation in the summit of “twenty” States at the presidential level”, — said Ushakov. The summit of “Big twenty” scheduled for July 7-8. Earlier, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the meeting of Vladimir Putin and his us counterpart Donald trump may be held on the sidelines of the G20 summit. “We believe that there is, in July of this year [will be held], “twenty” in Germany, where somehow the presidents will meet. But, as you know, it was the possibility of an earlier meeting, there are no specifics yet,” — said Peskov.

Alexei Pushkov The Federation Council member Alexei Pushkov commented on the statement of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko about the fact that there is a threat of full-scale war with Russia. In his microblog on Twitter, the Senator noted that the Ukrainian leader not the scale. — Alexei Pushkov (@Alexey_Pushkov) February 22, 2017, 17:13 The threat of full-scale war with Russia Poroshenko said on 22 February. “This threat is not only seeps through not controlled by us border areas in the Donbass, it hangs on the border line with Russia, and even more. This makes us believe in the enemy intentions on the part of Russia”, — he said. The Ukrainian leader also urged the Baltic republics and Belarus to be ready “for any surprises from Moscow”. February 17, Poroshenko accused the Russian leadership of “hatred in Ukraine”. Kiev constantly accuses Russia of aggressive intentions and involvement in the

In the collision of bus and truck in the Milkovsky district of Kamchatka Krai injured 20 people, including a 13-year-old girl. It is reported TASS with reference to regional Ministry of transport. The accident occurred on Wednesday evening, February 22, at 303-kilometer route Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky — Milkovo. “The bus collided with a KAMAZ vehicle. At the time of accident the bus was carrying about 25 people,” — said the regional Department of EMERCOM of Russia. According to the Ministry, KAMAZ with the trailer, leaving on the side road, not missed moving along the main road the bus. As a result of collision the driver and four bus passengers were trapped in the vehicle. “Arrived at the scene of the accident, rescuers made the release of the victims, which gave the staff an emergency medical aid”, — rescuers noted. The victims were hospitalized in the Milkovsky district hospital, ten of them will

Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on indefinite privatization of housing for all citizens. Document published on the portal of legal information on Wednesday, February 22. Now free to privatize housing can all citizens of Russia. The head of the Ministry of construction Mikhail Men commented to RIA Novosti, this decision, according to him, it will decrease the hype around this issue. The relevant law was passed by the Parliament on 10 February, 15 February, it was approved by the Federation Council. Initially the free privatization of housing was to be extended only to certain categories of the population: the inhabitants of Crimea, orphans and displaced people from dilapidated housing, but the government decided to abandon these restrictions. General government privatisation plan was issued on 15 Feb. According to the document, from the privatization of Federal property in the Federal budget in the years 2017-2019 will come