Category: Russia

Alexey Chepa Kiev’s decision to block the official statement of the President of the UN Security Council in connection with the death of Russia’s Ambassador Vitaly Churkin impossible to evaluate in the political arena. This opinion Tuesday, February 21, was expressed by Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Alexei chepa in an interview with “Tape.ru”. “Ukraine’s position is surprising for its cynicism, this is not politics — it is nonsense,” — he stressed. Chepa said that he heard from colleagues a lot of good words about the Russian Ambassador after his death. “I am now at the conference, where we were approached by representatives of different countries and Express their condolences over the sudden passing of the distinguished diplomat”, he added. On blocking Ukraine’s statements on Churkin, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting

The working group on improving legislative activities of the state Duma proposes MPs to discuss their initiatives with the parliamentary factions before making them to the. On Tuesday, 21 February, reports TASS with reference to first Vice-speaker of the lower house of Ivan Melnikov. “There are cases when a legislative initiative of deputies of the faction do not meet the programme or campaign platforms, with which the relevant party goes on elections to the state Duma”, — he explained. Melnikov also said that the faction can help parliamentarians legally correct to one initiative or another. In addition, he urged the leadership of the factions to audit all of the bills initiated by them, which have lost their relevance. “The representatives of the factions, the faction leaders themselves say that among the large number of bills, of course, there are those who have lost their social significance and do they need

“Spring law”, acting in Russia, violates the obligations of Moscow in the field of human rights. Such statements are contained in the annual report of the international human rights organization Amnesty International. The Russian authorities, as human rights activists believe “too often used by anti-extremist legislation, thereby violating the right to freedom of expression”. However, the report provides data of the information analytical center “Sova”, included in December 2016 in the list of foreign agents, according to which 90 percent of all convictions in cases of extremism falls on comments and shares in social networks. To a violation of Russia’s obligations in the field of human rights in Amnesty International took the ban on missionary activity outside the specialized religious institutions, the requirement for operators to keep records of all conversations and metadata. In addition, the report contained accusations against Moscow of alleged human rights violations in the North Caucasus.

In Irkutsk evacuated the car with a sleeping baby. About it “Interfax” was told in the regional cupola MIA. “The couple parked the car Opel Mokka for Parking for persons with disabilities at the shopping center “Komsomall” and went shopping, leaving a child restraint with my son, who in April will mark two years”, — said in the Chapter. When the parents returned 25 minutes later, the car was evacuated. It is noted that the glass of the car were tinted, so to see the child was impossible. Also on the car there was no signs indicating that the cabin can be a child. Later the parents took the boy and his car pulled away, the child was not injured. The boy’s father was fined five thousand rubles under article 12.19 of the administrative code (“Violation of rules of stop or Parking of vehicles”). Also both parents brought to administrative

In Khabarovsk Krai school in the village of Kazakevichevo, 35 students went to doctors with complaints to a poisoning. This was reported the site of administration of the Khabarovsk region. At the moment, officially confirmed 10 cases of rotavirus infection. School and kindergarten, located in the same building, is temporarily suspended, the room held a sanitization. They are scheduled to resume on February 27. “A possible cause of an outbreak of rotavirus infection was delivery in educational institutions of the village Kazakevichevo Khabarovsk district contaminated vegetable products”, — stated in the message. According to the regional Department of Rospotrebnadzor, in the inspection of the nutrition unit were recorded numerous violations of sanitary legislation. In particular, does not comply with the technological process of cooking, had violated the regime of washing equipment and Cutlery. In addition, experts have discovered products without documents confirming their quality and safety. In fact the incident

Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin has selected 40 candidates for the new composition of the Public chamber of Russia, reported on the Kremlin website. It is noted that these citizens have special merits before the state and society. At least half of the candidates — the leaders of the professional and creative unions, associations and employers ‘ associations, and other NGOs representing and defending the interests of workers of different areas and social groups. The Kremlin noted that the regional public chamber shall elect one representative to the Federal no later than 30 days from the date of start formation of new structure, that makes 80 people. Another 40 members of the house, were approved in decree of the head of state, and another 40 people representing various community organizations. According to the Constitution of Russia, the Public chamber should control the authorities of different levels to protect the

Valentina Matvienko The Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko considers that it is early to talk about who could replace the deceased Vitaly Churkin, the post of Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN). This opinion was expressed by the Senator on Tuesday, February 21, RIA Novosti reported. “Even unethical to speak about it yet, even unethical,” said Matvienko. She added that to find a worthy candidate for this position will be extremely difficult, as Churkin was a man of “higher skills”. It stressed that the diplomat “died in the line of duty, because in recent times due to strong external environment in the Security Council he had, of course, to defend the position of Russia hard, it was constant tension.” The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev in an interview with National news service (NSN), in turn, Churkin called a great patriot of

Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin called the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin, who died the day before, one of the most prominent diplomats, a true patriot and citizen. The text of the telegram of condolence the wife of Ambassador Irina Churkinoj and his children Anastasia and Maxim published on the Kremlin website. “His untimely death is a severe, truly an irreparable loss for Russian foreign policy. And because it happened so suddenly, the pain of loss is felt particularly acutely,” wrote Putin. The President also noted that Churkin was a man of deep intelligence, and extraordinary energy and thus possessed a rare charm and sense of humor. His merits cannot be overestimated, said Putin. Most clearly the ability of the diplomat was evident during his work with the Ambassador to the UN, the report says. “For more than 10 years, sometimes in extremely arduous conditions,

Dmitry Peskov Moscow considers inappropriate question about the conditions under which Russia could recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s Republic. This was stated press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, reports on Tuesday, February 21, the correspondent of”.ru”. “In this situation, the virtual arguments are irrelevant and inapplicable,” — said Peskov. He stressed that at the moment the two republics are not recognized by Moscow or Kiev. They are “brutal blockade”, which pushed the Russian government on the recognition of documents issued to residents of Donbass, said the official representative of the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin on 18 February signed a decree on the recognition of the country “documents and license plates of vehicles issued to citizens of Ukraine and stateless persons permanently residing on the territories of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions”. In accordance with the decree of the inhabitants of these territories can enter

Sergey Zhvachkin The President of Russia Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of the Governor of Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin, and appointed him acting head of the region. This was reported on the Kremlin website on Tuesday, February 21. Zhvachkin will perform the duties of the head of the Tomsk region before the entry into office of a person elected the head of the region stated in the decree of the President. 9 Feb Zhvachkin told journalists that does not plan ahead to resign, and intends to participate in elections of the Governor of the region, which will be held in a single voting day, September 10, said TASS. “In five years we need to finish what we started”, the official explained to the media after the presentation of investment potential of region in Trading-industrial chamber of the Russian Federation. Sergey Zhvachkin was headed by the Tomsk oblast in March