Category: Russia

Rescuers resumed the search for the Robinson R66 helicopter crashed in the area of lake Teletskoye in Altai. About it on Wednesday, February 15, reports “Interfax” with reference to press center of the regional Central Directorate of EMERCOM of Russia. “The search resumed Wednesday, with the onset of daylight, at 9:00 local time. It is expected that searches will be conducted by ground teams, machine, Falcon, helicopters and divers who examined the bottom, along the shoreline of lakes”, — explained in Department. February 13 rescuers surveyed two kilometers of the shore line, with three helicopters have been viewed by 30 square kilometers of its waters. In addition, Falcon has studied 500 square meters of Teletskoye lake at depths up to 250 meters, and the divers made two dives and examined a total of 100 square meters of the bottom. Earlier on Monday, on the shore of the lake was found

Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visited the Technopark and the lecture hall of the Foundation “SKOLKOVO”, where he got acquainted with several developments of the companies-residents. On Tuesday, February 14, reports RIA Novosti. The Prime Minister was shown a device for the automatic analysis of telephone enclosures and offered to test it out on the phone to Medvedev. “Thank God, I did not take it”, — said the politician. In addition, he examined automated robot loader, created by local company which has partnered with Samsung and Volkswagen. According to the developers, they provide the software for the robots, but still have to buy the metal components abroad. The Prime Minister has demonstrated a limiter of short-circuit currents, which in future can be applied in Railways. Medvedev got acquainted with the development and advised standing next to the Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Council of Directors Arkady

Vladimir Putin A third of respondents called the presidency of Vladimir Putin the best for the life of the Russian form of government. These data are presented in a new study published on a site “Levada-center” on Tuesday,February 14. Answering the question of which form of government life in Russia was better, 32 percent of respondents selected the box “now, during the reign of Putin.” The reign of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev chose 29 percent of respondents. The era of General Secretary Joseph Stalin, as a polity before the revolution, idealized, only six percent of the respondents. Life in the perestroika era like two percent of Russians, and the reign of President Boris Yeltsin praised only one percent of the respondents. With one in four (24 percent) found it difficult to answer the question. When evaluating the significance of the February revolution of 1917, almost half of respondents (45 percent)

Sergei Ivanov State Duma Deputy from the LDPR Sergey Ivanov proposed to introduce criminal penalties for the promotion of the uniqueness of humanity. The bill he introduced in the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday, February 14. The document was registered in the parliamentary basis of legislation. “The use of article 282 of the criminal code”inciting hatred or hostility, and humiliation of human dignity”] raises a number of complaints and disputes as representatives of the media and in the legal community. Vague wording, on the one hand, the difficulty of proving direct intent in incitement to hatred, on the other, make this provision ineffective,” — said in the explanatory note (original spelling preserved). The MP in this regard proposes to amend the relevant article, in particular, to Supplement the description of the first paragraph as a qualifying attribute: causing “substantial harm to rights and legitimate interests of citizens or organizations”.

In Moscow as a result of fire killed four-year-old girl. On Tuesday, February 14, reported on the website of the capital’s Central Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The fire occurred in one of apartments houses on the Dmitrov highway. According to investigators, the child’s body was found inside after extinguishing. The girl’s mother left home and left her alone. The woman was taken to the investigating authorities. On the incident criminal case under articles of the criminal code -125 (“Leaving in danger”) and 109 (“Causing death on imprudence”). On the night of 31 January, a fire in one of the houses in the village Ust-Ordynsky of Irkutsk region killed four people — two adults and two children. Random witnesses were able to rescue 16-year-old girl and seven-month-old girl. 21 December 2016 the victims of the fire in a residential building in the village Dubki Saratov region

Denis Boronenkov Former state Duma Deputy from the Communist Denis Boronenkov may repeat the fate of the former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili on Ukraine, said the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist party Vladimir Kashin. His words leads RIA Novosti on Tuesday, February 14. “Perhaps it is waiting for the fate of Saakashvili, he accepted citizenship is not for the sake of spiritual impulse, and for the sake of certain benefits, including ambitious”, — said Cashin. In turn, the first Deputy Chairman of the Communist party faction in the state Duma, Sergei Reshulsky called on Communists not to jump to conclusions on the situation with the Voronenkova. “All my attempts to find direct speech Boronenkov came to nothing. All of this retelling of the Ukrainian Newspapers. I believe that we need to do definitive conclusions after one of us personally hear it from the mouth Boronenkov”, —

Of the Republic of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Tuva was included into a three of leaders of the National birth rate, prepared by the Public chamber (OP) of the Russian Federation. On Tuesday, February 14, reported on the organization’s website. According to compilers of the rating, member OP the Russian Federation, head of the project “Sober Russia” Sultan Khamzayev, the document will help the Federal and regional authorities to adjust their social programs. In the top ten also includes Dagestan, Altai Republic, Tyumen oblast, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra (KHMAO) and Buryatia, the report said. So, in Tuva, Chechnya, and the Altai and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district, one woman has three children. Two children are born in 16 regions of Russia. In the remaining 65 subjects of the Russian Federation — one. The lowest demographic indicators recorded in Mordovia Republic and in Leningrad, Pskov, Magadan, Smolensk, Orel, Bryansk,

The apartment is in the South-East of Moscow found the mummified body of an elderly woman born in 1929. This was reported on the website of the capital’s Central Directorate of the Investigative Committee. The body was found in a residential house on 1-St Novokuzminskaya street on the evening of 13 February. On this fact being tested, the results of which procedural decision will be made. In the main Department of the investigative Committee in Moscow told TASS that the pensioner had been missing since 2010. Presumably, she was found by one of the relatives. According to REN TV, the signs of violent death it isn’t revealed. The investigators noted that the pensioner lived alone, communicating with loved ones is not supported. In November 2016, the court extended the term of forced psychiatric treatment to the residents of Nizhny Novgorod Anatoly Moskvin, izgotovleniu mummies from cemeteries excavated at tel.

Ksenia Sokolova Journalist Ksenia Sokolova elected President of the Fund “Fair aid”, founded by public figure Elizabeth Glinka, known as Dr. Lisa. On Tuesday, February 14, reports RIA Novosti. Sokolov, who previously served as a Trustee of the organization, was unanimously approved. Commenting on the appointment, the reporter stressed that this was for her “great honor and enormous responsibility”. “A priority for me, employees and for everyone who wants to help in continuing the work of Dr. Lisa is the preservation of all ongoing projects, helping wards of the organization in full, search the necessary resources and sponsorship. In the future we plan to significantly expand the scope of our activities,” said Sokolov, adding that Glinka “it is impossible to replace, but the best memory of her is the preservation and continuation of its Affairs.” Elizaveta Glinka was among the passengers of the plane Tu-154 of the Ministry of defense

Cape Stolbchaty on the West of the island of Kunashir The claims of Japan that followed the Russian government’s decision to assign names to several Islands in the Kuril chain, incorrect and untimely. This opinion in an interview with “Tape.ru” stated the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Vladimir Jabbarov on Tuesday, February 14. He stressed that the name of the Islands is exclusively a domestic matter. “Who prevented Tokyo to give names [to the territories], when these Islands were under the jurisdiction of Japan, about a hundred years ago? It is not enough that we started to say: don’t call a street or a village like that name. This is incorrect, a sovereign Russian territory!” — said dzhabarov. Earlier Tuesday, the Secretary-General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Acehide Suga said that Tokyo has sent a protest to Moscow over the naming of five unnamed