Category: Russia

The scene of an accident The number of victims of an accident that occurred on Wednesday, February 1, in Moscow has risen to nine. About this TASS said a source in law enforcement bodies of the capital. Previously reported eight dead and three injured. Collision UAZ and Toyota occurred at the turn with the Warsaw highway in the direction of the village of Korotygino. Domestic car caught fire, but the fire was extinguished quickly. According to TV channel REN TV, in the car were citizens of Kyrgyzstan. “In the car five people were killed and three injured, burnt UAZ killed four. For the re-opening of the affected rescuers used a special tool,” — said the source TASS. The wounded were sent to the hospital by helicopter. At the scene are several ambulances, traffic is temporarily blocked. The TV channel “360” posted a video of consequences of accident.

Vladimir Dzhabarov The decision on the resumption of active hostilities in the Donbas deprived of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko of support in the West. This opinion in an interview with “Tape.ru” stated the first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Vladimir dzhabarov on Wednesday, February 1. “I guess that’s the beginning of the end of the regime in Kiev, because he has other methods to restore peace in the South-East just yet. He could not apply, none of the Minsk agreement are not satisfied, he even can not carry out, having such a Parliament and such an environment in the form of “Right sector” (a terrorist organization banned in Russia — approx. “Of the tape.ru”), “—said the Senator. Dzhabarov believes that the Ukrainian President agreed to this provocation, to win over a new US President Donald trump and regain the loyalty of the authorities

Accident in New Moscopterline: there was a video a fatal accident in New Moscow In New Moscow accident involving two cars. The victims of the accident were eight people, four were injured. On Wednesday, February 1, RIA Novosti reported citing a source in the emergency services of the capital. The incident, according to the source, occurred at the turning for the village of Korotygino. As told RIA Novosti the Main emergency Department in Moscow, after the collision one of the cars caught fire. Rescuers are trying to retrieve people trapped inside the vehicle. To evacuate the victims to the place of accident flew a helicopter of the Moscow aviation centre. REN TV said that faced the UAZ and Toyota. It is known that the fire started in the domestic car. According to the source channel, in the car were citizens of Kyrgyzstan. Later in the traffic police confirmed the death

Valentina Matvienko The representatives of the Kiev authorities sooner or later will appear before the court for fighting in the South-East of Ukraine, said the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. Her words leads TASS on Wednesday, February 1. “I have no doubt that sooner or later will be the trial of the people who are fighting in the Donbass with his own people,” she said. The Senator did not rule out that it will be the international military Tribunal. Earlier on Monday, Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that the West has no illusions about the role of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the escalation of the conflict in the Donbass. A day earlier, the Russian foreign Ministry stated that the South-East of Ukraine is again “on the verge of a real humanitarian and environmental disaster”. Clashes in the South-East of Ukraine intensified on

Lyudmila Bokova The Federation Council approved the law on decriminalization of battery against family members. On Wednesday, 1 February, reports TASS. “The law sets out article 116 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation in the new edition and moves the battery against close persons committed for the first time, in the category of administrative offenses”, — said one of the authors of the document, the Deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on constitutional legislation and state construction Lyudmila Bokova. Against the decriminalization of family beatings made a number of public figures. So, the writer Maria Arbatova said that due to the adoption of the law “will increase the degree of violence.” “We will have a sick generation, a large number of women with mutilated psyche and physics”, — quotes its words of the national news service (NSN). Lawyer Roman Artykutsa, in turn, believes that new penalties for

The centre named after Vladimir Podgorbunskogo In the Chita center of assistance to children left without parental care, pre-investigating check launched after reports that one of the girls tried to commit suicide. This was reported on the website of the investigative Committee on Transbaikalian edge. “To the children’s Ombudsman has addressed some of the workers at the children’s center, who reported the suicide attempt of 15-year-old pupils of the centre and on the operation of abortion another 15-year old pupils”, — stated in the message. It is specified that, according to employees of the orphanage, leadership not reported the incident to law enforcement. The audit will be withdrawn with the necessary documentation. It is also planned to interview the management, the staff and pupils of the center. In 2015, the number of managers of this institution have been prosecuted. It was found that pupils there were tied to the bed,

The Federation Council plans to submit to the Verkhovna Rada with an appeal to stop the aggression in the Donbass. It is reported TASS on Wednesday, February 1. “I propose to take the appeal chamber to the Verkhovna Rada with a call to stop the aggression in the Donbass, and to respect the Minsk agreement”, — he addressed to his colleagues at the meeting, the head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. He stressed that the situation in the South-East of Ukraine deteriorated sharply because of the provocation of Kiev, which “is similar to a well-orchestrated play”. According to Kosachev voiced data, the Ukrainian soldiers in violation of the Minsk agreement, trying to take a neutral territory and move the line of contact. The speaker of the upper house of Parliament Valentina Matvienko supported the initiative of the head of the international Committee. The senators will

Natalia Poklonskaya The Chairman of the Duma Committee for security and combating corruption Natalia Poklonskaya proposed to report to the lower house of Parliament on violations of anti-corruption legislation committed by MPs. On his own initiative, she wrote on the page in Facebook on Wednesday, February 1. Poklonskaya, who heads the Duma Commission on control over reliability of data on incomes and property of deputies, reminded his colleagues that in the state Duma begins the Declaration campaign. Lawmakers report their assets in a period up to 1 April. “As the work of the Commission is clearly defined and its powers limited, are encouraged to report known violations of anti-corruption laws by the deputies, not only online, but also to direct officially in the state Duma”, — said the former Prosecutor of the Crimea. The reason for testing can only be information from law enforcement agencies, leadership of political parties, social

The extra-parliamentary party “Communists of Russia” plans to submit a bid to host April 12 in St. Petersburg March of the atheists. On Tuesday, January 31, TASS reported. “To emphasize the support of the Communists to the scientific minded citizens and anticlerical traditions of the Russian revolution, the Communist party “Communists of Russia” and the organization “Atheists of Russia” in the spring will apply to the mass March of the atheists in Petersburg-Leningrad”, — stated in the message of the party. The party intends to attract to the event to 15 thousand people. It is planned that the participants will bear the portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Charles Darwin, Giordano Bruno and Yuri Gagarin. Last summer, the leadership of the “Communist Russia” promised in the case of passing the political party in the state Duma to introduce to Parliament a bill to protect the rights of atheists.

Russian senators suggested that members of the Turkish Parliament to make a joint visit to Syria. On Tuesday, January 31, reported the press service of the Federation Council. “Konstantin Kosachev told about the results of a joint trip with members of the European Parliament in Syria. He proposed to consider the organization of such trips in the SAR Russian and Turkish parliamentarians,” — said in a press release following the meeting, Vice-speaker of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov and the head of the international Affairs Committee, Konstantin Kosachev with the Ambassador of Turkey in Russia by Hussein Dirioz. January 13 the Deputy of the state Duma from the Communist party Sergei Gavrilov, a part of the group for relations with the Syrian Parliament, said that Russian parliamentarians during his visit to Syria to meet with President of the Republic Bashar al-Assad. On the same day, a member of the Duma