Category: Russia

The entrance to the historical center of Moscow proposed to close in order to preserve the attractions. Such a proposal, the radio station “Moscow speaking” was made a member of the working group on development of a Parking space in the Metropolitan Department of transport, municipal Deputy Natalia Evlove. “It’s an outrage that in the historical centre of a city like Moscow, where the Kremlin, where all that we have to save it for posterity, constantly go this crowd of cars. The historic city centre must be protected. Not even the people, but at least sites,” she said. In June, the state Duma Committee on transport has approved a bill authorizing regional and municipal authorities to introduce a paid entry into certain areas. Earlier in the same month, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin has denied rumors about plans to make the entrance to Moscow paid. The idea of introducing a congestion

In St. Petersburg detained a man suspected of poisoning five-month-old nephew vinegar. On Saturday, November 12, reported on the website of the regional Central Board of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on the night of November 11 a 32-year-old man was added acetic acid in baby food designed for feeding baby half-brother. In the morning, baby in a grave condition delivered in resuscitation unit of children’s hospital. It is noted that between the suspect and the father of the baby there is a conflict. Criminal case about the deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm. The issue of indictment to the suspect. In October vozbuditeli in Tatarstan criminal case concerning the inhabitant of village Yalkyn Alekseevsky district, whose two-month-old son died from poisoning by ethanol. Almost from the birth mother gave the child food alcohol-containing liquid to soothe him. The child died from acute poisoning with ethanol, accompanied by swelling

Passenger aircraft received damage to the chassis after the collision of the tractor with the snow plow at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. About it reports on Saturday, November 12, “Interfax” citing a source in air traffic control services. According to him, the incident occurred on November 11, during towing of the aircraft A319 to the terminal. “The truck carrying the plane collided with a snow-plow. It was damaged landing gear of the aircraft,” — said the Agency interlocutor. As noted, the plane was supposed to fly to Ufa. As a result of the passengers sent to the destination backup flight. In October, the aircraft “Boeing 737” during landing at Domodedovo arose the smoke of the nose landing gear. Problems the liner was detected during the flight.

The state Duma rejected in the first reading the bill about inclusion of the column “against all” to ballots on elections of all levels. About it reports on Friday, 11 November, the Agency urban news “Moscow”. “The citizen has the right to decide how to participate in elections as a voter and not to participate in elections in General,” — said in the conclusion of Committee on state construction and the legislation of the lower house of Parliament. According to legislators, such a graph may lead to the recognition of certain elections failed “and needed a second, which would entail expenditure of additional budgetary funds”. The bill for the consideration of the lower house of the Parliament made a Deputy from the liberal democratic party Margaret Sverkunova during the work of the state Duma of the sixth convocation. 1 November all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM) has published

Dmitry Peskov Moscow is ready to wait until the West will come to an understanding in the matter of the annexation of Crimea to Russia. About it the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said in published on Friday, November 11th interview with news Agency Associated Press. “Russia will never discuss the issue of territorial jurisdiction of the Crimea and are willing to wait until it is understood in Europe and the U.S.,” said Sands, answering the question of how the subject can perceive the newly elected President of the United States Donald trump and his administration. He added that the Russian side no one “will never be ready to start any discussion on Crimea”. Also during the interview, Peskov suggested that trump could strengthen an atmosphere of trust with Moscow, persuading NATO to slow the extension or to withdraw its troops from the borders of Russia. This step,

Vladimir Zhirinovsky The leader of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky has suggested to rename St. Petersburg. With this initiative, he spoke at a meeting of the State Duma on Friday, November 11, according to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”. The head of the party believes that the current name hard to pronounce. As a more euphonious alternative to Zhirinovsky offered to Petrograd. “As you say — St. Peterburge? To break the tongue and mouth, jaw, another to deliver, to call a resident of St. Petersburg — a woman,” he explained. In addition, Zhirinovsky has suggested to unite St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast, and return a number of towns of historical names. In October, he proposed the idea to rename the Lenin Avenue in prospect Ivan the terrible. Earlier Zhirinovsky also advocated for the return of the former names of Kirov (Vyatka), Noginsk (Bogorodsk), and offered to return the Leningrad station in Moscow the old name

The movement in the Central part of Moscow, on the Garden, the Third ring road and MKAD paralyzed due to the bad weather. As reported by RIA Novosti analyst service “Yandex.Stoppers” Leonid Mednikov, a traffic congestion outside the city will continue until late at night. According to the portal tube at the time of this writing is estimated at 9 points. The speed on some sections of streets, such as on prospect Mira, — three kilometers per hour. According to Mednikova, traffic in the capital made it extremely difficult to frost and snow. “Since the beginning of autumn the Moscow tube are fixed at this point (9 points) for the third time”, he said. The analyst added that as a heavily loaded radial roads outside the ring road, for example, on nosovihinskoe highway from South street to prospect Zhukovsky drivers spend almost two hours. “Unusual traffic jams outside the MKAD

Train on the Moscow Central ring (CIP) will be followed with a minimum interval longer than usual. On Friday, November 11, RIA Novosti reported the press service of the Moscow railway (MZHD). “In a difficult transport situation caused by the extreme weather conditions today. trains will run with an interval of six minutes, not 20:30 as per the schedule and till 23:00”, — explained the press service. There also confirmed that the movement of trains “Lastochka” on the ICC restored after bad weather caused the failure. Earlier, on 11 November was the icing of the contact network, and trains ran with extended drain intervals on a ring-main was directed backup “Swallows”. Furthermore, trains of distant and suburban message to Kiev and the Belarusian Railways (MOR) was followed with the deviation from the schedule due to icing of the contact network. The traffic was complicated at Savyolovsky railway direction of the

Konstantin Kalachev The head of “Political expert group” Konstantin Kalachev on Friday, November 11, in conversation with “ru” explained the exclusion from the ranks of “United Russia” the Deputy of the Duma of Shelekhov district of the Irkutsk region Anastasia Chaff, pricedata on the background of the coffins. “Chaff just forgot that she was a Deputy, and so many things that allowed to ordinary citizens, it is not allowed. If you’re a businessman — what I want to do, you’re free in what you do. But if you do politics, in this case, it should work-censorship,” — said the expert. Kalachev believes that the EP could not respond to a similar incident. The party, he said, is struggling to cleanse its ranks. “It is clear that “United Russia” there is a desire to party your filter work on all levels: at the municipal as at the Federal”, — concluded the

The state Duma approved the bill about the transfer time in the Saratov region forward an hour. The document was adopted in the second and third final readings. On Friday, November 11, reports RIA Novosti. Thus, the region is assigned to the third time zone (Moscow time plus one hour, UTC+4). According to TASS, carried out in the region polls, and online voting showed that the majority of their participants from 69 to 86.4 per cent were in favour of transfer time. The authors of the legislative initiative, the deputies of the Saratov regional Duma, believe that the measure will allow to raise efficiency of use of light time of day, eliminate the negative phenomena in the sphere of the health status of residents of the region and to reduce the amount of electricity consumed. Now the time difference between Moscow and Saratov is not. It is expected that the