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Reuters: EU agrees on a new mechanism of imposing sanctions for chemical weapons The Committee of permanent representatives of EU member States at the meeting on 26 September approved the new mechanism of imposing sanctions for the use of chemical weapons, according to Reuters. According to sources, the Agency, the updated rules will be adopted without any debate and by 15 October, they will consider the EU Council at the level of Ministers of foreign Affairs. Upstairs The new order will impose restrictive measures against individuals and companies no matter what nationalities they are and where they live. Also, the EU will be able to freeze accounts of members of the sanctions list and deny them entry into the country’s enterprises. In addition, the new mechanism is faster: sanctions will be imposed immediately if they vote for all countries-EU members. “We will be able to uphold certain rights, not just

Shades of the second round How and why the losing candidates in the Khabarovsk Krai and Vladimir oblast. Upstairs In the Khabarovsk region Vladimir region and second rounds of gubernatorial elections with a wide margin won by candidates from the liberal democratic party who are not going to win. The Deputy of the state Duma Sergey Furgal in Khabarovsk scored 76% of the vote — more than many candidates from the ruling party in the elections on 9 September. Mr Sipiagin from Vladimir received 57%. The staffs of the heads of regions tried before the second round to work on the mistakes, but the results were disappointing. The winner of the gubernatorial elections in the Vladimir region, the head of the LDPR faction in the legislative Assembly Mr Sipiagin personal fame is not possessed: he passed in the legislative Assembly on partspiskov, which was headed by Vladimir Zhirinovsky. On the

Natalia Poklonskaya proposed to raise the retirement age The Deputy of the state Duma Natalia Poklonskaya is suggested not to change the age of retirement. Upstairs “At the end of last week I was introduced his amendment. First, leave the retirement age unchanged, but when it is reached (that is, 55 and 60 years, respectively) women and men have the right to choose: to retire or to continue working,” — wrote on his page “Vkontakte” Ms. Poklonskaya. She also suggested increasing pensions by 3% in relation to the amount already accrued for each year of work. According to its plan, the payment will be charged after dismissal. NewsPoklonskaya remembered about conscience, after Putin’s speech on pensions Natalia Poklonskaya finds that residents of Russia are interested in increasing work experience. Those women and men who are not able to work after 55 and 60 years, respectively, on the proposal of the

Italy will toughen migration rules Moscow. September 24. INTERFAX.RU — the Council of Ministers of Italy, unanimously approved the decree “on security and migration”, which received in the country the name “the Decree Salvini”, informs on Monday news Agency ANSA. Upstairs The decree facilitates the expulsion of migrants and gives more room in order to deprive them of citizenship. In particular, among the measures — deprivation of citizenship of people accused of international terrorism, as well as the suspension of requests for asylum to migrants who are accused of drug trafficking, sexual harassment and infliction of grievous bodily harm. The initiator of the bill Deputy Prime Minister and interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini applauded the adoption of the decree. “I’m happy. This is a step forward to make Italy more safe”, — he wrote in Facebook. The Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, said that the new decree will

Expert: political stagnation does not threaten Russia The result of the recent second round of gubernatorial elections, a number of experts have rushed to announce “a systemic crisis of power”, and that not only United Russia, but the authorities in General inferior to their positions. And now certainly they will lose in the near future. Upstairs However, if you look at the numbers, it is not so, although, of course, for EP the passage of several gubernatorial candidates from the opposition parties and was not something pleasant. However, it should be noted that such “difficult” for the ruling party of regions is four. Thus, while only two of them the opposition won. In Primorye, the election results cancelled and will need to look like in the end, elections will be held. On the other hand, in Khakassia, the candidate from the ruling party withdrew his candidacy, and it is still

Zharov reported to Putin about the fight against pirates in the Internet All the major pirate sites are blocked in Russia, said the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Transcript of the meeting published on the Kremlin website. Upstairs Zharov said that a few years ago, the Russian Internet was a “brand of pirate harbour”. “Any Prime Minister immediately appeared on hundreds and thousands of resources and people watched it for free, albeit in bad quality, but, nevertheless, it has happened,” he recalled. Now among the blocked resources about 6,000 pirate sites. 11 000 such sites removed the pirated content at the request of the Department. “The numbers speak for themselves”, — said Zharov. He said that most complaints of rights holders was connected with the movies. “More than 6,000 claims in three years were filed mainly by our companies, and a very small