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Vladimir Putin responded with approval on appeal The Communists do not intend to abandon protests against raising the retirement age. Upstairs United Russia is ready to submit to the state Duma amendments to the government bill to raise the retirement age on the proposals outlined in his address Vladimir Putin. The President’s initiative is supported by the just Russia, although their representatives do not intend to abandon a referendum on the issue. The Communist party also did not refuse the referendum and intend to hold protests over pension reform. In his address Vladimir Putin explained the need for pension reform and demographic crisis. “Declining working-age population is automatically reduced opportunities for benefits and indexation of pensions. So, the necessary changes,” he said. He tried to explain why in 2005 he opposed raising the retirement age. “Recall how in that period the country lived. This fledgling economy, with modest gross domestic

Volodin called the date of the meeting in the state Duma on pension changes MOSCOW, 29 Sep — RIA Novosti. Meeting of the working group of the state Duma on perfection of the pension legislation is scheduled for August 31, it was reported to journalists by the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. Upstairs On Wednesday the President of Russia Vladimir Putin made a televised address in which he announced a number of measures to mitigate the proposed government changes in pension legislation. “On 31 August in the state Duma scheduled meeting of the working group created following the results of parliamentary and public hearings on improvement of the pension legislation, which, together with the deputies included representatives of the government, the Federation Council, the chamber of accounts, civil society, trade unions, business, scientific community and experts,” — said Volodin. Now the standard age of retirement in Russia is

Medvedev: in six years, Russia should enter the top ten countries-leaders in quality of education GORKI, August 29. /TASS/. In six years, Russia should enter the top ten leading countries for quality education, said Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, opening a telephone conference meeting on readiness of educational system for the new school year. Upstairs “The main goal for six years to enter the quality of General education in world’s top ten countries-leaders, is to create a space for continuous education and development of all people in our country”, — said Medvedev. The Prime Minister reminded that a few days will start the new school year. He congratulated students and teachers on the knowledge Day. Thus Medvedev has reminded that the regional authorities should actively work with relevant ministries to implement the national project “Education”.

Kudrin praised Putin’s amendments to the bill on pensions The Chairman of the accounts chamber Alexey Kudrin called “balancing original draft of the” amendments to the bill to raise the retirement age, proposed by President Vladimir Putin. He wrote about this in his Twitter. Upstairs In his view, Putin “has summarized the arguments of supporters and opponents of pension reform, made changes, balancing the original project.” He called Putin’s decision “a balanced, thoughtful” and “necessary for the realization of national goals.” Earlier on August 29 Putin during a televised address to the Russians announced the commutation of pension reform, in particular increasing retirement age for women to 63 years, and up to 60. He also proposed to reduce the period of retirement for mothers of large families and to increase the maximum size of the unemployment benefit for the Russians of pre-retirement age. In addition, the President stated the need

Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia of plans to rig the Ukrainian elections Kiev intends to resist Russian interference in the Ukrainian presidential and future parliamentary elections, said President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Upstairs In his words, “leading IT companies record the creation of thousands, tens of thousands of fake accounts with Russian roots”. “Russia is preparing for a powerful new manipulative campaign of fake news (false news. “B”), the undermining of stability”, — said Mr. Poroshenko. Also, the Ukrainian President accused Russia of meddling in the course of the Dutch referendum (in April 2016) for the ratification of the Association Agreement EU—Ukraine and has accused Russia results of the referendum on “Brakcet”: The tentacles of Moscow are very hard to penetrate the social networks, keep private media that operate in cyberspace.Peter Presenteraient Ukraine To combat this, the influence of Petro Poroshenko promises to bring the French, American and German experts