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Deputy Chairman of the state Duma Committee for security and combating corruption Natalia Poklonskaya © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. The Deputy of the state Duma Natalia Poklonskaya does not believe that should leave the faction “United Russia”, despite the decision to vote against the consolidated position of the parliamentary majority on the draft law on changing the pension legislation.

The state Duma rejected the draft law equating cohabitation to the official marriage MOSCOW, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. The state Duma rejected a bill which proposed to equate the “actual marriage” to the official marriage. The document was submitted to the lower house of Parliament in January. According to the explanatory Memorandum, the signs of a “de facto marital relationships” are maintaining a common household and living together for five years, and maintaining a common household, living together for two years and the presence of a common child. In the project it was specified that such couples should apply to family and civil law. The responsible state Duma Committee on family, women and children not previously supported this initiative. In particular, it noted that “the upcoming five-year period of cohabitation” could be the cause of a breakup between a man and a woman. In addition, in the Committee’s view,

The BRICS leaders adopted the Johannesburg Declaration JOHANNESBURG, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. Leaders of the BRICS countries at the summit in South Africa, adopted the Johannesburg Declaration. Signatures under the document was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President XI Jinping, Prime Minister of India Narendra modi, President of Brazil Michel Temer and the owner of the current jubilee summit, the leader of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa. The motto of the summit is “BRICS and Africa: cooperation with developing countries to achieve inclusive growth in the era of the Fourth industrial revolution”. As reported in the information materials by the tenth summit of the BRICS, as one of the priorities of its presidency in 2018, South Africans marked the establishment of the working group on peacekeeping issues. In Pretoria believe that the establishment of a permanent mechanism of the BRICS and the peacekeeping will help to bridge the

Photograph of the leaders of the BRICS countries failed because of the confusion with flags MOSCOW, 26 Aug — RIA Novosti. In the Internet appeared the frames from the ceremony photography at the BRICS summit, which none of the leaders got up in front of the flag of their country. The confusion occurred because of an error of the organizers. In the comments to the video users said that the heads of state took place in accordance with standing floor signs. Noticing the error, the policy was reversed, but their situation still did not meet in back of them flags. So, the Chinese leader, XI Jinping stood in front of the flag of South Africa, Prime Minister of India Narendra modi before the Brazilian, South African President Cyril of Ramaphosa — in front of the Russian flag, Brazilian leader Michel Temer is located at the flag of India and the