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Sobchak has collected the necessary 100 thousand signatures for registration in the presidential elections According to the counter on the campaign website presenter, currently collected 101 8 thousand signatures. MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Activists of the election headquarters of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak has collected more than 101 thousand signatures in its support, with the necessary 100 thousand. this is evidenced by the counter on the campaign website Sobchak. Sobchak stands in presidents of Russia from party “Civil initiative”. Candidates from non-parliamentary parties to register for elections is required to collect at least 100 thousand signatures to deliver to the CEC not more than 105 thousand According to the counter on the site, is currently collected 101 8 thousand signatures. To hand over the signatures and the registration documents to the CEC candidates until 18:00 GMT on 31 January. Must be checked for 60 thousand signatures from each candidate. Ksenia

Kurd massacre The Turkish army launched an operation against Kurdish militias in Northern Syria, putting the region on the brink of a major crisis. Ankara is determined to end military action “promptly”, however, the onset of risk of developing into a long-term campaign, jeopardize Turkey’s relations with its key ally, of supporting the Kurds, the United States. Despite the interest of Moscow in the participation of Kurds in the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue, scheduled for January 30 in Sochi, Russia did not condemn Ankara’s actions, limiting “expression of concern”. Held on the eve of visit to Moscow heads of the General staff and intelligence services of Turkey shows that Ankara’s actions have been agreed with the Kremlin. The Syrian war becomes Kurdish Official statement, which served as a signal to attack the positions of Syrian Kurds, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made on Saturday during the visit to

Sergey Lavrov: the Russian proposal on cooperation with the United States remain in force Submitted by the end of March 2017, the Russian proposal remains in force. This was stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview to “Kommersant”. “In this case, we understand that there is a combination of a number of factors that lead to this unprecedented aggression, as they say now, the American establishment”. The Russian Minister highlighted three factors which, in his opinion, affect the policy of Washington against Moscow. “The main factor is the Democrats can’t handle defeat, having invested so much effort and taking so many actions, including the removal of Bernie Sanders “to run the” what now few want to remember. It was a direct manipulation of the electoral process and a flagrant violation of the US Constitution — said the Russian foreign Minister. The second factor is the fact that

In the state Duma the bill equating unregistered marriages to the official Speaking on the initiative is Senator Anton Belyakov believes that the Institute of actual marital relations should be recognized by the state and subject to some degree of protection. MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. In the state Duma introduced a bill to introduce to the Family code of the Russian Federation the concept of “de facto relationship”, which, in fact, unregistered relationship men and women are equal to official marriage after five years of living together couples with all the legal consequences. The actual marriage is not registered in the prescribed manner the Union of a man and woman living together and having a common economy. Signs of a de facto relationship are living together for five years; living together for two years and the presence of a common child (children).The text of the bill According to the initiative,

“The law of Spring” bring to reality Government soften its conditions and timing. As found “Kommersant”, the government still recognized the sound of the criticism is anti-terrorism “Spring law”, obliges operators to store traffic. As requested by market participants, the necessary amount of data storage will be calculated on the basis of network capacity and actual traffic. May be postponed and the term of the entry requirements in force from July to October 2018. But support from the state budget is still not provided for: reducing the expected costs of operators is planned to be achieved only at the expense of mitigation requirements. The Federal government waived the requirement to calculate the storage capacity of user data for the execution of anti-terrorism “law of Spring” on the basis of installed capacity of the networks operators. This should reduce operator cost, to the letter (a copy is in “Kommersant”) Deputy head