The lower house of the canadian Parliament has adopted a local analogue of the “Magnitsky act”

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The house of Commons of the Parliament of Canada passed the “Law on victims of corrupt foreign governments,” which is analogous to the “act of Magnitsky”. About this in his Twitter wrote the Minister of foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland. “Today the House of Commons passed a law S226, which will give us new tools to prosecute those who violate human rights and to combat corruption,” she wrote. As noted, the law must first be directed against officials from Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Vietnam and Myanmar, engaged in money laundering in Canada, at the same time violating human rights in their countries. The document was adopted with a decision of 277 deputies out of 338 parliamentarians, members of the House of Commons. The law should enter into force if approved by the upper house of the canadian Parliament and subject to the sanction of the Governor-General. In may, the Russian foreign Ministry

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Kosachev believes that it is necessary to establish relations of Russia and Georgia

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Photo: RIA Novosti The peoples of Russia and Georgia, there is a request for normalization and the restoration of relations, said the head of the international Committee of the Federation Council of Russia Konstantin Kosachev on Tuesday at a meeting with representatives of the faction “Alliance of patriots of Georgia”, headed by its Chairman George Lomia. “Recently, contacts at parliamentary level were frozen. I’m sure this is an error that must be corrected,” — said Kosachev. He stressed that the countries are neighbors, “I’m sure our people are ready to restore relations with each other”. The Senator noted that in such situations the parliamentary diplomacy is ready to find some window of opportunity to restore relations. “Public demand for the normalization of relations between the countries exist. We as parliamentarians should focus not on the political situation, and the needs of the people”, — said the head of the Federation

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He revealed details of the conversation with Patriarch Kirill

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Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Moldova Igor Dodon told a meeting with Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill, during which the priest told him that the presidential mandate was given him by the Lord. He declared it on air of transfer of Megafon on NTV Moldova. “You know, Patriarch Kirill, told me at the beginning of the mandate: “Mr. President, this mandate given to you by God not to do something for you, and to do something for the people, for the country”, — said Igor Dodon. Earlier, Igor Dodon said that he had sent to the Parliament of the Republic of the query with the requirement to verify financial aid to Chisinau from foreign States and international organizations to determine its volume and to name specific recipients.

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Putin accepted the resignation of head of Dagestan

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Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov and appointed head of the faction “United Russia” Vladimir Vasiliev, acting head of the Republic, reported on the Kremlin website. “To appoint Vasiliev Vladimir Abdualievich acting head of the Republic of Dagestan, to the taking office of a person elected the Head of the Republic of Dagestan”, — said in the text of the official message. The decree comes into force from the date of signing. Read also a material “Газеты.Ru” about the future resignations of the governors.

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In Novosibirsk the bus has found a colony of mushrooms

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In Novosibirsk the bus has found a colony of mushrooms Passengers of a share taxi No. 34 from close range managed to capture the colony marshrutochnom mushrooms, sprouting right through the floor in the car. This tells the public “Novosibirsk service of evacuation, “AST-54”, specializing in the reports of accidents and emergencies. The transport of mycelium caused by natural contest of wit among users, collecting three pages of comments. Experienced pickers and far from Mycology inhabitants of the social network determine the choice of the name for the phenomenon. During the download an error has occurred. The highest approval use “podrazumevani”, “podsedice Guzeliya”, “Gazipasa”, “hazelnutty”, “hazaragi” and uncompromising “are”. Separately users noted the poetic line, published by the moderator of the public: “this is no joke, gathered the mushrooms in the bus.” In January, Chinese netizens made fun of the bus driver, who was driving the car with his foot

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Unusual natural phenomenon struck the people of Japan

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Unusual natural phenomenon struck the people of Japan MOSCOW, 5 Dec — RIA Novosti. In Niigata filmed a mysterious natural phenomenon that surprised the Japanese, reports the Daily Mail. An unusual cloud in the form of a snake appeared in the sky over the city of Joetsu in the Japanese Prefecture of Niigata. As shown in the video, in the sky formed a funnel cloud. It then meanders, flies far up to the sky and almost disappear out of sight. This kind of natural phenomena are formed from rainwater or Cumulus clouds can turn into a tornado if it reaches the earth’s surface. During the download an error has occurred.

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Russian scientists will map the Universe

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Russian scientists will map the Universe NPO Lavochkin completed construction of the astrophysical Observatory “Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma”, whose objective is to build a large-scale map of the Universe and the search for answers to questions about how did the evolution of galaxies. Project launch scheduled for October 2018. As told “Izvestia”, the scientific head of the project, academician Rashid Sunyaev, “Spektr-RG” will see about 3 million supermassive black holes and record about 100 thousand clusters of galaxies. These data will allow scientists to map the Universe and to contribute to the development of world science. “Such observatories to survey the entire sky with high sensitivity, angular and energy resolution is no more. Ground-based instruments to replace the “Spektr-RG” completely impossible”, — said the Deputy Director of the ICA, the head of operations in payload Michael Pavlinsky. Basic scientific instruments “Spectrum-RG” — the German eROSITA x-ray telescope and a similar Russian instrument ART-XC.

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The source said indicating the police of St. Petersburg hard to suppress the action of 7 Oct

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The police of St. Petersburg had been instructed to act tough during the protests at the Champ de Mars on 7 October, in that case, if it is a violation of the law. This is with reference to its sources informs “Interfax”. “The police will act very harshly — as it was on June 12. Any provocation and illegal actions in the city centre will be nipped in the Bud”, — said the Agency interlocutor. On 12 June in several cities of Russia, including St. Petersburg and Moscow, held a rally of the opposition. Some of the activities were not coordinated with the authorities. So, in North the capital an unauthorized demonstration, which was attended by about 10 thousand people, was held on the Champ de Mars. While the city administration asked them to gather in the Specific Park. On uncoordinated action have been detained more than 500 people, including

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Siberian attacked the police for entering the jail

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The Prosecutor of the city of Seversk in the Tomsk region has directed to court criminal case of causing bodily harm to a police officer. This was reported on the website of the regional Prosecutor’s office. 26-year-old resident, having a permanent source of income, want to find yourself in places of deprivation of liberty with a view to ensure proper living conditions and nutrition. On June 27 he came in the duty of the police. Towards his left a police officer in uniform, a man with the words “captain, it’s nothing personal” twice hit him in the face with his fist, and then ran a few steps up the stairs and jumped on him. “As a result of the crime the victim had formed and torn-bruised wounds of the lower lip, which are considered as non-grave health injuries”, — told in Prosecutor’s office. Concerning the man criminal case as regards

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Putin has sent in resignation of the Governor of Primorsky Krai

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Vladimir Miklushevsky The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed the decree about the dismissal of the Governor of Primorsky Krai Vladimir Miklushevsky. About it has informed journalists a press-the Secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, reports TASS. He noted that Miklushevsky dismissed at his own request. To perform the duties of the Governor will be Andrei Tarasenko, who previously held the position of General Director of FSUE “Rosmorport”, said Peskov. Held in February 2012, was appointed acting Governor of Primorsky Krai. On March 16 of that year was vested with the authority of the head region. On Tuesday, Putin accepted the resignation of head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov and has appointed temporarily fulfilling duties of the head of the faction “United Russia” Vladimir Vasiliev. Last week’s reshuffle of governors raised Krasnoyarsk Krai, Samara and Nizhny Novgorod oblast and Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

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