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Photo: RIA Novosti In Russia may appear universal election Commission, for citizens who did not apply in advance to vote at the place of stay. On Thursday, March 16, Chairman of the Central election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, reports TASS. According to her, against the possibility of abolishing absentee ballots, the CEC is developing a system that will allow voters to vote not in the place of registration. The options discussed provide that the citizen will proactively address the CEC with a request to include it in the appropriate lists. “We anticipate that, despite a broad information campaign, it is still a fairly large group of people leave everything for last. Many appear time travel, different situations, when were not where expected,” — said Pamfilova. For this category of people developed a universal system of election commissions, it is expected that they will be established on the basis of the territorial

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin during a conversation on the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs, admitted that not once could read notes in his notebook taken during the performance of the participants. He said this after the speech of the businessman Vladimir Potanin – he spoke, in particular, on productivity, reports RIA “Novosti”. “It was only yesterday that discussed this topic. It is, as you said, no reason for… for what? For pessimism. I wrote like chicken scratch, he can’t read. Like in school,” – laughing, said Putin. During the Congress, Putin said that revenue growth without productivity growth is alarming and a reason to think. In the fall of 2016, the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said that the increase in revenue outpacing the increase in productivity creates inflation risks.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Deputy of the state Duma of Russia Natalia Poklonskaya told how the decision on its appointment to the post of the head of the Prosecutor’s office of Crimea in 2014. “Until March 5, I was in Kiev. The entire period of this craziness – and the Maidan revolution, all this I saw as he worked in the Prosecutor’s office of Ukraine. All the offences and crimes recorded, collected materials. The soil to “the Crimean spring” has created this terrible winter Kiev”, – says Taylor in an interview with “Komsomolskaya Pravda – Crimea”. After arriving on the Peninsula Poklonskaya said the current head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov and the Russian presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal district Oleg Belevantsev, “we need to save the Crimea”, and asked to take her place. According to her, after the conversation, already at the exit, Poklonskaya heard Belavenets Aksenov

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. A temporary measure for the recognition of documents of LC and the DNI is not incorrect, Moscow continues to be guided by humanitarian considerations. Such opinion expressed press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.

The state Duma approved a tax exemption sanctioned citizens The state Duma adopted in the second reading the amendment to the legislation that allows came under international sanctions citizens to abandon the Russian tax residency. 324 voted for the MP, vs — 38, no abstentions. The amendment allows sanctioned to individuals who are residents of foreign States not to pay taxes in Russia, regardless of length of stay in the country. By law, Russian tax residents are citizens residing in the country for more than 183 days in a year. Under the proposed amendment, if a citizen who is in the sanctions list, will confirm that in the same tax period was a resident of a foreign country, you will be able to avoid paying taxes in Russia. The author of the amendment, the Chairman of the Committee on budget and taxes Andrey Makarov noted that if a citizen “pleads

Zhirinovsky explained his promise to hang up United Russia LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky explained his promise to “shot and hanged”, which was made at the meeting of the state Duma on March 15. According to him, it was a “figure of speech” which has nothing to do with the deputies. LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that his words about the shooting and the hanging, said at the last meeting of the state Duma, do not belong to the deputies of United Russia or other parties represented in the Russian Parliament, reports “Interfax”. According to him, his last phrase about the shootings and hangings “some comrades incorrectly understood”. “I was talking about the mafia, about crime, about crime, about corruption, it is to him my appeal. What does this have to the deputies? Yes I do not know a lot of you (MPs) it has no relation”, — said Zhirinovsky, speaking

Israel denied reports of a downed Syrian army plane Israeli defense Ministry said that no aircraft was damaged during operations in Syria, which took place on March 17. About it reports Reuters. “The security of Israeli citizens, or aircraft of the Israeli air force have not been subjected to [the danger],” the Agency quoted the words of the official representative of the Ministry of defense of Israel. On the morning of Friday, March 17, the Israeli air force flew into Syrian airspace and attacked a military target near Palmyra. During this attack Syrian air defenses shot down one Israeli plane and damaged a second, said in the Syrian army. In the Israeli army confirmed earlier that the Syrian military fired at Israeli planes with anti-aircraft missiles. None of the missiles reached their targets, one of them was destroyed by the air defense systems of Israel.