Aleksey Zhuravlyov, State Duma deputy. (RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresenskiy) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/268804-russia-bill-nazi-collaborators/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
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Nazi-connected companies’ products should be identified – nationalist MP
Russian military to order major research to counter ‘color revolutions’
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu (RIA Novosti / Ekaterina Shtukina) Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has told reporters that the military will sponsor a major research of coups conducted through mass protest – so called ‘color revolutions’ – to prevent the situations that Russia faced in 1991 and 1993. “Some people say that the military should […]
Lawyers ask MPs to introduce law against sexual harassment
Reuters / David Moir An association of lawyers has written to Russian lawmakers to amend the country’s Criminal Code with an article introducing punishment for sexual harassment, claiming that existing norms are too soft and do not sufficiently protect women. One of the authors of the letter, Maria Bast, told Izvestia daily that currently the […]
Russia had world’s highest number of asylum applications in 2014 – UN
RIA Novosti / Aleksandr Pogotov In 2014 Russia received the world’s largest number of applications from asylum seekers fleeing repression or war in their home countries, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said in its annual report. The report states that about 275,000 foreigners applied for political asylum in 2014, claiming that they suffer from […]
Ex-Russian finance minister Kudrin suggests early presidential elections to speed up reforms
Alexey Kudrin (RIA Novosti / Maksim Blinov) Russia’s former finance minister, Aleksey Kudrin, has proposed an early presidential election to provide a mandate for much-needed economic reforms. “Why don’t we bring the presidential elections closer and announce a new program of reforms?” Kudrin said Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. He added that […]
Chechen leader blames western special services for killing opposition figure Nemtsov
Head of Chechna Ramzan Kadyrov (RIA Novosti / Said Tsarnaev) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/268000-kadyrov-blames-osmayev-nemtsov/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Communists seek to ban Russian PM from party leadership
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, chairperson of the United Russia Party (RIA Novosti/Alexander Astafyev) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/267853-russia-communists-pm-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Russia has no plans for new arms race – Putin’s aide
A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile (RIA Novosti/Ramil Sitdikov) A Russian presidential aide has told reporters that Russia has no plans to launch a new arms race, but will nevertheless react to all new threats. “Russia is trying to react to new threats, nothing more than this. We are not entering an arms race, we are […]
Moscow institute launches anti-ISIS training for Russian imams
RIA Novosti/Said Tsarnaev Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/267742-russia-islamic-state-opposing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Duma gives first nod to ‘right to be forgotten’ bill
RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/267568-russia-forgotten-bill-parliament/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Legal activists contest Putin’s decree classifying military casualties in peacetime
Special purpose unit of the regional division of internal military forces of the Interior Ministry take maroon beret exam at the Gorny training base in the Novosibirsk Region. (RIA Novosti/Alexandr Kryazhev) A group of lawyers specializing in freedom of information rights are asking the Supreme Court to annul the recent presidential decree classifying all casualties […]
Veteran nationalist politician Zhirinovsky announces presidential ambitions
Russian Liberal-Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky (RIA Novosti/Sergey Pyatakov) The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky plans to run for the presidency in 2018. This will be his sixth presidential bid, with the first one dating back to 1991 – when Russia was technically still a Soviet republic. Zhirinovsky announced his […]
Anti-gay lawmaker targets Game of Thrones as threat to traditional values
‘Game of Thrones’ TV show poster (Image from imdb.com) A pro-Christian politician is suggesting an official rating of various creative works, saying such a measure would help to protect the population from various harmful products, such as the popular TV series, Game of Thrones. Vitaliy Milonov of the St. Petersburg city legislature addressed the Russian […]
Top Russian MP warns West against new sanctions
Alexey Pushkov, Chairman of the State Duma’s International Affairs Committee (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko) The head of the State Duma’s foreign relations committee has said new anti-Russian sanctions would only cause further alienation between Russia and the West without giving any help to Ukraine. “If the West imposes new sanctions on Russia it would […]
Moscow officials license referendum to restore monument to KGB founder Dzerzhinsky
Dismantling monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky on Moscow’s Dzerzhinsky Square in the early hours of August 23, 1991 on orders from the Moscow City Soviet (Council) after an abortive coup involving members of the so-called State Committee for the State of Emergency (RIA Novosti / Alexander Polyakov) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/266626-russia-lubyanka-dzerzhinsky-monument/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Russian PM rules out introducing blacklists for reporters
RIA Novosti / Mikhail Klementiev Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/266590-medvedev-journalists-congress-statement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Yabloko party wants founder Yavlinskiy to run for presidency
Leader of the Yabloko Party Grigory Yavlinsky (RIA Novosti / Alexander Vilf) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/266512-yavlinskiy-presidential-candidate-yabloko/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Putin’s administration chief warns Russia may prolong counter-sanctions
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Chief Chechen mufti condemns Islamic State as enemies of religion
Salakh Mezhiyev, Mufti of the Chechen Republic (Reuters / Said Tsarnaev) The head of Chechen’s Muslims has told reporters that the republic’s council for fatwas has decided the Islamic State group is anti-Islamic by nature and its actions threaten the unity of Islam as a religion. According to Chechen Grozny TV, the mufti, Salah-Haji Medjiyev, […]
Ruling party lawmakers suggest anti-globalist amendment to Russian constitution
RIA Novosti / Vitaliy Ankov Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/266236-russia-constitution-globalist-preamble/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0