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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Putin’s administration chief warns Russia may prolong counter-sanctions
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
Investigators launch probe against opposition MP over misspending charges
Russian State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov (RIA Novosti/Maksim Blinov) The Russian Investigative Committee’s agency for serious crimes has launched a case against MP Ilya Ponomaryov, suspecting him of alleged complicity in the 2013 corruption scandal at the Skolkovo Foundation. The news was announced Tuesday by the Investigative Committee’s spokesman, Vladimir Markin. He also said that […]
MP urges investigation after supermarket guard reportedly tases 7yo boy
Reuters/Christinne Muschi Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/265996-moscowchild-electric-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
Leftists target foreign scholarships to fight brain drain
RIA Novosti/Andrey Iglov Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/265945-russiabrain-drain-communists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
Communists demand 10-year prison terms for equating Soviet and Nazi regimes
Participants in the Victory Parade throwing German colors at the Lenin Mausoleum. (RIA Novosti/Loskutov) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/265741-russia-communists-anti-nazi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
Safety first – activist suggests teaching children to make risk-free selfies
RIA Novosti/Alexey Malgavko Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/265702-russia-selfie-lessons-safe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
Airport owners face criminal charges over 2011 Domodedovo bombing
RIA Novosti/Konstantin Rodikov Russia’s top law enforcement agency has started a criminal case against top managers and owners of Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport over suspicions that lax security measures made possible a deadly terrorist attack in 2011. Russian news agencies reported the news on Monday, referring to a press release circulated by defense lawyers for one […]
Muslims ask Moscow authorities for separate beaches for men and women
RIA Novosti/Roman Balaev The suggestion of the Muslim community to organize separate beaches for men and women has been supported by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, Jewish and Buddhist religions. The request to the Moscow City Hall has been prepared and filed by Albir Krganov who is a deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate […]
Russian anti-drug association to launch dedicated internet TV for addicts
RIA Novosti/Oleg Zoloto The developers of the “Rehabilitation” web TV channel say their main aim is to show people with drug problems that they are not alone and help them to return to a drug-free life. The chairman of the Russian National Association of Rehabilitation Centers, Yuri Krupnov, said in comments to the Izvestia daily […]
Russian pilot Yaroshenko appeals US refusal to hold retrial
Konstantin Yaroshenko (Image from wikipedia.org) The defense lawyer of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko has filed an appeal against the refusal to hold a new trial and told reporters that this refusal was another confirmation that the initial trial had been politicized. The appeal was submitted to the New York Court after Judge Jed Rakoff of […]
Communists want Soros Foundation branded ‘undesirable’ group
Georges Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management (Reuters/Charles Platiau) Two senior lawmakers from the Communist Party caucus have asked Russian prosecutors to use the recently introduced law on “undesirable” foreign groups against George Soros’s Open Society organization. “The anti-Russian activities of Soros’s foundation must be recognized as undesirable before they assume the destructive forms that […]