TOP-5 news August 20

Tajik migrants in Moscow

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1. Tajik diaspora planned a 100-thousandth rally in Moscow

The public movement " Tajik labor migrants " plans to hold a mass action in Moscow in defense of the rights of workers in the fall of 2014. This was reported on August 20, the Rain television channel. The chairman of the movement Karomat Sharipov explained that his organization can take up to 100 thousand people to the street. He noted that the decision to hold a rally will be made by delegates of traffic at the congress in mid -October, but Sharipov has no doubt that the congress will vote for the action. According to the chairman of the movement, the main requirements of the action should be improvement of working conditions for workers in construction sites and markets. “Two million Tajiks are located in the country, of which a million belongs to the category of youth. And the Russian authorities cannot ignore such a number of people, ”Sharipov emphasized. He added that at the rally the issue of creation would also be discussed that in the Moscow markets in the actually slave conditions there are thousands of Tajik citizens - they do not receive salaries and live locked up right at work.

Editor commentary: In addition to labor rights, the leadership of the organization “Tajik labor migrants” intends to demand a review of the criminal cases of Tajiks in Russian prisons, as well as the release of political prisoners in Tajikistan, a number of which have been in imprisonment for more than 26 years. Earlier, attempts to organize shares in defense of labor migrant rights ended in nothing. In early August 2014, the Tajik Youth organization tried to coordinate with the Moscow authorities a rally of a thousand people, but they were refused for the reason that the organization was not registered with the Ministry of Justice. In January 2014, the public movements of the republics of the North Caucasus banned a rally against xenophobia on Manezhnaya Square. It was noted that in winter the organizing committee of the rally planned a mass event of up to a million people.

2. In 2015, New Year's holidays will last 11 days

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation invited the government to increase the New Year holidays in 2015 to 11 days. This was reported by RBC with reference to the draft resolution on the postponement of the weekend, introduced by the Ministry of Labor to the Government of the Russian Federation. According to the document, it is proposed to transfer the weekend on January 3 and 4 on January 3 and 4 on January 9, respectively, respectively. Consequently, in January 2015 there will be 11 public weekends in a row - from January 1 to 11. It is noted that the Russians will also rest March 7-9, May 1-4, May 9-11, June 12-14 and November 4. In general, the working population of the Russian Federation awaits 28 days off and holidays in 2015.

Editor commentary: Long New Year's holidays from January 1 to 6 were introduced in Russia in December 2004, since this initiative has been criticized more than once. So, the New Year holidays in 2014 lasted eight days - from January 1 to 8, 2014, and in the fall of 2014, Russians are waiting for the weekend from November 1 to 4.

3. Ukrainian refugees are massively relocated from Crimea

From August 21, the authorities of the Republic of Crimea will begin mass export of Ukrainian refugees from the peninsula to other regions of the Russian Federation. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the acting head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov. According to him, every day up to 500 forced immigrants from the southeast of Ukraine arrives on the peninsula, where hostilities are currently underway. Moreover, in the Crimean points of temporary accommodation there are already about 6.5 thousand refugees mainly from the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. Aksenov noted that this particular category of refugees will be preferred in relocation to the regions of the Russian Federation. “Crimea will leave about 1 thousand people daily,” Aksyonov added. The politician emphasized that refugees will be relocated to the district centers of the Russian province, where authorized bodies will search for work for forced immigrants.

Editor commentary: Aksenov also noted that no one is going to send Ukrainian refugees to large cities of the Russian Federation. According to observers, about 10 thousand people are waiting for relocation. The chairman of the Refugees Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Irina Klyuyeva said that a difficult transition period is currently observed on the peninsula, the financial system goes through the formation phase and cannot withstand additional loads associated with the content of refugees. As the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic, Sergei Donich, noted, 800 rubles per day are spent on the maintenance of one refugee-550 rubles go on accommodation, and 250 rubles for three meals a day.

Choice of the editorial office

Gas in the European market went up 21% after the cessation of the supply of the Russian Federation to Ukraine

Gas supply futures in September 2014 increased in the price of auction in London by 21% over the past one and a half months. According to Bloomberg of August 20, the results of the exchange session on Monday, August 18, showed an increase in the price of short -term contracts for the purchase of gas up to 42.65 pence for the term, which is $ 7 million for 1 million British heat units. On Monday, a gas contract with a supply in the IV quarter was already 57.85 pence for the term, and according to Societe Generale, in the IV quarter, the average gas price in London will jump up to 64 pence. It is noted that at the beginning of the summer of 2014, gas futures prices reached the lowest mark of 2010-as a result of the warm winter of 2013-2014, the European Union gas storage was filled to the maximum of 2008. However, after June 16, when Gazprom transferred Naftogaz of Ukraine to an advance payment, and Kiev actually stopped the purchase of gas, gas prices in the European market stopped the sharp fall over the past five years.

Editor commentary: the increase in prices is explained by the fears of the European Union about increasing tension in relations between Ukraine and Russia, since the further course of events in the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine may well cause interruptions in fuel supply to the territory of the European Union. Moreover, the gas storage of Ukraine is now filled with less than half, and in the first half of 2014 the republic imported 4.172 billion cubic meters of gas from the European Union, which is 40% more than the same period last year. It was also noted that the Kiev authorities were forced to move on to the regime of gas saving and began the information campaign “Energy Independence of Ukraine”. This campaign is aimed at promoting gas saving to reduce gas consumption with heat supply enterprises during the heating season. Thus, the Kiev authorities plan to reduce gas consumption by 30% in all regions of the country, meanwhile, more than 50% of gas supplies are planned to be carried out from neighboring Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.

The trick of the day

A Russian tricolor was hung on a skyscraper on Komsomolskaya Square

On August 20, Moscow Rupers hung a Russian tricolor on a skyscraper on Komsomolskaya Square. According to MK, the flag of the Russian Federation on the building of the Leningradskaya Hotel on Kalanchevskaya Street was hooked by patriots Mikhail Roncaine and Artem Monakhov. As the Verkholases explained on its Instagram, this action is a response to the Ukrainian flag, hung on a high -rise on the Kotelnikiye embankment on the night of August 20. It was noted that the four suspects of participation in a night campaign with the flag of Ukraine on the Kotelnikiye embankment threatens up to three years in prison, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs launched a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism, committed by a group of persons, as well as by the motives of political, ideological, racial or religious hatred or by hatred or hostility towards any kind of motive for any way social group).

Editor's comment: two men and two women detained by the police in the Kotelnichesky embankment with climbing equipment, deny their guilt. According to them, they are Beisjampers and only jumped with parachutes from the roof of a high -rise building. The suspects also said that they did not take any actions with a spire or a high -altitude star on the Kotelnicheskaya embankment and are not related to history with the Ukrainian flag. Earlier, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Anton Korobkov-Zemolyansky, said that the flag on a skyscraper spilled by Rufer Grigory, also known by the nickname of Mustangwanted, but the monks and Ronninen, who were posting the Russian tricolor of the Roncaine, denied this information. Meanwhile, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the beginning of the “Our colors” campaign and called on Ukrainians around the world to decorate their homes in honor of the Independence Day of the Republic with the state flag.

Readers "Polit.ru" considered the leaders of the DPR the culprits of hunger in Donetsk

In the traditional daily survey on the VKontakte social network, Polit.ru proposed to answer the question: who is to blame for the fact that hunger began in Donetsk?

Preliminary voting results were distributed as follows:

DPR management - 36.6%

Kyiv authorities - 24.7%

The leadership of the Russian Federation - 18.3%

World backstage - 10.8%

Ukrainian leaders of the ATO - 6.5%

Entrepreneurs of Donetsk - 3.2%

The survey was attended by 93 people.

On the eve of the Deputy Prime Minister of the unrecognized organization “Donetsk People’s Republic” Andrei Purgin said that Donetsk shops are empty, people have no access to water and medicines, and hunger began in the city. The Donetsk Regional State Administration also reported on August 20 that over the past day in the region during the fighting between the National Guard of Ukraine and the militants of the DPR, more than 34 civilians were killed, another 29 were injured of varying severity.

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