TOP-5 news January 24

Vladimir Putin and Hillary Clinton at the APEC-2012 summit

Polit.ru offers your attention the five news of the day. The selection included the three most read news, one news selected by the editorial office, and the most unusual, in our opinion, news today.

1. Clinton made a parody of Putin

The former head of the US Department of State Hillary Clinton was spoiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a performance in Canada, Clinton played the internal dialogue of the Russian leader before the decision to be elected for a new term. Video with a parody posted a local publication Winnipeg Free Press.

“You can imagine Putin's dialogue. He was the Prime Minister after he was president. And once he says to himself: "Vladimir, as you think, would you like to become president again?" - "I think I would like." -"Why don't we just announce this? We will say to Dmitry (Medvedev) that he can be the prime minister." - "Great, great idea." We have a (selective) process, yes, ”said the politician.

It should be noted that at the beginning of the conversation, the presenter asked Hillary Clinton about the possible nomination for the presidency of the United States.

Editor commentary: Clinton’s plot recalled another parody, which was shown by American TV presenter Jimmy Fallon in his evening comedy program The Tonight Show. He was spoiled by the Russian singer Valery Leontyev, who receives a reward from Vladimir Putin. The viewer, who sent the picture, said that Fallon was similar to a Russian performer. In response to this, the host pulled a wig with curly hair and extended his face. The assistant handed the leading medal to the presenter. The plot can be seen at YouTube (the recording of the episode begins at 4:33).

2. The Communists of Cuba called the greatest achievement of Putin

The largest achievement of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin is that the world managed to avoid the Third World War, the official publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Granma reports.

The author of the article “Russia: Putin’s strategy” Elson Concepsion Perez indicates that Putin did not allow the unleashing of the Thief of World War II, despite the threats, sanctions and provocations of the West. At the same time, the efforts of the President Russia improved its military potential and "" met sanctions, low oil prices and other difficulties without much loss in the social achievements of the population. "

According to Perez, despite the efforts of the West, Russia gained love and recognition around the world, without giving up military power and patriotism.

Cuba

Editor commentary: In October last year, the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro published a note in the Cuban media in which NATO accused NATO of the desire to start a “war of destruction” against Russia.

“Yesterday I listened to the statements of the new Secretary General of NATO, the former Prime Minister of Norway (Jens Stoltenberg, approx.“ Polit.ru ”), who took office only on October 1, only six days ago. How much hatred on his face! What an incredible desire to unleash a war on destruction against the Russian Federation, ”wrote Fidel Castro. “Who, then is a big extremist than the fanatics of the Islamic State themselves? What kind of religion are they? And is it possible to talk about eternal life under the canopy of God? ”, Asked the leader of the Cuban Revolution.

We add that the question that Fidel Castro is talking about, Jens Stoltenberg delivered during his visit to Poland a couple of weeks after the speeches of US President Barack Obama at the UN General Assembly, where he publicly stated that the main threats to humanity are Ebola's fever, Russia's aggression in Ukraine and the actions of the Islamic State terrorists.

3. The volume of production of vodka in Russia fell to a historical minimum

The volume of production of vodka in Russia in 2014 fell to a historical minimum, Kommersant writes with reference to the data of Rosstat. Last year, the release of vodka in the country decreased by 22.3%, the volume of shipment from factories - by 24.8%. At the same time, the most significant drop in production was recorded in November December - by 38.5% and by 47.3%, respectively.

Experts explain the decline in production by the unwillingness of manufacturers to overstate warehouses with finished products against the background of the authorities to freeze in 2015-2016 an excise tax on strong alcohol at the level of 500 rubles per liter of anhydrous alcohol. In addition, market participants associate a sharp decrease in the release of legal vodka with an increase in the production of illegal products, the share of which, according to various estimates, is from 50 to 65%.

Editor commentary: At the end of last year, the media around the media spread out that the price of vodka will be reduced for the first time in the recent history of Russia. Then the Federal Air Transport Agency announced plans to reduce the minimum retail price (MRC) for vodka from 220 to 185 rubles per half liter. A few days before this decision, Vladimir Putin said that in Russia the price of legal alcohol is too high. However, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, Viktor Zvagelsky Cociates, that legal producers of vodka in any case will be difficult to reduce the minimum price due to the rise in price of grain.

Choice of the editorial office

The State Duma called on the media to abandon the "worldview superiority"

State Duma deputies adopted an appeal to Russian and foreign journalists with an appeal to abandon the “propaganda of worldview superiority” and inciting religious enmity. The text of the document is published on the website of the lower house of parliament.

Parliamentarians advise reporters “not to perform actions that may be regarded as the promotion of worldview superiority, contribute to inciting religious enmity, destabilize public order, give rise to revenge and struggle, as a result of which civilian citizens may suffer and die.”

The State Duma also called on the media “when covering events of a religious nature to be guided in its activity,“ do not harm ””, namely, “with special responsibility and delicacy to the publication of materials that can affect and insult the religious feelings of citizens”.

Editor commentary: So far, the words about “propaganda of worldview superiority” are only a recommendation addressed to Russian journalists. Meanwhile, the government is ready to prohibit “ideologically incorrect” mass media. So, last week the Ministry of Culture of Russia said that it may refuse to issue rental certificates to films, which will be recognized as creating a threat to national unity and undermining the foundations of the constitutional system. These plans caused concern about the cinema community. The editor -in -chief of the magazine “The Art of Cinema”, the film account and culturologist Daniil Dondury expressed surprise by the very appearance of the official concept of “national unity”. “What is national unity? This is a completely new term, before it was not. This is an unprecedented attack on common sense, which is even worse than softness, cynicism and devastation of stagnation, ”he said. However, later the Ministry of Culture abandoned his own idea. The department explained that the involved experts considered such an offer excessive.

The trick of the day

Mexico began export of banana to Russia

Mexican bananas manufacturers began the supply of their products to Russia. The Ambassador of Mexico to Russia Ruben Beltran told reporters about this. The trial batch of bananas in six containers the day before arrived in Russia from Tabasco. In case of successful sales, Mexican suppliers later plan to establish export of bananas to Russia from this Mexican region. Currently, 90 percent of bananas are exported to Russia from Ecuador. Part of the deliveries is also conducted from Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, India and the Philippines

Editor commentary: The emergence of exotic exporters in Russia is associated with counter-sanctions that Moscow in the summer of 2014 introduced in relation to a significant part of food products from the countries of the European Union, USA, Australia, Norway and Canada. So, on January 12, the first batch of Iranian shrimp arrived in Russia. About 30 tons of this seafood were imported from the Islamic Republic. The Iranian fishing organization said that if the first deal is successful, then local businessmen are ready to sell 5 thousand tons of shrimp and 20 thousand tons of trout a year. A few days later, Rosselkhoznadzor reported that Russia and Iran consider it advisable in the food trade to switch to settlements in national currencies.

A survey of the day

Readers "Polit.ru" could not choose a person of the week

In the traditional Polit.ru survey, readers chose the media person of the week - a person whose actions or words were remembered most.

According to the results of voting in our VKontakte group, the answer “Who are all these people?” In second place is the deceased king of Saudi Arabia Abdalla Ben Abdel Aziz Al Saud.

The voting results are completely as follows:

Abdullah Ben Abdel Aziz Al Saud - 23.8%.

Philip Bridlav - 0%.

Evgeny Dovlatov - 1, 6%.

Alexander Zakharchenko - 11.1%.

Sergey Lavrov - 12.7%.

Angel Merkel - 6.3%.

Petro Poroshenko - 7.9%.

Grzegozh Krytyna - 7.9%.

Who are all these people? - 25.4%.

3.2% left their version in the comments

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