Putin's International

Everything you need to know early in the morning of December 14

Good morning!

“No one will give us deliverance: neither God, nor the king and a hero,” Putin told the participants of the All -Russian Youth Forum for Career Guide. Never before, the project to combat protest moods in the youth was so close to failure. “To overthrow the oppression with your hand, to win your good,” swing the horn and boldly, while the iron is hot! ” Hot news is the same:

• The European Union extended for six months of sanctions against Russia due to the lack of progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
• There will be no continuation of negotiations between the EU and Britain on Brexit, according to a statement by the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk following the results of the first day of the EU summit.
• The French police failed to arrest the suspect in shooting in Strasbourg - he was killed in a shootout with the police.
• The Russian woman Maria Butina, as expected, pleaded guilty to conspiracy with the American to damage the United States.

Words, words, words

The Russian Facebook public is completely absorbed in the statements of journalist Oleg Kashin, made on the air of Russia - 1. Talking about the award of Sakharov’s award to the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who was serving a 20-year term in Russia, Kashin did not challenge the statements that Sentsov is a terrorist, and complained that the liberals in Russia were occupied by a pro-Ukrainian position.

Against this background, Kadyrov’s statement that Chechnya is given too little money, and even prevent them from spending it, went almost unnoticed, and the words of the Rosneft spokesman that the head of Khakassia was a moron did not cause any emotions at all.

At the same time, there is a process of “internal conversations”:

• United Russia Oleg Kozhemyako, a veteran of the Russian regional policy, who has been holding the posts of heads of different regions since 2005 and now running for the post of governor of Primorye - managed to convince Putin to transfer the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District from Khabarovsk (where the Governor was elected a member of the LDPR) to Vladivostok.
• The head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, announced the beginning of the verification of the case of “new greatness” with these words: “The heads of departments of the presidential instructions hear on the air, we do not even have time to draw up a document in writing, people hear it and begin to do it.” The fact that the work of the “new greatness” was fabricated, Putin on Tuesday was said by members of the Human Rights Council.
• Theater figures secretly talked with Putin about the case of Kirill Serebrennikov.
• The Russian Guard began an internal service for supplying itself with food at high prices.

Courts, courts, courts

• Alexei Navalny, who publicly talked about these overstated prices, faces a new arrest - due to the refusal to remove the film “He is not Dimon for you” from the network. In addition, today the court will consider the complaint of Roskomnadzor against the project of “smart voting”, which, according to the agency, somehow does not apply to the personal data of users.
• The father and son of the Gudkovs were fined ten and twenty thousand rubles, respectively. Gennady Gudkov - for participating in an unauthorized rally against a landfill in Kolomna near Moscow, Dmitry - for organizing this rally (in fact, he simply wrote in Telegram that he was going to shoot a video about a garbage problem).
• The court in St. Petersburg fined 30 thousand rubles of one of the participants in the attack on LGBT activists in August 2017. The attackers were a whole group (from the peppers with which they operated, 15 people received burns), but only one reached the trial, and the court did not see political motives in his actions.

In Brussels

• The European Union extended for six months of sanctions against Russia in connection with the non -fulfillment of the Minsk agreements. The introduction of additional sanctions in connection with the seizure of Ukrainian sailors by Russian border guards has not yet agreed. (But the US President’s adviser John Bolton said that Trump would not meet with Putin until Russia releases the sailors).
• The Prime Minister of Great Britain Teresa May failed to get from European leaders to continue working on the Brexita Treaty. The previously reached agreement will not be clarified, according to the statement of the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk. What will happen in Britain now, no one takes on predicting.
• The European Commission deprived the subsidies of Agrofert Holding, associated with the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrei Babish, in connection with a conflict of interests. In January, the Czech government and the leadership of the European Union will conduct a joint audit on projects that were implemented at the expense of money from the EU budget.

In America

• The Russian woman Maria Butina, as expected, pleaded guilty to conspiracy with the US citizen in order to damage this country. It describes in detail what was her activity under the unspoken leadership of the former senator and former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Alexander Torshin.
• According to Wall Street Journal , Manhattan prosecutor’s office is investigating the financing of the inauguration of President Trump - a record was spent on it in the history of the United States, and there is a suspicion that sponsorship was made in exchange for political services from the new administration.
• According to Fox News , Trump canceled the Christmas party for the press in the White House.
• The US Senate went against the opinion of the president and adopted a declaration for the murder of the Saudi journalist Khashoggi, in which the responsibility for organizing the crime is assigned to the hereditary prince Muhammad Bin Salman.

Shooting, Israel and Strasbourg

• In Israel, the attacks of the Palestinians on the Israelis resumed - on Thursday, two were killed on the western coast. Israeli authorities are preparing for increased terrorist activity.
• A person suspected of shooting at the Christmas Fair in Strasbourg is killed in a shootout with the police. All this time he was hiding in a warehouse.

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Sincerely yours,
Seven forty