Summit Underscores Obama's Mixed Results on Nuclear Security
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President Obama convened more than 50 world leaders in Washington this week hoping that international progress on one of his long-standing policy priorities, nonproliferation, would outlast his administration, but the gathering served mostly to highlight the mixed record of Obama’s nuclear agenda.
Iran's President Offers Help To Resolve Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict by support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has offered to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
An RFE/RL camera in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh captured what could be the first use of an Israeli-made "kamikaze" drone in combat on April 4.
Originally published at - http://www.rferl.org/media/video/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh/27658493.html
Originally published at - http://www.rferl.org/media/video/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh/27658493.html
New US Rule Will Protect Citizens Saving for Retirementby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The Obama administration announced the release of a long-anticipated rule Wednesday regarding how the financial industry gives retirement savings advice to clients. The plan includes more concessions to brokers than what was originally proposed six years ago, in an effort to make it less disruptive to current operations. The fiduciary rule targets brokers and financial advisers who promote retirement plans that may not necessarily reflect the clients' best interests, but instead provide extra commissions to the firms. More specifically, when clients transfer savings from a 401k (required to operate in the saver's best interest), the individual retirement accounts must now be established in the clients' best interests. Before this rule, financial-product salespeople were only required to give "suitable" recommendations. Signed contracts Financial advisors, now "fiduciaries", will have to sign contracts with clients at their first appointments, committing to working in their best interests. One of the recent compromises in the plan, however, states that brokers may give "advice" and retirement savings education without necessarily entering a contract. The preliminary version of this rule released last April was met with criticism and comments from across the financial community. "With every meeting we took, every comment letter we read...we got smarter and we listened, we learned and we adjusted. You’ll find that reflected in the final rule" Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told Wall Street Journal reporters. Loopholes These loopholes, while seen by many as placating critics, may give skeptics the opportunity to further dilute the rule or abolish it entirely under the new administration. The Wall Street Journal estimates that $14 trillion of retirement savings could be affected by this new rule. The White House Council of Economic Advisers found that conflicts of interest lead to an average of 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings, adding up to a total of $17 billion of losses for American families each year.
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Karadzic Slams War Crimes Verdict as 'Monstrous'by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is asking to be released from prison pending his appeal on his conviction for genocide and other atrocities, saying his continued detention is ruining his health. While addressing a special hearing at the Yugoslav War Crimes Court Wednesday in the Hague, Karadzic again proclaimed his innocence, slamming the verdict as "monstrous." He also complained about his detention conditions and asked for a new laptop to help him prepare his case. Judge Theodor Meron denied his request to be released, but said he would order officials to look into conditions at the detention facility. "My proposal is that my stay in the detention center should be suspended and that I should be released pending the finalization of the legal procedure to uphold or refute this verdict, which would not pass among first year students of law," Karadzic said. Karadzic was found guilty last month of committing Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison. The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Karadzic was criminally responsible for genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when Serb forces killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys, in what has been called the worst atrocity in Europe since the Holocaust.
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Турчинов ответил на слова Нарышкина о гипотетической войне с Украиной
РБК Секретарь Совета национальной безопасности и обороны (СНБО) Александр Турчинов ответил на слова спикера Госдумы Сергея Нарышкина о том, что гипотетическая война России и Украины продлилась бы максимум четыре дня. «Видимо, у России действительно серьезные ... Турчинов ответил на слова Нарышкина о войне с УкраинойГазета.Ru Турчинов ответил Нарышкину, усомнившись в военной победе России над УкраинойМосковский комсомолец Турчинов: Россия не продержится и четырех дней в войне с УкраинойВзгляд Mangazia -Вести.Ru -Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ -Известия Все похожие статьи: 224 » |
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There were scenes of devastation in the village of Talish, in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, following rocket attacks that reportedly took place before a cease-fire was declared. Most of the town's inhabitants have been evacuated amid the worst violence between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces in 20 years. (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
National Bolsheviks Mark Day of the Russian Nationby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, April 6 – Russia’s National Bolsheviks yesterday marked the Day of the Russian Nation with meetings and demonstrations in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Sarov, Rostov-na-Donu, and Ulyanovsk. Some of these protests enjoyed official approval; others did not; but all were small.
Those taking part called for the defense of the ethnic Russian nation both within the Russian Federation and abroad, for a combination of nationalism and socialism, for the freeing of Russian nationalist political prisoners, and for class war against the wealthy (nazaccent.ru/content/20157-den-russkoj-nacii-otmetili-v-neskolkih.html).
The National Bolsheviks mark April 5 each year as the Day of the Russian Nation because that is the anniversary of Aleksandr Nevsky’s defeat of the Teutonic knights in the ice battle made famous for modern audiences by Sergey Eisenstein’s classic film. In many ways, the date is just as inconsistent and at the same time symbolic as the slogans of the Natsbols.
Nevsky who is viewed by many Russians as their country’s patron saint defeated representatives of the Christian West by allying himself with the Muslim Mongol Horde and helped laid the foundations of the Russian state by serving as a tax collector for the latter. His brother who refused to ally with the Mongols against the Christian West is viewed as a traitor.
There were scenes of devastation in the village of Talish, in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, following rocket attacks that reportedly took place before a cease-fire was declared.
Originally published at - http://www.rferl.org/media/video/azerbaijan-armenia-nagorno-karabakh-talish/27658564.html
Originally published at - http://www.rferl.org/media/video/azerbaijan-armenia-nagorno-karabakh-talish/27658564.html
Подведение итогов дня в России и в мире вечером по будням: проверенная информация и точная экспертиза. Программа предлагает разнообразие фактов - выводы слушатели делают сами.
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Украинская военнослужащая Надежда Савченко 6 апреля объявила в тюрьме сухую голодовку.
В Грозном похищают оппозиционеров, а потом некоторых после отсидки в полиции возвращают. Глава Чечни Рамзан Кадыров сообщив, что они "извинились перед научным сообществом и духовенством".
В России создается 400-тысячная "национальная гвардия", имеющая право открывать огонь без предупреждения. Правозащитные НКО массово зачисляются в "иностранные агенты". В стране растет число политзаключенных. Одному из них лидеру "Левого фронта" Сергею Удальцову недавно отказали в УДО. Положение заключенных в тюрьмах и СИЗО России остается удручающим.
Повсеместно грубо нарушаются трудовые права граждан. Очевидна массовая дискриминация при приеме на работу по возрасту и полу. Право на медицинское обслуживание ограничивается: под видом оптимизации закрываются больницы и поликлиники.
Регулярно запрещаются митинги и шествия, блокируются неугодные власти сайты, возбуждаются дикие дела об "экстремизме" за критику начальства.
Председатель Совета по правам человека при президенте России, советник президента РФ доктор юридических наук Михаил Федотов ответит на вопросы слушателей Радио Свобода.
Ведет передачу Михаил Соколов.
Documentary Examines US Soldier Who Stole Priceless Artby webdesk@voanews.com (Greg Flakus)
The recent movie “The Monuments Men” told the story of U.S. soldiers who were charged with recovering and protecting works of art stolen by the Nazis in World War II. A new documentary, “The Liberators,” is the story of a U.S. soldier who stole priceless art from a site in Germany and kept it with him in Texas until he died 35 years later. Art experts value the stolen thousand-year-old works at more than $200 million. To the people of Quedlinburg, Germany, the gold-enhanced figures and other items are a priceless part of the heritage they had tried to protect from the Nazis and Allied bombardments during the war. A U.S. army unit found the cache of treasure in a cave and tried to protect it, but one soldier, First Lieutenant Joe Meador, who had studied art in college and had some idea of the art works' value, managed to carry some items out of the hiding place. Later, town representatives noted that a number of items were missing and they became part of a long list of treasures that investigators tried to find in the years after the war. No one knew where the Quedlinburg art works were until some items were put up for sale in 1990 by members of Meador’s family. He had kept the stolen art works in a store in his hometown, Whitewright, Texas, and later in a bank vault in nearby Denison, Texas. After he died in 1980, his family sold some of them for $3 million to a German foundation dedicated to recovering lost art. What followed was a media frenzy, as the New York Times, CBS News and others rushed into the small towns in north Texas to learn more about how the precious art work had ended up there. There were also law suits and a U.S. government indictment against two members of the Meador family. The criminal charges were later dropped after a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had passed. Filmmaker focuses on why In 2004, a Denison native who had studied filmmaking at New York University, Cassie Hay, read some of the old newspaper stories as well as a book about the stolen art. “The book was told from a very New York perspective,” she said, “and I knew all the people in Denison and so I thought, ‘Wow, this is really fascinating, what if we heard from all the different sides.” So she began her film project with the goal of finding out why a man most people regarded as honest and upright would take works of art from their rightful owners in Germany. What she found, she said, was nuance. Meador’s family and friends defended him and tried to justify what he had done. “Nobody is 100 percent evil or 100 percent good,” Hay said, “so they wanted to share what they remembered about him and how he appreciated the treasures.” For her, it is important that Meador never tried to gain financially from his theft. He apparently took the art pieces as souvenirs to enjoy privately, and he told very few people about them. Yet he never seems to have considered returning them. “I like the stories that are not so black and white,” Hay said, “I like the gray areas that we live in.” Seeking answers When she had the funding to make the film, Hay interviewed everyone she could find in Whitewright and Denison and also the lost art detective, Willi Korte, in Washington, DC and community leaders in Quedlinburg, Germany, who she says were very cordial and helpful. One reason she says Meador might have balked at returning the art work was that Quedlinburg is in eastern Germany and was occupied by Soviet troops after Meador’s unit pulled out. That part of Germany was still under communist rule in 1980 and German reunification would take another decade. But that still doesn’t answer the question of why he took the art in the first place. Hay said, “We just really tried through his scrapbook, through interviews with neighbors who knew him his entire life and his family to get at the heart of why he would have done something like this.” She speculates that Meador may have thought the works of art would end up being ruined in the war-torn region where he encountered them and that they would be safer with him. Another reason is offered by one of the people Cassie Hay interviewed for the documentary: “You don’t really own things like this; they own you.”
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Radovan Karadzic has asked to be released from detention pending his appeal at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Belgium PM Acknowledges Security ‘Failure,’ Not ‘Failed State’by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Belgium's prime minister says life is returning to normal, after the suicide attacks on the Brussels' airport and metro that killed 32 people and wounded dozens of others. Speaking with reporters in Belgium’s capital, Charles Michel admitted his country has made mistakes in combating violent extremism, but he rejected criticism it has become Europe's weakest state in efforts to eradicate terrorist threats. The March 22 attacks in Brussels were the deadliest since World War II. "When there is an attack like that, of course that's a failure and nobody can deny this," the prime minister said. "I cannot accept the idea that we're a failed state." But, in the fight against terrorism, "everywhere in the world and in Europe, there have been successes and there have been failures," he stressed. Michel said Belgium has had "great successes," having "prevented many attacks" and securing scores of convictions on terrorism-related charges. "If we were weak, then we would not have been able to convict 100 persons on terrorism issues," he said. He also referred to the 9/11 attacks on the United States, saying it took a decade to find the mastermind behind them even "with all the police in the world searching." Osama bin Laden was found in a Pakistani compound and killed there by U.S. Special Forces in May 2011. Roughly 3,000 people died in attacks of September 11, 2001, when hijackers crashed planes in New York’s World Trade Center, at the Pentagon near Washington and in a field in Pennsylvania. Investigators discovered links between assailants in the Brussels attack two weeks ago and those behind the Paris attacks last November 13, all claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.
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Russia increases nuclear warheads while US scales back
TRUNEWS (TRUNEWS) A new report from the State Department shows Russia has beefed up its nuclear arsenal, despite the New Start treaty. The Russians have deployed 153 strategic nuclear warheads in the past year. The U.S. has reduced their program. Under the ... Russia Deployed Over 150 New Warheads in Past YearWashington Free Beacon all 14 news articles » |
Springtime in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is predictable enough. As sure as the plane trees begin to flower, skirmishes break out between Azeri and Armenian troops.
Why So Few Americans Named in Panama Papers?by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Where are the American names? That is a question being heard more as the fallout from the Panama Papers -- a leak of more than 11.5 million documents from a Panamanian law firm that details hidden offshore accounts held by world leaders and celebrities -- continues to spread. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in a collaborative effort by more than 300 journalists from more than 70 countries, analyzed the financial data. Released over the weekend, the ICIJ report contains details on more than 214,000 offshore entities connected to people in more than 200 countries and territories. It also named 140 international politicians, including 12 current and former political leaders, who allegedly set up offshore bank accounts to hide their assets and possibly evade taxes. Considering the leak is believed to be the largest in history, no U.S. politicians or other high-profile Americans have been identified so far. American passports A report by the McClatchy newspaper group found scanned copies of at least 200 American passports in the leaked documents. It reported that many of the passports appeared to be from retirees using offshore companies to buy real estate in Latin America. McClatchy said it was the only U.S. newspaper company involved in the consortium. The documents, leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, also showed that 3,500 shareholders of offshore companies provided the firm with an address in the United States, but that does not mean they are American citizens, McClatchy reported. Also, almost 3,100 companies incorporated by the law firm were linked to what McClatchy called “offshore professionals” based in the U.S., including in Miami, in southern Florida, and New York. James Henry, an economist and senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network, told Fusion -- a Hispanic cable news channel that was a project partner with McClatchy -- that it is fairly easy to form shell companies in the U.S., which may be one reason so few Americans have been named in the trove of documents. Americans “really don’t need to go to Panama," Henry told Fusion. “Basically, we have an onshore haven industry in the U.S. that is as secretive as anywhere." Nevada, Wyoming, Delaware Heather Lowe, legal counsel and director of government affairs at Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based nonprofit, told the International Business Times, that Nevada, Wyoming and Delaware are notorious for peddling "the idea of anonymous companies and lax regulations around the creation of companies and, in some cases, taxation." WATCH: Related video on release of Panama Papers Lowe told the IBT that banks and companies in those states essentially would leave it up to their clients "to determine what information they want to, or need to, file with the government." The national newspaper USA Today reported that the majority of U.S.-based companies linked to Mossack Fonseca were formed by a Nevada company called M.F. Corporate Services Limited. “If your goal is secrecy and not having prying eyes find out even the most basic things about what you’re doing and what your company is and who owns it, Wyoming and Nevada are incredibly attractive places from that secrecy perspective,” Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a research organization, told USA Today. “These companies are using mechanisms that are precisely designed to avoid prosecution, to avoid discovery,” he told the newspaper Wednesday. “Shell corporations are very effective for conduits for avoiding the law, for whatever purpose.” McClatchy found the documents showed that Mossack Fonseca, in four separate cases, helped register offshore companies for Americans who have been accused or convicted by federal prosecutors of serious financial crimes. US financier One American mentioned in the Panama Papers is author and financier Marianna Olszewski. The BBC reported that Olszewski allegedly used Mossack Fonseca to hide her name as the owner of a secret offshore account -- a direct breach of international regulations designed to stop money-laundering and tax evasion. WATCH: Interview with Will Fitzgibbon, reporter who worked on Panama Papers As time goes by, more American names will likely be revealed. The documents were just released publicly a few days ago, meaning major news outlets have only just begun to dig through the massive amounts of data. "So maybe there are revelations about specific Americans and secret funds that we haven't heard about," Gardner told NBC News. The 200 U.S. passports identified so far are just a slice of the available data. "It's a complete underestimate,” Mar Cabra, head of ICIJ's data and research unit, told Fusion. An editor with Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German newspaper that has been leading the investigation of the records, tweeted Monday to "just wait" until more were released, according to IBT. In 2014, a Senate subcommittee estimated that U.S. companies using overseas tax havens was costing the country about $150 billion in lost tax revenue.
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When it comes to President Vladimir Putin's personal trust, Viktor Zolotov has no peers.
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Black Holes More Common Than Previously Thoughtby webdesk@voanews.com (Kevin Enochs)
Scientists have discovered a Super Massive Black Hole in a lonely part of the universe, suggesting they may be more common than previously thought. The giant light eater was discovered by astronomers at the University of California at Berkeley. A super massive black hole gets the name when it has mass about 10 billion times greater than our sun. Until now astronomers tended to find them in galaxy cores, very busy places. The largest ever discovered, with a mass equal to about 21 billion suns, was found in a crowded part of space called the Coma Cluster. There goes the neighborhood But the new entry, with the mass of about 17 billion suns, was found in a relative backwater of space, in a galaxy called NGC 1600. For the Berkeley astronomers it was like finding a skyscraper in the middle of a cornfield. They say if it can happen in an astronomical backwater, then these kinds of light eating gravity monsters may be way more common than we thought. "So the question now is," according to Chung-Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy "is this the tip of an iceberg?' Maybe there are a lot more monster black holes out there that don't live in a skyscraper in Manhattan, but in a tall building somewhere in the Midwestern plains." The information is important to the team because it is being folded into a much larger project called MASSIVE headed by Ma which is studying the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermassive. Their goal is to literally weigh the stars, dark matter and black holes in the nearby universe. The research is published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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Nagorno-Karabakh Witnesses Debut Of 'Kamikaze Drone'by support@pangea-cms.com (Mike Eckel)
For a glimpse into the future of drone warfare, look no further than the battlefields of the South Caucasus.
Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia have flared up afresh after 20 years. The fraught big-power politics of the region makes this especially dangerous
There will be much argument about whether it was more in Azerbaijan’s or in Armenia’s interest to suddenly reignite a conflict that had mostly been frozen for over 20 years. But one thing that should not be doubted is that Europe’s wider interests will be at risk if a new spiral of violence erupts in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region where big power politics could all too easily overpower the calculations of local factions.
Fighting broke out last week in Nagorno-Karabakh between the Azerbaijani army and the Armenian separatists who have controlled the enclave since the early 1990s, when they came out on top in what was arguably the most violent war associated with the demise of the Soviet Union – an estimated 30,000 people were killed, and a million displaced, between 1988 and 1994. A ceasefire announced on Tuesday, after clashes that reportedly killed dozens, could prove extremely fragile. A bout of diplomatic activity will now try to quell these new tensions, with Russian emissaries due to visit the capitals, Baku in Azerbaijan and Yerevan in Armenia, and a delegation of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe expected to travel to the region. Concerns about the conflict escalating have also been aired in the US and the EU.
Continue reading...US Military Open to Adding Another Fire Base in Iraqby webdesk@voanews.com (Carla Babb)
The U.S. military could open an additional fire base to support Iraqi security forces working to isolate the city of Mosul, according to a senior U.S. military official. "There may be a situation in which there is another base that is opened or reopened from years past that would be used...as a fire support base behind the front lines," Rear Admiral Andrew Lewis, the Vice Director for the Pentagon's Joint Staff Operations, told reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday. Lewis said that, to his knowledge, no other U.S. fire bases have been opened in Iraq since the fire base in Makhmur was opened last month. An American Marine was killed on the base, initially named Fire Base Bell and now known as the Kara Soar Counter Fire Complex, during a rocket attack by Islamic State forces on March 19. A fire base is a temporary space used to fire artillery in support of advancing troops.
The image of Russia as weak and withdrawn from the international arena is wrong, writes Eugene Rumer
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US-RUSSIA CROSSTALK: Russia, the U.S. and a great power peace in Syria
Washington Times U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak to each other at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 24, 2016. Kerry on Thursday voiced hope that Washington and Moscow could narrow their differences on ... and more » |
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US-RUSSIA CROSSTALK: Russia, the U.S. and a great power peace in Syria
Washington Times U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak to each other at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 24, 2016. Kerry on Thursday voiced hope that Washington and Moscow could narrow their differences on ... |
Launch of Libya Unity Government Again Hits Snagby webdesk@voanews.com (Edward Yeranian)
Arab media are reporting Libya's unrecognized government in Tripoli has formally stepped down in favor of the new "unity" government of Prime Minister-designate Fayez al-Saraj. But Libyan TV reports the country's internationally recognized parliament, the House of Representatives, based in Tobruk, once again postponed its approval of the country's U.N.-mediated national unity government, despite moves by the rival government and parliament in Tripoli to cede power to it. The television channel announced the new government's council of state met in Tripoli and elected Abdel Rahman Swehli to be its head. It also reported Libya's central bank has been instructed to stop paying institutions that do not take orders from the new administration. A key member of the parliament in Tobruk, Abu Bakr Baeira, told Arab media the new council of state has not been legally approved and warned Prime Minister-designate Saraj's new unity government must be approved by parliament in order to be lawful. Al Arabiya TV reported the Tobruk parliament was unable to obtain a quorum to vote on Saraj's Cabinet. It said it was the ninth bid to hold a session to approve the new government. Parliament Speaker Aguileh Salah has told Arab media that his body “agrees to the new government, but not to all the ministers that have been proposed to be a part of it.” The unrecognized government in Tripoli and the General National Congress, a rival Tripoli-based parliament, officially ceded power to the new government this week. Sadek Institute Director Anas El Gomati told VOA there are major power centers in Libya that do not accept the unity government. He said the head of parliament in Tobruk insists Army Commander Khalifa Hafter be part of the government. "Khalifa Hafter is unwilling to cede his position as the chief of the army in the HoR (House of Representatives) government and any new government of national accord will end up seeing him resign his post. Now, that is what the HoR is holding this government of national accord at ransom to. They want the Libyan political agreement changed (and adapted) so that they can keep Khalifa Hafter in his current position and continue the status quo in the east," Gomati said. U.N. Libya envoy Martin Kobler stated in a tweet Wednesday he “welcomes the convening of (the country's new) state council in Tripoli,” calling it “an important step.”
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Panama Reaction Reveals Russia's 2 Value Systems (Op-Ed)by By Maxim Trudolyubov
Two schools of thought dominate the Russian discussion of the country's political system and its economic underpinnings.
New Survey Reveals Americans Believe Country has ‘Lost its Identity’ by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Americans are not happy with the direction of the country, a new public-opinion poll reveals. A Quinnipiac University survey released this week shows that 57 percent of Americans strongly or somewhat agree that “America has lost its identity.” Similar numbers agreed with the statement “I’m falling further and further behind financially.” These numbers were much higher for Republicans and even higher for those who say they support presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Seventy-nine percent of Republicans agreed that America had lost its identity and 85 percent of Trump supporters agreed. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans agreed that they are falling behind financially, while 78 percent of Trump voters agreed. Forty-eight percent of Democrats agreed "strongly" or "somewhat" with the statement. The poll also revealed that Republicans and Trump supporters felt their “beliefs and values are under attack, the government has gone too far in assisting minority groups and public officials don’t care much what people like me think.” Forty percent of Democrats agree that their "beliefs and values are under attack" and 68 percent among Democrats agreed that “public officials don’t care much what people like me think.” "Many American voters, especially Republicans, are dissatisfied with their own status and the status of the country, but by far the most dissatisfied are Donald Trump's supporters, who strongly feel that they themselves and the y are under attack," said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz. "Trump supporters are true stand-outs. They want a leader who is very different from the leader sought by other voters, explaining the mystery many see behind Trump's support," Dr. Schwartz added. The survey was conducted from March 16 to 21 and covered 1,451 voters. The margin of error is 2.6 percentage points.
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Putin's New Security Force Seen As 'Praetorian Guard'by support@pangea-cms.com (Tom Balmforth)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast his new National Guard as a timely move to combat terrorism and organized crime, but critics see a tool to protect the president's hold on power.
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Военнослужащие Национальной гвардии России смогут применять силу и оружие без предупреждения при непосредственной угрозе гражданам или самим гвардейцам. Об этом говорится в проекте закона, который в среду внес в Госдуму президент Владимир Путин.
Согласно законопроекту служащим Национальной гвардии запрещается применять специальные средства в отношении женщин "с видимыми признаками беременности" и инвалидов, а также при большом скоплении людей, чтобы не пострадали случайные лица.
При освобождении заложников и пресечении массовых беспорядков войска Нацгвардии смогут применять водометы и бронетехнику с последующим уведомлением прокурора. Также военнослужащие Национальной гвардии России будут иметь право проводить задержания и проникать ради этого в дома граждан.
Войска Нацгвардии вправе проверять документы, составлять протоколы об административных правонарушениях и задерживать граждан на срок не более трех часов, говорится в проекте закона, опубликованном на сайте Госдумы.
Указ о создании Национальной гвардии на базе Внутренних войск МВД России Владимир Путин подписал 5 апреля. Главой нового ведомства назначен замминистра внутренних дел, бывший личный телохранитель Путина Виктор Золотов.
Ранее источник собщил "Интерфаксу", что общая численность Национальной гвардии России может составить от 350 до 400 тысяч человек.
Эти и другие перемены в силовых структурах РФ последних дней обсуждают правозащитники Валерий Борщев, Лев Левинсон, Асмик Новикова, журналист Александр Рыклин.
Ведущий - Владимир Кара - Мурза - старший.
Согласно законопроекту служащим Национальной гвардии запрещается применять специальные средства в отношении женщин "с видимыми признаками беременности" и инвалидов, а также при большом скоплении людей, чтобы не пострадали случайные лица.
При освобождении заложников и пресечении массовых беспорядков войска Нацгвардии смогут применять водометы и бронетехнику с последующим уведомлением прокурора. Также военнослужащие Национальной гвардии России будут иметь право проводить задержания и проникать ради этого в дома граждан.
Войска Нацгвардии вправе проверять документы, составлять протоколы об административных правонарушениях и задерживать граждан на срок не более трех часов, говорится в проекте закона, опубликованном на сайте Госдумы.
Указ о создании Национальной гвардии на базе Внутренних войск МВД России Владимир Путин подписал 5 апреля. Главой нового ведомства назначен замминистра внутренних дел, бывший личный телохранитель Путина Виктор Золотов.
Ранее источник собщил "Интерфаксу", что общая численность Национальной гвардии России может составить от 350 до 400 тысяч человек.
Эти и другие перемены в силовых структурах РФ последних дней обсуждают правозащитники Валерий Борщев, Лев Левинсон, Асмик Новикова, журналист Александр Рыклин.
Ведущий - Владимир Кара - Мурза - старший.
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