News archive on the topic "Valentina Matvienko"

Ukraine was preparing a scenario for the forceful takeover of Donbass. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko stated this at a press conference today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I get the impression that a military scenario has been prepared - a third attempt to destroy people by force and regain territory. I think so because the scripts don't change. Let's remember Georgia. Saakashvili, without approval from above, will not...

Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko denied rumors that her pension is about 450 thousand rubles a month, which were spread by a number of media outlets the day before. At a meeting of the Federation Council, Matvienko called this information false, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The speaker of the upper house of parliament also said that with almost 50 years of work experience she receives a pension of 25 thousand rubles. "Not…

Speaker of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko ordered to speed up the resolution of the issue of returning the deposits of Crimeans in Sberbank “The issue of the savings of Crimeans in Sberbank is not closed. We need to finish this story with the Central Bank. People need to get their deposits. I understand that there was a difficult situation with the transition period. I give you a month to work out the measures. The question retains a certain...

Russian Senator from Crimea Olga Kovitidi complained today at a meeting of the Federation Council about the shortage of personnel in medicine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is a greater shortage of doctors in rural areas and highly specialized medical specialists. This issue is relevant not only for the Republic of Crimea,” Kovitidi said. The senator also referred to her conversations with students of the Crimean Medical Academy, who...

The Russian Foreign Ministry should begin the practice of appointing women to ambassadorial positions, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko suggested at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. “Of course, I am not calling for matriarchy, but I still think it would be right to increase the number of women at all levels of government, at the decision-making level. For example, today there is not a single female ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - even in African countries this is not the case. And we are talking about selection...

Speculators who want to make money on the resale of foreign fruits in Russia, specifically during the harvest in the Russian Federation, begin to dump and throw goods from abroad on the market at reduced prices. Senator from the Krasnodar Territory Alexey Kondratenko spoke about this during a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The issue of a sharp increase in imports of apples and other fruits is acute...

Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko during the meeting asked the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova to look into the sale of counterfeit mineral water from Caucasus springs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We held a meeting of the Council on Intellectual Property, and it was about counterfeit mineral water, in particular at KavMinVody, a huge number of companies have licenses and patents there, and access to wells is...

Ukraine remains a participant in the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS Member States, although its delegation ignores work within the CIS. Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko announced this at a meeting of the IPA CIS, answering a journalist’s question about the presence of the Ukrainian flag at the meeting, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Statements are statements, but Ukraine has not officially submitted an application to withdraw from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. AND…

The leading regions of Russia must take charge of putting Crimea and Sevastopol in order. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko stated this at a meeting of Russian senators with the Minister of Transport. “I really want to show the people living there that Crimea is ours. Conditionally ask Sergei Semenovich Sobyanin: take Sevastopol. Here is the amount of money and give it for three years...

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that new Russian aircraft are being developed and put into operation for too long - entire years. It is necessary to take an example from the designers of the Great Patriotic War, the head of the upper house of parliament suggested at a meeting with the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Evgeny Dietrich, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Matvienko described the bureaucratic procedure for creating the aircraft, as a result...

The standard of living on opposite sides of the Russian-Chinese border in Transbaikalia differs greatly, not in favor of Russia. Speaker Valentina Matvienko stated this at a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I gave my colleagues an example: Trans-Baikal Territory. On the other side of the border is a prosperous China with new houses, infrastructure, etc., and on this side, where the forest is being cut down, there are huts...

Regions of Belarus could establish contacts with Crimea and Sevastopol. Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko stated this today at the Fifth Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus. “Currently, almost all constituent entities of the Russian Federation maintain close trade and economic ties with Belarus. We would really like our two new subjects - Crimea and Sevastopol - to also...

Eight Russian senators did not vote today for the pension reform, which provides for raising the retirement age by five years: five were against, three abstained. It is significant that in addition to communist senators, the so-called “United Russia” members also criticized the reform. “We shouldn’t force Russians to work themselves to death. It would have been much more reasonable to create such preferences so that people would voluntarily refuse to retire,” said...

Sevastopol Governor Dmitry Ovsyannikov made it clear at a press conference in Moscow that he was not going to improve relations with the city Legislative Assembly. The official once again stated that he would not allow his subordinates to come to the city parliament with reports provided for by the city charter. Ovsyannikov claims that the control activities of parliament are carried out in violation of the law, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "If earlier...