Politics and Government of Russia

Russia passes law to tackle foreign meddling in its elections

The Russian parliament has passed a law which says foreign organizations meddling in any kind of election in Russia may be declared ‘undesirable’ and ousted from the country. Election observers are exempt.
The law, passed on Tuesday, will make a small amendment to the legislation which regulates how a non-governmental organization (NGO) may be barred from operating in Russia.

The current rules say Russia may oust an NGO, which is considered a threat to Russia’s “constitutional order, defense or security”. The new piece of legislation, once signed into law, would clarify that such a threat may be posed by meddling in elections in Russia.

The meddling is defined as promoting or obstructing candidates or issues for a referendum or affecting the outcome of a ballot, but does not include the activities or registered international observers monitoring the campaign.

Russia made the political activities of an NGO a valid reason for their removal in 2015. The decision to declare an organization ‘undesirable’ is taken by the general prosecutor or one of his or her deputies after consultations with the Foreign Ministry. An NGO targeted in this way has to shut down its offices in Russia, is barred from financial services and cannot legally publish its materials for Russian audiences.

The list of organizations ousted from Russia under these rules includes US soft power peddlers like the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute as well as George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.

Russian citizens and organizations acting on behalf of a banned foreign NGO may be fined. Repeat offenders face communal service and even prison terms of up to 6 years and a ban from holding a public office. But those who part ways with the NGO voluntarily get a pass and don’t face criminal charges.

https://www.rt.com/russia/446770-russia-election-meddling-law/

Russian non-profit organizations received 80 billion from abroad

The head of Rosfinmonitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin, reported to Vladimir Putin that Russian non-profit organizations received from foreign sources about 80 billion rubles. According to the official, such funding does not always go “for good purposes,” so the agency is studying this process together with the FSB.

Basically funds are directed to educational programs and projects of higher educational institutions. But there is funding "for a certain degree of destructiveness."

In order to block the money supply of terrorism, Rosfinmonitoring actively cooperates with foreign colleagues. Yuri Chikhanchin noted that the Russian system of freezing terrorist assets has already been implemented in 12 countries, around the work on detecting corruption income 35 countries have united, 40 countries are participating in the Rosfinmonitoring project to combat ISIL *.

Earlier, Pravda.Ru reported that Rosfinmonitoring had uncovered an illegal connection of a number of deputies and governors with foreign companies that perform billions of rubles in offshore operations.

miketheterrible wrote:
Anyway, it's no secret half these people get paid to protest. As soon as they are told to cause too much havock they will fold and tell authorities cause they are scared.  Already happened in the past.  Since it's 6,500 or so in Moscow, it's litteraly piss drips in an ocean.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Russian non-profit organizations received 80 billion from abroad

The head of Rosfinmonitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin, reported to Vladimir Putin that Russian non-profit organizations received from foreign sources about 80 billion rubles. According to the official, such funding does not always go “for good purposes,” so the agency is studying this process together with the FSB.

Basically funds are directed to educational programs and projects of higher educational institutions. But there is funding "for a certain degree of destructiveness."

In order to block the money supply of terrorism, Rosfinmonitoring actively cooperates with foreign colleagues. Yuri Chikhanchin noted that the Russian system of freezing terrorist assets has already been implemented in 12 countries, around the work on detecting corruption income 35 countries have united, 40 countries are participating in the Rosfinmonitoring project to combat ISIL *.

Earlier, Pravda.Ru reported that Rosfinmonitoring had uncovered an illegal connection of a number of deputies and governors with foreign companies that perform billions of rubles in offshore operations.

Читайте больше на https://www.pravda.ru/news/society/1409452-rosfinmonitoring/

miketheterrible wrote:
Anyway, it's no secret half these people get paid to protest. As soon as they are told to cause too much havock they will fold and tell authorities cause they are scared.  Already happened in the past.  Since it's 6,500 or so in Moscow, it's litteraly piss drips in an ocean.

unlikely, there is a protest potential in each and every system/society.  Nobody has to pay. The problem here is that Vth column tries to spread false info  hijack public discontent same time  avoiding any debates. Debates re not needed if opponents can ask questions like:

what if US kills connections?  or do you relly think Durov could exist in West without handing out keys to telegram to NSA/FBI or MI5?

PapaDragon wrote:Leaders of Russia: A Hidden Russian Program that should not be hidden

Deripaska vs Soros

Deripaska goes on the warpath with Soros. Personally.
In an article written for the Daily Caller ultra-conservative Pro-Trump portal, Deripaska actually accuses Soros of having financed the Fusion GPS company (along with a group of "Silicon Valley billionaires"), whose Trump file was the starting point hysterics about Russia's interference in the American elections, as well as the entire FBI investigation, in which Trump’s employees were tapped.

On finishing moves, Deripaska states that Barack Obama and Victoria Nuland are members of the so-called "deep state" - that is, the American shadow political organization that administers the US regardless of the will of elected presidents, senators, and so on. The American media has spent a tremendous amount of energy in order to convince readers that the "deep state" is a myth, urban legend and conspiracy theory. Deripaska gave millions of Americans, who (not without reason) believe in the existence of this "organization", another serious motive for not believing the American officialdom. It is clear that Deripaska will now try to “strangle” additional sanctions, but now the American “anti-establishment” has a new hero. The fact that this is a Russian oligarch is a kind of irony of fate and grimace of the era of political postmodern. But the move is definitely strong. In the American non-mainstream infopole, the news has already exploded like a real information bomb.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/the-ever-changing-russia-narrative-in-american-politics-is-cynically-false-public-manipulation/

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Gref called the main problem of Russia the lack of an effective public administration system

The head of Sberbank believes that after solving it, all other problems will be solved automatically.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Gref called the main problem of Russia the lack of an effective public administration system

The head of Sberbank believes that after solving it, all other problems will be solved automatically.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/6217016


on that level it is hard to disagree, but Id' prefer to her missing part. How he sees improving public administration?

kvs wrote:

Russia has the disease of too many opinion makers endlessly claiming that it is far behind the "advanced countries".    These
morons and shysters should STFU.  

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

kvs wrote:

Russia has the disease of too many opinion makers endlessly claiming that it is far behind the "advanced countries".    These
morons and shysters should STFU.  

Actually Glazyev was saying similar stuff. I've read recently his column about "Amur Bridge" . Ill try to rind it for you. IMHO it is no about every, especially top tier,  project but how daily life. If it worked then why many times Putin had to "manually " reverse stupid decisions or push for solutions? like local authorities dont exist.

miketheterrible wrote:Transparency is the key. And secondary is what's to communicate between people and government.

All projects must have transparency and be easily verified by average person.  In doing so, if anything that raises eyebrows is seen, it can be easily reported.  Putin isn't the end all be all. It's the people around him and many more. People who are upset at current issues that need to be addressed

The major issue is that people like Gref, etc is that they are very ambiguous in their statements. They don't specify anything specific.  What I specified is very specific and believe it or not, is being pushed right now by non other than Medvedev - creating online portals to each project that makes it easy to verify and watch.

Must be done.

miketheterrible wrote:Transparency is the key. And secondary is what's to communicate between people and government.

All projects must have transparency and be easily verified by average person.  In doing so, if anything that raises eyebrows is seen, it can be easily reported.  Putin isn't the end all be all. It's the people around him and many more. People who are upset at current issues that need to be addressed

The major issue is that people like Gref, etc is that they are very ambiguous in their statements. They don't specify anything specific.  What I specified is very specific and believe it or not, is being pushed right now by non other than Medvedev - creating online portals to each project that makes it easy to verify and watch.

Must be done.

kvs wrote:
Putin and his government have the job of being administrators.  You make it sound like they do not.  Where do people get off assuming that
every municipal government in the USA and Canada is doing a good job at administrating?   A lot of US municipalities are going bankrupt
because they mismanaged their budgets.   It is actually well known that the municipal level is the most corrupt.   But bleaters in Russia
try to hoodwink Russians into believing in some non-existent perfection in the west.

Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation: the state should have the sovereign right to manage its information space

- Russia is often accused of computer attacks on information resources of Western countries. Did it affect the results of voting in the UN?

- There is a paradoxical situation. Russia in its resolution proposed to adopt the rules of responsible behavior of states in the information space, the implementation of which will allow excluding any destructive activity in the virtual sphere. But our opponents, mainly Western countries, without any evidence accusing us of the unlawful use of ICT, opposed the adoption of such rules.

However, other states have demonstrated an understanding that the world community can no longer live without common rules for all, without mutual respect for sovereignty, without a guaranteed right to protect its own critical information infrastructure from external threats. Ignoring such demands, the technologically developed countries of the West are trying with all their might to push the practically unlimited possibilities that are beneficial for themselves to dictate their conditions to the states lagging behind in “digital” development.

Understanding of these circumstances and the need to find solutions to these problems predetermined the support of Russian projects by the majority of the states of the world community, despite active opposition from the United States. By the way, it is Washington and its closest allies who are trying to hush up the very fact of the adoption of the mentioned resolutions and the results of voting on them.

You should be aware that the adoption of resolution 73/27 "Advances in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security" was made by 119 countries, of which 32 became its co-authors. 46 states voted against, 14 abstained.

94 countries supported the other Russian resolution 73/187 "Countering the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes", 36 were co-sponsors. 59 states voted against, and 33 abstained.

These figures speak eloquently about the solidarity of the majority of states with the Russian approaches in the field of international information security and about supporting Russia's initiatives aimed at creating a peaceful, secure and stable information environment.

GarryB wrote:Wasn't that long ago there was a report that the pentagon couldn't find over 7 billion dollars worth of money that has just disappeared and cannot be accounted for...

Was it during Bush or Clinton that a law was written that basically means the Pentagons budget does not have to add up or ever be audited... basically it does not have to balance its books and cannot be held to account if it is found to have lost money...

miketheterrible wrote:  Post fake news, get charged.

Police filed a libel case on Rogozin’s claim

MOSCOW, March 20 - RIA News. The head of "Roskosmos" Dmitry Rogozin filed a lawsuit statement with defamation, told RIA Novosti in the press service of the state corporation. In turn, a law enforcement source told the agency that the case had been initiated, they were being handled by the Moscow police.
“Dmitry Rogozin has really filed an application with the law enforcement agencies for defamation and protection of honor and dignity,” said a representative of Roscosmos.

According to the newspaper "Kommersant", Rogozin was made to filer complaint because of the publication of the resource" Compromising-Ural "with reference to the Agency"Ruspres". It claimed that the head of "Roscosmos" allegedly gave a bribe to the shareholder "Tape.ru "to Alexander Mamut and the chief editor Vladimir Todorov that those removed from the site lenta.ru material "Flight to nowhere".
“A criminal case has been opened, a preliminary investigation is in progress, investigators are working,” a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti.

oh they do, only they dont want to show all those "black ops" o NGO grants

New heads of regions left the same school

There is not only an update, but also a rejuvenation of the regional leadership. 46-year-old Aleksey Teksler was appointed Acting Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region , the same number - Oleg Khorokhordin , who headed Altai. A 38-year-old Batu Hasikov has been appointed the new leader of Kalmykia with the rank of Acting . "I think that the desire and ability to achieve their goals, despite the difficulties, I come in handy," - said Hasikov in an interview with the newspaper VIEW.

The three managers have a very diverse background. Khasikov is a famous athlete, six-time world champion in kickboxing and at the same time a public figure, a former senator from Kalmykia. Teksler is a specialist with extensive experience in metallurgy, worked at Norilsk Nickel, was the city manager of Norilsk, and by the time he was appointed acting governor, he was the first deputy head of the Ministry of Energy of Russia. Khorokhordin worked both in business and subsequently in the civil service, including at the federal level - in the administration of the presidential administration on domestic policy, in the government apparatus. Prior to the appointment of the acting head of Gorny Altai, he served as chairman of the non-profit partnership GLONASS and was deputy head of the secretariat, Vice-Premier Maxim Akimov.  

At the same time, Teksler was a student of the first stream of the personnel management reserve development program on the basis of the Higher School of Public Administration (VSHGU) of the RANEPA, which was already dubbed the “school of governors”. Khorokhordin is a participant in the second stream of the same program. Khasikov studied in graduate school of the Academy of Civil Service.
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Dmitry Gusev, President of the Bakster-group consulting agency, commenting on the appointment of Alexey Teksler, said : “There is a Kremlin personnel policy, which is that people who have undergone various management practices — senior executives, legislative authorities, large corporations — are appointed to top government positions. . Texler is an example of such a manager. ”

"There is a staff update of the governor's corps, this is quite a natural process. New leaders are emerging who are able to meet the challenges of a scientific and technological breakthrough. This is the digitization of the regional economy, this is the creation of new sectors of innovative development of regions, this is a social program that the President announced in his message to the Federal Assembly. At the same time, there are twelve national projects in which the whole country participates, and this requires new knowledge, new skills and regional management skills ", said Igor Morozov.

GarryB wrote:

oh they do, only they dont want to show all those "black ops" o  NGO grants

Ha ha... yeah, you one of these fan boys who thinks America spend three quarters of a trillion dollars a year on "defence" because Aurora is a real mach 6 stealth bomber they have had in operation for 15-20 years, and the US army has laser rifles and body armour like in computer games...

kvs wrote:

Using utter BS arguments, some electoral commission in Sevastopol, Crimea, has denied access to the ballot box of a slew of
small parties.   As discussed in the video, this is some sort of sabotage under the roof of "not allowing marginal parties too
much power".   The same commission basically banned all the real anti-corruption parties and let even small parties associated
with the corrupt elements access to the ballot box.

This is the true face of democracy.   Such tricks are routine in the US where 3rd party candidates are banned from ballot box
access in various districts by corrupt Democrat-Republican dominated electoral committees.   This is why real democracy requires
the elected president to be essentially a "tyrant" and to deal with such rot.   This rot does not naturally go away.   In fact,
over time it starts to fully dominate the system.

I hope Putin "meddles" in this Crimean election to fix such brazen sabotage of people's choices.

no, but I dont think like you that all is theft. This is fanboish to me.