Contents tagged with United Russia
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Belgium seizes 2 tons of cocaine with United Russia logo
The Belgian Federal Police confirmed to the Russian BBC service that batches of cocaine were discovered in packages bearing the logo of the United Russia party.
Two tons of cocaine, split into 1,900 packages, were hidden in the cargo of a ship which docked in the Belgian port of Ghent from Brazil. The trade value of the drugs is estimated to be in excess of € 100 million.
Evegeny Revenko, deputy secretary of the United Russia general council, gave RIA Novosti a humorous explanation for how …
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Putin's party asserted that the Donetsk People’s Republic is not a state
United Russia, President Putin’s home party stated that the recognition of passports from the DPR and LPR will not lead to the exclusion of Deputy Iosif Kobzon from the State Duma.
Deputies of the Russian Parliament cannot have dual citizenship and Kobzon presumably has a DPR-issued passport. However, the first Deputy Head of the executive committee of United Russia, Konstantin Mazurevsky, explained that the passport of the DPR does not mean the existence of DPR citizenship, since the DPR is …