January 20, 2017 – Page 5 – Russian Reality

“Russian hackers” turned the US into a United States of Russia

January 20, 2017 RR Events

Salute on the occasion of the inauguration of the future Donald trump was the cause of another scandal. According to the organizers, the festival was to end with fireworks, which is an inscription USA, but something went wrong and on the sky appeared the letters USR. Internet users have decoded the abbreviation as the United States of Russia (United States of Russia – approx.ed). Social networks filled by Americans, suggested that the salute was also attacked by “Russian hackers”. “It seems that Putin has bought and fireworks trump,” says one Twitter user. “Schr? Seriously? Trump is not even trying to hide it. What happened to this country,” says another American. “Fireworks don’t lie,” says another Internet user. Video: YouTube / YouTube

Levin: the Committee of the state Duma is ready to “smoothing the corners” in the legislation on the “Spring package”

January 20, 2017 RR Politics

The Chairman of the state Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications Leonid Levin © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. The state Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications is ready to work on elimination of shortcomings in the legislation related to implementation of a package of anti-terrorist laws (the so-called Spring package). This was stated on Thursday, TASS Chairman of the Duma Committee Leonid Levin, commenting on the consideration of public petitions for cancellation of the package.

The materials of the case of prohibited methods of war in Donbass there are already 5 thousand volumes

January 20, 2017 RR Politics

Break the shell in the skies over Donetsk, 2015 © Alexander Sidorov/TASS MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. The materials of the criminal case about the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare in the South-East of Ukraine are already more than 5 thousand volumes. This was announced by the representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko.

Medvedev called the error of Obama’s destruction of relations with Russia and expressed hope for their improvement

January 20, 2017 RR Politics

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev © Dmitry Astakhov/TASS MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. The US authorities when 44th President Barack Obama, whose powers on a post of the head of state expires on January 20, destroyed the bilateral relations with Russia and this error will remain in the history. Moscow hopes that the reasonable actions of the new administration of the White house and are willing to contribute to the improvement of bilateral relations. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev published on his page on Facebook on the occasion of the completion of the activities of the Obama administration. The head of the Cabinet of Ministers decided “to give some estimates of Russian-American relations in this period (under Obama)” as himself “was a direct participant in many events”.

Crashed into the crowd, the car ran over three people in Melbourne

January 20, 2017 RR World

At least three people were killed and about 20 injured in the centre of the Australian Melbourne due to the fact that the car drove into the crowd. On Friday, January 20, Reuters reports, citing local police. Among the victims is an infant. Earlier it was reported about one killed. Law enforcement officials told reporters that the driver arrested, he acted intentionally. However, police stressed that it did not believe the incident a terrorist attack. At the present time are the circumstances of the incident. Eyewitnesses said that before delay ran over pedestrians the driver rammed the police driven them from the car and fired it up. The operation involved about ten security officers. In Melbourne these days is the Open championship of Australia on tennis, because the town is faced with the influx of tourists, most of them foreign fans. On January 8 in Jerusalem drove the truck the

The manufacturers of false documents for terrorists received sentences in Belgium

January 20, 2017 RR World

The Belgian court issued a verdict against 14 members of a criminal group, engaged in production of false documents. It is reported by DH.be. One of the members of the gang sentenced to a suspended, 13 remaining in prison from three to eight years. Besides, they are all fined between 18 to 60 thousand euros. According to investigators, during their activities, they produced about two thousand fake identity cards were allegedly issued in Denmark, Belgium and Spain. On the trail managed to come out after it became clear that some of the terrorists involved in the terrorist attacks in France and Belgium, was in possession of false documents. They have used Salah abdessalam, the main suspect in the case of the terrorist attacks in Paris, as well as Khalid El-Batrawi, who along with his brother Ibrahim joined the group, committed on 22 March 2016 a terrorist attack in Brussels. As

Obama has accused Congress of disrupting attempts to close Guantanamo

January 20, 2017 RR World

President Barack Obama accused Congress that he did not allow him to close the prison at the us military base Guantanamo Bay. As reported by The Washington Post, said in a farewell letter to Obama, congressmen and senators. “There is no justification for the actions of Congress, by which this prison is still functioning, — reads the text. Members of Congress who blocked attempts to close on the grounds that it is necessary for our security, betrayed the trust that was provided by the American people. History with all the severity will pronounce the sentence of this side of our battle with terrorism and those of us who could not put her a well-deserved end. The existence of Guantanamo Bay is contrary to our values and undermines our position in the world, and it’s time to close that Chapter in our history.” Barack Obama promised to close the prison at

The Kremlin said about the thousands of cyber attacks on Western Russia

January 20, 2017 RR Russia

Russia reflected every day thousands of cyber attacks from the West. This is the official representative of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, said in an interview with the BBC, which will be released in the framework of the programme HardTalk on January 21. Extracts from it quoted by TASS. “Every day there are hundreds and thousands of cyber attacks on the digital system of the Russian Federation. Some of them are carried out from the territory of the United States. Dozens of go with the territory of Germany. Dozens of the UK”, — said the press Secretary of the Russian President. However, he expressed the opinion that these attacks are not sanctioned by the leadership of the Western States. “We think it’s irrelevant to governments, although we have evidence that in some very aggressive attacks on our banks and our official web site are some foreign intelligence services,” — said Peskov.

On the Arctic circle has banned a gay parade

January 20, 2017 RR Russia

Power is located on the Arctic circle Salekhard banned there a gay pride parade. About it “Interfax” was informed in the city administration. “Received notice of the 29 and 31 January meetings, January 30 — March. It was designed for 300 people. The applicant directed the refusal,” — said the Agency interlocutor, noting that the reason for this decision was the act on the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development. It is noted that LGBT activists first appealed to the administration of Salekhard with a request to hold public events. The leader of the Moscow LGBT community, Nikolay Alexeyev on his page in “Vkontakte” wrote that the bans appealed to the Salekhard city court of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district. “The case, if necessary, will be brought to the European court of human rights. It’s already 65-th subject of the Russian Federation, forbade such actions,” he

NATO: while trump’s policy towards Ukraine will remain the same

January 20, 2017 RR Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of the NATO Military Committee, General Petr Pavel said that he sees no reason to expect a change in the attitude of the Alliance towards Ukraine after the change of administration in the United States; NATO will continue to assist in strengthening the country’s defense. “No reason to believe that the position in respect of Ukraine will be changed. We work with local partners, strengthening their defenses through educational programs, (our) team liaison support package of Ukraine”, — said Paul to reporters, answering the question of whether to expect changes to Ukraine’s NATO policy during the administration of Donald trump. He noted that NATO will “continue this process” assistance.