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Day: January 21, 2017
Chelsea manning thanked Barack Obama for a commutation of sentence
Chelsea Manning A former soldier of the us army Chelsea manning thanked President Barack Obama for leniency. She wrote about this in his microblog in Twitter on Thursday, January 19. “Thank you, Barack Obama, gave me the chance,” reads the entry. — Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) 19 January 2017, 14:09 BBC News notes that the recipient of gratitude, Barack Obama personally, as in the message specified the address of his own microblog, and not the official account of the President of the United States, which Friday, January 20, will be transferred to the jurisdiction of the elected President of Donald trump. The informant of WikiLeaks, U.S. army private Bradley manning, later had a sex change, was arrested in may 2010. He was accused of transfer of about 700 thousand classified documents relating to US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most famous leak was a 39-minute video showing the killing
The media learned about the plans for trump to sign the first Executive orders on inauguration day
Donald Trump The US President-elect Donald trump will sign the first Executive orders in the day of his inauguration on January 20. On Thursday, January 19, reports Reuters with reference to the employee’s transition team Republican According to him, trump selected about 200 decrees that from them he chose and signed the most important. The news Agency learned that the new occupant of the White house, in particular, wants to cancel a number of documents of his predecessor, Barack Obama, to take the first steps to realize ideas on construction of a wall on the border with Mexico and restricting immigration. In addition, Reuters found out about the plans for the trump 21 January to visit the headquarters of the Central intelligence Agency (CIA), whose work he criticized during the election campaign and beyond. January 19 in new York held a protest against trump. Along with the ordinary public it
Former President of Gambia agreed to cede power to a successor
Yahya Jammeh Lost the election the President of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh, who headed the Republic since 1994, has agreed to resign and leave the country. Reuters said Mai Ahmed Fattah, Advisor to the new President Adam barrow. Fattah showed the tweet to the Twitter account, which, as expected, belongs to the barrow, and asked for clarification, is it true that Jammeh agreed to the deal. “So it is,” he said. Presidential elections in the Gambia were held on 1 December 2016. Barrow scored 45.5 percent of the vote, Jammeh 36.7 percent. January 18, the national Assembly extended the presidential powers lost the election Jammeh. He had to hand over power barrow on January 19, but instead introduced a state of emergency, although earlier it was reported about the recognition of his defeat. The world community has not recognized the claims of the Jamma, and the neighbors of the Gambia
Zhirinovsky asked careful to speak about the Russian
Vladimir Zhirinovsky Speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin urged the leader of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky and other deputies careful to speak about the peoples of Russia. On Friday, January 20, reports “Russian Newspaper”. “Russia is a multinational country, so when we are talking about a nationality, when we emphasize their attitude to the people, let’s take this into consideration, because we live in Russia. We believe that we are all brothers, and then we lot will happen,” said Volodin, commenting on the words of Zhirinovsky about the role of some national republics in the collapse of the Soviet Union. During his speech in the lower house of Parliament, the leader of the liberal Democrats, citing the 1987 article “Russian in the USSR”, stated that the idea of the Soviet government to raise different people “to the level of advanced” to anything good has not resulted. In his view, Russian
Peskov refused to consider trump’s “our man”
Dmitry Peskov Official Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the erroneous perception of elected President of the USA of Donald trump as a Pro-Russian policy. It is reported RIA Novosti on Friday, January 20. “This is not our man. This American man is the President of the United States,” — reminded the press-Secretary of the head of state in an interview to “Vesti on Saturday” with Sergei Brilev. Peskov stressed that “to assume on the part of Western analysts and politicians that this is our man” was their biggest mistake. On 19 January it was reported that the representative of the Kremlin in an interview with BBC stated the need for good relations between Russia and the United States. He stressed that the position of trump’s “still in question”. In addition, Peskov reminded that Moscow has nothing to do with the cyber attacks, which accuses the Russian government of Washington. 6
Zakharov commented on the end of the presidential term of Obama
Maria Zakharova The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said end of the mandate of Barack Obama as President of the United States. As she wrote on his page on Facebook, as head of state he will not be able to speak about Russia. “In the world can happen a lot, except for one thing: President Obama won’t say anything more about Russia,” she wrote. 20 Jan Zakharova said that the elections in USA was not a single Pro-Russian candidate, but was Russophobic. “One candidate is clearly expressed anti-Russian views, and against this background, many felt that the second candidate — Pro. This was not. There are no Pro-Russian candidates, they’re all Pro-American,” said the spokesman. In Washington near the Capitol January 20, the inauguration of the 45th President of the USA of Donald trump. Before him were sworn, Vice-President Mike Pence. Trump took the oath on two
The last word-Obama: Russia and the United States needs a constructive relationship
Photo: the guardian.EN The outgoing President of the USA Barack Obama on January 18, he gave a farewell press conference. This coming Friday, January 20, will inaugurate a new President, Republican Donald trump. Obama: Constructive relations between Moscow and Washington need worldwide A large part of the issues Obama touched on his views on relations with Russia. Contrary to the principles of its foreign policy, including harsh and unjustified sanctions of recent weeks, he said that a constructive relationship with Moscow necessary to Washington in the interests of the United States and around the world. In this case only two weeks ago by the decision of the Obama administration 35 Russian diplomats were declared persona non grata and expelled from the country. “I believe that in the interests of the United States and the world community to have a constructive relationship with Russia,” — suddenly said Obama. In the words
Biden urged to counter Russian influence in Europe
Photo: © AP Photo/ Tony Dejak The outgoing Vice-President of the USA Joe Biden called to counter Russian influence in Europe. “If we leave, Hungary, Poland, even the Baltic countries — all of these guys will play it safe,” Biden said Wednesday in an interview with the New York Times. It clarifies the newspaper, the conversation was about “hegemony” of Russia in Eastern Europe. Biden as Vice President has repeatedly called for countries in Eastern Europe. United States implement the program, which in January was renamed the Initiative to curb. Earlier, the Pentagon had already acknowledged that the program of military presence on the borders with Russia, designed to “reassure” NATO allies, actually began to perform tasks for the military containment of Russia. The Pentagon budget for the 2017 financial year includes increased spending on the so-called Initiative on European security (European Reassurance Initiative), about 3.4 billion dollars. A year
XI Jinping talked about the future China’s policy towards Russia
Photo: RIA Novosti The Chairman of the people’s Republic of China XI Jinping said that China will try to build a new model of relations with the US and strategic partnership with Russia. “We will try to build a new model of relations with the US and comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia — the partnership for peace, growth, reform among the various European civilizations. The partnership of the unity and cooperation of the BRICS countries”, — quotes RIA Novosti his words. Earlier official representative of Chinese foreign Ministry Hua Chunying said that the comprehensive partnership of China and Russia are historically the highest level.