Day: January 23, 2017

Protesters took control of one of the busiest points of entry Otay Mesa, connecting Mexican Tijuana and the us city of San Diego. As reported on Monday, January 23, the Associated Press, there are about 50 demonstrators protesting against rising petrol prices in the country. Participants of the action hold in hand posters with claims against the government of Mexican leader Enrique peña Nieto. It is noted that because of the demonstrators for a few hours had hampered the movement of vehicles in the district of San Isidro. According to the Agency, these protests are irrelevant to the election of the President of the United States Donald trump and his taking office. Protests against the increase in gasoline prices in Mexico have repeatedly escalated into riots. Rising prices caused by the depreciation of the national currency, the peso.

In the capital of Kazakhstan Astana has begun talks on Syria. The meeting is being held in the Rixos hotel. On Monday, January 23, reports TASS. It is noted that the delegations of the Syrian government and the armed opposition for the first time sat down at the negotiating table. In addition, the meeting was attended by representatives of Kazakhstan, Iran, the UN, the US, Turkey and Russia. The main theme of the meeting — confirmation of the armistice agreements of December 29, and advance the political negotiation process for consultations in Geneva on 8 February. As noted by RIA Novosti, the organizers of the meeting in order to unify the positions of the negotiating parties deliberately did not put on the table signs for the opposition and Damascus, marking the two delegations as the “Syrian Arab Republic”. 29 December 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that they had reached

Chinese authorities have banned the use of unregistered virtual private networks (VPN). About it reports The South China Morning Post. The Ministry of industry and information technology of China issued a decree according to which all cable operators and all VPN services should be required to obtain a permit to conduct activities with the government. “The Chinese market for Internet services develops chaotically, which requires immediate intervention in order to resolve the situation”, — stated in the message text. Beijing believes that this is necessary to ensure the security of the country. According to the publication, this is due to the desire of the Chinese authorities to eliminate the numerous online services that allow you to circumvent the system of control over the Internet — the so-called “Great Chinese firewall”. It is aimed at curbing the organization of the protest movement, and criticism of the Communist party. Within its framework