Day: February 7, 2017

Ukrainian blogger called burn Russian cameras and pressure tanks

Events

President-Manager of RINGOO shops in Kiev Yana Potosnak called “crush the ethnic Russian tanks” in Ukraine and “burn them in the gas chambers”. This Potosnak wrote in his blog on the website korrespondent.net. According to the Ukrainian edition “News”, now the post is already removed by the author.   “Where our self-esteem to yourself? Why we don’t pressure tanks of all ethnic Russians living in our land? Why are we, finally, will not start burn them all in gas chambers?” – asks the businesswoman.   She also believes that it is necessary to introduce criminal responsibility for “compassion” to the brotherly people and the Russian language should be prohibited on a state level.   “We need to criminalize compassion for the Russian! For the provision of any assistance! Medical! Legal and so on!” – urged Potosnak.   “It’s about time our Parliament to pass a law according to which ethnic

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The state Duma plans to hold hearings on Russian-American relations

Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Hearings on Russian-American relations could be held in late February — early March in the state Duma, said the head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky. “We’ll be in Committee to 28 February or 1 March hearings on the theme “the trump Factor and its impact on Russian-American relations and world politics”, — said Slutsky at the meeting of the Committee. In late January, the presidents of Russia and USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump held their first phone conversation since the inauguration of the American leader. They discussed a wide range of topical problems in international and bilateral relations and showed “a mindset for active joint work on stabilization and development of the interaction of constructive, equal and mutually beneficial basis.” The much awaited conversation between the two leaders largely met expectations and gave reason to hope that the crisis in Russian-American relations

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Lavrov was surprised by the accusations of the opposition about Russia’s intervention in the Affairs of Venezuela

Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow is surprised by allegations of meddling in the internal Affairs of Venezuela, RIA “Novosti”. He said this at a press conference with his Venezuelan counterpart, Delcy Rodriguez. According to Lavrov, Russia has consistently advocated that internal crises in any country was decided on the basis of the legislation through a dialogue between all political forces. “We stressed that the international community should not interfere in these processes, but should, on the contrary, to support the establishment of such a dialogue within the Constitution”, – said the Minister. The head of the Russian foreign Ministry when it seemed somewhat strange that the opposition to the President, the Parliament has committed itself to escalating confrontations with very serious potential consequences and accused Russia that it interferes in the internal Affairs of Venezuela. Lavrov expressed the opinion that

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French parliamentarians will visit Moscow in mid-March

Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti French parliamentarians will arrive in Moscow in mid-March for a meeting with Russian parliamentarians, said on Monday the head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky. “On March 16-17, we will have Thierry Mariani with colleagues. We have three years there was a large French Commission, so we invite them and we will talk,” he said during the meeting of the Committee.

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Sarkozy will be arraigned in the case on financing the election campaign

World

Nicolas Sarkozy The former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy will be arraigned on charges of illegal financing of its election campaign of 2012. On Tuesday, 7 February, reports Reuters with reference to sources in court. According to interlocutors of Agency, in addition to the former French leader, before the court in the case of cost overruns and violation of financial laws known as the Bygmalion Affair, will appear in another 13 people. In 2012 Sarkozy lost the presidential elections to the candidate from the Socialist party Francois Hollande. Two years later sparked a political scandal involving the suspected misuse of funds allocated for the election campaign. PR company Bygmalion, engaged in information support of election campaign of the candidate, carried out part of the funding under fake accounts. Thus, through the PR Agency had spent about 10 million euros. This is not the first scandal of the election campaign Sarkozy.

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Duterte promised to send at fault of the police for a meeting with the Islamists

World

Rodrigo Duterte The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte promised to send at fault of the police on the island of Basilan, where there’s a group of radical Islamists “Abu Sayyaf”. This reports the South China Morning Post. As specifies the edition, on the morning of Tuesday, February 7, in the courtyard of the presidential Palace was built about 400 detention order in respect of which the investigation is made in connection with official misconduct. Duterte hit them with curses, calling “idiots”, “fools” and “children of whores”. “I’ll send you for two years on Basilan. If you survive, you’ll be able to return. And if not, then I’ll have to bury you there and not to spend money for transportation of your bodies over here” — threatened Philippine leader. On 30 January it was announced that the police force of the Philippines temporarily suspended operations against drug traffickers and switched

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In Syria, the Deputy of the state Duma commented on the data about prison executions

Russia

Alexander Yushchenko Representatives of the international human rights organization Amnesty International should personally visit a Syrian prison to assess the situation. This opinion on Tuesday, February 7, was expressed by the Deputy of the state Duma, member of the parliamentary group of friendship between Russia and Syria Alexander Yushchenko, RIA Novosti reported. “They’re with my eyes I cannot see. Let them come, look, all show. I think they will change the attitude,” said Yushchenko, who is in Damascus. The MP reminded that the President of Syria Bashar al-Asad extends the Amnesty to disarmed fighters. This, according to the MP, is a “telling fact” in favor of the fact that the government of the Republic is not set up to destroy the criminals. Yushchenko, referring to the received from the Belgian colleagues information, assured that they were being held in Syrian prisons in fairly comfortable conditions. “They (the Belgian deputies —

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Tymoshenko’s idea of martial law in Ukraine is considered the PR campaign for trump

Russia

Yulia Tymoshenko The proposal of the leader of the party “Batkivshchyna” Yulia Tymoshenko to impose martial law on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics is no more than a PR stunt, designed to attract the attention of the new U.S. administration. Such opinion in interview “Tape.ru” stated the head of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov on Tuesday, February 7. “This is an attempt to draw attention to the events in Ukraine, his former patron — America in the person of its new chief (President of Donald trump — approx. “Of the tape.ru”). It’s such a PR campaign, Tymoshenko, who is at the toilet he waited for the tramp, and now I came home and she had to say something,” said Kalashnikov. According to him, earlier, the Kiev authorities tried to do it “through military operations in the vicinity

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The defense Ministry denied its strikes by aircraft of the Russian Federation videoconferencing Idlib

Politics

The Syrian city of Idlib © REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. Russian aerospace forces attacked the Syrian city of Idlib, said the official representative of Department major General Igor Konashenkov. “Aircraft of Russian air force neither yesterday, nor this week, nor even with the beginning of 2017 not a single air strike on the city of Idlib is not applied. All reports of such attacks – a deliberate lie,” he said. “Making such information stuffing, as a rule, are engaged in the same media, according to a single template, on a regular basis and always with reference to anonymous activists of “civil defense”, – said Konashenkov. Earlier, Reuters reported that in the eight air strikes by Russian planes VC in the city of Idlib, killing at least 15 people.

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