Day: February 20, 2017

The white house explained the President’s words trump about the incident in Sweden WASHINGTON, 20 Feb — RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky. The US President Donald trump, speaking about the incident in Sweden was not referring to any specific incident, told reporters the White house spokesman, quoted by Reuters. Yesterday in a speech in Florida, trump said: “Look, what’s going on in Germany, look what happened in Sweden last night. Sweden! Who would believe it. Sweden received a large number (refugees and migrants), and she had problems that they thought were not possible!” However, no special state of emergency in Sweden on Friday and on previous days did not happen. Trump has been subjected to ridicule and attacks on the Internet for his statement. According to the White house, trump is “not talking about a specific incident” and was referring to the overall situation in Sweden, including the rise of crime

FT: Brussels is not going to discuss London’s future trade agreement in 2017 LONDON, February 20. /Offset. TASS Maxim Ryzhkov/. EU authorities do not intend to discuss the topic of future trade agreements between the UK and the EU in the upcoming negotiations on the terms Brexit. To raise this issue, as reported Sunday night on its website, the Financial Times, the EU has no plans, at least until next Christmas (25 December). In Brussels, the newspaper notes, intend to refuse in any negotiations involving a trade issue, as long as no progress would be made in two issues. The first relates to the payment of the British side of the invoice in €60 billion for failure to comply with its earlier commitments under the various treaties as a result of exit from the community. The second is devoted to the rights of citizens of member countries of the European

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia will never look at a new us administration, said press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, reports RIA “Novosti”. “As for charm or frustration, I want to remind you that throughout the last period, several months, we say that never wore rose-colored glasses and never had illusions. So we have nothing to be disappointed” he said in response to the question about disappointment in the administration of U.S. President Donald trump. Peskov said that a month has passed since the start of the new administration, therefore, any conclusions and evaluation to give prematurely. The news is updated.

Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova ridiculed American site BuzzFeed, which earlier reported about the presence of Russian “blackmail” the President of the United States Donald trump. Zakharova noted that BuzzFeed believes himself to media and is trying to write on serious topics like international politics, and Russia. In January, the resource said the controversial publication, which argued about the presence of Russian “blackmail” the President of the United States Donald trump regarding his sexual relations with women of easy virtue in a Moscow hotel. The Russian foreign Ministry has sought to clarify the status of “serious”, the resources of his administration and the US state Department, but till date not received a clear answer. American dipvedomstva, according to Zakharova, said that the staff “and so to eat than be engaged”. As an example, activities of BuzzFeed diplomat brought him material about 10 Russian