Day: February 21, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti On the sidelines of the security conference in Munich his opinion about Russia’s role in the world was expressed by the former Minister of national security of the USA Michael Chertoff. He said that the United States should respect Russia as a world power. Chertoff has told RIA Novosti that he sees no reason for unnecessary neglect. The ex-Minister is confident that the solution to the world’s problems jointly with Russia should be based not on the desire a President trump as “the more substantial the platform.” However, Chertoff said that in relations between Russia and the United States “there are areas where joint work is impossible”. Earlier, Vice-President Michael Penny noted that Washington and Moscow can find new points of contact.

Photo: AP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski, Pool The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that he discussed with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson during the meeting in Bonn, including Iran. “Yes, Iran, we discussed how we discussed and all other key issues on the international agenda. We believe that a joint comprehensive program of action, which settled the problem of the Iranian nuclear program, remains in force. The U.S. side continues to participate in monitoring the implementation of this document together with other participants of this agreement,” Lavrov told reporters in Munich. The Russian Minister also said that he met Saturday in Munich with the head of the IAEA Yukiya Amano. “He confirmed that the monitoring of the execution of this program shows that Iran fulfills its obligations. And we believe that this will continue. But all other signatories must fulfil their obligations. Mean complete removal of

Photo: RIA Novosti According to the couple convicted in the U.S. pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, the Russian offered a permanent residence permit, if he testified against another convict of Russian citizen Viktor bout, reports RIA “Novosti”. “He offered the testimony of Victor bout to give, and then promised us green card”, she said. According to the mother of the pilot, refusal to testify against bout exacerbated the situation Yaroshenko and increased his prison term. Earlier Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak said that Russia considers the fate of bout and Yaroshenko priority issue in relations with the United States.

© Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. To rent from ourselves nothing is impossible, said the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the proposal of Verkhovna Rada Deputy Andriy Artemenko conduct in Ukraine the referendum on whether Crimea “to take Russia to lease for a period of 50 to 100 years.” “It is difficult to comment, because myself to rent anything. I even can’t add anything,” – said Lavrov at a press conference. “With regard to the different plans, it probably is a lot of wishing to distract attention from the complete failure of the administration (President of Ukraine Petro approx. TASS) Poroshenko to meet their commitments under the Minsk agreements, but at the same time to distract attention from the inability of our French and German colleagues in any way affect Poroshenko and force him to keep his word,” he said.