Day: February 22, 2017

Spratly American military experts suspected China in the placement of the missiles “ground-air” on the disputed Islands in the South China sea (SCS). About it reports Reuters with reference to sources in the Pentagon. US intelligence has documented the construction of nearly two dozen concrete objects with a retractable roof on the Islands of the Subie, Mischif, firi Cross and Spratly Islands. They also placed the runway for the Chinese air force. “The Chinese did not build just like that. It’s not like them. Structures resemble silos for anti-aircraft missiles, so it is likely that they are,” — said the representative of the security services. 19 Feb carrier group, the US Navy began patrolling in the South China sea amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the disputed borders in the region. A month before that, the Chinese edition of Global Times has predicted the beginning of armed conflict

Maria Zakharova The allegations of the involvement of the Russian authorities to the attempted coup in Montenegro cost of power of the Republic. This was at the briefing on Wednesday, February 22, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, reports TASS. According to her, “this is not a new campaign, she’s just going through a new phase of their promotion”. “Of course, for this campaign are Montenegrin government, as we understand,” she said. Zakharov said that “the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dusko Markovic did not resist the temptation to join in the use of widely used in USA and EU countries thesis” on the intervention of some Russian special services in electoral processes. Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed that all such claims are unfounded. “Of course, no evidence that would be able to confirm these declarations, nor the Montenegrin officials, nor the Western media do not give”, —

Vitaly Churkin In the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs expressed surprise at the appearance in the American press leaks about the circumstances of the death of the representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vitaly Churkin. This is the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday, February 22, her words leads RIA Novosti. “We believe that this information should be passed to the Russian side, primarily through official channels to be informed the family, his family should first be aware of the results of the examination”, — said Zakharov. She hoped that the us side will continue to inform Moscow via official channels and only then transfer the data to the media. Vitaly Churkin died in new York on Monday, February 20, the day before your 65th birthday. According to the newspaper The New York Post, in the morning, the diplomat felt