Day: February 23, 2017

Media: Saakashvili may sue for a violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine KIEV, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. Ukrainian human rights activist Oleg Kurchin has applied to the Prosecutor General against the former Governor of the Odessa region, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili for the attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, reports the edition “Segodnia”. “He believes that in his speech, Saakashvili offensive said about the Odessa region, headed for one and a half years”, — stated in the message. As an example, quoted Saakashvili: “of Course, they all hurt, I knew it would interfere with… because it’s a separatist region in power there all the separatists.” “Incitement of national enmity, that is, the actions of Mikhail Saakashvili can lead to set up the people of Odessa, Kiev, Donetsk, Lugansk, one against another”, — quotes the words of human rights activist.

In the state Duma commented on the protest of Japan because of the division in the Kuril Islands MOSCOW, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. Kuril Islands is a territory of the Russian Federation, so the Russian side has the right to use them to protect the country, including for the deployment of its divisions, said the first Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Dmitry Novikov. Earlier, the Japanese government sent through diplomatic channels protest to Russia over plans to deploy divisions of Russia in the Kuril Islands in 2017. The Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu, speaking in the state Duma on Wednesday, said that the Agency expects “this year to finish the placement of the three divisions on the Western and southwestern border.” In particular, he stressed that “continues active work on the protection of the Kuril Islands”, where this year also “must be placed

The Iraqi military launched an offensive on Mosul airport Iraqi forces launched a major offensive on the airport in Mosul and camp al-Ghazlani to the South-West of Mosul, according to Sky News Arabia, citing a source. According to him, Federal police units and rapid reaction forces with air support and heavy artillery began preparations for the assault on the airport. Military managed to destroy most of the fortifications of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IG; banned in Russia). Recall the Iraqi troops with the air support of the international coalition led by the US liberated the Eastern part of Mosul at the end of January. 19 Feb Baghdad announced the beginning of the operation of cleansing from militants and the Western part of the city. Later that same day, the Iraqi army has liberated two villages in the outskirts of Mosul.

Photo: EPA Serbian President Tomislav nikolić posthumously awarded the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin the order of the Serbian banner for his friendly assistance to the country in the UN. “Today I was posthumously awarded Ambassador Churkin, the order of the Serbian flag of the first degree. We have not yet announced it, I mean, as long as we have such friends in the UN, I’m not worried”, — quotes RIA Novosti President’s words. Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Churkin was posthumously awarded the order of Courage. Vitaly Churkin, died February 20 in new York.

Aleksey Borodavkin © Boris Kavashkin/TASS GENEVA, 23 Feb. /TASS/. Moscow considers the absurd demand of the Syrian opposition about the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This was stated by Russia’s permanent representative to the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva Alexei Borodavkin. “It (the position of the delegation of the government of Syria – approx. TASS) the contrast with what we hear from the opposition that arrive from Riyadh, which as a pre-condition again, for the umpteenth time, expose the absurd requirement of immediate resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”