February 26, 2017 – Page 5

In DG expect to restart the inter-parliamentary cooperation with the United States

February 26, 2017 RR Politics

Photo: In the state Duma on 28 February will be held a round table on the topic: “Russian-American relations: realities and prospects”. As the correspondent of IA REGNUM on February 26, reported the head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky (LDPR). Participation in the discussion will be attended by Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov, the State Duma deputies, Federation Council members, representatives of leading research institutes Russian Academy of Sciences, experts and political scientists. In the framework of the “round table” is planned to analyze the status and prospects of Russian-American cooperation. “I am convinced that in today’s geopolitical environment, in terms of the surge of international terrorism for two major world powers — Russia and the United States — should lead constructive, pragmatic and equal dialogue on all key issues on the international agenda and at all levels,” said Slutsky. Russian parliamentarians hope that

Balbec: protests at the Russian Embassy in Ankara is Pro-Western lobby

February 26, 2017 RR Politics

Photo: News.Ru The protests at the Russian Embassy in Ankara are supporters of the religious preacher Fethullah Gulen, posing as representatives of the Crimean Tatar Diaspora. This is the opinion of the Deputy of the state Duma of Crimea Ruslan Balbec. “Behind all this Pro-Western lobby in Turkey with the attitude toward Gulen, which in its anti-Russian policy covered the Diaspora of the Crimean Tatars, trying to prevent the strengthening of Russian-Turkish relations,” he said. According to the Deputy, in the Crimea, I’m sorry that Western forces continue to use the Crimean Tatars as hostages in its geopolitical interests. Protests were held on February 25. The rally was organized by the Association of NGOs of Crimean Tatars and timed to the third anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The activists laid to the building of the diplomatic mission a black wreath. Crimea became Russian for the holding of

Ukrainian nationalists began a blockade of Donbass Mariupol direction

February 26, 2017 RR World

The city of Bakhmut Participants of the trade blockade of Donbass established the first redoubt on the Mariupol direction. This was reported on the page of its headquarters in Facebook. The fortification, which was called “the Nightingale”, is located in the village of Novotroitsk in the Kiev-controlled part of Donetsk region. “The garrison of redoubt — the veterans of the battalion “Donbass”, “Aidar” volunteer movement, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian nationalists, banned in Russia), UNSO (Ukrainian national self-defence, is prohibited in Russia) and social activists,” reads the post. It also specifies that the tasks of the garrison — the overlap of trade and the flow of contraband in the direction Donetsk — Mariupol. The headquarters added that plans to expand the network of redoubts. Earlier in February, the blockade blocked the railway Yasinovataya (under the control of militias), Kostiantynivka (under the control of the Armed forces of Ukraine). Before that,

Russian foreign Ministry condemns terrorist attack in HOMS and urged to punish those responsible

February 26, 2017 RR World

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova Moscow strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in HOMS. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of foreign Affairs released on Sunday, February 26. The text of the message published on the website of the Department. “Such acts should receive a strict rating, and their customers, the organizers and sponsors to incur the deserved punishment”, — is spoken in the message. The foreign Ministry also stressed that we cannot allow terrorists to disrupt the plans of the international community for a ceasefire in Syria and promote a political settlement. 25 February in HOMS, which is under the control of government troops, was made a double attack. Suicide bombers (according to various estimates, from two to six people) was blown up near the military institutions. The victims were, at last count, at least 34 people. The responsibility assumed, “Heat Tahrir al-sham”

The car drove into a crowd of people in the South-East of London

February 26, 2017 RR World

In South-East London the car crashed into the fence, pre-rammed crowd of pedestrians. According to The Telegraph, the incident occurred on Sunday, February 26, in the heart of Bellingham. The accident injured five people, all of them hospitalized. Twitter account @Kent_999s, which publishes information on the state of emergency in the city said that three injured (two men and a woman) are in critical condition. Daily Star notes that was driving the man arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. According to @Kent_999s, the driver was drunk. — Kent 999s (@Kent_999s) On 26 February 2017, 11:12 On 25 February, a similar incident occurred in the German city of Heidelberg. The driver of the car had run into a group of pedestrians, injuring three people. The man tried to flee the scene, but was detained by the police. According to preliminary data, the incident is not a terrorist attack.

Lyashko wants to write “the Iliad” about fighters ATO

February 26, 2017 RR Events

The leader of the Radical party of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko urged to glorify and perpetuate the “exploits” of fighters ATO in the Donbass. About it the Deputy wrote on his page in Facebook. In the social network policies applied to the most famous Ukrainian poets with an appeal: “to perpetuate in word and song the great feat of the brave defenders of Ukraine”. “The memory of our heroes and their fame shall live forever, as the Iliad of Homer” – wrote Lyashko. Earlier Oleg Lyashko himself has repeatedly demonstrated creative talents. So, at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada the Deputy was surprised by colleagues with knowledge of the obscene jokes. For his speech, the leader of the Radical party chose a product about toilet, and Ukraine. Photo: Sergii Kharchenko ZUMAPRESS.com / Globallookpress

Published footage of fierce fighting in Mosul airport

February 26, 2017 RR Events

Videoagentstvo Ruptly published a video of the battle for airport Iraqi city of Mosul. Despite the recent successes of the Iraqi regular army, finally gain a foothold in this strategically important object while in the military are not obtained. The footage was shot at the point, located about a kilometer from the building of an international aviation hub. While Iraqi forces continue to control the airport and began to advance into southern areas of the city. Iraqi government forces launched an offensive on the positions of ISIS (banned in Russia) in the region on February 19. The ultimate goal of the army of Iraq is the liberation of the Western part of Mosul. The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi before the operation, admitted that the crossfire will be densely populated residential areas. The operation on liberation of Mosul from the militants began on 17 October 2016,

Savchenko: Putin Poroshenko better for Ukraine

February 26, 2017 RR Events

The adviser to the interior Minister of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiryak regarded the trip to the Donbass people’s Deputy Hope Savchenko as treason. It happened after Savchenko told about the results of his visit to the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s Republic. The words of the Deputy site leads “Komsomolskaya Pravda“. So, at the final press-conference Nadezhda Savchenko told reporters: “…Shoot with dangerously practice. They are lovely guys. We can be friends and perfectly co-exist within a single state.” But even more resonant in Kiev called another saying of the former pilots. Savchenko said, “…would be Better if Ukraine was ruled by Putin, not Poroshenko.” Earlier it became known that the people’s Deputy of Ukraine Hope Savchenko met with the Ukrainian prisoners in the penal colony in Makeyevka, and then said that prisoners in the DND “good”. Photo: Sergey Guneev / RIA Novosti

Kasyanov splashed in the face with green paint on the March in memory of Nemtsov

February 26, 2017 RR Russia

Unknown poured paint the leader of the party PARNAS Mikhail Kasyanov, who heads a column on the March in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. On Sunday, February 26, reports “Interfax”. The fluid policy in the face. How wrote on his page on Twitter correspondent of “Ekho Moskvy” Irina Vorobyova, the malefactor was taken and detained. — Yury Tyumin (@tyumin_ru) On 26 February 2017, 11:22 Rally in memory of slain opposition Feb 26, held in Moscow and several other Russian cities, including St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. As notes TASS, in the capital, the procession began half an hour late (it was originally planned that the event will start at 14:00 GMT). According to the organizers, the delay was caused by the fact that the police detained one of the stretch marks. It is planned that the March will take place on the inner side of the Passionate, Petrovsky, Christmas and

In the state Duma asked Poroshenko to deliver the Crimean people from their worries

February 26, 2017 RR Russia

Ruslan Balbec The inhabitants of the Crimea will be grateful if the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who promised them their support will leave the population of the Peninsula alone. On Sunday, February 26, said the Deputy of the state Duma, the former Crimean Vice-Premier Ruslan Balbec, reports RIA Novosti. “The inhabitants of the Peninsula supported Poroshenko felt in 2014 after closing of the water supply in the North Crimean canal, then care about the Crimeans were arranged grocery blockade,” said Balbec. The crown’s support, he said, was the case of the Peninsula by Ukrainian radicals in the fall and winter of 2015. Previously on February 26, Poroshenko wrote in Facebook post that he intends to continue to care for the inhabitants of the Crimea and fight for the reunification of the Peninsula with Ukraine. Crimea and Sevastopol became part of Russia in March 2014 following a referendum. The vast