Day: March 9, 2017

Photo: TASS BISHKEK, 7 Mar. /TASS/. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev compared with blackmail attempts to make the integration within the Eurasian economic community held hostage to bilateral disagreements. “The cases, when the problems of bilateral relations and such problems were, are and will be, nothing in them is dramatic not because of the intensity of cooperation can be transferred to the multilateral platform of the Union (EEU), he said at the session of the Eurasian intergovernmental Council. – Execution of the agreements we reached and he integration process as a whole become hostage to specifically understand the national interests. In fact, in relation to other members of the Union who are not involved in the dispute, a completely unacceptable situation, this situation is akin to blackmail: either you affect the decision of the other party to the dispute, or we do not sign it.” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that

Photo: RIA Novosti Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin in the beginning of the plenary meeting of the state Duma congratulated the Russian women a happy 8th of March. In turn, the leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the best compliments to the fair sex will be at least a partial exemption from daily chores. “Considering that today we have in the agenda is likely to be the role of women in politics and each will, of course, from his point of view to consider this question, let us heartily congratulate women without a policy”, – said the speaker before giving the floor to Zhirinovsky in the framework of the “political ten-minute” in the beginning “plenary”. These words hall met with prolonged applause. “We congratulate and remind – and in the evening you still need to cook soup and feed their husbands,” responded the leader of the liberal Democrats, appealing

Photo: Reuters London advocated maintaining “lines of communication” with Moscow despite tensions between the two countries, said permanent Deputy Minister of defence of the United Kingdom Stephen Lovegrove. “I think we want to cooperate with Russia. It is important that communication lines remain open, that we understand how to develop their doctrine, and it has changed significantly,” said Lovegrove, speaking about the foreign policy and defense doctrine of Russia. At the same time, Lovegrove said, a hundred United Kingdom has no plans to cancel anti-Russian sanctions, reports RIA “Novosti”. Note that last week the British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson accepted the invitation of the foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov plans to visit Moscow in the coming weeks.

The Pentagon has accused Russia of placing ground-based cruise missiles WASHINGTON, 8 Mar — RIA Novosti. The Ministry of defense accused Russia of deploying land-based missiles prohibited by the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) from 1987. Speaking at the Congress, Deputy Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Paul Selva said that Russia is violating the “spirit and purpose” of the INF Treaty by deploying prohibited missiles. “The system itself poses a risk for the majority of our facilities in Europe and we are confident that Russia deliberately (it) places to pose a threat to NATO and objects in the area of responsibility of NATO,” said Selva. He also expressed doubt that Russia will “return to the observance of the INF Treaty” However, he added that the United States should “look for levers of pressure on Russia to return to compliance with the INF Treaty”.

Kim Jong-UN expressed support for the people and leadership of Syria TOKYO, 8 Mar — RIA Novosti, Ivan Zakharchenko. DPRK leader Kim Jong-UN expressed support for the people and leadership of Syria by sending on Wednesday a congratulatory telegram to President Bashar al-Assad on the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, passed from Pyongyang’s Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (KCNA). The leader of the DPRK also said that the March 8 revolution in Syria was a “historic event in the struggle of the Syrian people for independence and the security of their country, to achieve economic development and social progress under the leadership of the Arab socialist Renaissance party (Baath)”.

Putin said about the success of support programs demographics Moscow. March 8. INTERFAX.RU — Russian President Vladimir Putin said “enormous effect” on the implementation of the country program of construction of perinatal centers, said that Russia has successfully overcome the demographic problem. “Thank God, in recent years we have managed to move this situation in a positive way. Nobody expected it, nobody believed that our programs support demographics so work. Last year, the indicators slightly declined, but the demographic trend is still positive,” he said during the meeting in Bryansk perinatal center staff. As noted by the head of state, “in this respect we differ from many other so-called developed countries, especially in Europe, where negative demographic trends continue.” “We started this program a few years ago in the framework of the program “Health” (national project) and it became immediately clear that the effect is not just big, but enormous,”