Day: March 10, 2017

Photo: Flickr/ Kevin H. 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”. Earlier, the US accused Russia that it is developing a prohibited contract

The CIA reiterated that Julian Assange is not credible WASHINGTON, March 9. /Offset. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange is not credible and is not a “Bastion of integrity”. This is stated in a statement released by the representative of the Central intelligence Agency (CIA) Jonathan Liu. “As we said before, Julian Assange is not exactly a Bastion of truth and honesty. Despite the efforts of Assange and his associates, the CIA continues to gather intelligence abroad to protect America from terrorists, hostile States and other opponents,” — says Liu. Assange, speaking earlier at a press conference in London, called the historical incompetence of disastrous proportions the actions of the CIA, which, having developed a huge Arsenal of malwares are unable to protect it from breaking. “This is a historic act of incompetence to disastrous proportions to develop this size Arsenal of malicious programs and keep it

Tusk elected European Council President for a second term The Polish government was against re-nomination of the former Prime Minister and other members of the EU to the opinion of Warsaw did not listen. Moscow. 9 Mar. INTERFAX.RU — the Current President of the European Council, Donald Tusk received the necessary majority of votes on Thursday at the EU summit in Brussels and will lead the Supreme body of the European Union a second term. “Congratulations to Donald Tusk,” — wrote in his Twitter Chairman of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani. .@donaldtusk congratulations! — Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani) March 9, 2017 Tusk, who during the discussion and voting were not present at the meeting of the European Council, responded to the greetings in the social network: “Thank you for the trust and positive assessment of the European Council. I will do my best to make the EU a better place.” Dziękuję

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. Ukraine uses international court of justice to voice politicized accusations beyond his jurisdiction. This is stated in the commentary of the Russian foreign Ministry, published on the official website of the Department. “Ukraine is using the court as a platform to voice politicized charges beyond the jurisdiction of the court”, – said in a commentary. As reported in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the hearings in the International Court of justice Russia “gave evidence that Ukraine has failed to substantiate adequately its claim, and set out an objective picture of the situation in the South-East of Ukraine and in the Crimea.”

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, March 10. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin on March 10 in Moscow to discuss with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan joint projects in the energy sector and the fight against terrorism. As reported in a press-service of the Kremlin Erdogan visits Russia at the invitation of Putin to participate in the sixth meeting of the cooperation Council of the highest level between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey.