Day: April 3, 2017

Photo: Reuters The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia has expressed bewilderment in connection with the statement of US state Secretary Rex Tillerson about “Russian aggression”. The statement was published on the Agency’s website. “Perplexed relevant statements of the Secretary of state R. Tillerson. We regret to state that this kind of rating was announced the day after the meeting of the Council Russia-NATO at the level of permanent representatives, where, in recognition of the Secretary General of the Alliance.Stoltenberg, “in an open and constructive atmosphere” was held a meaningful discussion on a wide range of issues,” — said in the message. The Russian foreign Ministry also added that the statement Tillerson can be explained by looking at NATO, “a strong unifying motive”. For this purpose the leadership of the Alliance is spreading “slander of “Russian aggression” and “infinite spells” on the need to confront Moscow. The Ministry stressed that

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. The American diplomat who took part in the thematic evening “the Countries of the great silk road” in Vienna, made the Russian stand, dedicated to the tourism potential of the Russian Federation. About it told the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on his page in social network Facebook. “Unbelievable, but true. Hang on, guys, this, even I have not seen – ironically she wrote. – March 29, the Russian Embassy in Austria took part in the thematic evening “the Countries of the great silk road”, which was organized in one of Vienna hotels. In conjunction with the office of Aeroflot and the tourist office Visit Russia, our diplomats have prepared a stand dedicated to the tourism potential of Russia.” As reported by Zakharova, installation of banners, containing the symbolism of the

Lenin Moreno wins the election for President of Ecuador RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3. /Offset. TASS Darya Yuryeva/. The candidate of the ruling left bloc “Alliance Country” (“Alianza país”), former Vice President Lenin Moreno received the largest number of votes in the second round of the presidential election in Ecuador. This is evidenced by the first official results released by the National electoral Council (NEC) of the South American country. According to preliminary data obtained after processing 92,35% of the ballots, Moreno enlisted the support of 51,05% of the voters. His opponent, the representative of the center-right Movement CREO, a former banker Guillermo Lasso has received 48.95% of the vote. Relevant information was published on an electronic Board placed in the press center of NIS, broadcast which leads the TV channel Televisentro.

In the UK, ready to fulfill its obligations to the EU BERLIN, April 3. /Offset. TASS Mikhail Shcherbakov/. The UK is ready to fulfill its obligations to the European Union, but urged Brussels not to dwell on this topic during the negotiations on the Kingdom’s exit from the Commonwealth. In an interview with Handelsblatt newspaper said British Finance Minister Philip Hammond. “The UK will always be to meet their obligations, but we are not talking about a specific figure. We must first under a thorough process to determine what rights and obligations we have in relation to the European Union,” he said. According to him, on the subject “cannot be fixed”. “We need to think about how to disassemble these numerous weave should look like in the future our relations will be organized in the transitional period”, — said the Minister. According to him, in case London and Brussels on

The head of the HRC said about the need to change the law on rallies The head of the Council on human rights (HRC) under the President of Russia, Mikhail Fedotov, said that the legislation on meetings and relevant articles in the Code of administrative offences (Cao) regarding responsibility for violations at public events needs to change and edits. He said this in comments to the Agency “RIA Novosti”. The interviewee believes that the main proof of the offense should be videos, not compiled by the police protocols. “We need to change, of course, and the rules relating to the consideration of cases on administrative offences: the main proof should be a video, not a faceless police protocols,” Fedotov said after visiting the Metropolitan police, which are detained during the opposition’s protest on March 26. The head of the HRC also spoke about the complaints that he received from those