Day: May 3, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has approved the rules according to which from the Federal budget to Russian organisations will receive subsidies for reimbursement of the cost of acquisition and construction of new civil courts instead of disposed of. Relevant document published on the website of the Cabinet. Subsidies provided to upgrade the fleet. “This decision will allow to equip the commercial fleet of high-tech and competitive river vessels and mixed swimming, to increase turnover, to improve the quality of passenger transportation in remote regions of the country, will facilitate the introduction of new technologies in the shipbuilding industry, the upgrading and modernization of production capacities, creation of new jobs,” the document States. The grant involves a one-time payment to shipping companies in payment for the construction of a new vessel provided the delivery for disposal of the old ship, which is more than 30 years

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian centre for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria spent over the past day six of humanitarian operations in the provinces of Aleppo (4), Lattakia (1) and as-Suwayda (1). This is stated in the Bulletin of the Russian Center. “In the city of Aleppo in the districts of Qadi Askar, Beniseed, Bustan of Alkasr Aziz and the residents transferred to 800 servings of hot food, 100 food packages and bread. 800 food parcels were handed over to residents of settlements, Chaubet-Burgal (Latakia province) and Taal (province of as-Suwayda)”, – stated in the Bulletin. During the day, humanitarian aid has been 1492 resident. The total weight given to the population of humanitarian goods was 4.8 tons. The Bulletin also notes that the Russian aircraft using parachute platforms delivered in the district of the city of Deir ez-Zor 21.5 tons of humanitarian goods (food) received by the

Photo: © RIA Novosti . Sergey Subbotin The Iranian delegation headed by Deputy foreign Minister Hossein Ansari arrived in Astana for participation in negotiations on Syria, the correspondent of RIA Novosti. On Tuesday, may 2, will host a meeting of representatives of the guarantor countries Russia, Iran and Turkey at the expert level, high-level talks will be held may 3-4. Monday arrived in Astana the delegation of the Syrian government headed by Bashar al-Jaafari, on Tuesday evening the expected arrival of the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who first after the first round of talks in January to take part in the Astana process. The previous rounds of the UN was represented at the expert level. The Russian delegation will be headed by the special envoy of the Russian President on Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev.

Media called the name of the candidate for the position of U.S. permanent representative to NATO Moscow. May 3. INTERFAX.RU the Main candidate for the post of U.S. permanent representative to NATO, a 73-year-old former Senator from Texas, Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, reports CNN, citing a senior representative of the administration. According to the source, the hope is that Hutchison will take the post before the start of the NATO summit in Brussels, which will take place at the end of the month. Kay Bailey Hutchison held the post of U.S. Senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013. Since February 2013 she works as a senior lawyer at the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani in Dallas.

Marine Le Pen is planning to return to national currency in case of his election victory The candidate in presidents of France from the party “national front” marine Le Pen said that he was going to return in circulation in the country, the franc in the event of election victory. In an interview with Reuters, she expressed the hope that “the French people after two years will have in their pockets the national currency”. According to MS Le Pen, the new currency will better protect the savings of the French. She emphasized that the thesis that “the Euro is a shield of the French economy”, not true. Also, the presidential candidate said that it plans to immediately begin negotiations to reform the EU. The main points she plans to discuss is the return of control over the French borders and the laws of the country MS Le Pen said that

The defense Ministry called storytellers experts from Human Rights Watch Experts from Human Rights Watch, said that the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun could be attacked by the alleged chemical ammunition of Soviet production, the storyteller. On Tuesday, may 2, said the official representative of the Ministry of defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov. According to him, specified in the report of the ordnance HUB-250 was never exported outside the USSR and is structurally designed for equipment exposed to sarin. Konashenkov also said that “not a single expert from the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, or some of the Western countries never visited in Khan Sheyhun”. However, “the local fighters, having learned a week ago on the invitation of Damascus, the OPCW experts in Khan Shaykhun, whose team has already filled the funnel only from the alleged gap “chemical” weapon, cement mortar,” said the General. Konashenkov said that only