Day: May 12, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia may send Syria additional weapons, including artillery, for the protection of its troops, told RIA Novosti the head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Viktor Ozerov. Earlier, Fox News channel reported shipment by Russia to Syria of the order of 20 M-30 howitzers. Such tools already consist on arms of the Syrian army and is in storage in Russia. “I don’t see any reason to worry about our Western colleagues. Russia is in Syria the fight against terrorism, to fight with anyone not going, and if there is a need to strengthen our artillery units for the protection of places of a dislocation of our troops, there is nothing criminal,” — said Ozerov. He recalled that the Federation Council to the President consent to the use of troops in Syria the number and types of weapons are not specified, so the increase in

Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov (right) © Alexei Selishchev/TASS BEIJING, may 11. /Offset. TASS Roman Balandin, Andrei Kirillov, Alexey selischev/. Chinese President XI Jinping in early July, will pay an official visit to Russia. This at a press conference, said Russian Ambassador in China Andrei Denisov. Thus, according to him, the first this year meeting of XI Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be held on the forum of “One belt, one road” in Beijing in mid-may. “Then the conversation is likely to continue in early July, during the upcoming planned visit of President XI Jinping to Russia”, – said the head of the diplomatic mission.

© Valery sharifulin/TASS FAIRBANKS /USA/. May 11 /TASS/. Russia would welcome any U.S. contribution to the implementation of the Memorandum on the establishment of a de-escalation in Syria, said on Thursday to journalists by the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. He did not rule out the possibility of bringing the United States as observers to monitor the functioning of these zones, but stressed that this must be agreed with all stakeholders and acceptable to Damascus.

“Intellectual agony”: the foreign Ministry responded to the dissatisfaction with the American media MOSCOW, may 11 — RIA Novosti. The Russian foreign Ministry has ironically commented on the controversy the American media around the visit of Sergey Lavrov to the United States. The official representative of the Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the situation indicates “intellectual agony,” in the media in the United States. Meeting of the President of the United States Donald trump and Lavrov took place on the eve in the oval office of the White house. The American leader accepted the Russian Minister after his talks with us Secretary of state Rex Tillerson. After meeting with the President of the United States, Lavrov said that trump “clearly confirmed its interest to build mutually beneficial, pragmatic relations”. The talks at the White house lasted a little over an hour and were closed to the press mode. The Minister

North Korea said the right to mercilessly punish the Americans North Korean authorities have every right to ruthlessly punish American citizens detained in the country. This was stated by the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea, the content material reports Reuters. According to KCNA, soon will be released the reasons for the detention of two citizens of the United States. According to KCNA, the American media are trying to present the arrest of two US citizens in North Korea as an invitation to a kind of “trading”, but this is pure ignorance. It clarifies the Agency, in the near future will be released the reasons for the detention of Americans. Kim HAK Sleep, working at the Pyongyang University of science and technology, was detained on Saturday, may 6, on suspicion of involvement in “hostile acts” against the state. He is one of four Americans in detention in North Korea at the