Day: May 17, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The new Ukrainian sanctions list, which including includes the Crimean sanatoria and tourist facilities will be the additional advertising and contribution to the development of sanatorium-resort complex of the Republic, said the head of Committee of the Crimean Parliament on health-resort complex and tourism Alexey Chernyak. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday approved the NSDC decision on the extension and expansion of the list of natural and legal persons of the Russian Federation, in respect of which the sanctions. The extended list included 1228 physical and legal entities. 468 In particular, Ukraine has imposed sanctions against a number of Russian media in the country have also banned access to social networks “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”. In addition, restrictive measures were imposed on the companies “Yandex” and “Kaspersky Lab”. In the list including a number of Crimean sanatoriums, children’s health, the Crimean railway, airport, Simferopol, Kerch ferry, the

Photo: RIA Novosti In Ukraine erected memorial to servicemen who took part in the so-called anti-terrorist operation (ATO). The complex will be called “Russia’s Aggression”. This statement was made by the main artist of the Museum of history of Ukraine in the Second world war Anatoly Gaydamak. His words, reports the portal “News”. “It is not just a memorial, but a memorial complex called “Russia’s Aggression”. Name is approved, but while working,” said Gaydamak. The memorial complex will be built in the Pechersk hills near the Upper Moscow gates of the old Pechersk fortress, where the sculpture of the Motherland. Gaydamak added that the site of the memorial will not be figures, pedestals and monuments “in the common term”, but will use symbols and allegories. The conflict in East Ukraine began in spring 2014, after the inhabitants of Donetsk and Lugansk regions refused to recognize the legitimacy of the coup

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, may 16 — RIA Novosti. Federal operational headquarters under the leadership of the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov discussed the prevention of attacks on the energy bridge, the gas pipeline and transport the transition from Kuban to the Crimea, said on Tuesday the national anti-terrorist Committee (NAC). “The meeting discussed the planning for the use of forces and means … to prevent terrorist acts on the created and created by the construction of the power bridge, pipeline and transport transition “Krasnodar region-Crimea”,” — said in a release. The meeting was attended by the leadership of the FSB, NAC, heads of operational headquarters in the Krasnodar region, the Crimea, Sevastopol and other senior officials. Other details in the message are not specified. In November 2015, the Crimea was completely disconnected due to the explosion of radical towers that come from the Ukraine. In the Crimea and

Leonid Slutsky © Sergey Skates/TASS MOSCOW, may 17. /TASS/. The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky has regarded the statement of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe of Europe thorbjørn Jagland on the blocking in Ukraine, the Russian social networks as a common assessment of actions of President Poroshenko and called for the PACE and the European Parliament to condemn this decision. Earlier, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE) thorbjørn Jagland expressed concern about the decree of Peter Poroshenko about the lock on the territory of Ukraine the Russian social networking and other Internet services. As stated in his statement on the website of the COE, it contradicts the conventional understanding of freedom of expression and freedom of media.

Putin praised the results of the meeting of Lavrov and trump BOCHAROV RUCHEY (Sochi), may 17 — RIA Novosti. Russia highly assesses the results of the meeting of the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and US President Donald trump, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Monday, the Washington Post, citing anonymous sources among current and former American officials said that trump during a meeting with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told some sort of information that “put at risk a critical source of intelligence information,” the group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). On Tuesday, the US presidential Advisor on national security Herbert McMaster has called media reports false. According to him, trump and Lavrov discussed the common threats from terrorist organizations, including threats to aviation, but did not discuss the sources or methods of intelligence, and was not disclosed military operations, which would

Kiev acknowledged that would not be able to completely shut down access to Russian social networks Users will be able to find ways around the blocking of “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”, said the national security Council and defense of Ukraine. KIEV, may 17 — RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian authorities will not be able to completely close the access to the Russian social networks “Vkontakte” and “Odnoklassniki” users will be able to get around bans, said the head of the information security apparatus of the national security and defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Valentin Petrov. Earlier, Ukraine imposed sanctions against a number of Russian media, the country is also prohibited access to social networks “Vkontakte”, “Classmates” and resources “Yandex” and Mail.ru. Company Mail.Ru Group, which owns the social network “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”, and sent to the Ukrainian users instructions on how to use its services to bypass the lock access. “We understand