Day: June 2, 2017

Putin: the volume of international reserves of Russia reached $407 billion due to low debt According to the head of the state, inflow of foreign investments into Russia for last year has increased five times — from $6.8 billion to $33 billion. SAINT PETERSBURG, June 2. /TASS/. The volume of international reserves of Russia reached $407 billion due to low public debt. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with heads of major foreign companies and business associations on the sidelines of the St Petersburg international economic forum. At the beginning of the year was $370 billion in foreign reserves, now $407 billion in foreign reserves and this in spite of the low external debt, somewhere around 12-13%.Mr Putinprime Russia According to the President, the current account of Russia is quite balanced at present, and his condition is improving, and also growing the reserve

Putin’s “at ease!” at SPIEF translated as Welcome! The translator interpreted the command “at ease” with which President Vladimir Putin used Friday, June 2, instead of a greeting at a plenary session of St. Petersburg international economic forum (SPIEF), as the word “welcome”. In English it means “welcome”. This drew the attention of several media outlets, including the news Agency. Earlier it was reported that combatant command, the head of state gave when entering into the hall, saw that the participants welcomed his standing. Correct translation of the word “freely” sounds like “at ease”. One of the most striking cases of distorted diplomatic translation occurred during the conversation Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev with U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon. In the course of conversation, Soviet politician promised to “show gruel”. This expression was translated as “We’ll show you what’s what”, which literally means “We

Photo: RIA Novosti UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres said it was important that dialogue with Russia to solve the world’s problems. “The nature of Russia is designed to be the center of global politics, globalization. Climate change, environmental issues… All this can be solved without Russia,” — said the UN Secretary General. He also said it was impossible to fight terrorism without Russia’s participation. “The fight against international terrorism cannot be solved without participation of Russia”, — TASS quoted Guterres. In addition, he believes that to improve relations between Russia and the US requires an open and positive discussion. Earlier, Guterres said that the exit of the Paris climate agreement, any country may adversely affect its economy.

Photo: RIA Novosti The accusations of the Russian Ambassador to the USA Sergei Kislyak in espionage is a real baiting and “trash”, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “This is real persecution, persecution as it is, because to declare Russian Ambassador the spy who personally recruits American politicians, well, it’s all a kind of madness. It’s just information trash. That’s exactly what they were doing,” Zakharova said the TV channel “Russia 24”. According to her, the hype around the Russian Ambassador is part of the continuing post-electoral cycle in the United States. “It’s not something that they are not paint — it’s basically undermines the credibility of the American media, and we are all aware, and not just us, Sergey Kislyak is the Supreme professional, is a diplomat with a capital letter, is the person who has earned a reputation in various diplomatic venues, negotiations, working

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his U.S. counterpart, Donald trump is sincere, that is not quite usual for a politician, according to Bloomberg. According to the Agency, Putin said at a meeting with heads of international news agencies in St. Petersburg at the SPIEF, that trump “a sincere, unusually for a politician”. Putin also expressed readiness for dialogue with his us counterpart. According to Putin, trump is “not the person who needs the Council”, the Agency said. The St. Petersburg international economic forum, the world’s leading platform for business communication and discussion of key economic issues, is held this year June 1-3. MIA Russia today acts as information partner of the forum.