Day: June 14, 2017

British Prime Minister announced the start of negotiations on a Brexit Prime Minister Theresa may confirmed that the negotiations on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union will begin next week. On Tuesday, June 13, according to Reuters. “I confirmed to the French President that the schedule of negotiations on Brexit is saved, they will start next week,” said Mei after the meeting with Emmanuel Macron in Paris. March 28 Mei signed a letter with the notice of the authorities of the European Union about the formal start of procedure Brexit. The talks will take two years. The decision to withdraw Britain from the EU were adopted by referendum on 23 June 2016. May 30 Mei said that the country could leave the EU without signing a special agreement with Brussels. This may be the case if the United Kingdom does not agree with the terms Brexit

The state Department has not commented on the statement Durov of trying to bribe his employees WASHINGTON, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. The US state Department did not comment on the statement by the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov that the us agencies tried to bribe his employees. “We convey you for explaining to this man (Durova — ed.)” — said Tuesday RIA Novosti the official representative of the state Department. He Durov had previously written in the microblog in Twitter that last year during a week-long visit to the US programmers from his team tried to bribe employees of American government agencies. The Durov, he said, was pressure from the FBI. During our team’s 1-week visit to the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies + pressure on me from the FBI. — Pavel Durov (@durov) 11 Jun 2017 The

Rada proposed to punish for the neglect and humiliation of the Ukrainian language The Verkhovna Rada registered a bill on criminal responsibility for public humiliation of the Ukrainian language, and about the total dominance of it in the information space of the country. On Tuesday, June 13, reports the Ukrainian edition of “Vesti”. “Public humiliation or neglect of the Ukrainian language was illegal, identical to the desecration of the state symbols of Ukraine and is punishable by law”, — the document says. The bill was registered in Parliament on June 9, according to the Council website. Also the new norm is expected to be responsible for “the creation of obstacles and restrictions in the use of the Ukrainian language, a deliberate distortion of the Ukrainian language in official documents and texts, the use of the Ukrainian language in violation of the standards of the Ukrainian language”. According to “Vesti”, the

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexei Nikolsky Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Director Oliver stone explained why he considers the collapse of the Soviet Union the biggest catastrophe of the XX century. In a 2005 address to the Federal Assembly Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the last century. “I often heard criticism about the fact that I deplore the collapse of the Soviet Union. First, and most important, is that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, 25 million Russian people in one night turned out to be abroad, and it is really one of the biggest disasters of the XX century”, — Putin said in an interview with Oliver stone in the film shown on television channel Showtime. The Russian President noted that citizens of the USSR lived within a single country, they had family ties, a

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexei Druzhinin The challenges faced in the rise to power of former US President Ronald Reagan, is not comparable with the difficulties which Russia experienced during late 1999 and 2000, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Director Oliver stone in the film Showtime. In response to a request to compare the challenges Putin has faced as President, with those that had to be overcome in the early 80-ies the American leader Reagan, the Russian President noted that “we need two tasks to solve – to find the right people and delegate to them powers”. “I understand it and try to make it so. Only we have a big difference – after all, Reagan was the head of the United States, and as if there was not, no matter what there was no problems, still they are not comparable with the difficulties and

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in sport we should always strive for, but to predict it in advance is impossible. American film Director Oliver stone, who directed the film “Interview with Putin” before a hockey match asked the Russian leader, how many goals he will score and win his team. “It is impossible to say in advance, it’s a sport. It is necessary to aspire to result. But to predict in advance is impossible,” — said Putin. This part of the movie was published on the Internet. The first part of a four-part film about Putin stone will be shown in the US on Tuesday at 4 am Moscow time on the channel Showtime.