Day: June 23, 2017

Switzerland arrested the guarantee of Ukraine for the successful holding of “Eurovision” The national public broadcasting company of Ukraine (NOTE), the organizer of the contest “Eurovision-2017” reported that the Geneva office of debt enforcement initiated the seizure of €15 million, which Kiev was provided by the European broadcasting Union (EBU) to guarantee the proper conduct of the song contest. “The international song contest was successfully held in Ukraine, therefore, the amount of the guarantee must come back”, says the NOTE. “We hired a law firm from Switzerland, because you need to find out all the circumstances of the case and to determine the order of application of the procedure of seizure in accordance with the Swiss legislation”, — said General Director of NOTE Zurab Alasania. We will remind, in Kiev’s International exhibition center hosted the 62nd European song contest “Eurovision”. For the first time in many years Russia in the

May has promised not to expel EU citizens from the UK after Brexit MOSCOW, 22 Aug — RIA Novosti. The Prime Minister of great Britain Teresa may has promised European leaders that the EU citizens will be able to remain in the United Kingdom after the completion of Brexit, reports Agence France-Presse, citing a source in the British government. According to the source, may have touched on this topic at the working lunch during the EU summit in Brussels. “She made it clear that EU citizens lawfully in the country, will be able to stay there after the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union”, — said the source. The spokesman added that Mei rejected the plans of Brussels, who offered to consider disputes about the rights of citizens in the EU court. In the UK, 23 June 2016 held a referendum on the country’s withdrawal from the EU. For

Der Spiegel found out about a long-term surveillance of German intelligence for the White house Moscow. June 22. INTERFAX.RU — the Federal intelligence service of Germany (BND) for many years, followed by military and government authorities of the USA, particularly the White house, said on Thursday the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing internal documents of the BND. “From 1998 to 2006, BND implemented for surveillance 4 million search queries: the so-called “selectors”, — said the publication. The magazine said that this concept means collecting information about telephone numbers, faxes and e-mail addresses. Thus, the officers had the opportunity to monitor the work of the White house, state Department and U.S. Treasury Department. According to Der Spiegel, German intelligence has also paid close attention to the surveillance of space Agency NASA, aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, Human Rights Watch and a number of other institutions in the United States. In addition, Germany

The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky © Sergey Skates/TASS MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. The extension of the EU anti-Russian sanctions due to the failure of the Minsk agreements is absurd, according to the Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky. “The wording [of the President of the European Council Donald] Tusk, “the lack of implementation of the Minsk agreements” is absurd and only causes bewilderment,” said Slutsky reporters on Thursday. According to him, Russia was “tired of repeating” that is not a party to the Minsk agreement, neither the conflict in Ukraine. “However, the EU continues to ignore the true state of things and prefers not to respond to blatant sabotage by Kiev, the implementation of the “Minsk-2″. The notorious double standard, and again to the detriment of themselves,” – said the head of the Committee.