Day: June 25, 2017

Pushkov said about the “demon of destruction” in the U.S. Congress MOSCOW, 25 Jun — RIA Novosti. Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov commented on the proposal of the Congress of the United States to withdraw from the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear forces (INF), stating that the United States seeks to destroy all that made it possible to overcome the cold war. On Saturday, Politico, citing a number of congressmen said that the administration estimates received from Congress a proposal for the country’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty. “In the U.S. Congress, obsessed with the demon of destruction — seek to destroy all that is allowed to get out of the cold war. Now taking the INF Treaty,” wrote Pushkov in his microblog on Twitter. The INF Treaty prohibits parties from possessing ballistic missiles, land-based and cruise missiles with a range of from 500 to 5.5 thousand

The Israeli air force on Saturday struck “dzhebhat an-Nusra” MOSCOW, 25 Jun — RIA Novosti. The Israeli air force struck on Saturday, a blow to the armored vehicles of militants “dzhebhat an-Nusra”, and not the art of Syrian government troops, reported RIA Novosti military-diplomatic source in the Russian defense Ministry. Earlier, the press service of the Israeli army announced that Israeli aircraft attacked the positions of Syrian government troops, destroying two tanks and a heavy machine gun in response to a dozen stray shells that landed in a controlled Israel parts of the Golan heights. Later, the press service of the Israel defense forces released a video of the destruction of the “targeted” air strikes heavy machine gun and two tanks, which now according to the military, fired shells across the dividing line on the Golan heights. “Saturday’s strike aircraft of the Israeli air force in the Golan heights was

Rogozin jokingly suggested to build in Serbia wood s-300 BELGRADE, 25 Jun — RIA Novosti. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says Serbia Russian s-300 is not needed, it is sufficient to build of wood, and the West is frightened. In the Serbian city of Niš in 2012 was established the Russian-Serbian humanitarian centre in order to respond to emergency situations that, as said Rogozin, for some reason, scares Western countries. “Therefore, I say, s-300 Serbs is not necessary. Enough wood to build the s-300, they (the West — ed.) already going to die there all fear”, — said Rogozin. Rogozin said that the Russian-Serbian initiative aimed at taking into account the experience and technological capabilities — aircraft fire and all sorts of means to locate a center closer to the region of southern Europe, “in order not to send forces and means in case of need, and to do that

Photo: RIA Novosti The former head of the election headquarters of Hillary Clinton, John Podesta next week will speak to the US Congress, reported broadcaster CNN citing sources familiar with the situation. “The intelligence Committee of the house of representatives next week plans to interrogate Podesto, hacking e-mail server which became a Central element in the invasion of Russia in the American elections last year”, — stated in the material. It is emphasized that “Podesta will be one of the key witnesses, who will speak before the members of the Committee.” As noted, the meeting will be held behind closed doors. Representatives of several members of the Committee — both Republicans and Democrats — refused to comment on CNN this topic. For 2016, the website WikiLeaks published details of the correspondence of members of the National Committee of the Democratic party, as well as letters to the Chairman of the