Day: July 15, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The Republican-controlled Committee on rules, house of representatives, U.S. Congress rejected nine amendments of the Democrats concerning Russia, the project of the defence budget to 2018, which begins on October 1. This is stated in a Thursday statement, the Director of communications of Democrats of the house Committee on the Armed forces of the Barron of Langsmith, reports TASS. According to Langsmith rejected amendments “contain many good ideas, which could help to protect our country from Russian interference and to resist the Russian campaign of influence” in the United States. The representative of the Democrats said that was approved for further debate and a vote, only four amendments, which in fact is already performed by the U.S. Department of defense. “None of them address the wider strategic goals of Russia”, — he concluded. In particular, were rejected by the initiative of the National center of response to

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, 14 Jul — RIA Novosti. Moscow expects that Washington at the meeting, Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Undersecretary of state for political Affairs Thomas Shannon will provide specific proposals to resolve the crisis around the Russian departmenet, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Earlier, the Russian foreign Ministry confirmed that the next meeting Ryabkov and Shannon is scheduled for July 17. The previous meeting scheduled for June 23 in St. Petersburg, have been cancelled by the Russian side. How, then, said the foreign Ministry of Russia, after Washington’s decision to expand anti-Russian sanctions because of the situation around Ukraine “the situation is not conducive to the conduct of a round of such a dialogue.” Consultation Ryabkov and Shannon are part of bilateral efforts to discuss and resolve problems in Russian-American relations. The agenda covers humanitarian issues, activities of the diplomatic

Photo: RIA Novosti The representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Washington is exploring the possibility of conducting large-scale forum in Russia with American sister cities. This was stated by Director of the Russian cultural centre Oleg Zhiganov. “The event demonstrated strong interest in developing cooperation between twin-cities of Russia and the USA. We expect that the outcome of the conference in Virginia beach will serve as the basis for organizing future large-scale Russian-American forum of sister cities”, — quotes Zhiganov RIA Novosti. Executive Director of the Council of the Association of municipalities of the Moscow region Oleg Ivanov has said it will recommend to hold the forum in Moscow. In addition, the mayor of Novorossiysk, Dyachenko Igor in December is a must visit Gainesville, FL. “This year we will visit them (Novorossiysk). I know that the mayor of Novorossiysk is coming to Gainesville at the end of this year, in December”,

Tony Blair considers it necessary to stop the process of a British exit from the EU According to the former Prime Minister, Brexit causes damage to the country in economic and political terms. LONDON, July 15. /TASS/. The most successful labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, who held the post of Prime Minister in 1997-2007, considers it necessary to stop the process of entering the United Kingdom from the EU. He declared it in interview to TV channel Sky News, which will be shown in full in the Sunday program Sophy Ridge on Sunday, but the fragments of which the TV station showed on Saturday. I think now it is possible to achieve, in order to prevent Brexit. I think it is absolutely necessary to exit the EU did not happen, because it causes us damage and economically, and certainly politically.Tony Blair According to Blair, public opinion is now shifting in