Day: August 1, 2017

Zakharova has laid upon US the responsibility for the timing of the issuance of visas MOSCOW, 1 Jul — RIA Novosti. If Washington decides to reduce the number of employees of the American Embassy in Moscow involved in the issue of visas to Russians, it will be the decision of the United States, not Russia, wrote the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on his page in social network Facebook. President Vladimir Putin said earlier that the staff of the U.S. mission in Russia is the same as the staff of the Russian diplomatic mission in America by 455 people on each side. The U.S. state Department considered Moscow’s actions unjustified and promised to respond to them. The Russian foreign Ministry on 28 July, called for Washington until September 1 to bring the number of diplomats and technical staff of the diplomatic mission in Moscow in accordance with

Lawmakers proposed a ban on the Trump return departmenet Russia MOSCOW, 1 Jul — RIA Novosti. A group of congressmen introduced a bill under which the President of the United States Donald trump should not have access to budget funds for the return of departmenet in the States of Maryland and new York to the government of the Russian Federation. “Our intelligence services agree that Moscow interfered in the us elections in 2016. During his presidency, trump and his administration have failed to clearly and in a coordinated manner to respond to the intervention in our democracy,” reads the statement of the Congressman from Maryland’s Anthony brown, who leads the team, who put forward the bill. Brown says that Congress must ensure that the administration is not acting in favor of Russia’s interests, while using state funds of the United States. “Maryland should not become a springboard for foreign of

NATO fighters intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic sea Meeting aircraft was in international airspace without incident. BRUSSELS, 1 Aug. /TASS/. NATO fighters from the mission of patrolling the airspace of the Baltic countries intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic sea. This is stated in the statement of the Alliance. “Two Spanish F-18 fighter jet participating in the NATO mission air policing had been raised from the Estonian Amari military base to intercept three Russian aircraft, which were identified as two MiG-31 fighter jet and a transport aircraft an-26”, — said the Alliance. The statement noted that it is not a member of NATO Finland has also sent fighter aircraft for aerial inspection of Russian aircraft. Meeting aircraft of the Russian Federation, Finland and NATO took place in international airspace without incident.

Vassily Nebenzia © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS UN, August 1. /TASS/. Permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia on Tuesday held the first meeting with his American counterpart, Nikki Haley, after discussing with her the programme of work of the Security Council in August. As stated by the Russian diplomat journalists in the coming days he plans to spend time with her “substantive conversation”. “We met this morning. We will meet more often in the coming days, weeks, years and so forth,” – said Nebenzia. According to him, during the discussion on Tuesday discussed the work of the security Council under the chairmanship of Egypt in August. “We exchanged a few words and I’ll meet you later for a substantive conversation,” he added.

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. Linking the reduction in the number of employees of diplomatic missions of the USA in Russia with the processing of us visas for Russians do not stand up to scrutiny. On Tuesday said the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “Linking reducing the number of staff with visas not stand up to scrutiny, as Americans, no one sent, no one dictated and did not specify who to send home and who to leave, – wrote the diplomat in Facebоok. Accordingly, if Washington decides to reduce the number of people engaged in visa matters, it will be the decision of Washington, sovereign, deliberate and not forced. And people should know and understand.”