Day: September 3, 2017

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS TASS, September 3. The staff of the Consulate General (CG) of the Russian Federation in San Francisco, closed by the US authorities, listed as employees of the Embassy and will remain in that capacity until 1 October. This was reported by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on his page in Facebook on Sunday. “From 1 September, the Russian side has notified US that all group employees are considered employees of the Embassy, sent to San Francisco. Before October 1 (the date that the state Department has designated as the last day when our staff can live in the residential part of the Consulate) they will be in this quality,” said Zakharov, noting that the former employees of the Consulate General remains diplomatic immunity.

Photo: RIA Novosti Moscow may demand from Ukrainian citizens to pre-inform about the arrival to Russia. With this statement made by the Chairman of the Duma Committee on Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov. On it informs Agency “Interfax”. Kalashnikov said that he opposes the introduction of biometric border control for Ukrainian citizens, as it will only complicate the communication between people. September 1 the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko introduced in 2018 biometric control for foreigners at the borders. The head of state demanded to develop methods of advance notification of the foreigners entry to Ukraine and to contribute to the list of migration risk countries Russia. In Parliament there have been calls to introduce to the Russian visa regime. In Moscow promised to answer all such actions of Kiev in return.

Photo: CC BY-SA 2.0 / Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Moscow alarmed by Kiev’s readiness to pick up signals about the permissibility of “power scripts” in the Donbass. This is stated in the commentary of the Russian foreign Ministry in connection with the past at the end of August the Ukrainian-Croatian contacts on “the return of uncontrolled territories”. “Mention of any “forcible scenarios” in relation to the Donbas appear most flawed and immoral now, in the first days of confirmed in “Norman” format “school” truce”, — is spoken in the message. The foreign Ministry regrets that the screen representations about “good intentions” and “the need to restore mutual confidence” in the conflict zones again sounded dangerous thesis about the “forced” and “permissibility” of “methods for peaceful reintegration”. “A lot of the concern is the fact that in Kiev readily pick up such signals, pointedly ignoring their own clearly stated commitments