Day: September 23, 2017

NATO is trying to return to the cold war, despite Russia’s way of getting rid of the heritage of that period. This was from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly the head of the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, reports RIA Novosti. “Over the past quarter century, Russia did much to strengthen confidence and understanding in the world, but has not met the reciprocity with our Western partners, — said the Minister. — NATO seeks to recreate the climate of the cold war and refuses to implement the principle of equal and indivisible security”. He pointed to the fact that the West has expanded the influence of NATO to the East, using the principle “who is not with us is against us”, thereby provoking instability in the post-Soviet space. On August 4, the official Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow shares the view of U.S. President Donald trump

Fighting in Syria fighters from post-Soviet countries, in the case of returning to Russia, will bring with it a powerful charge of destabilization and radicalization. About it in interview to the newspaper “Kommersant” said the Director of the Department of new challenges and threats Ministry of foreign Affairs Ilya Rogachev. He noted that the danger of the “Islamic state” (IG, an organization banned in Russia) — not only in the number of militants and their equipment, also represents a serious threat propaganda campaign of the terrorists. Rogachev said that, according to various estimates, in Syria, fought from 20 to 40 thousand foreign fighters, of which almost 10 thousand of them are immigrants from the CIS countries, slightly less than half of them have Russian passports. About five thousand people arrived in the Arab Republic from the countries of Central Asia. In turn, the Russian defense Ministry reported that as of

Rex Tillerson U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said Russia was violated the agreement on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He said this during a meeting of the UN Security Council, which focused on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, reports RIA Novosti. “In recent years, Russia has sometimes acted in a manner that weakens the global rules and undermines the principle of responsible Nations. Examples of this include the violation of Russia’s own commitments to the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear forces (INF), failure to comply with security assurances that were given at the end of the cold war, impeding efforts to develop the legacy of past efforts on nuclear safety, and attempts to undermine the independence of the IAEA in the investigation of covert nuclear programs,” said Tillerson. He also called on Moscow to explore how best to support efforts to prevent