Day: February 14, 2018

The Pentagon said that the Syrian tank destroyed “in self-defense» WASHINGTON, February 13 — RIA Novosti. The coalition headed by the USA against the group “Islamic state”* (IG*, banned in Russia) destroyed tank of Pro-government forces in Syria in self-defense, said commander of the air force U.S. Central command Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigan. “First, Yes, it was (UAV) MQ-9. Secondly, I would like to return to the self-defense — we rely on our ground forces, which come to this decision (on defense),” said Harrigan at a briefing, answering the question of whether the coalition destroyed tank of Pro-government forces. According to him, the tank shot with the “effective distance” in the direction of the units of the “Syrian democratic forces” (SDF) and the American advisers who was there. After that it was decided to strike back. According to some media reports, the incident occurred on Saturday. The blow was struck

The contest “Mentor” will release an Atlas of successful projects Atlas of best practices in mentoring will be compiled by the all-Russian contest “Mentor”, for participation in which received more than 4 thousand applications, said the CEO of the Agency for strategic initiatives (ASI) Svetlana Cumshewa. “At the end of the competition we traditionally will do a satin best practices of mentoring, which will be proposed for implementation in different regions, schools,” — the words Courseway RIA “Novosti”. She also said that practices were selected “with the requirements of the ability to replicate them, describing how ready methods.” The ceremony of awarding the winners of the contest will be held on Wednesday, February 14. About the competition was announced on January 16. It includes five main categories: mentoring at work, mentoring in business and entrepreneurship, mentoring in the social sphere, as well as mentoring in education and sectarian movement.

Foreign Minister of Netherlands, lied about the meeting with Putin, resigned MOSCOW, February 13 — RIA Novosti. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra confessed to lying about the meeting with Vladimir Putin, resigned, reports the Telegraaf. It’s a decision he made on the eve of talks with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In the foreign Ministry reported that waiting for the arrival of the Dutch Minister and no changes from the Russian side. What lied to the Minister of foreign Affairs In an interview with Volkskrant Zijlstra admitted that his story about how he attended the meeting with the Russian President at his dacha in 2006, were untrue. According to him, he went for deception to protect the real participant of this meeting, who shared with him information about what Putin allegedly called Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic States and Kazakhstan parts of the “great Russia”. Starting in