Day: February 22, 2018

Afrin was surrounded by uncertainty The situation in the town of Afrin with a predominantly Kurdish population in the North of Syria remains unclear. After reports emerged about the agreement of the Kurdish forces c Damascus and the imminent entry into the area of government troops to prevent the advance of Turkish forces, the situation escalated. While in Ankara claim that the information about the entry of Syrian troops is just “propaganda” and an attempt to advance loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces repulsed. However, the RT TV channel has published a video that shows: Pro-government troops still came into the town in jeeps. Today, the Kurds have confirmed this information “RIA Novosti”. 6фотографий6фотографий In the evening yesterday, Turkish and Syrian sources report contradictory information about the situation in Afrin. We will remind, on Monday, citing Kurdish sources reported that Syrian government troops were preparing to enter the

Chaika criticized the work of the investigators in Russia, saying about their professional degradation Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika criticized the work of Russian investigators, while expressing their professional degradation. As stated by the public Prosecutor in Tula at the meeting on the protection of rights of investors, for many of the investigators of the criminal procedure law and substantive law is “space”. “Unfortunately, for many of our investigators criminal procedural law, the substantive law is the cosmos. If 20-25 years ago and a criminal investigator is a battle of intellects, and who will replay, now it’s very simple — the prison and a special order of consideration. Now up to 70% of cases are heard in a special manner. And there comes the degradation of the investigator, he feels the same way to respond to the legitimate demands of prosecutors, unfortunately”, — said Chaika. Criminal investigation in Russia involved

Volodin refuted statements of the USA about the failure of Russian contracts in the field of MTC for $3 billion Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin considers that the U.S. state Department wishful thinking, talking about the failure of the Russian contracts on a line military-technical cooperation of $3 billion. So here, said the speaker. “Tell the world about the “dangers of Russia”, used a lot of manpower and resources in support of its sanctions policy, has put pressure on its European partners, ensuring the adoption of similar measures against Russia. And now it is apparently time to mark some kind of result. So there were three billion”, — expressed his opinion of the politician. The United States in connection with the law “On combating the enemies of America by sanctions” (CAATSA) warn and dissuade countries around the world to do business with Russian enterprises of the military-industrial complex,

Corruption scandal in CB: what will be the financial reputation of Latvia The President of the Bank of Latvia (the Central Bank), Ilmars Rimsevics, was detained by the Bureau on struggle against corruption (KNAB) on suspicion in receiving a bribe in especially large size. Police removed him from the management of the Bank, and the Latvian deputies proposed to limit the stay on a post of the President of the Central Bank the maximum two terms. Western partners still prefer not to intervene in the situation, however, the financial reputation of Latvia in the international arena has already been shaken, especially given the outbreak last week of the scandal АBLV Bank, which the United States accused of money laundering and bribery. Are things Rimshevicha and АBLV Bank, is unclear. Search and interrogation On Friday, February 16, employees KNAB raided the office and home Rimshevicha. He Rimsevics this time was in

The Kremlin confirmed that Putin will announce the message to the Federal Assembly on 1 March Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Valdimir Putin will announce the message to the Federal Assembly on 1 March. “Yesterday it became known, and I can confirm that the message really will be announced by the President on March 1,” he said. According to Mr. Peskov, the President continues to work on the text of the message. “Naturally, the preparation of the message associated with internal meetings, internal meetings”, — said the press Secretary of the President of Russia. Recall that in article 84 of the Constitution says that the President “shall address the Federal Assembly with annual messages on the situation in the country, about the basic directions internal and foreign policy”, but in 2017 the message was not released. It was announced in December. It was planned