Day: April 8, 2018

Chaika urged London to return the illegally withdrawn money out of Russia Moscow. April 8. INTERFAX.RU — Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika demanded that the British return in Russia, more than 500 billion rubles, placed there by citizens of Russia, a fugitive from Russian justice. “Since 2002, in the UK we have submitted requests for the extradition of 61 individuals, indicted or already convicted in Russia for economic crimes. Moreover, the amount of damage is more than half a trillion rubles,” — he said in an interview with NTV on Sunday. “That is stole in Russia, now the Kingdom will take it all in your budget, the Prosecutor General added. Criminals can keep themselves and money. It’s our money”. He noted that “this is only the direct damage — and the scale derived their funds abroad is much higher.” The head of the Supervisory Department said that in the UK

Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko © Alexander Yakovenko MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. The Russian Ambassador in London Alexander Yakovenko wants to hear from the British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson during a possible personal meeting, the assessment of the situation in relations between Russia and Britain. On that Sunday reported on the website of the diplomatic mission.

The head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. United States, blowing another unconfirmed story about the chemical attack in Syria trying to disrupt the withdrawal of the militants from the city Council and to stop the Syrian attack, said the head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev on his page in Facebook.

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MAGADAN, April 8. /TASS/. The home office a few months before the death of the former employee of FSB of the Russian Federation, a citizen of great Britain of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, knew about the threat to his life, but has not taken any measures, said Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika on Sunday in the program “week” on NTV.

The defense Ministry denied reports about the use of the army of Syria chemical weapons in the Duma Moscow. April 8. INTERFAX.RU — the Russian military said that reports of the use of the Syrian army against militants in the city of Duma (Eastern ghouta) bombs with chlorine untrue. “I strongly refute this information,” — said on Sunday the head of the Russian center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria the General-major Yury Evtushenko. “We declare about the readiness after release of the Duma from the militants to immediately send Russian specialists of radiation, chemical and biological defense for the collection of data that confirm the fabricated nature of those statements,” he said. Yevtushenko said that “some Western countries” trying to prevent the resumption of the withdrawal of the militants from the city Council. “This is a favorite of the West, the use of government forces of the