Day: April 10, 2018

© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. Russian diplomats expelled from Western countries after the incident in Salisbury, came on Monday in a historic mansion of the Russian foreign Ministry on Spiridonovka in Moscow for a meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. The head of the Russian foreign Ministry welcomed them home and promised that soon they will be able to return to work. Ahead of the meeting, the diplomats told journalists stories sudden departure and impressions back home. Speculation around the return of the diplomats The meeting of Lavrov with the expelled diplomats said at a briefing on Wednesday the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. She noted that around the return of Russian dipuchrezhdeny in the press there appeared much speculation, especially after the foreign Ministry invited journalists to cover their arrival in Russia. Those journalists who managed to see the departure of

© EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN LONDON, April 10. /TASS/. The Russian Embassy sent a note to the British foreign office with a request to confirm or deny a new version of the alleged poisoning in the English city of Salisbury Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. On Monday evening, said the press Secretary of a diplomatic mission.

Poroshenko urged to increase gas transit through Ukraine MOSCOW, 9 APR — RIA Novosti. President Petro Poroshenko has proposed to increase the transit of gas through Ukraine is Nord Stream 2. Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine called on the parliaments and governments of other States to take measures for the complete prohibition of the construction of the pipeline “Nord stream — 2”, the corresponding statement at the meeting of Parliament on Thursday supported 266 parliamentarians when the required minimum of 226 votes. The German government has repeatedly stated that the Nord Stream 2 economic project. In an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, Poroshenko said that “German politicians and companies need to carefully consider” the implementation of the project, since it, according to the Ukrainian leader, allegedly “does not have an economically sound base.” “Is the Ukrainian transit pipeline, which is much cheaper. It is easy and profitable to upgrade…

Surkov told Russian century “geopolitical solitude” MOSCOW, 9 APR — RIA Novosti. Presidential aide Vladislav Surkov said that Russia expected from one hundred to three hundred years “geopolitical solitude,” and noted the failure of the country’s “repeated and fruitless attempts” to intermarry with Western civilization. He wrote about this in an article for the journal “Russia in global politics”. According to him, the imposition of sanctions in 2014, “concluded an epic journey of Russia” in the West, “lightly started by the False Dmitry and resolutely continued Peter the great”. At this time the Russian government “sideways as it tried to squeeze” in the West — autocrats “hard married German women”, the nobility and the bureaucracy replenished “bragagnini foreigners” and the army “victoriously, and sacrificially fought in all major wars of Europe.” Not led to the pair and the fascination of the West with the ideas of socialism, and is embodied