Day: August 3, 2018

The Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. A new bill on sanctions against Russia, introduced in the U.S. Senate, could be adopted, but it will affect bilateral relations between countries, not on Moscow’s policy. Such opinion, answering a question of the correspondent of TASS, was expressed by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. According to him, the proposed group of U.S. senators, the initiative of the “normal operating conditions” would not have prospects, “because of the sanctions there is no reason”. “But anti-Russian sentiment in Congress is now heated to the max, and as you get closer to [the interim parliamentary] elections on 6 November, the common sense in the actions of American politicians will increasingly dissolve in the opportunistic considerations of the election campaign. Therefore, this odious project might sooner

Zakharov told a joke to a question about working in the U.S. Embassy to Russian Moscow. August 3. INTERFAX.RU Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova joked when asked to comment on media reports “exposing” the Russians who are in contact with the FSB, which allegedly worked in the American Embassy in Moscow. The official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation noted that she knows nothing about allegedly associated with the Russian special services. “I have no idea, I don’t know about whom we are talking, what was going on,” said Zakharov. “Well, really, it is impossible to comment on what you don’t know. If you have any specific data, let him provide, we will understand what they are”, — said the representative of the foreign Ministry. Earlier, the Guardian newspaper reported that the Russian, associated with the FSB, has long worked at the American

Sponsor trump tried to get a state loan of $5 billion through his lawyer One of the largest sponsors of Donald trump was planning to pay $10 million to counsel for the President Michael Cohen for what he will obtain from the government a loan of $5 billion reported by the newspaper the Wall Street Journal, citing sources. According to the publication, the money to the donor, the Franklin L. Haney was required to complete construction of two nuclear reactors at nuclear power plants “the heart of bellefonte,” in Alabama. According to the newspaper, he signed a contract with trump’s lawyer in early April. The businessman planned to obtain from the Department of energy loan within the framework of the state program of preferential crediting. The contract specified that the promised reward Cohen will be less than $10 million, if the financier will receive from the state less than $5

The Prosecutor’s office returned the money to the business The Supervisory authority is struggling with debt on public contracts. 18 billion rubles of debt from the beginning of the year was returned to businesses on state contracts through the intervention of the prosecution. In this case, the Supervisory authority has prevented the conclusion of obviously unprofitable transactions only in the sphere of the state defense order of 4 billion rubles this was stated today at the semi-annual extended Board of the Prosecutor General of Russia. The theme of protection of business interests has traditionally been in the area of special attention of prosecutors this year. This was said at today’s semi-annual summary meeting of the Supervisory Department of the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. “For three years according to our requirements they already paid 104 billion rubles of debt for work performed on government and municipal contracts, of which 18