Day: September 29, 2018

Greek party demands to annul the agreement on the renaming of Macedonia ATHENS, 29 Sep — RIA Novosti. Member of the Greek Parliament party “centrist Union” demands to cancel Prespan agreement on renaming the Republic of Macedonia and to judge the politicians who signed it. Upstairs “Centrist Union”, said that after the referendum in Skopje “suffocating pressure” will be exerted on Greece so that she ratified the agreement. The Greek government in June signed an agreement with the Republic of Macedonia, which solves a longstanding dispute about the name of Skopje and opens the path to NATO and the EU, but criticized in Greece and in Macedonia itself. In the former Yugoslav Republic of 30 September, a referendum on its renaming to the Republic of Northern Macedonia, in the framework of the agreement. “With the referendum on 30 August in Skopje, which, of course, will vote “Yes”, and constitutional change

Volodin has opposed the allocation of hospitality expenses MOSCOW, 29 Sep — RIA Novosti. Speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin does not support the allocation of expenses to the members of the lower house. So he responded to the statement of his colleagues of Faith Ghanzi, saying that it lacks parliamentary salary 380 thousand rubles. Upstairs She explained that “because hospitality is not, then this salary remains nothing”. According to the Chairman of the state Duma, for the solution of point problems, problems of individual village or city there are state programs, national projects. He stressed that the MP should ensure that these programs and projects included issues of interest to voters. As an example, he, in particular, has led the development of medicine, construction of schools, rural development, road maintenance and infrastructure. Volodin added that the deputies can and should defend the interests of their constituents in the

Russia has begun the delivery of s-300 to Syria Russia has started deliveries of anti-aircraft missile systems s-300 to Syria. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, reports “Interfax”. Upstairs “The s-300 have already begun to arrive in Syria,” — said the head of Russian diplomacy. According to him, deliveries could begin “immediately after the incident” with the Russian reconnaissance aircraft Il-20 in Syria. On 24 September the Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu said that Moscow in the next two weeks will resume deliveries of s-300 to Damascus. This process was frozen in 2013 at the request of Israel. Moscow’s decision to transfer to Damascus of an effective air defense was made after the Russian reconnaissance aircraft Il-20 was shot down in the night of September 18, near the Mediterranean coast. The disaster killed 15 Russian soldiers. The defense Ministry laid the blame