Day: December 7, 2018

Source: the head of the Executive Committee of the popular front Anisimov appointed zampolpreda of the President in TSFO MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. The head of the Executive Committee of the Russian popular front (onf) Alexey Anisimov was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary representative of RF President in the Central Federal district. This was reported by TASS on Friday a source in the Kremlin. Upstairs “The head of the Executive Committee of the popular front Aleksey Anisimov was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary representative of RF President in the Central Federal district. The corresponding order was signed by the head of the Russian presidential Administration Anton Vaino”, — informed the source. According to him, the duties Anisimov “will include the development of civil society, and cooperation with public organizations and NGOs”. Anisimov headed the Executive Committee of the onf since April 2014. “The new head of the Executive Committee of the onf will be

The Venezuelan President announced the signing of contracts with Russia at $6 billion Russia and Venezuela signed several contracts worth $6 billion during a visit to Moscow President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, reports AFP. Upstairs “Today, contracts were signed to ensure the investments more than $5 billion to increase oil production, with our Russian partners in the joint ventures. In addition, we guarantee the investments more than $1 billion in the mining sector, primarily in gold mining,” said Mr Maduro. He added that, among other projects, Russia and Venezuela agreed on the introduction of the GLONASS system in a Latin American country. Nicolas Maduro said that this will strengthen and develop the telecommunications system of Venezuela. The two countries cooperate in the following areas: energy, agriculture, exploration, pharmaceuticals, information and communication technology, nuclear medicine, military-technical and other. See also: Russian officials went to rescue Venezuela from crisis Lunch President Maduro

The United States urged Russia to abandon “hide the true potential of” missiles U.S. urges Moscow to withdraw from cruise missiles 9М729 or modify the system in such a way that the range did not violate the terms of the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty). This was stated by assistant Secretary of state on arms control and international security Andrea Thompson, reports Reuters. Upstairs According to her, the Russian side needs to make adjustments, which can be checked. She said that now 9М729 the missile has a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers is prohibited by the Treaty. Earlier in October, the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow gave Washington information on testing missiles 9М729. “Moreover, at last year’s exercises “West-2017″ was held the next launch of the rocket range is substantially lower than 500 kilometers,” — said