Barack Obama welcomes talks with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons, but criticized Moscow for failing to lead them. About the outgoing US President said, speaking at his last press conference in Washington. He recalled the start-3 Treaty signed between Russia and the United States of America during Obama’s first term. The agreement could substantially reduce nuclear arsenals. “I told President Putin that I am ready to move on. They did not want to negotiate,” – said the American leader. “If the President trump will resume these talks in a serious way, I believe we still have a lot of opportunity to reduce nuclear arsenals,” — said Obama. Previously elected President of the United States Donald trump said about the possibility to achieve Russian agreement to reduce nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry
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Orthodox Christians celebrate Baptism throughout Russia
Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany across Russia. In memory of the baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan, the faithful consecrate the water and plunge into ice font. Servicemen of the strategic Missile forces in the suburban Vlasikha after Liturgy in the Church of St. Elijah of Murom went in procession to the baptismal font. This year, the ablution has committed more than 1,000 troops In Yekaterinburg, in the Epiphany bathing was attended by servicemen of the connection of the railway troops. The font was installed in the heated tent, there was held a festive service. All military units of the Central military district have prepared about fifty of these ice-holes. Bathed that night, and military units of the Moscow region. To separate regiment communication airborne font organized on Bear lake. Before soldiers and officers took bath, there was the rite of the Great
Closer to heaven, closer to God, we’re airborne paratrooper about why baptized during bathing
In the Suburban parts of the military were traditional Epiphany bathing, which were attended by about 2.5 thousand military. The correspondent of TV channel “Zvezda” said that at Bear lake, where the washing was done by the Marines separate regiment communication airborne troops command two privates was baptized, after which they also dipped into the font. As told by one of the military guard private Evgeny Terebov, he decided to be baptized, when he began to serve in the army. He explained his decision by the fact that as a paratrooper he is constantly in the sky, and therefore needs to be closer to God. It is noted that not all the military took part in the cleansing, some are unable for health reasons or religion. Despite the fact that all who came to font medical examination before bathing, the hole was on duty doctors and
In Italy the avalanche covered the hotel
An avalanche struck the hotel di Rigopiano Farindola is located in the Italian region of Abruzzo, in the mountain range of Gran Sasso. In the building at this point nautilos about 20 people, RIA Novosti reported citing local media. Two of our guests were able to signal distress. Currently, the place is patrolled. Phone numbers of guests and hotel employees is not responsible. Photo: Guenter Fischer / Globallookpress
Putin, Merkel and Hollande discussed the situation in the Donbass
During a telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande the implementation of the Minsk dogovorennostey, the press service of the President of Russia. All parties expressed dissatisfaction with the settlement of the situation in Ukraine. “Expressed dissatisfaction with the overall situation in the context of the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. Stated, in particular, the aggravation of the situation along the line of contact in Donbas, as well as insufficient performance in the Contact group”, – reported on the Kremlin website. The presidents of Russia, France and Germany recognized the need to increase efforts to de-escalate the tense situation in the South-East of Ukraine. The countries agreed to work together on giving “impetus to the framework of the “channel four”. Photo: mil.gov.ua
British media have published footage of combat su-27 and F-16
In the sky over one of the most secret U.S. military bases in Nevada (so-called “Area 51”) has held a training battle between fighter aircraft Russian-made su-27 and the American F-16. Photos of aircraft publishes the publication Dailymail. The report said that the two fighters for 25 minutes led to melee at heights from 6 to 10 kilometers. It is noted that the pictures were taken in the day when Donald trump was elected President. It is noteworthy that the title sounds like “Proof that America is preparing for war with Russia? American aircraft carried out air combat with a Russian fighter over a top secret base of the United States”. That US fighters are training fights with the su-27 was reported in December last year. While it appeared when the pictures were seen in single plane, while in the United States officially there was only
Found flying the drone could fall into the sea after a miss NATO military
Found off the coast of Russian drone-the target could be in the water due to the fact that NATO military missed him during the exercise, said the chief editor of the site UAV.ru dedicated unmanned aircraft Denis Fedutinov. “Judging by the pictures, the device has no damage associated with its defeat in any form of weapons. This could mean that he fell into the water due to a miss of military NATO, after all the fuel”, – the expert believes. He also noted that to determine the exact identity of the UAV will be difficult due to the fact that it was supplied to more than ten countries of NATO, with the serial numbers of the products not mentioned in the official documents about the purchase of military equipment. Most likely, the device was used on NATO exercises Sea Breeze in July 2016. That on the shores
The CIA has published secret documents about UFOs
The CIA published its archive, consisting of 13 million pages of various documents. On it informs TV channel CNN. Declassified documents that previously could only be studied on four computer terminals in the National archives in Maryland, is now available on the Internet. They provided information about CIA activities in Vietnam, the Korean conflict and during the cold war. In addition, in documents on alleged UFO sightings and previously classified military project Stargate, in which the Americans conducted a study of the supernatural human abilities. Photo: Zhu GuopingSipa Asia / Globallookpress
The great commander Avakov is the APU on the Eastern border details in Facebook
The Ukrainian authorities again promised the imminent liberation of Donbass, this time through the mouth of the interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. Now the battle should go the Ukrainian army and nationalist battalions, and… border guards, police, bodies of justice. For a full list of all this “guard” is not enough unless the wildlife and fisheries that in a single offensive rush ride “fiery shaft” right up to the borders of Russia. Hard to believe this brilliant tactical plan police General with difficulty, but then, that wood with its filing in the Donbass are still mangled there is no doubt. Such a statement he made on the Board of the state border service, where he urged the Ukrainian border guards to be ready to attack on the uncontrolled Kiev territory of Donbass already in 2017. The Minister said categorically, as always, gave, that is to say, confidence in
The Russian defense Ministry has said it is ready to take the delivery of medicines to Syria
The representatives of the world food programme, the United Nations, the world health organization and UNICEF have confirmed their desire to deliver cargo to Syria. This was stated by the official representative of the defense Ministry major-General Igor Konashenkov. According to him, all these organizations are willing to send aid to Syria, but can’t do it immediately. The defense Ministry promised to take the delivery of medical care. “For its part, the Russian Centre of reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria ready to coordinate with the Syrian authorities accepting applications for the delivery of medical care, arrange to meet her at the airport Hamim, and provide transportation of cargoes of international organizations in the Syrian towns,” – said Konashenkov. Konashenkov also said that the real help now need a minimum of 73 settlements. At the moment, medicine brings them only Russia, but these volumes