Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Washington can spend the funds on financing of protest actions in Russia on the eve of presidential elections to be held in 2018. With such a warning was made by Russian Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at a meeting of the interim Commission of the Federation Council for the protection of state sovereignty. “It is possible that part of the allocation under a new law means Washington will try to quit feeding the protest activity in our country. The Ministry of foreign Affairs jointly with other units of Executive authorities is closely monitoring this process,” said a senior diplomat. According to forecasts Ryabkov, as you get closer to the date of the presidential elections in Russia “trying to influence the situation in the country, undermine internal stability, will not wane, but rather increase”. “We need to approach these processes fully prepared”, — said the Deputy Minister, quoted

The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on eight banks in Korea In particular, we are talking about the three representatives of the North Korean banks in Russia. Moscow. September 26. INTERFAX.RU — the U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday sanctions against eight North Korean banks. The Ministry of Finance notes that the restrictions imposed on 26 employees of these banks. In particular, we are talking about three Bank representatives of the DPRK in Russia — DPRK representatives of Vneshtorgbank in Vladivostok, as well as banks Group Bank Kumgang Korea and Unification of the Korea Development Bank in Moscow. The sanctions will affect banks such as Agricultural Development Bank, Cheil Credit Bank Hana Banking Corporation, International Industrial Development Bank, Jinmyong Joint Bank, Jinsong Joint Bank, Koryo Commercial Bank Ltd, Ryugyong Commercial Bank, which, as suggested by the American Ministry of Finance, provide assistance to the government of the DPRK in developing nuclear and

Valery Shantsev © Alexander Ryumin/TASS MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. Political analysts believe that the departure of Valery Shantsev as Governor of Nizhny Novgorod region can be caused by his conflict with regional elites, and that it lies in line with the resignation of the head of the Samara region Nikolay Merkushkin, which occurred on Monday.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak © Marat Abulhasan/TASS MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. Currently in Russia are assessing the efficiency of Executive authorities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and its results can be made several decisions about the change of governors. This opinion was expressed to journalists on Tuesday Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

Valery Shantsev © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 26. /TASS/. Former Nizhny Novgorod Governor Valery Shantsev is sure that the only reason for the resignation of the head of the region is its age – this year he turned 70 years old. He said this to journalists on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accepted the resignation Shantsev as Governor of Nizhny Novgorod region and appointed acting head of the region first Deputy head of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation Gleb Nikitin. Entrenchments was the head of the Nizhny Novgorod region since August 2005.

Photo: Arguments and Facts Meeting of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov took place on Monday in Minsk at the Palace of Independence. During the talks, Lukashenko stressed the contribution to the development of Kadyrov’s Chechen Republic and expressed the desire to work together to develop the economy of the Caucasus, according to radio Sputnik of Belarus. “Well done, rose from the ruins, from the ashes of your piece of land. Instilled confidence in the people of the Chechen Republic. As far as I know they pay good and the current government of the Chechen Republic”, — said the Belarusian leader. According to him, Chechnya is a very credible and promising region. Lukashenka expressed his desire to build a joint venture that will create high-tech products. Minsk would like to trade in the Republic, “not only in the South but in the North”. Ramzan

Photo: RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov said that the US is not showing commitment to the fight against terrorism, RIA “Novosti”. “We are convinced once again that the American side, declaring, verbally stating that she is interested in the elimination of “Islamic state” and the victory over terrorists in Syria, in fact, some of their actions demonstrate the opposite, that everything has some political and geopolitical problems for Washington more important than what is declared in terms of commitment to the counter-terrorism struggle,” he said. He called this situation alarming. Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of defence published evidence linking the US with ISIS. “Islamic state” terrorist group, whose activity is banned in several countries, including in Russia

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, September 25 — RIA Novosti. The death of Russian General in Syria — is the price paid by Russia for the duplicity of the United States in the settlement of the crisis in the region, said Russian Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. On Sunday, the defense Ministry said that Lieutenant-General Valery Isupov, who headed the group of Russian military advisers, were killed near the city of Deir ez-Zor during mortar shelling the terrorists. “The death of the Russian commander — this is the price, a payment of blood for the duplicity of American policy in Syria,” Ryabkov said to journalists. Russian defense Ministry has previously published aerial photographs of the locations of militants of the “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) to the North of the city of Deir ez-Zor in Syria, which is clearly visible to equipment of special forces of the US in strongholds

The defense Ministry has tested an Intercontinental missile “Topol” MOSCOW, September 26 — RIA Novosti. Combat crews of the strategic Missile forces from the landfill “Kapustin Yar” in Astrakhan region conducted a test launch of an Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) RS-12M “Topol”, reported in Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry. “The objective of the launch was to test promising combat equipment for Intercontinental ballistic missiles. Training warhead missiles with a given accuracy struck conditional goal at the site “Sary-Shagan” (Republic of Kazakhstan)”, — said the defense Ministry. During the test, experimental data on the parameters of the target environment, generated promising combat equipment of ballistic missiles in the process of overcoming missile defense, said the Agency. “In the future this information will be used to develop effective means to overcome missile defense for equipping their perspective grouping Russian ballistic missiles”, — reported in Department.

Putin dismissed the commander of the VKS Bondarev The President of Russia Vladimir Putin dismissed from his post of commander of aerospace forces (VKS) Viktor Bondarev. Colonel-General also dismissed from military service. The corresponding decree of the head of state posted on Tuesday, September 26, on the official portal of legal information. Putin also took the posts of Deputy commander of the black sea fleet, Vice-Admiral Valery Kulikov (recently became a member of the Federation Council from Sevastopol) and the chief of the main Department of internal Affairs across the Saratov region the General-the Lieutenant of police Sergey Arenin (he was also appointed a Senator). On September 19, the Governor of the Kirov region, Igor Vasiliev gave Bondarev the powers of a member of the Federation Council. In July source “Tape.ru” in the upper house of Parliament said that the commander of the VKS will become the new head of