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© Valery sharifulin/TASS UN, September 19. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov Tuesday on the sidelines of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in new York, plans to meet with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, the British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and EU high representative for foreign Affairs and security policy Federica Mogherini. About it journalists were reported by the Russian delegation.

Photo: IGOR SAMOKHVALOV The Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that he sees no logic in the suggestion of the US state Department to place UN peacekeepers on the border of Russia and Ukraine. “No logic in this sentence, I do not see” — said the head of the upper house of Parliament, reporters, reports TASS. Valentina Matvienko has reminded that the Russian leader Vladimir Putin instructed the foreign Ministry to appeal to the UN with the request to place the peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone in the Donbass. Thus it was that today on the territory of DND and LNR, as well as in the area of the contact work with representatives of the OSCE, said the Senator. Matvienko added that peacekeepers are needed to ensure the safety of the OSCE mission, because the organization does not have armed protection to those employees who participate in

Photo: RIA Novosti The Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs, head of the Commission for the protection of the sovereignty Andrei Klimov believes that reports about the fall in the Donetsk region Russian drone can be a provocation, reports RT. “I do not rule out a provocation when someone’s camera will intentionally be issued for Russia, given the disinformation, which is now in its third year Kiev is spreading around the world about non-existent Russian army on the territory of Ukraine”, — he said. Ukraine said about the fall in the Donetsk region of the drone Russian-made “Orlan-10”. This was reported on the page of the headquarters of the ATO in Facebook. The fall of the machine, produced in Russia, regarded as another proof that Russia is involved in the war against Ukraine. “This UAV Russia often applies in the Donbass for reconnaissance and adjustment of

Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative of the defense Ministry major-General Igor Konashenkov denied the information about the applied videoconferencing impact on the Syrian opposition, RIA Novosti reported. “Syrian government forces backed by the Russian space forces for more than a week lead successful battles to elimination of the last foothold of ISIS in Deir ez-Zor. In order to avoid unnecessary escalation, the command of the Russian forces in Syria, according to the existing communication channel in advance, brought to the American partners of the boundaries of the military operation in Deir ez-Zor”, he said. As noted Konashenkov, in the context of the operation destroyed the manpower, armored vehicles and terrorist targets on the Western and on the Eastern Bank of the Euphrates. Russian aerospace forces, inflicting precision strikes in areas controlled by ISIL (ISIS, is prohibited in Russia) regions to destroy firing points of terrorists from which leads a

In Russia first selected far Eastern hectare The court of the district of Vanino in Khabarovsk territory deprived local resident land rights received under the program of the far Eastern hectare. On Tuesday, September 19, TASS reported in the regional headquarters of the popular front. “The disputed territory with a total area of 419 square meters is one of the most traffic places in Vanino, there are the local Bank, book store, children’s store, socially important objects. We were able to ensure that the Park stays within its borders, and a woman can choose a site elsewhere or to appeal the court decision”, — said the activist of the popular front Khabarovsk Yuri Svetlichnaya. Earlier, residents of Vanino collected signatures 1.5 thousand people against “non-transparent” allocation of the site in the village centre. According to Svetlichny, this is the first case in Russia when the decision of the court was

Poroshenko said that the U.S. Senate has approved $ APU $500 million MOSCOW, 19 Sep — RIA Novosti. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the U.S. Senate approved the allocation of $ 500 million to support Ukraine in security and defense. Meanwhile, earlier it was reported that the U.S. Senate on Monday approved a draft defense budget for the 2018 fiscal year in the amount of 692 billion dollars. According to the approved budget, in part military assistance to Ukraine, provided $ 150 million (last year was 350 million). In this case you will have available only $ 75 million of this amount and the remaining funds should be a separate resolution of the Senate. Also, the bill contains a promise to help Ukraine in strengthening cyber security, but without a specific commitment from the American side. “The U.S. Senate approved the draft “Law on the U.S. budget