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The Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu © Sergey Bobylev/press service of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. Russia expects from international organizations of humanitarian aid for the people of Syria, said the head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu, the TV channel “Russia 24”. “Today we say: “In zones of de-escalation [help] bring, everything is open. If you can’t take, we’ll bring it.” But we can’t be mom and dad. So of course they will need support from humanitarian organizations, United Nations”, – he said. Shoigu added that the joint work of Russia and the international humanitarian organizations will lead to the stabilization of the situation of refugees. “Go on the return of refugees to their homes inside of Syria, what is happening now and then from other regions”, – the Minister added. According to the head of the defense Ministry, the

Photo: RIA Novosti The coordinator “the Left front” Sergey Udaltsov, who had served a term for organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya square, will continue to participate in peaceful protest actions, however to cooperate in this with Alexei Navalny is not going to. He said this at a press conference on Thursday, August 10, RIA Novosti reported. “Navalny is not my candidate. I’m not going to hold a meeting for him,” — said Udaltsov, stressing that he does not want to PR the founder of Fund of fight against corruption.

Shoigu: Damascus-controlled territory increased 2.5 times For two months the state-controlled Syrian territory increased 2.5 times, said the head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu. About it writes “Interfax”. “Over the last two months the territory controlled by Damascus, has increased in 2,5 times”, — he said. He recalled that in Syria at the time of the arrival of the Russian VKS was actually two wars — terrorists and civil war with the opposition. According to “RIA Novosti”, Deir ez-Zor is a key city in Syria, his release needed to defeat ISIL (“Islamic state” banned in Russia. — Ed.).

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The date for the next round of talks in Astana depend on the willingness of the government and the opposition, hoping to hold it until the end of August continues. This was stated on Thursday, TASS, the Russian President’s special envoy on the Middle East and Africa, Deputy foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, answering the question whether there is clarity in the dates of the meeting after consultation of the countries-guarantors in Tehran on August 8-9. “It depends not only on the three guarantors [of Russia, Iran and Turkey], and the readiness of the Syrian parties — I mean the SAR government and the armed opposition, which joined our agreements on the cessation of hostilities, he said. So we need to expect more from them.” Answering the question, will there be a meeting before the end of August, as planned in the previous round

Photo: RIA Novosti NOVO-OGARYOVO, August 10. /TASS/. The head of audit chamber of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova has paid attention of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to the problem of siltation Otkaznenskogo reservoir in Stavropol region. The question she raised during the bilateral meeting with the head of state. “Vladimir Vladimirovich, I want one more thing to say. I think it is also important, but such an order can only give you. Very Otkaznenskoe reservoir, this reclamation system that is essentially out of its banks, — built in 1965 — said Golikova. Based on design estimates in 31 years was to be carried out the cleaning of this reservoir: it is silted up to 62%”. The head of the accounting chamber drew attention to the fact that as soon as this summer have to face such a large amount of precipitation, the water level in the reservoir has

The Russian Embassy in the United States advised citizens not to travel to Charlottesville The city declared a state of emergency. Moscow. August 13. INTERFAX.RU — the Russian Embassy in the US recommended its citizens to refrain from trips to Charlottesville, where it was introduced a state of emergency due to clashes between the white nationalists and their opponents, said on Sunday on the official website of the Embassy in Facebook. “In connection with the incident in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Embassy recommends Russian citizens to temporarily refrain from trips to this city”, — stated in the message. A group of white nationalists gathered on Saturday on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in preparation for the action “Merge right”, forcing the state Governor to urge people to stay away from the campus. A group of demonstrators also went through the University campus in Charlottesville with torches, chanting

Erdogan said a possible improvement of relations with Germany after the Bundestag elections Moscow. August 13. INTERFAX.RU — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to improve relations with Germany after the Bundestag elections on September 24, he said in the Turkish TV, according to Deutsche Welle. “It’s already been done by France and Austria, and now we see that Germany has adopted the same strategy. I think that this situation will improve after the elections”, — said Erdogan. Relations between Germany and Turkey for a long time extremely tense. In particular, in June in Berlin made the decision on the withdrawal of Bundeswehr soldiers with the Turkish military base of Incirlik. The reason for the departure became bans of Ankara on the visit of the German deputies of the military contingent stationed at the base. As justification, the Turkish side put forward various reasons, for example, the adoption by the

Photo: RIA Novosti During the meeting with the head of audit chamber Tatyana Golikova, Russian President Vladimir Putin called nonsense the situation when you take the money for the help for assistance during emergencies, and demanded to settle this issue.

The media learned about the version of trump about the initiator of the leaks from the White house The President of the United States Donald trump suspects that the leaks of information about the work of the White house is his chief Advisor on strategic issues Steve Bannon, said Axios, citing sources close to the President. According to sources, about her suspicions about Bannon, the President told his colleagues at the White house, which refused to join the main team this week at the presidential Golf club in Bedminster, new Jersey. According to the publication, ‘bannon is considered the initiator of the leakage of compromising information about the national security adviser Herbert McMaster. In addition, according to sources, trump was unhappy with the tight cooperation’bannon with a journalist of Bloomberg Businessweek, Josh green. The publication notes that after the appointment in late July, the President’s chief of staff John Kelly’bannon