Category: Politics

Lawmakers proposed a ban on the Trump return departmenet Russia MOSCOW, 1 Jul — RIA Novosti. A group of congressmen introduced a bill under which the President of the United States Donald trump should not have access to budget funds for the return of departmenet in the States of Maryland and new York to the government of the Russian Federation. “Our intelligence services agree that Moscow interfered in the us elections in 2016. During his presidency, trump and his administration have failed to clearly and in a coordinated manner to respond to the intervention in our democracy,” reads the statement of the Congressman from Maryland’s Anthony brown, who leads the team, who put forward the bill. Brown says that Congress must ensure that the administration is not acting in favor of Russia’s interests, while using state funds of the United States. “Maryland should not become a springboard for foreign of

NATO fighters intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic sea Meeting aircraft was in international airspace without incident. BRUSSELS, 1 Aug. /TASS/. NATO fighters from the mission of patrolling the airspace of the Baltic countries intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic sea. This is stated in the statement of the Alliance. “Two Spanish F-18 fighter jet participating in the NATO mission air policing had been raised from the Estonian Amari military base to intercept three Russian aircraft, which were identified as two MiG-31 fighter jet and a transport aircraft an-26”, — said the Alliance. The statement noted that it is not a member of NATO Finland has also sent fighter aircraft for aerial inspection of Russian aircraft. Meeting aircraft of the Russian Federation, Finland and NATO took place in international airspace without incident.

Vassily Nebenzia © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS UN, August 1. /TASS/. Permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia on Tuesday held the first meeting with his American counterpart, Nikki Haley, after discussing with her the programme of work of the Security Council in August. As stated by the Russian diplomat journalists in the coming days he plans to spend time with her “substantive conversation”. “We met this morning. We will meet more often in the coming days, weeks, years and so forth,” – said Nebenzia. According to him, during the discussion on Tuesday discussed the work of the security Council under the chairmanship of Egypt in August. “We exchanged a few words and I’ll meet you later for a substantive conversation,” he added.

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. Linking the reduction in the number of employees of diplomatic missions of the USA in Russia with the processing of us visas for Russians do not stand up to scrutiny. On Tuesday said the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “Linking reducing the number of staff with visas not stand up to scrutiny, as Americans, no one sent, no one dictated and did not specify who to send home and who to leave, – wrote the diplomat in Facebоok. Accordingly, if Washington decides to reduce the number of people engaged in visa matters, it will be the decision of Washington, sovereign, deliberate and not forced. And people should know and understand.”

Photo: Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Moscow may respond asymmetrically to Warsaw on the law on the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers. About it the newspaper “Izvestia” reported in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia. “The Polish authorities must be aware that their hostile actions in the memorial area will not remain without consequences, – quotes the edition of the text of the review of the Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry. In respect of the Polish side will take adequate retaliatory measures, which may be asymmetric in nature.” The foreign Ministry also told reporters that the dismantling of Soviet monuments invariably “dealt with in the course of contacts with the poles, our foreign partners, on international platforms, including the OSCE, the COE and the CSTO.” Earlier, the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev said that Russia may withdraw from

Photo: The defense Ministry / mil.ru The joint mission of great Britain and Norway will perform an observation flight over the territory of the Russian Federation on the Swedish observation aircraft SAAB-340 in the period from 31 July to 4 August, said acting chief of the Russian national Center for nuclear threat reduction Ruslan Shishin. The flight will be made in the framework of the international Treaty on open skies from the airfield the open sky of Kubinka (Moscow oblast), reported Shishin. During the flight on an agreed route Russian specialists on Board the surveillance plane will monitor strict observance of the agreed parameters of the flight and the order of application of the Treaty sensors. Observation aircraft SAAB-340 belongs to the class of aircraft, not intended to use any weapons. The plane and installed on the observation equipment (aerial cameras) have passed international certification, which was attended by Russian

Shortened stamps of America As a reduction of the staff of the Embassy of the United States will affect the issuance of visas to Russian citizens. Russian authorities introduced sanctions against the United States can lead to two negative consequences for the citizens of the Russian Federation. First, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow admit that the Russians can have difficulties with obtaining us visas. About this “Kommersant” said the press service of the diplomatic mission. Earlier, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul has warned that due to the forced reduction of staff to wait for US visas to citizens of Russia will have “weeks, if not months”. In addition, in an interview with “Kommersant” he suggested that, faced with the need to reduce the 755 employees of their institutions in Russia, the United States will prefer to fire a large number of Russians working at the U.S. Embassy

Putin signed the law on the procedure of payment obschedomovyh utilities MOSCOW, 1 AVG — RIA Estate. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law specifying the procedure for payment of utilities consumed in the maintenance of common property in an apartment house, reported on the official website of the President. The law introduces a number of changes to the Housing code of the Russian Federation concerning the procedure for the payment of water, electricity and sewage consumed in the maintenance of common property in an apartment house. From 1 January 2017, the charge for maintenance of the dwelling included a fee for cold and hot water, sewage disposal, electric power consumed in the maintenance of common property in an apartment house, which was previously included in the cost for utilities. The amount of expenses of citizens for a block of flats calculated on the basis of regulations approved by bodies

Photo: WASHINGTON, 30 Jul — RIA Novosti. Russian Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the only connection of the former candidate in US presidents Hillari Clinton was in the established working contacts with the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the days when she served as Secretary of state. “The only link Clinton with Russia, about which I know, it is those working relationships that it has established with Minister Lavrov when she was Secretary of state. I don’t know of any other contacts or information provided by it any of the Russian officials or Russian citizens”, — he told in interview to TV channel ABC. Informed the legal Committee of the chamber of representatives of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the leadership of the Ministry of justice with a request to appoint a special Prosecutor to investigate the activities of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and