Category: Politics

The U.S. Congress passed a bill on sanctions against Russia The house of representatives of the United States Congress approved a new draft sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. Now this document needs to take the Senate. The house of representatives “overwhelmingly” passed a bill on sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, according to Reuters. For him, according to the Agency, “with the active support from Republicans” voted 388 members of the house of Congress and opposed by only two. The document, as noted by Reuters, was approved despite the objections of the President of the United States Donald trump on this initiative. According to her, among other things, limit the powers of the head of the United States in addressing the issue of softening or lifting sanctions against Moscow, Tehran or Pyongyang — if the President makes such a decision required the approval of Congress. Now the

Trump called the presence of Russia in Syria, the mistakes of the Obama administration Moscow. July 25. INTERFAX.RU — the Presence in Syria of Russia and Iran is a consequence of the mistakes of the previous US administration, said the President of the United States Donald trump. “If President (Barack — if) Obama would do what he had to do, I do not think that Syria today would be Russia was Iran,” he said Tuesday at a press conference after talks with Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri. Answering the question about his attitude to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, trump said, “I’m not a fan of Assad.” According to the American President, “what he did to this country and human values, is awful.” “The horrific acts against humanity have taken place, including gas (attack). It was a black day for this country,” said trump. According to him, Assad “did it

Air force planes, US and UK have scouted the borders of the Russian Federation in the South of the Baltic sea Moscow. July 25. INTERFAX.RU Strategic reconnaissance aircraft, the U.S. air force and the Royal air force RC-135W on Tuesday had carried out another hours-long flight near the border of the Kaliningrad region, according to data from Western sites, tracking movement of military aviation. According to their information, the American aircraft tail number and call sign 62-4138 GUILE93 taking off Tuesday morning from the air base Mildenhall in the U.K., for approximately three hours conducted reconnaissance near the land border of the Kaliningrad region, while in the airspace of Lithuania. After the assignment near the Russian border a day it was replaced by a similar British plane RC-135W tail number and call sign ZZ664 RFR7148. British reconnaissance aircraft was flying near the coast of the Kaliningrad region, cruising over international

Photo: RIA Novosti KYIV, 24 Jul — RIA Novosti. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Emmanuel Makron consider unacceptable such statements as the creation of the Ukraine, said Monday the press service of the Ukrainian President after a telephone conversation leaders “channel four”. “The French President and the German Chancellor stressed the inadmissibility of any statements that undermine the territorial integrity of Ukraine, in particular regarding the establishment of the so-called “the Ukraine”, — stated in the message on the website of the Ukrainian President. Earlier, the head of the self-proclaimed DND Alexander Zakharchenko has proposed the establishment of a transitional period of up to three years a new state of little Russia as the legal successor of the Ukraine — non-aligned status, a course on the restoration of relations with Russia and accession to the Union state of Russia and Belarus. The leadership of the Luhansk people’s

Photo: RIA Novosti KRASNODAR, July 24. /TASS/. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who arrived on Monday to Krasnodar to participate in a plenary session of the party “United Russia”, devoted to the problems of the urban environment, visited Krasnodar Park “Friendship of peoples”. The Prime Minister spoke about a large-scale work carried out in the framework of the regional target program “Krasnodar – Metropolitan appearance”. Now in the Park, children Playground, with new monuments built Playground. Along the alleys are located the panels for art exhibitions, where artists sell their work. Square has a long history: this space was left vacant even during the initial development of Ekaterinodar based on the construction of any significant facilities. In 1923 there took apart the pavement and began to build a proletarian working in a garden, but then the area became a place of physical development of young workers – there was a football

The state Department has denied reports about the intention Tillerson to resign MOSCOW, 25 Jul — RIA Novosti. The representative of the US state Department has denied to CNN that U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson plans to retire. CNN, citing sources, reported earlier that Tillerson is probably considering the possibility of retiring from the post of Secretary of state because of disagreements with the White house, “including a new debate on policy toward Iran” and personnel policy of his Department. In addition, according to the channel, the Secretary called unprofessional recent public statements by the President of the United States Donald trump addressed to the attorney General Jeff and Roman sessions. The sources of the TV channel said that before his departure Tillerson intend to reorganize the state Department, because there is, in his opinion, there is no discipline, and staff shy away from making decisions. Press Secretary of

Alexey Goreslavsky can go to the presidential administration The office for public projects is looking for a curator of the Internet space. As it became known””, the Executive Director of media Rambler & With Alexey Goreslavsky is regarded as one of the candidates for the post of chief of the office of the President on public projects (CRM). This information “Kommersant” confirmed in OPS. According to the interlocutor of “Kommersant”, the new Deputy chief of OPS supervises the work on the development of the Internet. Mr. Goreslavsky calls “b” is not answered. According to a source “” close to the AP, one of the contenders for the post of Deputy OPS is Alexei Goreslavsky. Management from January 2017, headed by Sergey Novikov. Alexey Goreslavsky worked as a journalist and then editor. In particular, from 2005 to 2007 he was head of the online newspaper “Vzglyad”. In 2007-2010 he was the

American ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessel Moscow. July 25. INTERFAX.RU — a U.S. Navy Ship fired warning shots at Iranian patrol ship in the Persian Gulf, reports CNN, citing military sources. It is noted that the ship, which allegedly belongs to the Islamic revolutionary guard Corps, approached the American ship closer than 150 yards (about 127 meters), and that was the cause of the incident. The crew of the Iranian vessel did not respond to any warnings. After the fire was discovered, the vessel was removed from the American ship, but a few hours not left the area. In the vicinity of a US Navy ship there were several American ships patrolling the water.

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, July 25. /TASS/. Broadcaster CNN has become a tool of us agencies, which have launched disinformation campaign about the alleged supplies of Russian weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan. This was stated on Tuesday by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova radio station “Moscow Says”.

The building of the foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation © Roman Canasuc/TASS MOSCOW, July 25. /TASS/. Russia demands that Ukraine immediately provide access for consular officials to the detained citizen of Russia Victor Ageev. This is stated in the published on Tuesday comments by the Russian foreign Ministry. “Kiev, Ageeva depriving of the right to consular protection, violates the Consular Convention between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in 1993 and the Vienna Convention on consular relations of 1963, the diplomatic office. – Urge the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine to ensure the unconditional implementation of the Ukrainian competent authorities of the provisions of these international instruments, and required to grant immediate access by consular officials to Ageev”.