Category: Politics

The EU warned the United States against the unilateral tightening of sanctions against Russia In the European Commission believe that Washington’s actions can have unintended consequences, including “for European economic and energy interests”. BRUSSELS, July 23. /TASS/. The EU warned Saturday against unilateral U.S. tightening sanctions against Russia and called Washington’s actions “domestic considerations”. This was reported by Reuters citing the statement of the representative of the European Commission (EC) made in connection with the compromise in the U.S. Congress on procedural differences in relation to the vote on the draft of new sanctions against Russia and Iran. “The European Commission is concerned that the measures discussed in the U.S. Congress, can have unintended consequences, including for the European economic and energy interests. Their potential impact may be broad and indiscriminate, including for the EU’s efforts to diversify sources of energy resources”, — said the Agency representative of the EC.

Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia Vladimir Putin told about the most vivid impressions of his childhood to the meeting with the students of the educational center “Sirius” in Sochi, according to the website Nthi. “I am much of the time growing up on the streets, in the center of Leningrad. The boys there “functioned”. It had its own universities, its own school,” he said. He also noted that he remembered his “misconduct” in relation to a person and a sharp rebuff from him on this behavior. Putin added that it teaches polite against other people. “The most vivid impression was from sports. In a very small competition was fight, which is remembered until now,” admitted the President. Earlier, Putin called the three main values in your life. “Газета.Ru” is an online broadcast of the meeting of the President with students.

Photo: MOSCOW, 21 Feb — RIA Novosti. The government is determined to fight anonymity and the spread of illegal content on the Internet. The state Duma on Friday, the last day of the spring session, passed the third reading of the two laws, aimed at this – the regulation of messengers and prohibiting the use of access technologies in Russia blocked sites (so-called anonymizers). The laws are aimed, in particular, to fight illegal content and terrorism. However, experts disagree on the assessment of the adopted laws. So, Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev believes them is technically infeasible. Messengers The law on regulation of messengers obliges the organizer of instant messaging (messenger) to identify users by phone number based on the agreement on identification, signed by the messengers with the operator, and to deny users the messaging failure to comply with this condition. The law establishes that the messengers, who are Russian

Pentagon: Russia is a serious threat to the United States The Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the armed forces of the United States Joseph Dunford called Russia a serious threat to the United States. He told about it during the security forum the Aspen Institute. “When someone asked me what is the most serious threat to us, I replied that, from the point of view of state actors — Russia, and I said that due to the presence of the nuclear potential, the availability of cyber capabilities, what they did in Georgia what they did in the Crimea, and of what’s going on in Ukraine currently,” said Dunford. He added that today there is no possibility to select only one area which is “challenged” and “in the aggregate capacity and capability, in the future, Russia is most capable public entity, we face”.

Washington warned about the possibility of armed confrontation with the DPRK Moscow. July 23. INTERFAX.RU — the United States must be prepared for armed conflict with North Korea, said the Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff US Armed forces General Joseph Dunford, speaking at a conference in the city of aspen (Colorado). . “Many are called military action “unthinkable.” I would slightly alter this statement, saying it will be terrible, will lead, unfortunately, to the losses that we have experienced in our lives. I mean that the survivors of the Second world war, had never encountered such victims, who can bring war on the Korean Peninsula,” he said. However, according to him, is the possibility of using military measures in response to the nuclear capabilities of North Korea. The General stressed that “it was inconceivable to let a nuclear missile hit the Denver, co… so my goal is to

Photo: RIA Novosti The leaders of France, Russia, Germany and Ukraine will hold a telephone conversation in the debate on the situation in the Donbass, reports Reuters with reference to the Elysee Palace. In the statement of administration of the French President said that Emmanuel macron will call the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. It is noted that a telephone conversation in the Normandy format is planned for 11: 00 a.m. (12.00 GMT). 21 July, Poroshenko announced telephone negotiations “channel four” on July 24. 20 July, press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the exact date of the telephone conversation has not been determined. Telephone conversations – as part of its efforts to resolve the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. The cease-fire was signed in February 2015 in Minsk, but it did not help to stop the

Photo: MOSCOW, 21 Feb – RIA Novosti. The Commissioner for human rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova said that she had “little hope” for a positive response on the appeal to the President of the United States Donald Trump asking pardon of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, but if necessary she will return to the President of the United States, will put this question to the UN. At the end of may Moskalkova addressed to the Tramp with a request to pardon the convicted person in the United States Yaroshenko. In addition, the Russians sent a letter to Trump asking to return to Russia. On Friday, the Moscow Bureau for human rights appealed to human rights organization Human Rights Watch, in its letter to the Russian human rights activists have asked colleagues from the United States to pay attention to the conditions of detention of Russians Konstantin Yaroshenko and Viktor

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma on Friday adopted in the third final reading the law on “forest of Amnesty”, which allows to legalize the plots, particularly the gardeners, located on the lands of the forest Fund and facilitate the process for the attribution of forest settlements the category of settlements. General provisions The document submitted by the Russian government aimed at changing the procedure for determining the boundaries of land plots from structure of lands of forest Fund and addressing conflicting information in the State forest register (GLR) and the Unified state register of real estate (egrn) by establishing priority in the last part of the definition of land in a particular category. This will allow to resolve the problems associated with border crossings on land plots of the forest Fund with the boundaries of the plots, related to lands of other categories, says the Cabinet. The provisions on

The popularity rating of Makron fell by ten points The popularity rating of French President Emmanuel Macron decreased by 10% to 54%. It is reported by the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche, citing the results of surveys conducted by the publication. According to the newspaper, the largest fall this month was former President Jacques Chirac when his popularity dropped by 15 points between may and July 1995. Despite the drop, the Macron remains high compared to its predecessors. So, the work of françois Mitterrand in September 1981, was approved by 48% of French, Franus Hollande in July 2012, was supported by 56% of French citizens. The publication notes that one of the best indicators approvals showed Nicolas Sarkozy in July 2007. It was approved by 66% of the French. According to the newspaper, the rating of Makron affected by the crisis associated with the military budget and the concerns of

The head of the NSA believes that now is not the time to create cybergroup with Russia WASHINGTON, 22 Aug — RIA Novosti. The head of the national security Agency (NSA) and U.S. cyber command Admiral Michael Rogers believes that now is not the time to create a Russian-American joint working group on cyber security. “If to speak about my views on the matter, I would say that now is probably not the best time to this (creation of a joint group) to do,” he said on Saturday, speaking at the forum on security organized by the Aspen Institute. However, he added that the creation of this group in the future may not be the worst thing.