Category: Politics

Syrian authorities have not used chemical weapons since April, said the Pentagon WASHINGTON, July 23 — RIA Novosti. The Syrian authorities have not used chemical weapons since the US attack on the Syrian air base in April, said the head of the joint chiefs of staff of the armed forces of the United States Joseph Dunford. The white house in June, said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allegedly preparing a new chemical attack, and threatened that in case of its implementation is the price of the Syrian government will be high. After that, there were several reports about the alleged use by the Syrian authorities of chemical weapons. So, in early July, the Pro-opposition Syrian news Internet portals said about the use of chlorine in ain-et Terme, the command of the Syrian army called the reports false and fabricated. On Saturday the German newspaper Welt, citing sources in the Syrian

Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS NEW YORK, July 23. /TASS/. Moscow has a negative attitude to the fact that in the House of representatives of the U.S. Congress will vote on the bill providing introduction of new sanctions against Russia as well as Iran and the DPRK. This was announced on Saturday the American TV channel CNN a press-the Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov.

Photo: RIA Novosti First Deputy head of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko admitted that in respect of the municipal filter can be audited in the future, the correspondent of “Газеты.Ru”. According to him, it will not necessarily go on its abolition, but rather for review. Kiriyenko believes that the idea of the filter in terms of development processes at the municipal level is not bad, but it should not become ineligible candidates. Earlier, the mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman said that he would not participate in elections of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region. He explained that, in his words, “municipal filter impassable.” Roizman also stressed that the presence of the municipal filter is “disrespectful to the citizens.”

Photo: RIA Novosti Most of Russians know that the post of Chairman of the state Duma of the 7th convocation is Vyacheslav Volodin. These are the results of the study of public opinion on legislative activities of the lower house of the current convocation, held expert-analytical center of the Russian Academy of national economy and public administration (Ranepa) and presented on Friday, TASS reported. The survey was conducted from 10 to 17 July in 83 constituent entities of the Russian Federation among 1.2 million people. As told journalists the head of expert-analytical center of Russian Academy of Nikolay Kalmykov, in the section “Recognition of the Chairman of the state Duma” the first place is Vyacheslav Volodin. “Volodin tremendous recognition. 83% of respondents know that he holds the position of Chairman of the state Duma,” – said Kalmykov. According to him, 7% of respondents still believe that the speaker of the

The White house has called Hillary Clinton “compromising herself” Trump was not required to seek additional information about the ex-Secretary of state, assured in Washington. Moscow. July 23. INTERFAX.RU — Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, Kellyann Conway said that the campaign of Donald trump didn’t need the dirt on Hillary Clinton because she was “the treasure of the negative information”. “I was the Manager of the winning presidential campaign. I didn’t need to look anywhere but on the very Clinton when I needed compromising, negative information about it,” said Conway in the TV channel Fox News. “There was everything. She was like a walking, talking treasure trove of negative information,” she added. In the us media earlier this month has appeared that in June last year Donald trump Jr. on the eve of elections of the President of the USA met with the Russian lawyer Natalia

Trump accused the newspaper The New York Times the failure of the operation against the leader of the IG The US President Donald trump said that “blundered newspaper the New York Times broke a US attempt” to kill the leader of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (banned in Russia) al-Baghdadi. This was written by the us leader in his Twitter. What the publication refers to trump, did not elaborate. As the journalist wrote in his Twitter Politico, The New York Times asked the White house to clarify what the student mentions the President in his post. On Friday, July 21, the newspaper published the statement of the Minister of defense of Jim Mattis, in which he said that al-Baghdadi, in his opinion, is still alive. He also said that the international coalition is still looking for the leader of the IG. “I think that Baghdadi is alive. I believe that

Media: Siemens scandal may spoil relations with Moscow, consider in Germany MOSCOW, 23 Jul — RIA Novosti. The German foreign Ministry believes that the relations of Germany and Russia may suffer because of the scandal around the supply of turbines from Siemens for the power plant under construction in the Crimea, writes the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. German concern Siemens said Friday that all four of its turbines are designed for a project in Taman, was illegally delivered to the Crimea, proposing to cancel the contract and redeem them. In this regard, Siemens intends to break license agreements with Russian companies to supply equipment for power plants and to suspend deliveries under existing contracts with Russian companies controlled by the state. “The Federal government reminded the Russian authorities about the obligations and pointed out that such a massive violation of the sanctions once again burden the German-Russian relations”, — said

Photo: The constitutional court did not accept the complaint about the transfer of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Isaac’s Cathedral, reads the card case on the official website of the court. According to the card, the court refused to accept for consideration the complaint of deputies of legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky and Paul Shapkina, who asked to recognize unconstitutional the law “On transfer to religious organizations property of religious significance owned by the state or municipal ownership. The COP recognized that the applicants contested norm did not violate their rights and not deprive them of the right to judicial protection of their interests. The situation around St. Isaac’s Cathedral caused a public outcry when the authorities of St. Petersburg decided to transfer the Cathedral for 49 years, the Russian Orthodox Church in the free use with preserving the Museum and educational functions. Later they said that

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that sold at auction Monaco Legends “watch Putin” does not have any relationship to the Russian leader. About it reports TASS. According to Peskov, “the auction house is likely to deceived buyers” using the name of Putin, and “good clocked the price.” The press Secretary said that the Kremlin will not respond to the sale hours. “We were not going to establish some sort of connection [and hours of the President]. It is such from the category of curiosities theme that’s not part of our relationship,” he said, adding that he was “sorry for the buyer.” “The case Ostap Bender lives,” concluded Sands. Informed the auction house of Monaco Legends said about watches Patek Philippe Triple Complication, the owner of which was a certain Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. It was reported that the watch went under the hammer for 1,054

Trump took part in the launching of the newest US aircraft carrier The President of the United States Donald trump took part in the ceremony of commissioning the new aircraft carrier Gerald Ford in the port city of Norfolk in the U.S. state of Virginia. The video of the ceremony posted on the page of the White house You Tube. As noted by ABC News, the ship was built for $13 billion, making it the most expensive in the history of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Trump called the new ship “the biggest, most modern aircraft carrier in the world.” He stressed that it is his opinion. In his speech, trump thanked all servicemen and civilians who took part in the creation of the ship. The US President called the carrier “a fortress at sea” and “work of art”. The ship is the pride of the U.S. Navy and a