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In Washington, negotiations Ryabkov and Shannon WASHINGTON, 18 Jul — RIA Novosti. Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and US Undersecretary of state Thomas Shannon has completed negotiations in Washington, the correspondent of RIA Novosti. From this round of consultations depends on the possible adoption of Moscow’s response. The last consultation, which was scheduled for June 23 in St. Petersburg, have been cancelled. As Ryabkov said, after Washington’s decision to expand anti-Russian sanctions because of the situation around Ukraine “the situation is not conducive to the conduct of a round of such a dialogue.” Earlier, a senior official in the White house told RIA Novosti that the US does not intend to return of diplomatic property of Russia, access to which was blocked during the administration of former President Barack Obama, without getting “something in return”. As reported the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin hoped that the

Konstantin Kosachev © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. The agreement on ensuring the truce in southern Syria will not be canceled only because of fears of Israel, it would be wiser not to take up arms to this agreement, and to find ways to “live with it”, said the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. As reported on Monday, the newspaper Haaretz, citing a senior source in the Israeli leadership, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Jewish state is strongly opposed to the plan of Moscow and Washington on the truce in southern Syria, as it would allow Iran to expand its presence in the region. Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later said that security interests of Israel, in the creation of a zone of de-escalation have been fully considered.

Photo: RIA Novosti The head EMERCOM of Russia Vladimir Puchkov said about reducing the number of emergencies this year. “We summarized the results for the first six months of this year. Positive results: reduced number of man-made fires and losses from them, reduced the number of natural disasters, decreases the number of disasters increases system efficiency response,” he said, speaking at the forum of the emergencies Ministry and NGOs “Society for security” in Vytegra Vologda region. According to him, the Ministry “will implement all of the plans aimed at improving the efficiency of management bodies, forces of EMERCOM of Russia and all the services.” “Implemented the format improving the efficiency of the unified state system of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations”, — said Puchkov.

Photo: The Minister of defence of the USA James Mattis © Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP The Minister of defence of the USA James Mattis called Ankara’s decision to purchase missile defense system/air defense systems from Russia, not from NATO allies, the sovereign right of Turkey, noting that the s-400 are not compatible with military equipment of the Alliance. In this regard, he urged to await further developments to see whether the transaction will be concluded and implemented, reports TASS. “Whether or not they will use it? Will they use it only in one area?” – said the Pentagon chief. We will remind, on Friday informed source in Ankara said that the Turkish authorities have decided to purchase from Russia, two anti-aircraft missile system “Triumph” s-400 for $ 2.5 billion, the parties discuss the technical details. Meanwhile, later defence Minister of Turkey said that Ankara has agreed with France and Italy

© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. The Kremlin hopes on the political wisdom of Washington in the question of the return of diplomatic property of the Russian Federation. This was stated to journalists the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov “We continue to hope that political wisdom and political will shown by our American colleagues [in the issue of the return of departmenet of the Russian Federation],” said Sands. He did not comment on the possible reaction of the Kremlin on the results of today’s meeting of the Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov and US under Secretary of state Thomas Shannon in this part. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Indeed, the situation is quite sensitive, it is difficult, frankly, – said the representative of the Kremlin. – Therefore, any unnecessary words can only do harm”.

Photo: DAMASCUS, July 16 — RIA Novosti, Mikhail Alaeddin. A group of 153 militants-citizens of Syria had laid down their arms, taking advantage of the “program of national reconciliation” and return to civilian life, RIA Novosti informed source in HOMS province. “153 persons from the vicinity of HOMS were on the “program of national reconciliation,” laid down their arms and receive Amnesty,” — said the Agency interlocutor. The Ministry of national reconciliation SAR in the framework of the state program through intermediaries negotiating with the citizens of Syria fighting on the side of illegal armed gangs. In the framework of the country’s leadership invited the Syrian citizens to surrender their weapons and undergo a rehabilitation process to return to civilian life, receiving Amnesty under the decree of the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad. The most striking example of the success of the program, announced by the Syrian government, occurred in

Photo: RIA Novosti Responsible for intelligence activities against Russia, a high-ranking employee of US state Department, became the victim of a hacker attack, is a specialist on Russian domestic politics Robert Otto, the letters of which found a mention of the meetings of the Russian security Council, told the media. Otto holds the position of head of unit of the Russian internal policy in the Department for Russia and Eurasia Bureau of intelligence and research US Department of state. The network has got about 2 thousand emails from the personal box of the scout on the mail server of Google, most of which is devoted to the work, said “Kommersant”. As the newspaper notes, a significant portion of the correspondence of Otto are references to articles of the Russian media that US state Department employee sent colleagues or some friends. Most often we are talking about references to Novaya Gazeta,

Photo: EPA Leading TV channel CNN Alisyn Camerota said that she was tired of the news concerning Russia. Reported by Mediaite. “You know, in the morning I often come and pray for the other news, that they overshadowed the Russian subjects,” said Camerota. According to her, she does everything to avoid a lot of news about Russia in her show often, however, this problem is solved for her. Presenter noted that disputes on this subject with the producer, however, the dispute does not always end in her favor. At the end of June it was reported that CNN has tightened the rules of publication of materials about Russia.

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MINSK, 17 July. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov called robbery in broad daylight, the situation around the Russian departmenet in the United States, which closed the Russian diplomats. “As for the essence of what you quoted, if so, that is robbery in broad daylight. Gangsters some the high road, it turns out, commented on the situation”, – he said to journalists on Monday, commenting on the reports, citing senior officials in the White house that the US does not intend to return of diplomatic property of Russia without getting “something in return”. “The source is anonymous? – said the Minister. – So, you know that they have a guilty conscience”. “How is it possible: to select the property that is assigned to the bilateral intergovernmental ratified the document, and to get her back, operate on the principle “what is mine is mine,