Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The British defence Secretary Michael Fallon during his visit to the USA has listed Russia among the threats facing the world community, through a comma with Islamic terrorism and nuclear tests of North Korea. “Today, our nation is faced with a wave of diverse a variety of simultaneous global threats. From Islamic extremism, the Russian state aggression, of terrorism sponsors and nuclear tests of North Korea to the treacherous spread of misinformation and hacker attacks,” said Fallon during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of defense James Mattis, it quoted the press service of the British government. According to Fallon, these things require an international response, including from NATO countries. UK, said Fallon, consistently performs goal to increase contributions to the Alliance’s budget to 2% of GDP of the country and urged to do this and other countries-members of NATO. “Over the past year, NATO Nations contributed about

Photo: RIA Novosti TOKYO, 7 Feb — RIA Novosti, Xenia Naka. The leaders of Russia and Japan at a meeting in Hamburg agreed that the first Charter flight of Japanese former residents of the southern Kuril Islands will take place in September, reports the Agency Kyodo. The question about the beginning of flights between Northern Japan and southern Kuril Islands was discussed during the meeting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in late April. Still, there was only sea route to visit the former Japanese residents of the South Kuril Islands. To expand exchanges and facilitate visits to the graves of former residents of the Islands was proposed by air. The trip was scheduled for June 18. During the one-day visit was planned to visit Kunashiri and Etorofu, it had to be postponed due to inclement weather. New dates for first flight before the visit of leaders

Photo: RIA Novosti The United States and Russia reached agreement on the map the line of contact of the conflicting parties in South-West Syria. As reported by RIA Novosti, said a senior state Department spokesman. According to him, it is also necessary to take additional measures to strengthen the truce. “These steps will include additional deployment of observers in the region”, — said the diplomat. He noted that the idea of the truce in Syria is to end violence and create a Foundation for political discussion, not to provide advantages of one of the parties to the conflict. The spokesman pointed out that the details relating to the monitoring of the ceasefire in the South-West of Syria will be elaborated in the next couple of days. In agreement, he continued, is that “each party, with influence on the parties to the conflict must provide it as efficiently as possible”. “On

Photo: RIA Novosti The presidents of Russia and USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump agreed to speed up the process of appointing new ambassadors of the two countries. This was stated by foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov following the meeting of leaders at the G20 summit in Hamburg, the correspondent of “Газеты.Ru”. “They agreed to expedite the procedures necessary for the appointment of new ambassadors of the USA in Russia and Russia in the United States,” – said the Minister. Earlier it was reported that US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft announced his resignation on the Day of independence of the United States, July 4.

Photo: RIA Novosti The action plan for the development of the volunteer movement in Russia up to 2020 was developed with the participation of the Public chamber (OP) of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti in the press service of the OP. Preparation of the plan was carried out jointly with the Agency of strategic initiatives with the active participation of the Association of volunteer centres and Repatriate in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. “The plan will gradually create favorable conditions for the millions of volunteers in our country. In this work it is planned to involve a Federal office, a great role is reserved to the constituent entities of Russia. It is important to create effective policies to support socially useful activities… to remove the main barriers in the perception of this phenomenon and to expand the opportunity for volunteers to

Photo: RIA Novosti In the Crimea, rejected the demands of the parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA). It is reported RIA Novosti with reference to the head of ethnic Committee of the Republic of Zaur Smirnov. “The reunification of the Crimea with Russia – this is forever, everyone who entertains any other thought greatly deceive. No ultimatums or appeals will not force Crimeans to change the selection in favor of their historic homeland”, – said Smirnov. Demand Russia to return the region to Ukraine contained in the resolution adopted by the political Committee of the organization. Moscow has opposed the adoption of the document. If the OSCE PA will vote for the final resolution, Russia intends to publish its own version of the document. Smirnov called a “human rights violation” the failure of Kiev to recognize the results of voting on the Peninsula.

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/. The summit of “big twenty” in Hamburg was well organized, demonstrations of anti-globalists does not prevent the forum, said on Sunday, press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “Putin thanked [the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel – approx. TASS] for the warm welcome and for the excellent organization of the summit. Indeed, the Germans have created the perfect conditions for the summit, and Putin is noted”, – said Peskov on air of TV channel “Russia 1”.