Category: Politics

The Pentagon announced support of communication channels with Russia in order to avoid incidents in Syria The U.S. Department of defense continues to maintain contact with Russia for conflict prevention in Syria. The head of the Pentagon James Mattis said at a press briefing held aboard the path of Minister to Germany. “We have a very active line of communication to prevent conflict”, — quotes Mr. Mattis, the press service of the Pentagon. According to the Minister, communication lines span multiple levels, “from the Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Secretary of state with their Russian colleagues in Moscow — General Gerasimov and Minister Lavrov”. “We don’t open fire neither of whom, except the opponent, except for IG (banned in Russia “Islamic state”). The only exception is self defense, if someone aimed at us — for example, bombing us, or leads us to the fire,” said James Mattis.

Photo: Showtime/Komandir Each series of documentary film by American Director Oliver stone’s “Putin”, which was shown on the First channel last week, on average, watched more than 5.5 million Russians, according to data from research company Mediascope. In mid-June on the channel Showtime began showing large-scale project of the American film Director Oliver stone — a four-part film, based on an interview with the President of Russia that were recorded from July 2015 to February 2017. Russian viewers also had the opportunity to watch the film in the First channel under the name “Putin” he came out with 19 to 22 June. According to the study, the first episode on June 19 and looked to Russia more than 6.2 million Russians older than 18 years, the final series 4.9 million people. On average, turned out that every episode was watched by 5.6 million Russians.

Photo: RIA Novosti It is physically impossible to resolve every question that is sent to “straight line” President Vladimir Putin, however, for all appeals, broadcast, compiled the list of orders already signed by the head of state, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “The straight line is a joint project of two TV channels — channel one and RTR with all the different resources and issues that come to the project, they certainly are analyzed, measures are taken, but each of these references cannot be handled personally, because legally it is not an official appeal to the President of the Russian Federation. These questions collect still, the organizers of the project”, — said Peskov on a question, whether practiced at the Federal level popular questions, unaired, in particular, the question of preservation Chelyuskinskaya forest in the Moscow suburb of Mytishchi. He noted that to comment on the

Photo: RIA Novosti Fifty percent of Ukrainians do not support the intention of Kiev to introduce a visa regime with Russia, according to published on Monday the results of a survey conducted by the sociological group “Rating”. The respondents were asked whether they support the intention to introduce a visa regime with Russia. While 38% of respondents said they support, 12% were undecided. Do not support this idea 50%. In a press release on the results of the study indicated that in recent months has increased slightly support the idea of introducing by Ukraine of the visa regime with Russia. Most of all for him were the people of the West, the villages, the people are young. The survey was conducted in the period from 22 to 31 may, among the adult population in Ukraine. The survey polled 3 thousand people, the statistical error does not exceed 1.8%. Earlier the

Photo: kremlin.EN Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the American head of state Donald trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet in Hamburg. He also noted that Moscow is ready to hold the event in a convenient for the United States format. About it reports “Interfax”. According to the representative of the Kremlin, Protocol meeting “secondary”. Peskov said that trump and Putin will be at the same event, so they will have the opportunity to meet in any case. Earlier it was reported that the President of the United States Donald trump wants to conduct a full formal meeting with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin next month, when the heads of state will be in Germany at the G20 summit. According to a source publication, at the moment the United States it is best to “keep a distance” in relations with Russia and to

The white house urged the us media to pay less attention to Russia The American media are moving in a dangerous direction by ignoring important domestic issues, but paying attention to the alleged ties of U.S. President Donald trump with Russia. This was stated by the representative of the White house Sarah Sanders. She stressed that “the hoax about Russia and trump has continued for most of the year, and anything there is no evidence”. According to Sanders continues, “or the use of unnamed sources, or sometimes the sources are not listed at all”, reports “RIA Novosti”. In parallel with this, important questions of the inner life of the United States, for example, success in providing veterans, highlights a little, she said. “We came to the conclusion that the media are not trusted when they report the news. It is dangerous for America,” — said the representative of the White

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS/. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia will direct appeal to the Department of CNN in Moscow regarding the report on the allegedly injured in the course of action of Russian air force three-year Omran Danise from Aleppo. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on Tuesday on air of TV channel “Russia 1”. “I think tomorrow we will definitely send a corresponding letter to the Moscow Bureau. We double-officially called the TV station somehow, to react, to apologize for what happened the substitution of real information,” she said. Zakharov added that the CNN report is aimed at “manipulating public opinion”. “I promise that this story will not be finished as easy as I would like CNN,” she said. Earlier, the father of a Syrian boy Omran, a

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia believes it is a dangerous game attempts to withdraw from the strikes in Syria terrorist group “dzhebhat an-Nusra”*, this must be stopped, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. “There is still a double standard. I have already said that full us the impression based on the experience of the fight against terrorism in Syria, that the so-called “dzhebhat an-Nusra”*, or whatever it is now called, every time the spare strength of the coalition that the United States is leading, and other cooperating States. Here lately, in the last days, new evidence that the “Dzhebhat EN-Nusra”* in her new reincarnation derive from the blow. We believe this is a very dangerous game that needs to be terminated, and any double standards, some ulterior motive and hidden intentions must be put aside for the sake of uncompromising fight against terrorism,” Lavrov said

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian government suspected of masterminding a hacker attack on a computer network of the British Parliament, reports the Guardian. The first reports of the attack appeared on Saturday 24 June. According to The Telegraph, MPs were unable to use remote access to email. The official representative of the Parliament said about the hacking of not more than 90 accounts (according to Sky News, less than 1% of the total number of users). According to him, the owners of the compromised accounts used weak passwords in spite of the instructions. In “struck” by the network working all parliamentarians, including the Prime Minister Theresa may and members of the government. British intelligence agencies assume that the incident most likely is not a little group of hackers-individuals, but a foreign government. In addition to Russia, suspicions fell on North Korea, China and Iran, notes The Guardian. “It was a tough