Category: Politics

Photo: © RIA Novosti. Sergey Mamontov Russia in any case supported Serbia, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin live on Serbian national TV RTS, responding to a question about non-alignment of Belgrade for sanctions the EU against Russia. On Friday evening, Rogozin attends the ceremony of inauguration of the new President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic. In the morning they held a bilateral meeting, in which Vucic said that the European integration of Serbia will not prevent the preservation of good relations with Russia, and that Belgrade will not join the EU sanctions against Russia. “We are traditional friends and we continue them to stay,” — said Rogozin, talking with the Serbian leading up to the English language. According to him, Russia knows that the Serbian people should make “the right choice in their policies in a very difficult political situation in the Balkans”. “In any case, Russia supports Serbia,” —

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/. Specific developments to the meeting of presidents of Russia and USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump in early July in Hamburg is still there. The Kremlin is ready to any Protocol format of the talks, said the press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov. “Protocol side in this case is secondary, since we are talking about the possibility of the first personal contact between the two presidents”, – he said. The representative of the Kremlin has noticed that “anyway they (Putin and trump) will be at the same event (the summit), in one city, at one time, and somehow the meeting will be.” “I think that here the Russian side will be ready on the appointment form that is convenient for the Americans or Vice versa,” – said Peskov on a question in which the Protocol format will meet the leaders of

Photo: Reuters The White house has concerns about what format the project will be implemented new restrictive measures against Russia. This statement was made by the representative of the office Sean Spicer. His words RIA Novosti reported. “Our concerns are about how it can be implemented in the context of the existing sanctions and will it reach the desired goals,” said Spicer. Spicer declined to comment on a draft sanctions on the merits, citing the fact that “now there is nothing to comment”. The bill has already passed approval in the Senate, now it is reviewed by the House of representatives. The White house also noted that the administration trump is confident in the effectiveness of the existing sanctions against Moscow. On 14 June the US Senate approved the expansion of the list of anti-Russian sanctions. The sanctions involve the reduction of the term of financing Russian banks from 90

The armed forces of the United States overturned the court decision blocking the decree of the immigration trump WASHINGTON, June 26 — RIA Novosti. The U.S. Supreme court agreed to hear a case under the immigration decree of the President of Donald trump. At the time of the examination will be suspended most of the decisions of the lower courts that block the action of the document, said in a published statement. The Supreme court agreed to hear the case on the merits, as requested by the administration trump. “Of course, we granted the petition for certiorari from a lower court,” reads the court’s decision. The judges also presented the administration with a partial right of entry into force of the provisions of the immigration Ordinance until the court case is still pending. In mid-June the second the court of appeal confirmed the suspension of the decree trump, preventing the

Emmanuel macron suggested a new meeting “Norman Quartet” The next meeting of leaders of Ukraine, France, Russia and Germany in the “Norman format” could take place in late June. It is expected, will be presented a new project to resolve the situation in the Donbass. It agreed to develop the presidents of France and Ukraine Emmanuel macron and Petro Poroshenko. The preparation of the project, which may be called the “formula Rules”, the two leaders hope to attract other countries “channel four”. In Moscow is confirmed the only possible telephone conversation the participants of the Minsk process. The message about a possible meeting leaders “channel four” appeared immediately following the meeting, the President of France and Ukraine in Paris. “The question of the date is discussed, it will be either late June or early July. The four of us in the next few hours will determine the final date”, —

Photo: RIA Novosti As told “Газете.Ru” Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, the Finance Ministry does not believe in the victory of Ukraine in the appeal. “They (the Ukrainian side, – “Газета.Ru”) and before the meeting of the High court of London has said that everyone will win. The decision of the High court of London known. With the same arguments they, most likely, will come to the court of appeal, they are unlikely to come up with other arguments. Therefore, our prediction that the decision will be exactly the same. There is no reason for another solution, it’s commercial, well-documented transaction. Money Ukraine received, the debt was serviced, paid percent,” he said. In this regard, Storchak said that the decision on the appeal “very strange”. Earlier it was reported that Ukraine has challenged the decision of the High court of London for a debt of Russia.

Photo: TASS The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky said that the Duma take a course towards the resumption of contacts with the European Parliament. He said this “Газете.Ru” following the meeting with the delegation of the faction of the European Parliament “Europe of Nations and freedoms”, which arrived in Moscow. “We have embarked on the rapid resumption of contacts with the European Parliament and all parliamentarians who expect a quick improvement of relations with Russia, and cannot imagine the future of Europe without the close ties with our country, including in the plane of parliamentary diplomacy”, – said the head of the Committee. Slutsky expressed the view that such visits will become a regular at the state Duma. According to him, during his visit to Russia, MEPs held talks not only in the Duma, also met with foreign Ministry officials and representatives of civil society.

AP the trump disagreement at the meeting with Putin According to the Agency, some advisers to the U.S. President recommended him to take a more cautious stance in relation to contacts with Russia. MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/. Disagreements arose within the administration of U.S. President Donald trump about the format of his possible meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the group of twenty summit in Hamburg on 7-8 July. This was announced on Monday, the Associated Press, citing current and former employees of the American administration. According to them, the trump is configured to spend in Hamburg full meeting with Putin, during which they could discuss issues of international and bilateral relations. The American leader also advocates that the press was given the opportunity to highlight these talks. At the same time, some advisers to the U.S. President recommended him to take a more cautious stance in relation to

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma adopted in the first reading a government bill on the resort collection. It is reported by the RNS. In turn, member of the Duma Committee on budget and taxes Raisa Karmazin said that the additional income of the three regions from the experiment on the introduction of resort fees in the years 2018-2022 estimated at 27 billion roubles. “It is assumed that the total additional revenue from 2018 to 2022 in the period of the experiment when the rate of collection of 50 rubles in the Stavropol region will exceed 2.2 billion rubles, in the Krasnodar region — 8.3 billion, in the Crimea — 16.4 billion rubles,” – said Karmazin. Earlier, the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko said that the regions must impose a resort fee.