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In Kiev, developed a new plan for the “peaceful reintegration” of the DNI and LC As it became known “Kommersant”, prepared in the administration of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the bill provides for the termination of the “antiterrorist operation” (ATO) and the “peaceful reintegration” of Donbass. Special Operation “Reintegration” The fact that the bill about “reintegration of the occupied territories of Donbass” has to be taken in the near future, said the end of last week, the President Poroshenko during a visit to Kiev-controlled areas of the Donetsk region. According to the head of the Ukrainian state, a document that is developed on his behalf, “provides a number of activities and steps that need to be implemented to enhance reintegration.” First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko, representing the Pro-presidential “Block Poroshenko” (BPP), confirmed that the document will be submitted to Parliament soon. Interviewed by “Kommersant”

Russia entered the top five countries of Europe according to the number taken in 2016 refugee GENEVA, June 19. /TASS/. Russia last year took in its territory for nearly 230 thousand refugees, taking on this indicator the fifth place in Europe after Turkey, Germany, France and Sweden. This is evidenced by published on Monday in Geneva, the report of the office of the UN high Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), “Global trends: forced displacement in 2016.” According to the document, at the end of 2016 in Russia were 228 thousand 990 people, having refugee status. The leader in Europe in this respect, the authors of the report called Turkey, adopted at the end of last year, about 2.9 million refugees, mainly from Syria. Followed by Germany (669 thousand 482 persons), France (304 546 thousand), Sweden (164 230 thousand) and Russia. Turkey is also the world leader in accepting refugees. In second

Photo: globallookpress.com Aircraft of the British Royal air force carried out a reconnaissance flight on the Northern borders of the Kaliningrad region, according to data from Western sites, tracking movement of military aviation. Exploration conducted aircraft RC-135W. He flew to Kaliningrad region from the sea and about an hour cruised off the coast, reports “Interfax”. Also exploration conducted aircraft of the Swedish air force Gulfstream 4 and a NATO AWACS plane that flew from Poland. NATO planes regularly conduct reconnaissance at the Russian borders in the Baltic sea. In addition, on Saturday, the borders of the Kaliningrad region flew the American strategic bombers b-1B and b-52N.

Photo: Gleb Schelkunov / Kommersant The elimination of the leader of the terrorist group “Islamic state” Ibrahim Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi may lead to a radical change in the war in Syria. This opinion was expressed by Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Frants Klintsevich National news service (NSN) on Friday, June 16. So the Senator commented on the published information of the Ministry of defense, which had allowed the death of the leader of ISIS in air strike Russian VKS on may 28. “I am absolutely convinced that once the statement has come, then the level of fire damage was such that to survive in these conditions was impossible. Our military is a thousand times check before giving to the public’s attention some information,” he said. Klintsevich sure that litigate al-Baghdadi demoralizing situation inside the group. At the same time, he noted that the anti-terrorist coalition

Photo: mil.EN Members of Russia’s security Council including President Vladimir Putin, informed about videoconferencing air strike by Syrian Raqqa, which, presumably, was killed the leader of the “Islamic state” (a group banned in Russia) Ibrahim Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This was reported by press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, reports RIA Novosti. Information on the meeting of the security Council was announced by defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Photo: TASS Speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin urged European politicians to think about the consequences that may apply to their countries anti-Russian sanctions. “Sanctions in themselves are devastating, first and foremost, in the relationship. Especially those who impose them, thinking about himself and not thinking about those who are close. Of course, we would like to our colleagues, our neighbours — the countries of Europe thought about, what impact can these sanctions apply, including their countries, although these sanctions are imposed against Russia,” — said Volodin at a meeting with first Deputy President of the National Council of Austria Karlheinz Kopf. “When the senators and congressmen will come to convince the European parliamentarians to the need for their decisions, it will be honest and clear what they want. Because it concerns the countries of Europe. But when they arrive, not convinced, not engaged in dialogue, and make these

Photo: RIA Novosti First Deputy Chairman of state Duma Committee on civil society development issues, public associations and religious organizations Ivan Sukharev is preparing a draft law providing for criminal liability for the failure events. About this he told RT. The Deputy noted that it is unacceptable to involve law-abiding citizens in political provocations. “Now we see how to use a new tactic: at festivities in a crowd infiltrating provocateurs. In the case of the worst scenario in the crowd can be a crush and suffer absolutely innocent people,” — said RT]. According to him, the responsibility for such provocations have to be hard. Under the proposed amendments, the promoter may incur the penalty of imprisonment from 1 year to 15 years, if it killed one or more people.

An investigation of Russia’s intervention in U.S. elections can be completed by the end of the year Senator Angus king said in an interview with NBC News that by the end of the year, the Senate Committee on intelligence to complete an investigation of Russian interference in presidential elections in the United States. Mr. king noted that it is a complex matter, and the investigation involves many witnesses and documents to the intelligence. According to the Senator, the main issue is whether the election headquarters of Donald trump people who have been in contact with Russian and could share information with them. He noted that this Committee is examining. We will remind, on June 8, the former head of the FBI, James Comey appeared before the select Committee on intelligence of the Senate under investigation by the “Russian case”, describing his relationship with President Donald trump. Mr. Komi said a

Observers from certain countries may not be allowed at elections in Russia Observers from the USA, Ukraine, great Britain and France may not be allowed on the Russian elections, if they won’t allow observers from Russia on their elections. This was told “Izvestia” head of the Federation Council Commission for the protection of state sovereignty and prevent interference in the internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Andrei Klimau. According to him, we are talking about a “mirror measures”, that is, the ban will be imposed against those countries which will not allow our elections by Russian observers. “We will try to meet after the September election on the basis of the experience of regional campaigns to suggest appropriate refinements. May be if we are willing, will attended to this theme in July,” said Klimov “news”. For the first time such

Photo: TASS The head of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on Friday has signed the order about resignation of Deputy head of the Federal Agency for youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), Alexey Palamarchuk, reports TASS. In the document published on the official portal of legal information says that the official is dismissed at own request. Now the head of Department Alexander Bugaev, there would be six deputies.