Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The story of the liberation of Aleppo, Syria, in December 2016, the political intrigue that took place around the “Aleppo of the question,” covert struggle, including within the UN for the delivery of humanitarian aid in the interests of holding the Eastern districts of the city terrorists was the basis of the book “the Aleppo. War and diplomacy” published in the publishing house Abris/OLMA. The author is the head of the political referendary of the permanent mission of Russia to the UN office in Geneva Maria khodynskaya-Golenishcheva. The diplomat represented Russia in the target groups for humanitarian and ceasefire in Syria, which meet regularly in Geneva under the auspices of the UN and co-chaired by Russia and the United States. 223 pages khodynskaya-Golenishcheva were able to clearly describe the extremely complex political situation, which had to act of Russian diplomats and the military in the period when

Photo: Serg Bobra/ YouTube The investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the extra fractional Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr parasiuk in connection with the investigation into the attack on the Consulate General of Russia in Lviv and abuse of a flag of Russia in 2016. “In the course of a criminal investigation in addition to involvement in these crimes, investigators obtained sufficient evidence showing that Parasyuk 9 March 2016 also declined, gathered near the Consulate General of the people to commit the attack on the Russian diplomatic mission”, — stated in the message Department. In this regard, in relation to the Ukrainian Deputy criminal case for “procuring persons to commit attacks on institutions that enjoy international protection.” The SC noted that Parasyuk in Ukraine known as unorthodox the scandalous person, which comes into conflict “with colleagues in the Parliament, SBU and Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine and

British Prime Minister announced the start of negotiations on a Brexit Prime Minister Theresa may confirmed that the negotiations on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union will begin next week. On Tuesday, June 13, according to Reuters. “I confirmed to the French President that the schedule of negotiations on Brexit is saved, they will start next week,” said Mei after the meeting with Emmanuel Macron in Paris. March 28 Mei signed a letter with the notice of the authorities of the European Union about the formal start of procedure Brexit. The talks will take two years. The decision to withdraw Britain from the EU were adopted by referendum on 23 June 2016. May 30 Mei said that the country could leave the EU without signing a special agreement with Brussels. This may be the case if the United Kingdom does not agree with the terms Brexit

The state Department has not commented on the statement Durov of trying to bribe his employees WASHINGTON, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. The US state Department did not comment on the statement by the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov that the us agencies tried to bribe his employees. “We convey you for explaining to this man (Durova — ed.)” — said Tuesday RIA Novosti the official representative of the state Department. He Durov had previously written in the microblog in Twitter that last year during a week-long visit to the US programmers from his team tried to bribe employees of American government agencies. The Durov, he said, was pressure from the FBI. During our team’s 1-week visit to the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies + pressure on me from the FBI. — Pavel Durov (@durov) 11 Jun 2017 The

Rada proposed to punish for the neglect and humiliation of the Ukrainian language The Verkhovna Rada registered a bill on criminal responsibility for public humiliation of the Ukrainian language, and about the total dominance of it in the information space of the country. On Tuesday, June 13, reports the Ukrainian edition of “Vesti”. “Public humiliation or neglect of the Ukrainian language was illegal, identical to the desecration of the state symbols of Ukraine and is punishable by law”, — the document says. The bill was registered in Parliament on June 9, according to the Council website. Also the new norm is expected to be responsible for “the creation of obstacles and restrictions in the use of the Ukrainian language, a deliberate distortion of the Ukrainian language in official documents and texts, the use of the Ukrainian language in violation of the standards of the Ukrainian language”. According to “Vesti”, the

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexei Nikolsky Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Director Oliver stone explained why he considers the collapse of the Soviet Union the biggest catastrophe of the XX century. In a 2005 address to the Federal Assembly Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the last century. “I often heard criticism about the fact that I deplore the collapse of the Soviet Union. First, and most important, is that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, 25 million Russian people in one night turned out to be abroad, and it is really one of the biggest disasters of the XX century”, — Putin said in an interview with Oliver stone in the film shown on television channel Showtime. The Russian President noted that citizens of the USSR lived within a single country, they had family ties, a

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexei Druzhinin The challenges faced in the rise to power of former US President Ronald Reagan, is not comparable with the difficulties which Russia experienced during late 1999 and 2000, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Director Oliver stone in the film Showtime. In response to a request to compare the challenges Putin has faced as President, with those that had to be overcome in the early 80-ies the American leader Reagan, the Russian President noted that “we need two tasks to solve – to find the right people and delegate to them powers”. “I understand it and try to make it so. Only we have a big difference – after all, Reagan was the head of the United States, and as if there was not, no matter what there was no problems, still they are not comparable with the difficulties and

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in sport we should always strive for, but to predict it in advance is impossible. American film Director Oliver stone, who directed the film “Interview with Putin” before a hockey match asked the Russian leader, how many goals he will score and win his team. “It is impossible to say in advance, it’s a sport. It is necessary to aspire to result. But to predict in advance is impossible,” — said Putin. This part of the movie was published on the Internet. The first part of a four-part film about Putin stone will be shown in the US on Tuesday at 4 am Moscow time on the channel Showtime.

For the first time in a quarter century, the United States has sent a congratulatory message on the Day of Russia WASHINGTON, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti. The Russian Embassy in the U.S. confirmed to RIA Novosti that for the first time in 25 years that they had not received congratulations from the US authorities on the Day of Russia. “We can confirm that from the American side is not received the Day of Russia. Is the first time in our memory. Draw your own conclusions,” said the Embassy spokesman Nikolai Lahonin. Earlier, two of RIA Novosti source in diplomatic circles said that for the first time in 25 years the Russian Embassy in the United States had not received congratulations from the American side on the Day of Russia.

Tillerson said the lowest level of U.S. relations with Russia Washington needs to stabilize relations with Moscow, which deteriorated recently. The United States would like to refrain from steps that would undermine the channels of communication with Russia, said Secretary of state Tillerson. Relations between Russia and the United States are at their lowest level ever, and continue to deteriorate, said U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said at a speech in the U.S. Senate. The authorities have the task to stabilize the relations between the two countries, Tillerson was quoted by Reuters. Tillerson touched on the issue of sanctions against Moscow. The Secretary of state said that he “would not want to take steps which would have closed the channels of communication with Moscow.” However, he noted that cooperation with Russia on the Syrian crisis is developing positively. “We are working in some areas, in particular, to see whether