Category: Politics

The protection of the EU can no longer be carried out from the outside, said Juncker BRUSSELS, June 9 — RIA Novosti, Vladimir Dobrovolsky. EU relationship with NATO is more important than ever, but the EU can no longer rely on the protection of his interests from the outside, said EC President Jean-Claude Juncker. “In today’s world, a strong NATO, a strong EU and strong relations between both of them is more important than ever. But our differences with NATO can no longer serve as an argument against enhancing the European efforts. The world around us is changing, and the USA the key changed its foreign policy long before the arrival of the President (of the USA Donald) trump,” said Juncker, speaking at a conference on defense and security in Prague. His speech was broadcast by European Commission authorities. According to him, “in recent decades, the American partners made it

The popularity of Merkel reached a level 2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel support the same number of voters, how long before the start of the migration crisis in 2015. This is according to the poll ARD-Deutschlandtrend, who on Friday, June 9, leads the Deutsche Welle. It is reported that the head of the German government are satisfied that 64 percent of Germans. Meanwhile, the main rival of Merkel in the elections to the Bundestag, the leader of the Social democratic party of Germany Martin Schulz is supported by only 36 percent of respondents. This was the lowest indicators in the entire history of the poll ARD-Deutschlandtrend. It is noted that for a month the popularity of the Schultz fell by six points. The poll shows that if elections were held this week, then Merkel would have voted 53 per cent of German citizens (which is four percent more than last

Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant Advisor to the President of Russia on development of the Internet Herman Klimenko in conversation with “Tape.ru” said that introduced in the state Duma the draft law does not imply a complete ban VPN services and anonymizers such as Tor. Klimenko explained that the authors intend to oblige the services to block access to banned in Russia sites. “A good question is whether this law is effective since most of the services, providing such services are outside of Russia”, — said the adviser. Earlier it became known that the deputies of the state Duma introduced a bill banning the use of VPN services and anonymizers to view blocked sites. The document implies that the anonymizer and other similar instruments should be required to cooperate with Roskomnadzor, and search engines to remove from results links to blocked resources.

Photo: RIA Novosti Hacker attacks on Russian resources, including the U.S., are taking place continuously, however, this does not mean that they are backed by the United States authorities. This was reported to journalists the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “Hacker attacks from the United States, recorded daily, including those carried out on the website of the President of the Russian Federation”, – he said. “Actually, the attacks are from many countries of the world,” said the spokesman. Responding to a question about whether the source of attacks American intelligence agencies, Peskov stressed that he speaks only about the geographical origin of these actions with the United States. “I wouldn’t like to amuse the public with statements about what it stands for Washington,” said the spokesman. “Implementation of hacker attacks from the territory of a country may not mean the involvement of the official authorities”, – he said.

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine said about the readiness to introduce a visa regime with Russia The Ukrainian foreign Ministry is ready to introduce visa regime with Russia if such a decision is made. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin, reports “112. Ukraine”. Klimkin also expressed the view that the introduction of visas is not enough and want tighter controls. “I believe that even the introduction of a visa regime in the context of control of who comes from Russia, we know very little. We have to introduce biometric passports, but then more and control of those who come”, he said. Calls to introduce a visa regime with Russia has repeatedly sounded from the Ukrainian authorities. In October 2016 the proposal in Parliament by the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrew Parubiy. However, it was opposed by the largest faction “Block of Petro Poroshenko”.

The UK has chosen a “hung Parliament” At the end of counting results in 629 of 650 constituencies, the conservatives lost the opportunity to obtain an absolute majority in the House of Commons. Moscow. June 9. INTERFAX.RU — the results of the counting of the votes in 629 of 650 constituencies in the UK, the conservatives got the 304 seats in the House of Commons, the labour party — 258 seats as of 7:55 Moscow time. This means that the ruling party will not be able to gain an absolute majority in Parliament, which requires at least 326 seats. Still have to calculate the results in two dozen constituencies, however the main result of the elections, they will not change: British media are writing about a “hung Parliament” as an accomplished fact. The head of labour’s Jeremy Corbyn calls on Prime Minister Theresa may to think about retirement, discussed the

The UN has estimated the approximate number of is militants The UN security Council published a report of the Secretary-General about the threat to peace and security by “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia as a terrorist organization). Experts estimate that in the ranks of the terrorist organization fighting from 12 to 20 thousand people, and this number decreased significantly in 2015. Among other things was marked the number of its fighters in Iraq and Syria. According to the world organization, in the ranks of terrorists fighting from 12 to 20 thousand militants, their number has significantly decreased over the last 16 months. Also slowed the flow of foreign fighters. In the security Council suggest that now the main threat to international security is returning fighters to their countries and their move from the zone of conflict to other regions. The UN noted that funding for ISIS is at a

Photo: © Fotolia / Helder Almeida The official representative of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Alexander Kurennoy said that corruption in Russia now is not catastrophic. “Call a catastrophic situation (corruption in Russia) is impossible. The amount of damage from corruption from year to year is growing, but the number of corruption crimes decreased,” said Kurennoy, the radio station “Moscow speaking”. According to him, the number of corruption crimes in Russia in recent years has decreased from 50 per thousand in 2012 to 33 million in 2016. The damages from these crimes, estimated to prosecutors, amounted to 2016 78 billion rubles, reminded the Colonel. Increasing the size of the damage from corruption the representative of the office explained that prosecutors have become more effective in identifying these amounts due to the emergence of new methodologies and new tools.

Maria Zakharova Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova said breaking off diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Yemen and other countries with Qatar over accusations of supporting terrorist organizations, RIA “Novosti”. “This is a very difficult time, and unfortunately, bonuses from discord between the two countries get in the first place international terrorists… these are all things that occur, it is not time it all happens, despite the fact that, of course, every sovereign state has the right to its independent foreign policy, bilateral relations, their building. There’s just the reality of the day, and they need consolidation, not separation,” said she. Zakharova also proposed to review the situation as a showdown between the two countries. Earlier it was reported that the US President Donald trump called on Gulf countries to the unity, without prejudice to the fight against