Category: Politics

Lavrov: the sovereignty over the Kuril Islands is not discussed, is the territory of Russia The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov held talks with foreign Minister Taro Kono. Moscow and Tokyo remain significant disagreements on the issue of a peace Treaty, the parties agreed to work on the basis of the 1956 Declaration, Lavrov said at a press conference following the talks. Without recognition by Japan of Russia’s sovereignty over the Kuril Islands is difficult to count on progress in the dialogue on a peace Treaty, said Sergei Lavrov: This is our basic position, and no step in this direction is very difficult to count on some movement forward on other issues. We attracted the attention of our friends from Japan to ensure that the issues of sovereignty over the Islands was not discussed, it is the territory of the Russian Federation, and drew their attention to

Alexander Lukashenko on the conflict in the East of Ukraine: it was a misunderstanding and I need to finish President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called the conflict in Eastern Ukraine “a misunderstanding” and said that “personally aches for what is happening there”. Lukashenka said at a meeting with Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. Lukashenko noted that it is “important to hear the position of Victor Medvedchuk” the events unfolding in Ukraine. “It’s important to me not only because I personally care about what is happening there, but because it is our native Ukraine. I have served many times I have been there, and not hide the fact that my ancient roots are somewhere between Chernigov and Kiev”, — he explained. According to Lukashenka, “the basis of all are and our relationship with Ukraine.” He added that at the beginning of the conflict to Belarus “to 150 thousand people flooded from Ukraine”:

Medvedev responded to the claim of Lukashenka due to the tax maneuver Moscow. 14 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — Russia understands the concerns of Belarus about the tax maneuver in Russia, but remind that Moscow never promised Minsk to offset taxes from this income, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “We certainly understand their concerns, and negotiations on this subject are continuing. I want to reiterate that, first, we never promised to compensate for lost revenues in other countries, even the most loved ones,” he said at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers. Russia provides Belarus with the larger credit assistance in circumstances where she was denied access to Western financial markets, and Minsk should appreciate that, Medvedev said. According to him, this amount exceeds 6.5 billion dollars, not counting the associated loan for the construction of nuclear power plants. “And we demand, of course, the return of these loans, we are

The Prosecutor General’s office and the Ministry of communications did not support the bill on fake news Moscow. 14 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — the Prosecutor General’s office does not support the bills on fake news and responsibility for disrespectful statements online to the representatives and symbols of power, said Deputy head of the legal Department of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Artamonova. “From our point of view, the wording of these bills, they certainly are of a technical nature, and decision-making will be impossible without the linguistic expertise that will take time,” said Artamonov at the enlarged meeting of the state Duma Committee on information policy, Informtechnologia and communications on Monday. NewsKlishas saw the risk of abuse of laws on fake news and insulting the authorities In addition, she continued, there is a lack of adequate criteria for the implementation of extrajudicial blocking of sites. “I’m talking about

Klishas saw the risk of abuse of laws on fake news and insulting the authorities The author of the amendment pointed to the progressive approach of the Supreme court, which looks at the practice of the ECHR. A member of the Federation Council Andrei Klishas said during discussion of draft laws on punishment for publishing fake news in the media and insult the power of the Internet, there is always the risk of abuse of articles of the law on the part of law enforcement. The Senator noted that possible problems are resolved in the courts and pointed to “the progressive approach of the Supreme court”. Klishas addressed the participants of the extended meeting of the Duma Committee on information policy with a request to propose the bills necessary changes. The head of the Committee Leonid Levin noted that innovations should not restrict freedom of speech and the rights of

Lavrov announced the beginning of negotiations on the peace Treaty with Japan Moscow. 14 Jan. INTERFAX.RU — Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono on Monday in Moscow started the negotiations on the conclusion of a peace Treaty between the two countries. “In accordance with the instructions of our leaders on the results of summits in Singapore in November and in Buenos Aires in December last year, we begin negotiations today over the problem of the peace Treaty,” Lavrov said, opening the meeting. NewsOf the Kuril Islands not so reported The Russian Minister noted that “in recent years Russian-Japanese relations gained a good momentum and are developing a number of fronts”. “Not without the challenges of external factors, but still developing economic and trade cooperation, including on the basis of Russian priority investment list and terms of cooperation, Mr Abe in eight directions”, — said

ABC: the US Congress proposed to interrogate the interpreters of trump’s meetings with Putin The lawyers of the two committees of the U.S. house of representatives on intelligence and foreign Affairs will discuss whether to subpoena to testify interpreters present at meetings of the US President Donald trump with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, according to ABC. According to sources, the channel, the meeting of representatives of the committees will be held today, January 14. “We are studying the legal implications (call interpreters.— “B”) and discuss all the options. Our lawyers will meet to figure it out,” he told ABC source from the foreign Affairs Committee. The reason for this was the publication of The Washington Post, according to which Donald trump has concealed from members of the administration the details of the negotiations with Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg in

Trump announced the beginning of withdrawal of troops from Syria and threatened Turkey The US President Donald trump has threatened Turkey with ruin, if after the departure of American troops from Syria Ankara in the course of their operations will be attacking the Syrian Kurds. About this he wrote on Monday, January 14 in Moscow, on Twitter. The American leader said that the upcoming withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, “long overdue”, while he clearly outlined what will happen to Turkey if it continued to attack Syrian Kurds, who are us allies in the region. “We emptied Turkey economically in that case, if they attack the Kurds,” said the White house. Starting the long overdue pullout from Syria while hitting the little remaining territorial caliphate ISIS hard, and from many directions. Will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms. Turkey Will devastate economically if they hit Kurds. Create