Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Of the Russian Federation, Ukraine will require immediate lifting of the blockade of Donbass. This was reported on Monday TASS the state Secretary, Deputy foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, who will represent the Russian side. According to Karasin, the participants of the meeting “channel four” (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France) in Berlin may 30, will hear representatives of the OSCE and heads of working groups of the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine. “Tomorrow will host a meeting of Deputy foreign Ministers “channel four,” he confirmed. – Such a mechanism is spelled out in the Declaration, the four leaders – immediately after the Minsk agreements in 2015, adopted the Declaration of the presidents of Russia, France, the German Chancellor and the President of Ukraine. We have reached that periodically will meet the so-called “control mechanism” on the level zamglavy the Ministry of foreign Affairs, the political

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of France Emmanuel Makron © Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, may 30. /TASS/. The presidents of Russia and France Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel macron discussed in General, what can be done to resolve the situation in Ukraine, but did not touch on specific issues, in particular the fate of the citizen of Ukraine Roman Sushchenko.

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, may 30. /TASS/. Ratification by the Netherlands of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine will let Kiev still some time to feed the Ukrainians with tales of the “bright European future”. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “As for the Kiev authorities, ratification of the ill-fated agreement will give them some time to continue to feed the Ukrainians with tales of the “bright European future”, which was significantly poorer after taken to ensure ratification of the legally binding decision of 28 countries-EU members, – said Zakharov. – Let me remind you that it clearly stated that the Association does not grant Ukraine the status of a candidate country to the European Union”. “While Kiev continues to ignore the rapid transformation of Ukraine from industrialized countries into agrarian and

The legal counsel of the trump rejected the invitation to the hearings on Russia Michael Cohen noted that it was written in poor language. MOSCOW, may 30. /TASS/. Personal legal adviser to the US President Michael Cohen refused to participate in the hearings of the special Committee on intelligence of the Senate and house of representatives of Congress who are investigating attributed to Moscow’s attempts to influence the election campaign in the United States. The reason for this decision was unacceptable, according to Cohen, language of the parliamentary inquiry, reports channel ABC. “I refused the invitation, as he was written in poor language, is formulated too General and didn’t deserve a response,” said Cohen to channel. In Moscow at the highest level have repeatedly rejected allegations that Russia tried to interfere in election processes in the United States.

The Association agreement between Ukraine and the EU: what does it mean On Tuesday the upper house of the Dutch Parliament approved the ratification of the Association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. What is the meaning of this document and that will change for Ukraine? The Netherlands was the last country in the EU that had not ratified the agreement because of last year’s referendum in which the Dutch said “no” to EU Association with Ukraine. But despite the results of the plebiscite, the government supported the agreement in December 2016, and the lower chamber of Parliament in February 2017. When the agreement will come into force? The agreement must be finally ratified by the government of the Netherlands, after which it must be signed by the king Willem-Alexander. Following this, the Netherlands will transmit the instruments of ratification in the EU and on the first day of

Putin rebuked Western countries in the bullying themselves The threat allegedly posed by Russia, the President called mythical. Moscow. May 30. INTERFAX.RU — Russia poses no threat to the West, politics based on such promise, has no future, said President of Russia Vladimir Putin. “Don’t need to escalate, no need to invent mythical Russian threat, hybrid warfare, and so on. Themselves head and share, and then scare themselves, and on this basis to formulate future policy. No such policy there are no prospects”, — he declared in interview to the newspaper Le Figaro, a fragment of which is published on the newspaper’s website. According to the President, there is a possibility for cooperation between Russia and NATO in all areas, including on security issues. “The main problem in security today is terrorism. In Europe blow, in Paris, blow up, blow up Russia, the middle East is a war. Here’s what

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of defense of Russia General of the army Sergei Shoigu arrived in Cairo on Monday to hold talks with representatives of the military-political leadership of Egypt, told reporters the official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov. “The meetings will discuss prospects of bilateral military and military-technical cooperation, issues of regional and international security,” he said. Konashenkov said that, in particular, negotiations with the Minister of defence of Egypt Sedki Sobhi will be held in bilateral format and with the participation of heads of diplomatic missions according to the formula “two plus two”.

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Europe and the United States have to understand their relations, RIA “Novosti”. “It needs to understand Europeans and Americans, it is not our issue,” he said in answer to a request of journalists to comment on the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the need to take the fate of Europe into their own hands. Peskov emphasized that “Russia has for centuries relied only on themselves”, despite the fact that is part of Europe. Earlier it was reported that Merkel said that the EU can no longer rely on others.

Photo: TASS As explained by “Rain”, of all respondents, 63 % would vote for the incumbent head of state, and 6% for Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 3 % – for Gennady Zyuganov, 2% for Alexei Navalny. 9% of respondents said that they would not come to the polls, and 5% would come, but wouldn’t know who to vote for. Thus, when considering only those respondents who will go to the polls, Putin’s electoral rating is 82 %. It is the best result in history, says Levada. A year before the last election in which he participated, the figure was 68% and on the eve of the 2008 elections – 43 %. We will remind that presidential elections of Russia will be held in March 2018. About his intention to run, said Alexei Navalny, the leaders of the LDPR and Yabloko Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Grigory Yavlinsky.

© Alexei Druzhinin/press-service of the Russian President/TASS PARIS, may 30. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called “not to think of the mythical Russian threat,” and to cooperate in all areas, including security. He declared it in interview to journalists of the newspaper Le Figaro, full version of which will be published later. “There is a prospect in the cooperation in all areas, including on security issues,” – said Putin. “Don’t need to escalate, no need to invent mythical Russian threats, some “hybrid wars”. Themselves head and share, and then scare themselves…” – said the President. He said that today the main problem is terrorism. “In Europe blow, in Paris, blow up, blow up Russia, in Belgium, blowing up, war in the middle East. Here’s what to think, and we all talk about what a threat Russia poses,” – said Putin.