Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti Meeting with Deputy foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov was difficult, the position of the Higher Committee on negotiations (CPSU) of the Syrian opposition and Moscow are far from each other, said RIA Novosti member of the delegation of the CPSU Riyadh Naasan yeah. “Our position and the Russian position is different. The meeting was difficult. Each party looks at things from different angles. I don’t think we can find any solution because there is no US. Only Russia and she is not with us,” he said following the meeting with Deputy foreign Minister of the Russian Federation. Yeah added that he had discussed with Gatilov refusal of the delegation of the CPSU proposed by UN special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura mechanism.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian foreign Ministry has warned Ottawa that the approval by the Parliament of Canada, local version of the Magnitsky act will cause significant damage to bilateral relations. This is stated in the official comments of the Russian foreign Ministry published on the Ministry website. “We have to warn the official Ottawa that we believe the active support of the canadian version of the American “Magnitsky act”, in which Russia is trying to present a frivolous human rights complaint, another openly unfriendly step. If approved by the Parliament of Canada the legislative sanction of an act of relations between our countries, already experiencing not the best times, will suffer significant damage”. According to the Ministry of the interior, such action will lose Canada, whose authorities prefer to isolate themselves from Russia instead of developing mutually beneficial cooperation, including in the economic sphere and the development of the

Tatiana Moskalkova © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, may 21. /TASS/. The Commissioner for human rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova signed a petition to the US President Donald Trump with a request to pardon the convicted in the U.S. of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. “I signed a letter to the US President on his pardon,” – said Moskalkova on Sunday in the program “Press conference” TV channel “Russia”. However, she noted that “in the United States no Ombudsman no Ombudsman for human rights”.

Tillerson: US alarmed by new launches in the DPRK Currently, the military of several countries to urgently collect and analyze relevant information. NEW YORK, may 21. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Rocket launches, which continues to carry on Pyongyang, causing Washington concern. This was stated by the Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, in an interview with Fox News channel. Ongoing trials cause frustration, anxiety, and we ask that their prekratilis Tellermarketer USA The DPRK fired another missile launch into the sea of Japan. Currently, the military of several countries to urgently collect and analyze relevant information.

Turkey officially abolished visas for Ukraine Turkey has officially introduced a visa-free regime with Ukraine for holders of ID cards that the authorities have started to issue to its citizens in early 2016 instead of the passport. The corresponding document was published in the official government publication Resmi. Under the new rules, citizens of Ukraine and Turkey, which are ID-card, replacing passport will be able to cross the Ukrainian-Turkish border without visas and stay in the country up to 90 days within each 180-day period. As noted on the page in Facebook the head of the State migration service of Ukraine Maxim Sokoluk, Turkey recognizes the ID card that came to replace the internal Ukrainian passport as a travel document for crossing the border with Turkey. He explained that now the Ukrainians can travel to Turkey without passports. Sokoluk, said that while the Ukrainian Ministry of foreign Affairs has not

The media accused the Pentagon in the spending budget for the Syrian opposition The U.S. Department of defense inflated the estimates for the purchase of fuel and extra funds spent on training Syrian rebels and the unforeseen costs of operations in Afghanistan. This publication reports The Washington Post. According to the newspaper, from 2015 on training Syrian opposition fighters, the Pentagon sent $ 80 million, and the fighting in Afghanistan is $ 1.4 billion. In addition, 450 million went to the implementation associated with financial fraud program, in which American soldiers and their families could receive medical medications. As noted by the Washington Post, the defense Department often asked for one dollar or more per gallon of fuel. This exceeds the amount that commercial airlines spend the same amount of fuel. While the U.S. military is the world’s largest consumer of fuel. Every year the Pentagon buys about 4.2 billion

Photo: RIA Novosti In Russia a woman will not cope with the duties of the President in the current environment, the leader of the CPRF Gennady Zyuganov. His words leads TASS on Thursday, may 18. “I am very good to women but in conditions of war, sanctions, system, a severe crisis, I would still pity the women. Because this post requires working seven days a week, at least 15 hours a day”, — the politician noted. He stressed that women, in his opinion, a talented, responsible and diligent, but the presidency also requires strong nerves. “In terms of military threat still commanded by Generalissimo Stalin, Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Konev, Vasilevsky,” he stated, stressing that “information warfare takes on the character of nuclear danger”. The Deputy of the state Duma from “United Russia” Svetlana Zhurova in an interview with National news service (NSN) expressed the view that women can perform the duties

Photo: RIA Novosti The plans of the authorities of Washington to name the politician Boris Nemtsov homeless shelter in a vacant space near the Russian Embassy are cynicism or stupidity, said the official representative of the foreign Ministry of Russia Maria Zakharova, reports TASS. “Why did you do that to that man’s name? Either this is stupidity of the political forces in the United States that take such decisions, or it’s a hell of cynicism. Who wanted to do worse? If the memory of Boris Nemtsov, it should be already generally inhumans” she said. She also suggested that city officials “feel that they want to do somehow hurt Russia,” but showed ignorance of their own realities. Earlier it was reported that a U.S. Senate Committee approved the renaming of the street outside the Russian Embassy in honor Nemtsov.

Andrei Isayev © Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, may 21. /TASS/. First Deputy head of the faction “United Russia” in the state Duma Andrey Isaev has called on the leadership of the international anti-corruption organization Transparency International to make a decision on dismissal of the Deputy General Director of the Russian branch of the Ilya Shumanov. This Isayev told reporters. Earlier, the Deputy, ex-Prosecutor of the Crimea Natalia Polonskaya, head of the Duma Commission on control over reliability of data on incomes, about property and obligations of property character represented by deputies, proposed to carry out anti-corruption check of Fund of struggle against corruption Alexei Navalny and the Russian branch of Transparency International. Shumanov in response to this statement was written in Facebook that they “wanted to relax a bit, and instead, you have to cut the investigation into Madam ex-Prosecutor”. “Mr. Schumann, in my opinion, acting completely inappropriately. It would be

Japan said, where fell released the DPRK rocket TOKYO, may 21 — RIA Novosti, Xenia Naka. Released the DPRK rocket fell into the Japanese sea beyond the exclusive economic zone of Japan, told broadcaster NHK, citing a defense Ministry. North Korea on Sunday held the launch is unknown, one of Pucchan the province’s toll. According to estimates by the South Korean military, rocket was not an Intercontinental.