Category: Politics

Putin praised the results of the meeting of Lavrov and trump BOCHAROV RUCHEY (Sochi), may 17 — RIA Novosti. Russia highly assesses the results of the meeting of the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and US President Donald trump, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Monday, the Washington Post, citing anonymous sources among current and former American officials said that trump during a meeting with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told some sort of information that “put at risk a critical source of intelligence information,” the group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). On Tuesday, the US presidential Advisor on national security Herbert McMaster has called media reports false. According to him, trump and Lavrov discussed the common threats from terrorist organizations, including threats to aviation, but did not discuss the sources or methods of intelligence, and was not disclosed military operations, which would

Kiev acknowledged that would not be able to completely shut down access to Russian social networks Users will be able to find ways around the blocking of “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”, said the national security Council and defense of Ukraine. KIEV, may 17 — RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian authorities will not be able to completely close the access to the Russian social networks “Vkontakte” and “Odnoklassniki” users will be able to get around bans, said the head of the information security apparatus of the national security and defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Valentin Petrov. Earlier, Ukraine imposed sanctions against a number of Russian media, the country is also prohibited access to social networks “Vkontakte”, “Classmates” and resources “Yandex” and Mail.ru. Company Mail.Ru Group, which owns the social network “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”, and sent to the Ukrainian users instructions on how to use its services to bypass the lock access. “We understand

In the Council of Europe stands up for Russian Internet resources in Ukraine Blocking Russian sites is contrary to the principles of media freedom, said the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Moscow. May 17. INTERFAX.RU — Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE) thorbjørn Jagland expressed concern about the decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko about blocking Russian sites. “Blocking social networking, search engines, email services and news websites is contrary to our common understanding of freedom of speech and mass media”, — said in a statement Jagland, transferred on Wednesday to “Interfax” the press service of the COE. “Moreover, such a complete ban is at odds with the principle of proportionality,” — said the Secretary General. Wednesday came into force the decree of the President of Ukraine on the introduction of sanctions in relation to social networks “Vkontakte” and “Classmates”, “Mail.ru”, “Yandex” and their

Photo: the website of the Kremlin The Federal security service of Russia received the right to seize land or property, which is located on them if necessary for state needs. The corresponding decree on may 16 was signed by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Changes made to the Statute on the Federal security service of Russia, approved by decree of the President on 11 August 2003.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian troops are upgrading in connection with the strengthening of the Arctic borders. This statement was made by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. His words RIA Novosti reported. “Combat experience gained during the operation in the Syrian Arab Republic, the need to strengthen the Arctic territories and borders in the West and southwest demanded the refinement of approaches for upgrading troops,” — said Putin. His statement Putin made at a meeting on the state defense order. The head of state noted that for the year 2016, the state defense order was fulfilled by 97%. All the troops received more than 5.6 thousand kinds of modern weapons, about three thousand units of equipment have been upgraded. Currently, the readiness of a fleet of modern equipment in the army is estimated at 58%. Putin instructed the military to increase the figure for 2017 to 62%.

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, may 16 — RIA Novosti. Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on may 25-26 in Kazan to take part in the meetings of the Council of heads of governments of the CIS and the Eurasian intergovernmental Council, reported on the website of the Cabinet. “The twenty-sixth of may, under the chairmanship of Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting of the Council of CIS heads of government… In the same day, Medvedev will take part in the session of the Eurasian intergovernmental Council”, — is spoken in the message. It is noted that at the meeting of the Council of CIS heads of government will discuss the development of cooperation within the Commonwealth, including international treaties in the sphere of use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes; geodesy, cartography, cadastre and remote sensing of the Earth; countering the production and distribution of counterfeit products, protection of intellectual property.

© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS SOCHI, may 17. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin, commenting on reports about alleged issued by the President of the United States Donald trump’s secrets to the foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov expressed opinion that the United States is developing political schizophrenia.

The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the President of the United States Donald trump during a meeting at the White house © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS SOCHI, may 17. /TASS/. Russia is ready to provide a transcript of the conversation between Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and U.S. President Donald trump, if the administration is not against it. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at press conference following Russian-Italian talks, commenting on the information allegedly transmitted by the trump Lavrov sensitive data. “If the United States administration will find it possible, we are ready to provide a record of the conversation Lavrov with trump in the Senate and Congress of the United States, of course, in that case, if the American administration wants,” – said Putin. The Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that we are talking about the

Democrats-members of Congress called for an investigation against trump Democrats urged to find out whether the US administration in conspiring to obstruct the investigation of contacts of members of the presidential campaign with Russian officials. WASHINGTON, may 17. /Offset. TASS Anton Cranks/. All 33 Democrat from a Committee of the house of representatives oversight and government reform, and the legal Committee of the lower house voted on Tuesday for the investigation in respect of President Donald trump, the Minister of justice, attorney General Jeff and Roman sessions and officials of the Washington administration of high rank. This is stated in the published letter sent to the chairmen of the Republicans of the two committees. The Democrats urged them “to immediately begin a joint investigation, are trump and officials of his administration to rank high on the conspiracy to impede” the investigation, which is conducted by the FBI, the DOJ and

South Korea can send a THAAD missile complex back in the US The leader of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Democratic party “Tabora” weon Sik also said that initially the issue of deployment in South Korea us missile was to address the Parliament. SEOUL, may 17. /Offset. TASS Stanislav Varivoda/. The Republic of Korea may return to the United States are already brought into the country elements of missile defense system THAAD, if it turns out that in the course of their placement was procedurally defective. This was stated to journalists by the leader of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Democratic party “Tabora” Won Sik. It is necessary to consider the problem with the THAAD system, including the possibility of sending it back if it turns out that if it was not comply with South Korean law.Out of Sikligar parliamentary faction of the ruling Democratic party The legislator