Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill explained the reasons for the attacks on the Church, the efforts of the sentencing blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who caught the pokemon in the Orthodox Church. He told about it on Saturday, may 13, after the divine Liturgy at Butovo of Moscow, reports “Interfax”. According to him, the criticism, in particular, due to the fact that the Church makes a man inwardly free, makes it impossible to manipulate them. “Those who wish to control the public, people’s consciousness, you know that, as long as the Church, total control will never be”, — said the Patriarch. Kirill said that people in today’s information world “EN masse become slaves of ideas, political concepts points of view”, considering himself free. “Sometimes outraged our innate moral sense, when it seems that it is obvious that the person behaves unacceptably, for example, offends the religious

The foreign Ministry urged to carefully weigh the risks associated with travel to Georgia MOSCOW, may 15. /TASS/. The Russian foreign Ministry urges Russian citizens to carefully weigh the risks associated with travel to Georgia. This was stated in the Russian depodesta in connection with the decision of Georgia to introduce the former mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov in the so-called black list. “Anyway, the Russian foreign Ministry is compelled to once again draw the attention of Russian citizens to the need to carefully weigh the risks associated with travel to Georgia, — stressed in dipvedomstva. — However, note that in the absence of diplomatic relations, broken by the Georgian side, the section of Russian interests at the Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi has rather limited possibilities to protect citizens from tyranny.” The foreign Ministry said that Tbilisi continues provocations that undermine the process of healing the relations with Moscow. “Drew

USA skeptical towards the creation of zones of de-escalation in Syria WASHINGTON, may 15. /Offset. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. The United States is skeptical of the agreement on the establishment of a de-escalation in Syria, which was reached during the last conference in Astana. This is today’s spacefire for journalists was declared by the acting assistant Secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones. “I participated in a conference in Astana as an observer from the United States. At the meeting held by Turkey, Russia and Iran as guarantors of the process in Astana, agreement was reached on the creation of zones of de-escalation, to reduce violence and save lives, he said. In light of the failure of past agreements, we have reason to be skeptical”. Jones once again said that Syrian authorities “have a duty to stop attacks” on opposition groups and Russia “should ensure that (these conditions) regime

Photo: RIA Novosti The Ministry of internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic intends to apply to the court after the internal review of the material “Novaya Gazeta” about the mass detention in the Republic of residents based on sexual orientation, said the head of the interior Ministry of the region Ruslan Alkhanov. According to him, after the publication in “Novaya Gazeta” text “honor Killing” was assigned a service check, which was conducted by employees of operatively-search part of own safety of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic. “By its results spread in the media information not found no objective evidence, and materials of office check are directed to investigatory management of Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic for adoption of the procedural decision in accordance with articles 144 and 145 UPK the Russian Federation”, — quoted Alkhanov’s press-service Ministry of internal Affairs in

Photo: RIA Novosti The reaction of the American media to take photographs of the meeting of the President of the United States Donald trump and Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the White house, says that the theme of Russia is in America warmed up. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in the program “Vesti on Saturday” on TV channel “Russia 1”. “Here there is a simple truth: this is political showdown in the United States. They will not end, unfortunately, and most importantly, that at a certain point they will get a new round in the beginning of the new electoral cycle, namely in the legislative bodies of the US government”, — leads her words TASS. Zakharov drew attention to the fact that the photos of the trump meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin discussed in the

Yuri Luzhkov © Alexey Filippov/TASS MOSCOW, may 15. /TASS/. Tbilisi continues provocations that undermine the process of healing the relations with Moscow. This was stated by the foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation in connection with Georgia’s decision to make former mayor of the Russian capital Yury Luzhkov in the so-called black list.

Macron was appointed the new Prime Minister of France Moscow. May 15. INTERFAX.RU — President of France Emmanuel macron made the decision to appoint a Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. “The President has decided to appoint Philippe Edouard Prime Minister. Instructed him to form a government”, — told reporters the representative of the Elysee Palace, Alexis Kohler. Just appointed: the brand new French PM is another talented NORMAN as Bernard Cazeneuve hands over to EDOUARD PHILIPPE, mayor of Le Havre. pic.twitter.com/dvWw94BLgR — Meet ‘ in Normandy (@MeetinNormandy) may 15, 2017. Edward Philip was mayor of Le Havre since 2010 Earlier it was reported about the first appointments in the team of Macron. So, the new Secretary General of the Elysee Palace will be the 44-year-old Alexis Kohler. He was head of the Cabinet Rules when he was the Minister of economy of France. Il a annoncé qu Edouard Philippe était le

FT: the European Commission at the beginning of June will publish the project of creating a European defense Fund LONDON, may 15. /TASS/. The European Commission (EC) in early June will publish the project of creating a European defense Fund (European Defence Fund, EDF), which will allow to increase military spending to the community after a British exit from the EU. It is reported by the British newspaper Financial Times. According to the publication, development of plans “has entered a decisive stage”. According to them, starting in 2020, it will be possible to allocate annually from EDF for research in the defense sector of the community is around €500 million ($546 million). The funds will be used exclusively for the development of prototypes of high-technology weapons, in particular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and robots, and can not be used to purchase member countries of the EU military technology, said people