Category: Politics

Tillerson expressed hope for new meetings with Lavrov Moscow. May 6. INTERFAX.RU — U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is counting on a new meeting with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss the de-escalation of the conflict in Syria, according to the U.S. Department of state. In a statement on Friday, the message the state Department noted that U.S. Secretary of state spoke with his Russian counterpart on the phone “about the efforts to de-escalate the ongoing conflict in Syria.” “The Secretary of state hopes for new meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs to discuss the appropriate role of the U.S. and Russia to de-escalate the conflict and support the negotiation process in Geneva to promote a political solution,” the document reads.

WikiLeaks announced a “major” leak emails of the headquarters of Macron MOSCOW, may 6 — RIA Novosti. The organization WikiLeaks announced a “major” leak emails of staff of the candidate in presidents of France Emmanuel Makron. “#MacronLeaks (a hashtag that refers to a leak of the emails the teams of Macron — ed.) contains hundreds of thousands of emails, photos and apps, Dating to 24 April 2017, about nine gigabytes as a whole,” wrote the organization in his microblog Twitter. Update: #MacronLeaks contains many tens of thousands of emails, photos, attachments up to April 24, 2017–around 9Gb in total — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 5, 2017 WikiLeaks also notes that the leak occurred “too late to affect the election.” Currently, the site staff checks some parts of the leaked data. In France on 23 April, the first round of the presidential election. For the post of the head of state claimed

Photo: RIA Novosti The Ministry of foreign Affairs and European integration (MFAEI) of Moldova opposed the participation of the members of the Operational group of Russian troops in Transnistria into a military parade in Tiraspol on the occasion of Victory Day. Earlier, the press service of the Western military district reported that members of the Operational group of Russian troops in Transnistria will participate in the passage of the troops marched in the capital of the unrecognized Republic in Tiraspol dedicated to the 72th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war. “On Thursday the charge d’affaires of the Russian Federation in Moldova Elena Kopnina was summoned to the foreign Ministry to pay attention to what is happening in the Transnistrian region of activities which directly influence the Moldovan-Russian relations and the settlement of the Transnistrian issue”, — said the Ministry. The representative of the Moldovan foreign Ministry said

Photo: RIA Novosti Konstantin Kosachev has sent to the foreign Ministry over the work of U.S. diplomats in Russia. The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs, wrote in his account in Facebook. “The unwritten law of diplomacy – reciprocity of the reflectivity and the conditions of work of the embassies in the respective countries – will not go away. In this regard, sent a request to the MFA of Russia on the working conditions of American diplomats in our country and on the measures to be taken in order to prevent discrimination of Russian disetronic in the United States,” Kosachev wrote. Kosachev added that he sent a request due to the fact that the House of representatives passed a bill that increases the control over the activities of employees of the Russian diplomatic mission. Kosachev called the decision “another “deterrent” response Russophobic part of the Congress to

Hostilities cease in the areas of de-escalation in Syria At the boundaries of the areas of de-escalation will be a security zone where to set the checkpoint for the passage of civilians and humanitarian assistance. MOSCOW, may 6. /TASS/. All hostilities cease from Saturday in four areas of de-escalation in Syria. According to the signed delegations of Russia, Iran and Turkey on may 4 in Astana the Memorandum of creation of such territories is a province of Idlib and parts of neighboring provinces (Aleppo, Lattakia and Hama), the area to the North of HOMS, the Damascus suburb of Eastern ghouta and a number of provinces in southern Syria — daraa and Quneitra. The ban covers and military flights, even Syria, to counter the terrorists The countries-guarantors will take all necessary measures to combat terrorism in these territories and beyond. “We are ready to stop work there, but only in case

The foreign Ministry responded to the accusations of Estonia in violation of the its borders The flight of the aircraft Il-96 special flight detachment “Russia” office of the President of Russia was negotiated and passed normally. About TASS said the representative of the Department of information and press of the foreign Ministry, commenting on the accusations of Estonia in violation of the border by Russian aircraft flying squad. According to him, we are talking about the plane, foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He “flew to Finland for a visit. All flight documents have been agreed,” — said the representative of the Department of information and press. He added that “the crew aboard any warning messages not received”. That Il-96 special flight detachment “Russia” office of the President of Russia has violated the airspace of Estonia, said the country’s defense Ministry on 5 may. The Estonian military said that the incident occurred

Photo: The authorities of Moscow region plan to raise the issue about the demolition of Khrushchev after 2020, he told reporters the Governor of the region Andrei Vorobyov. “We’re up five-story building had not yet arrived. Now we settle 270 thousand square meters of housing. Only after 2020 will we think of how to settle the house next to Khrushchev’s so-called” – quoted Vorobyov Agency RIAMA. About the program of renovation of In early 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin to demolish all the so-called Khrushchev in Moscow, and in their place to build new homes. The program is designed for 20 years. When around the July 2017 to be determined, a list of houses subject to demolition, will become apparent volumes of renovation. According to preliminary data, it was about 25 million sq m, what could go 3-3,5 trillion roubles (evaluation of the

Photo: AP Photo / Charles Dharapak, File Russia’s actions in Eastern Europe “constantly aggressive nature”, said Thursday the head of the special operations Command of the U.S. army General Raymond Thomas. During the hearings in the Senate Committee on armed forces, its Chairman, Republican Senator John McCain asked the General, “increased or decreased the number of provocative Russian actions in Eastern Europe.” “Russia’s aggressive actions are of a continuing nature,” replied Thomas. He also expressed confidence in the “positive effect” of the American program for the support of European allies.