Category: Politics

EU leaders unanimously endorsed the principles in the negotiations with Britain for Brexit Moscow. April 29. INTERFAX.RU — the leaders of the countries-members of EU at the summit in Brussels voted unanimously in support of the developed directives for negotiations with Britain about its exit from the EU (Brexit), said in a statement on the website of the President of the European Council Donald Tusk on Twitter. “Fundamental principles adopted unanimously. Solid and fair mandate of the 27 EU countries to talks on Brexit ready,” he wrote. Guidelines adopted unanimously. EU27 firm and fair political mandate for the #Brexit talks is ready. #EUCO — Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) 29 APR 2017 Western media noted that this decision was an unprecedented demonstration of unity of the EU on the eve of talks with London. The heads of state and government of the 27 countries of the European Union (without the UK) gathered

Photo: Reuters The statements of the USA about the “isolation of Russia in the UN” should be treated from the point of view of continuing post-election confrontation within the American elite; such statements can only do non-professional policy, said Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Alexei chepa. The U.S. administration believes one merit of President Donald trump’s first 100 days in power in foreign policy, “the isolation of Russia in the UN”, said the press service of the White house. “Such statements by certain politicians, who refers to the achievement of increased pressure on Russia on the UN or talking about her isolation, I think they only show weakness and diplomatic incompetence. The UN is a structure that is created for dialogue among all countries, and there it is necessary to open discussions, to develop some forms for interaction between all countries and settlement of conflicts in

Photo: RIA Novosti The Chairman of the Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications Leonid Levin said that to give content to the official accounts of the chamber in social media are professional journalists, not experts in the promotion of content on the Internet. On 27 April, the Day of Russian parliamentarism, started official accounts of the lower house in social networks-Vkontakte, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram. According to Levin, to implement the idea there will be a Department created in the structure of the Duma management public relations and media relations. “As far as I know, it is expected that his work will be fundamentally different from the management of accounts of other public authorities – the content is generated not by the promoters of content on the Internet and professional journalists,” – said the MP. “I hope that with time they will be able to make

The Kremlin has commented on media reports about the conversation Putin and Poroshenko Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the head of state spends a lot of daily work activities and contacts, but not all of them are published in the press-service MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin spends a lot of daily working activities and contacts, including with foreign leaders, but not all of them are published in the press-service. So the press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the TASS message of the newspaper “Kommersant” about the telephone conversations with Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. “The President of Russia on a daily basis performs a variety of contacts internationally, including with the heads of other States”, — said Peskov. “Not all of them are subject to the relevant press services, as well as the overall events of the work

Lavrov: terrorism in Syria should unite the efforts with the coalition MOSCOW, April 29 — RIA Novosti. To combat terrorism in Syria, it is important to combine the efforts of Russia and the coalition led by the US, said the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “The cease-fire between government forces and the armed opposition is also vital, in order more effectively to confront terrorist threats on the territory of Syria,” — Lavrov said at the talks with Minister of foreign Affairs of Jordan Ayman al-safadi. “We believe that to solve this problem, it is important to combine the efforts of all those fighting terrorism in Syria, I mean, and aerospace forces of the Russian Federation, and the coalition headed by the Americans,” — said the Russian Minister. According to him, king Abdullah II of Jordan has repeatedly said that “fundamental to the effectiveness of the world community on the Syrian

Merkel said a good working relationship with trump However, according to the Chancellor, this does not exclude the presence of different points of view. BERLIN, April 29. /Offset. TASS Anton Dolgunov/. German Chancellor Angela Merkel appreciates the working relationship with the President of the United States Donald trump. However, this time, she said, does not rule out differences in opinion. “I have President trump a good working relationship, which definitely does not exclude the presence of different points of view,” said the Chancellor in an article published in Saturday interview to the editorial Association Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland. In the course of bilateral contacts the two leaders, according to Merkel, are trying to develop a common approach to the solution of conflicts in Ukraine, Syria or Yemen to fight terrorism. “If we want to solve these problems and help people, we need active participation of the United States,” — declared the Chancellor.

Photo: The press service of the Governor of the Kaluga region The Governor of Kaluga region Anatoly Artamonov in an interview with TASS spoke about the investment climate in the region. “At the time I said – not to talk about the crisis. If I started to say “crisis, crisis…”, then he would come. And so nothing happened,” he said. He added that the automotive industry in the area and in General in the economy, in General, positive trends are observed. Artamonov added that in January-March 2017, compared with the same period in 2016, the production of vehicles grew by 12.2 % auto components – 49,3 %.

The representative of the Russian President for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. Moscow hopes that the armed opposition is coming in for a meeting on Syria in Astana. This was stated to journalists by the special representative of the President of Russia on the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov.

Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov © Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. Russia supports China’s proposal on the cessation of tests by Pyongyang in exchange for the abandonment of the American-South Korean military exercises near North Korea. This was stated in the Russian depodesta on the results of the public meeting of the UN security Council on the DPRK, held the day before. The Russian Federation was represented at the event, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov.

The foreign Ministry commented on the publication The Sun about “racism in Russia” MOSCOW, April 29 — RIA Novosti. The Russian foreign Ministry criticized the newspaper The Sun that the newspaper published an article about the riots at the match between teams from Kyiv and Donetsk under the heading “Racist Russia”. Comments the Ministry of foreign Affairs published on the Ministry website in the section that tracks false information about Russia in the media. “Surprised by the incompetence of the popular British tabloid The Sun, published in the online section of “Football” video “Racism in Russia” about the atrocities of Ukrainian fans in Kiev”, — stated in the message Department. The foreign Minister noted that after the reaction of users of social networks, The Sun has made changes to the article, however, questions about the causes of this “geographical errors” remain. From the point of view of the Ministry, forecasts