Category: Politics

The defense Ministry suspends operation of the hotline communication with the Pentagon on Syria MOSCOW, 7 Feb — RIA Novosti. The defense Ministry informed the Pentagon about the termination of the channels “hot line” communications on Syria, said the official representative of Department major General Igor Konashenkov. “On military-to diplomatic channels to the Pentagon sent a diplomatic note of the Ministry of defense of Russia on the termination of work under the Memorandum of channels “hot line” communication,” he said. Memorandum on safety in Syria between the military of Russia and the USA acted in October 2015. Parties regularly held videoconferences of the working group on implementation issues. The last such conference was held on March 24. As stated in the Kremlin, the Memorandum has lost its meaning after the missile strike the US on the Syrian air base In the night of Friday, the US President Donald trump ordered

Photo: globallookpress.com A senior state Department official said that U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson during his visit to Russia on April 11-12 to discuss the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, which Washington condemned. In addition, he intends to raise the issue of “Russia’s intervention in U.S. elections”. “The Secretary believes this is one area where Russia or violates international norms or creates tension, which without the need of undermines confidence,” said the spokesman. In addition, he reported that the meeting with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Tillerson confirmed, but if the invitation comes from the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of state “will do so”. The state Department added that chemical attack in Idlib will color the debate in Moscow about cooperation on the settlement in Syria. “We are considering the possibility to cooperate with Russian, but no decisions have been made at this point to

Lukashenko said that Russia is not ready for full-fledged Union state MINSK, 7 APR — RIA Novosti. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia is not yet ready to build full-fledged Union state, and urged Moscow to work together to solve the issue of equal conditions in the economy. “Treaty on the Union state… But we moved away from it. And we had to hold a referendum to create the common law — the common Constitution of our future Union state. But at the time we didn’t, took it and yanked the individual questions and began to address them”, — said Lukashenko in interview to TV channel “Mir”. The transcript of the interview posted on the official website of the President of Belarus. Lukashenka noted that Minsk and Moscow “solved all the problems for people — for the free movement of people, labor,” there are difficulties in the economy,

Russia suspends the Memorandum on the prevention of incidents in Syria Also, the Russian foreign Ministry urged the UN security Council to hold an emergency meeting after the attacks U.S. base in Syria. MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. Moscow suspends the Memorandum on the prevention of incidents and ensuring the safety of aviation in Syria concluded with the United States. This is stated in a special statement the Russian foreign Ministry. “The Russian side is suspending the Memorandum on the prevention of incidents and ensuring the safety of aviation operations in Syria concluded with the United States, the document says. — Urge the UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting to discuss the situation”. On the night of 7 April, the United States dealt a blow to Syrian government forces, using as pretext the situation of highincidence in Idlib province. “Obviously, the impact of U.S. cruise missiles preparing in advance, noted

Photo: RIA Novosti The former head of the Mari El Republic Leonid Markelov can continue to work in the Republic, becoming a Deputy of the regional state Assembly, or go to the Federation Council, told RIA Novosti Secretary of the Mari Republican Committee of the Communist party, head of the Communist party faction in the Republican Parliament Gennady Zubkov. On Thursday the President of Russia Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of Mari El Leonid Markelov, who had earlier resigned voluntarily. Acting head of the region appointed Alexander Evstifeev. “The thirty-first of March and 1st of April, we received documents from the state Assembly that the planned session, which will consider two issues — is the early resignation of the Deputy Leukhina and the introduction of a second post of the first Deputy Chairman of the state Assembly… immediately became Clear to many that this is done in order to Markelov

Photo: RIA Novosti Moscow is outraged by the statements of the commander of NATO forces in Europe Curtis Scaparotti about possible Russian support for the Taliban, said on Thursday Russia’s envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko. “It is necessary to ask those who makes such statements. Of course, we were outraged, and very surprised by the statements of the commander of the NATO forces in Europe General Scaparotti at the hearings in Congress (USA), when he talked about the fact that we (Russia) almost support the Taliban,” said Grushko in broadcast television channel “Russia 24”.

Photo: TASS The terrorists failed to sow fear among the residents of St. Petersburg, a city United in common misfortune, said Thursday the Governor of the Northern capital Georgy Poltavchenko at the evening of memory of victims of the terrorist attack in the subway. “Three days ago, cowardly terrorists attacked our city. Killed and injured citizens and guests of our city from other regions of Russia and foreign countries, innocent people of different ages, professions. Terrorists do not care who to kill, their goal is to sow fear, uncertainty and disunity, but they miscalculated. The General grief has rallied Petersburg, we mourn together for the victims and wish a speedy recovery to the victims and do everything for that,” he said. The Governor noted that only together we can confront the “global evil”. “Only together can we fight back this terrible evil, because we are citizens of Russia, which not