Category: Politics

The defense Ministry denied the strike on Khan Sheyhun in Syria The Russian defense Ministry denied its strikes Russian VKS on the village of Khan shaykhun in the Syrian province of Idlib, which killed 58 people. This was reported in the Russian defense Ministry, reports “RIA Novosti”. “The British Agency Reuters, reporting the involvement of the Russian aircraft bombing Hambarian Khan shaykhun, managed to misinterpret even the original source of this news — British “Observatory of human rights in Syria”, nothing about it said,” — noted in the defense Ministry. On Tuesday, April 4, in the Syrian province of Idlib in the city of Khan Sheyhun victims of the alleged chemical attack have been killed at least 58 people, including 11 children. This is reported by sources in the medical services and activists, reports the Syrian Observatory for human rights, based in London. According to them, the city dropped bombs,

Sergei Lavrov told a joke Rex Tillerson MOSCOW, 4 APR — RIA Novosti. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov told a joke Secretary of state Rex Tillerson that with him “you can’t dance tango”, reports RT. Earlier, Politico reported that Tillerson during an informal lunch during the meeting of foreign Ministers of NATO countries in response to the remark of one of colleagues about the relations of Russia and the United States said that to dance tango with Russia is possible “you can even to win something for this, but obviously you can’t dance with Laurel, because he’s not allowed to dance”. “My mother also forbade the boys to dance,” Lavrov said in response to a request to comment on words Tillerson. Lavrov later added that he had heard of such “conversation” in the meeting of foreign Ministers of NATO countries. “If this is so, Rex Tillerson

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Monday with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the heads of state will discuss controversial issues in the format of “one on one” to negotiate, if necessary, can connect the Cabinet Ministers, told journalists the press-Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. Earlier Peskov said that Putin will meet with Lukashenko on 3 April to discuss bilateral relations and economic differences. “The President in the Konstantinovsky Palace will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. Negotiations are expected, it will be meeting one-on-one. If necessary, both parties will be attended by Ministers on key issues. There will be discussed current aspects of bilateral relations, trade, economic, and, of course, the various controversial issues related to gas price and debt, and so on… So the talks are quite serious and detailed” Peskov said on Monday.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin urged not to go “wall to wall” members of the press and government officials, the correspondent of “Газеты.Ru” on the media forum of the Russian popular front. “A lot of problems in the bureaucracy. We talk about it constantly. And not only us. And in all countries the same. And always and everywhere the press, free and open press in a democratic society it one way or another oppose the authorities — and rightly so. I would not only to the press and officials were at each other like a wall to wall all the time,” he said. The President also noted that a simple confrontation means “constant sand in the wheels” on both sides, while working on a common goal can achieve maximum results. Earlier, Putin was quoted Tyutchev, responding to a question about freedom on the Internet.

Photo: RIA Novosti Statements of the Lithuanian special services about the alleged possible attack by Russia on the Baltic States are a manifestation of the pervasive Russophobia imposed from the outside, said press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. Report threats to the national security of Lithuania prepared by the Department of state security and second Department of operational services under the Ministry of defense of the country. The document describes the main threats to the Republic, a large part of the dangers, according to the Lithuanian secret services, comes from Russia, in particular from the upcoming in September the Russian-Belarusian exercises “West — 2017”. According to the authors of the report, Russia has the ability to take military action against the Baltic States “in 24-48 hours”. “If this information is true, — I emphasize this – that’s probably another pronounced manifestation of Russophobia, which is largely imposed

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Brechalov © Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed Secretary of the Public chamber Alexander Brechalov, the acting head of the Udmurt Republic. This was reported by the press service of the Kremlin.

Putin dismissed the head of the Udmurt Republic MOSCOW, 4 APR — RIA Novosti. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed the decree “On early termination of powers of the head of the Udmurt Republic”, atresia Alexander Solovyov from the post in connection with loss of trust, the press service of the Kremlin. On Tuesday, the SC filed against Soloveva criminal case. The official is suspected of receiving bribes in especially large size. According to investigators, during 2014-2016, the head of Udmurtia received from representatives of the company, which was engaged in the construction of bridges, 139 million roubles. In addition, the officer allegedly got a share of the commercial organization cost of 2.7 million rubles. Investigators believe that the head Warbler was to provide an extraordinary payment from the Federal and regional budgets, as well as to allocate licenses for geological study, exploration and extraction of sand and

Putin approved Russia’s accession to the Montreal Convention on air transport The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the law on accession to the Montreal Convention unifying rules for international air travel. The relevant document on Tuesday, April 4, published on the official portal of legal information. While Russia reserves the right not to apply the provisions of the Convention in respect of public air transport operated for non-commercial purposes. In March aviaekspert Konstantin Parfenenok expressed the opinion that the provisions of the Montreal Convention to work in Russia in full force only in early 2018. Earlier in the same month, Moscow has launched the process of ratification of this agreement after the adoption by the state Duma of the above law. Participants in the Montreal Convention are currently 120 countries. This document, in particular, protects the interests of passengers, setting the amount of compensation for them. In Russia payments

Ukraine has called the organizers of “Eurovision” not to interfere in the internal Affairs of the country Earlier, the head of the EBU Ingrid Deltenre said that Kiev may be subjected to sanctions due to the fact that the SBU has banned entry to the country representative of Russia Yulia Samoilova. KIEV, April 4. /TASS/. The Supervisory Board of the National public broadcasting company of Ukraine (NOTE) urged the European broadcasting Union (EBU) not to interfere in the internal Affairs of the country and respect its sovereignty. The indignation of the Supervisory Board caused a letter from the head of the EBU Ingrid Deltenre in which it said that Kiev may be subjected to sanctions due to the fact that the security Service of Ukraine (SBU) banned entry to the country representative of Russia Yulia Samoilova to participate in the contest “Eurovision-2017”. The requirement to cancel the decision of the

Photo: RIA Novosti Senator Alexei Pushkov in his Twitter urged to accept a fake message about the relationship of representatives election campaign of US President Donald trump with Russia. “After 3 months of hysteria around the so-called relations campaign trump with Russia, its authors admit will convince. there is no evidence. It is time to call a fake a fake”, – he wrote. Earlier it was reported that former adviser to the us President for national security Michael Flynn in the Declaration on incomes spoke about working with the companies from Russia.