Category: Politics

The interior Minister of France resigned because of the scandal with his daughters PARIS, 21 Mar — RIA Novosti, Victoria Ivanova. The head of the interior Ministry of France Bruno Le Roux resigned amid the scandal with the employment of his daughters to the post of parliamentary assistants of father in the National Assembly (the lower house of Parliament) of France. The Minister’s statement was broadcast live by the TV channel BFMTV. Bruno Le Roux has held the post of interior Minister of France for three months and 15 days. On Tuesday, the financial prosecutors in France opened a preliminary investigation on the employment of daughters of the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of France. Yesterday evening it became known that the two daughters Le Roux as Schoolgirls and female students, worked as parliamentary assistants of father in the National Assembly of France.

Photo: TASS Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The text of the congratulatory letter published Monday on the Kremlin website. “Please accept my sincere congratulations on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. Over the years, the Russian-Uzbek relations have reached the level of strategic partnership” – said in greeting. Putin noted active and meaningful political dialogue between the two countries and fruitful cooperation in trade-economic, scientific-technical, humanitarian and other fields in solving problems of regional and international agenda. “I am confident that with joint efforts we will ensure further development of bilateral relations for the benefit of the friendly peoples of Russia and Uzbekistan, in the interests of strengthening peace, security and stability in Central Asia”, – concluded the

Photo: RIA Novosti Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia in the third week of April, reports RIA “Novosti” reported the Minister of foreign Affairs of Japan, Fumio Kishida at a press briefing following the talks on security issues in the format of “2+2” in Tokyo. During the visit, is scheduled to meet Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We confirmed that if circumstances permit, in the third week of April, Prime Minister Abe will visit Russia and meet President Putin. And we came to a consensus that will accelerate the preparation for the meeting of our leaders,” said Kishida. Earlier, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov confirmed that President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe will be held in 2017. It was reported that was agreed upon Abe’s visit to Russia — the far Eastern economic forum in September.

Aleppo © EPA/YOUSSEF BADAWI ALEPPO /Syria/, March 21. /TASS/. The members arrived in Syria a delegation of Russian and European parliamentarians headed by Vice-speaker of the Duma, Vladimir Vasilyev, called for Tuesday of Aleppo and spoke with residents in the Eastern part. The Syrian army has completed the operation to free Aleppo from militants in December last year. The delegation visited the school in the district Annas in Eastern Aleppo, the deputies present at the transfer of humanitarian assistance to children and their parents. Residents were given a hot meal and gifts. As the head of the Center for reconciliation for the Eastern district of Aleppo Alexei Gorobets, of the 350 students in the school 250 orphans.

The claim about Russian intervention in the presidential election declined in the United States MOSCOW, 21 Mar — RAPSI. The Federal court of South Carolina upheld the consideration of a lawsuit demanding to annul the results of U.S. presidential elections, won by Donald trump, on the grounds that the results could be affected by the intervention of Russia. As follows from the materials of the case, the statement of claim was filed by a resident of the state of Parmananda, Beharry, which insists that the elections had violated the Constitution of the United States. As the defendant was declared Congress-the speaker of the lower house of Parliament Paul Ryan and Joe Biden, who is about 36 years was a Senator from the state of Delaware. According to Beharry, the results of the election should be annulled because of US citizens supposedly was the influence including via the media. The court

At the UN General Assembly honored the memory of Vitaly Churkin UN, 21 Mar — RIA Novosti, Olga Denisova. The memory of Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin honored at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Commemorative meeting of representatives of States members of the world organization began with a minute of silence. The General Assembly on Tuesday held a special session in memory of died on 20 February, the permanent representative of Russia. At the meeting, the President of the UN Peter Thomson, the UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres, Deputy permanent representative of the United States (as the host country of the headquarters of the UN), Michelle Sisson, Chairman of the UN Security Council in March, British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, acting permanent representative of the Russian Federation Pyotr Ilyich, as well as representatives from five regional groups — African States, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Eastern European States, zapadnoevropeiskii

In Malaysia “Russian knights” was first shown operated corkscrew LANGKAWI (Malaysia), 21 Mar — RIA Novosti. Aerobatic team “Russian knights” on Tuesday completed the flying program at the arms exhibition in Malaysia Langkawi LIMA-2017, demonstrating the highest aerobatics, told RIA Novosti the leader of the group, Colonel Andrei Alexeev. The pilots group first performed abroad at the su-30SM. “We showed aerobatics using the super-maneuverability of the su-30CM. In particular, in the skies over Langkawi was first shown operated corkscrew, as well as passage at a low speed, “bell” Cobra Pugachev, flying on a collision course, the rotation at supercritical angles of attack,” — said Alekseev. According to him, Malaysia arrived five su-30CM from the “Russian knights”. Are the pilots on the four cars, one spare.

Photo: RIA Novosti Increased activity of NATO along Russia’s borders creates a new reality, can lead to spiral of the arms race, said in an interview with RIA Novosti Russia’s envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko. “In General, in totality, this whole set of events, coupled with increased military activity, I mean, first of all, exercises and other trainings that NATO almost on a daily basis exercises along our borders. All of this creates a new reality. And we know from the history of the cold war that such a mixture of military planning and policy, it, in General, leads to a spiral of arms race to spiral confrontational, which would leave very difficult,” — said Grushko. The Russian Ambassador also noted the continued “the approach of NATO military infrastructure”. “Work is underway to improve the airfield network, ports, is working on certification of the supply routes, the elimination of various

Photo: RIA Novosti The Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the ministries until the summer to consider the question of issuing electronic visas for foreign tourists who enter the territory of the North Caucasus Federal district (NCFD), according to the website of the Cabinet on Monday. “The Russian foreign Ministry (S. Lavrov), in cooperation with the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia, FSB of Russia, Ministry of communications of Russia, Ministry of culture and Minkowksi Russia to consider the issue of extradition of foreign tourists entering the territory of the North Caucasus Federal district, viz in the form of electronic document taking into account the existing instructions of the President of the Russian Federation on this issue and the results are to be reported to the government of the Russian Federation”, — stated in the order. This assignment was given following the meeting of the government Commission on