Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The US can’t trust Russia and ought to not do this in the current foreign political circumstances, says the U.S. permanent representative to the UN, Nikki Haley. She declared it in interview to TV channel NBC in the program “NBC News”. In his response, the presenter Matt Laero she stated that the “threat” from Russia cannot be taken lightly. “To take this seriously. We can’t trust Russia. We should never trust Russia”, — quotes Haley CNBC. Hayley’s words directly contradict the previous statements of the President of the United States Donald trump, who has repeatedly admitted that the U.S. and Russia may have “more than friendly” relationship than at the moment. However, according to the U.S. Constitution, the foreign policy of the country determined by the President. Haley also spoke in defense of trump and his immigration decrees, denying their alleged anti-Islamic character. “This is not an

Photo: TASS/Sergei Konkov A public servant may prohibit publicly criticize the leadership and will only require neutrality in respect of political parties even during off hours, including on the Internet. These amendments, with the participation of the expert community developed by the Ministry of labour and social protection of the population, will be made to “General principles of official conduct of civil servants”. The office “Izvestia” explained that guided by the instructions of the President given to the government in April last year as part of the adoption of the national anti-corruption plan for 2016-2017. The Ministry of labor, in particular, instructed to prepare proposals on “ensuring daily monitoring of compliance with ethical norms and rules”. The head of the Department of state policy in the sphere of state and municipal service of the Ministry of labor of Russia Dmitry Basak told “Izvestia” that a concrete proposal should appear before

Official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov © Sergey Bobylev/press service of the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov questioned the effectiveness of the international reports on the situation of the population in Syria. “Similar reports on the situation in Syria, built on gleaned from social networks “testimonies” of the local “activists”, but rather harm the reputation of international organizations and influential media than help solve humanitarian problems in Syria, he said. In their publication too is clearly seen the desire of Western propagandists to quickly legitimize a garbage mountain of their own fakes and outright lies, which in the last year was spent colossal budgets”.

The Guardian learned of the action plan of Buckingham Palace after the Queen died The media already prepared materials on the topic of the death of Elizabeth II and the Prime Minister will report on the event the code words. Moscow. March 16. INTERFAX.RU — detailed plan of action for the hours before and after the death of Queen Elizabeth II designed Buckingham Palace. Moreover, there are several possible scenarios, each of which is specifically stated. The relevant documents are in the possession of the Palace, the country’s government and “bi-Bi-si”. According to The Guardian, the main action plan suggests that 90-year-old Elizabeth II dies as a result of brief illness. It is assumed that in the last hours there will be her family and doctors. When her eyes are closed for ever, Prince Charles will become king and his brothers and sister going to kiss his hand, concludes The

Erdogan accused the EU of “crusade” against Islam So the Turkish President commented on the decision of the European court of justice confirmed the right of employers to prohibit employees to wear hijabs. MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the European Union that he’s trying to start a “crusade” against Islam, the AFP news Agency reports. The reason for such statements was the decision of the European court of justice, which upheld the right of employers to impose a rule prohibiting employees to carry on the work of Muslim women’s headscarves and other “visible signs of religious affiliation”. “What about religious freedom? — AFP quoted the words of Erdogan. Who made this decision? The European court of justice”. “Dear brothers, they began a crusade against the Crescent,” added the Turkish President, referring to the Crescent moon as a symbol of the Muslim religion. “Shame on the

Putin criticized the introduction of sanctions against Russian banks Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the introduction of Ukraine sanctions against Russian banks, told journalists the co-owner of NLMK Vladimir Lisin. He noted that any retaliatory measures against Ukraine will not be made. “No action will be taken. Strange theme. What measures can be taken? Not to fight with them if they are doing nonsense. It ought to pay,” he said. He said that the President has criticized the imposition of sanctions. The President said that all the bad, so wrong, because that’s where loans have on someone. Now will give to no one that lifetimer Licensavtalet NLMK Earlier today the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has approved sanctions against several Russian banks. “Sanctions for a period of one year will apply to public joint stock company “savings Bank”, PJSC VS Bank, JSC “joint-stock commercial industrial-investment Bank” (Prominvestbank. — RNS), OJSC

Photo: RIA NOVOSTI/Vasiliy Batanov Three years after joining the Crimea to Russia General euphoria from the historic reunification passed in conscious belief: enacted in 2014, the decision was correct. The Russians used to take the Peninsula as part of our country, but in 2017 the number of those who agree with this statement, reached a record high. This is evidenced by the poll (at the disposal of “Izvestia”), which was conducted by VTsIOM on the eve of the third anniversary of the return of the Crimea to the Russian Federation. Crimea — is Russia. Agree with this statement 97% of the citizens of our country. Refuse to take the Peninsula as part of Russia, only 2% respondents 1% respondents were undecided on this question. That the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, has brought only benefit the country, sure 78% of the respondents. It should be noted that their number

Maria Zakharova Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the statement of the UN high Commissioner for human rights Zeid RA’ad al-Hussein on the situation in Syria, delivered on 14 March in Geneva, are biased. This was reported on the website of the Department. “The speech of Zeid RA’ad al-Hussein on the 34th session of the UN Council on human rights – is not the first example of his public statements and assessments, unacceptable for a UN official and contrary to the obligations and requirements of professional ethics of the employee of the UN Secretariat, which are defined in the Charter of the organization”, – said Zakharov. According to Zakharova, al-Hussein, trying to accuse Damascus of fomenting war Damascus, in fact, engaged in rewriting history in favor of opportunistic motives, which is typical for many Western countries. “The question arises whether such actions

Zakharov: attack on Yahoo! can divert attention away from investigations of WikiLeaks Discussion in the media of hacking by hackers Yahoo! can serve as a way to divert attention from the publication of the WikiLeaks investigation, said the official representative of the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova, reports TASS. “I do not exclude that it is an attempt to divert the world’s attention on the latest WikiLeaks material. In European capitals is possible all possible to ensure that the media of the theme of the recent revelations will not go, and does not actively developed, ” — she said. He also noted that the coverage of the attack on Yahoo! can continue the “unwinding threads of the notorious Russian hackers”. Earlier, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov denied the FSB involvement in the cyber attacks.