Category: Politics

Mattis has promised to investigate the publication of photos of naked soldiers MOSCOW, 10 Mar — RIA Novosti. Pentagon chief James Mattis said that the us military personnel connected with the publication of photos of naked colleagues guilty of “flagrant violation of fundamental values” and promised to conduct a full investigation into the incident, Reuters reported. “Lack of respect for the honor of human nature, and their colleagues from the Ministry of defence is unacceptable and violates the cohesion of the team”, — quotes Agency the words of Mattis. Earlier it was reported that the Pentagon is investigating reports of American soldiers photos of naked girls from marine Corps of the United States in social network Facebook. The photos were posted on the page under the title “United-the Marines” (Marines United), in the group are men serving and who served in the marine Corps, corpsmen, Navy and soldiers from the

© EPA/CHRISTINE OLSSON, archive MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The Russian Embassy in Stockholm confirmed the information about detention of the Russian citizen in Sweden. The corresponding statement the press service of the diplomatic mission was published on Friday, March 10, on the page in Facebook.

Photo: RIA Novosti The deployment of ABM systems THAAD in South Korea can trigger an arms race in the region and complicate the solution of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. This is stated in the statement of the MFA of Russia. “Such a development could have very serious negative consequences for international and regional strategic stability. In Asia Pacific, where there is a difficult situation in the security sphere, there is a new destructive factor that could further complicate the solution of nuclear and other problems of the Korean Peninsula, to provoke the region’s arms race, including the rocket,” — said in the message. Earlier, China urged the US to stop the deployment of missile defense in South Korea. On 7 March it became known that the United States has begun the deployment of missile defense systems THAAD in South Korea.

Photo: Reuters The foreign Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland accused Moscow of distributing fake information about her grandfather Mikhail Hamster during the Second world war collaborated with the Nazis. On Wednesday, March 9, reports the Washington Post. The publication indicated that Pro sites spreading false information about the Freeland family since her appointment as Minister of foreign Affairs. This article shows a specific example of the article that says that in the 1940-ies Hamster led the Ukrainian-language newspaper in Krakow during the occupation; this edition distributed promotional materials to Nazi Germany. According to The Washington Post, the representative of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa Kirill Kalinin, commenting on the situation said that the Russian government strongly believes that Nazism and its followers should be condemned. Earlier, in an interview with journalists, the canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail Kalinin has noticed that the foreign Minister at one of his press

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia conducts subversive activities in the Balkans. With this accusation against Moscow’s plans to be Prime Minister Theresa may. About this newspaper The Sun, citing an anonymous government source. His statement, as reported by journalists, the head of the British government will make in the negotiations with the heads of European Union countries. Mei intends to apply to the leaders of the States “to tackle the problem of Russian intervention” in the Balkans. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister is going to accuse of using “dirty tricks” by which the Kremlin destabilizie the situation in the region. The publication stresses that the Balkans have historically been a “volatile region”, and calls him “the weak link of Europe”. February 20th special Prosecutor of Montenegro Milivoje Katnic said that Russian special services tried to organize in the Republic coup. According to him, the former Deputy military attache of

In the Council of Europe called on Russia to abide by ECHR ruling on Yukos Moscow. March 10. INTERFAX.RU — the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe expressed concern over failure by Russia of decisions of the Strasbourg court of July 31, 2014 at the “Yukos affair”, said the Committee’s decision, released on Friday. “(Members of the Committee — if) is deeply concerned about the fact that Russia does not comply with the verdict dated 31 July 2014”, — stated in the document. While in Strasbourg, stressed that “Russia has made commitments on the implementation of article 46 of the European Convention on human rights (“Binding force and execution of judgments” — if) and execution of decisions of the ECHR”. 31 Jul 2014 it became known that the ECHR ordered Russia to pay former shareholders of “YUKOS Oil company” of compensation in the amount of 1.86 billion euros.

Yavlinsky proposed an ambitious reform of the “Yabloko” MOSCOW, 10 Mar — RIA Novosti. The founder of the party “Yabloko” Grigory Yavlinsky on Friday proposed a major reform of the party, the decision was generally supported by members of the party’s Federal political Committee (FPC), the press service of the party. “Today, March 10, at the meeting of the Federal political Committee of the Yabloko Chairman Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to reform the party”, — stated in the message. It is noted that the discussion proposed by the founder of the party approaches to the reorganization of the “Yabloko” and his work was continued for six hours, they were supported by members of the FPC. “We need a new party for new goals and tasks in conditions where the activity of the parliamentary party of European type is impossible”, — quotes the press-service of party of Grigory Yavlinsky. It is noted

Photo: Reuters The Deputy Director FSIN Valery Maksimenko during an online interview in the editorial “Газеты.Ru” said that the Agency had proposed to build a separate prison for Jews. “Two years ago we were approached by representatives of Jewish communities in the country to create a colony for the citizens of Jewish nationality,” – said Maksimenko. According to him, the representatives offered to take all the landscaping, saying that every convict will be provided with work, and his correction will be closely monitored. “The idea is, in General, can be quite good. But you imagine how it could look, what analogy could occur in response to the news, “FSIN created separate camps for Jews.” Of course, we refused. Our country is multinational, we can’t make a colony on a national basis,” – said the Deputy Director of the Federal penitentiary service. Earlier it was reported that 200 condemned to life

Photo: © RIA Novosti. Sergey Guneev Russia sent to the international court of United Nations (UN) documents supporting its position on the claim of the Ukrainian side. It is reported RIA Novosti citing a source in the Russian delegation at the hearings in the Hague. As the source noted, the dossier consists of about 800 pages. The court considers only the evidence, the accuracy of which can be confirmed in open sources. Among the documents is screenshots from social networks and archives news from the Ukrainian media. In January 2017, the Kiev authorities have filed a lawsuit in the international court in the Hague, in which he accused Moscow of financing of terrorism and racial discrimination. In the Kremlin, all deny the charges. March 9, concluded hearing on the suit. A decision on interim measures to be announced at a public meeting, its date has not been announced. The Ministry