Category: Politics

John Kerry received a post at the Carnegie endowment in Washington Former U.S. Secretary of state employed as a “freelance great statesman”. WASHINGTON, March 2. /Offset. TASS Andrey Shitov/. Former U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry is employed in Washington by the Carnegie endowment to promote world peace as a “freelance great statesman”. Before such post in the organization did not exist. Announcing a new employee, the President of the Carnegie endowment and a former slave Kerry in the U.S. Department of state William burns stressed that “carried through a lifetime commitment of John Kerry to international peace and understanding embodies the main task and goal” of the entire organization. He expressed confidence that the inherent Kerry’s “experience, wisdom and belief in the possibility of diplomacy is now in demand like never before.” In turn, the former head of the state Department expressed satisfaction over the fact that he will

Photo: RIA Novosti According to the chamber, fees to the Pension Fund in January fell by slightly more than 2% compared to January 2016, said in an interview “Газете.Ru” the head of Department Tatyana Golikova. As previously reported “Interfax” with reference to an informed source, fees to the pension Fund in January of this year fell by more than 7%. “We have our own operational data on execution of budgets, and, according to preliminary data, the figure is 7% not familiar to me. It is significantly below two percent,” – said Golikova. In this case, said the Minister, in December 2016, the year some of the largest payers paid the advance payment period 15 which begins on January 17th. That is, there was an overpayment at the time. “If this is confirmed, and the probability is high, it may be that the situation is exactly the opposite – that the

Photo: Reuters The Deputy of the Simferopol city Council Stepan Kiskin (Communist party) proposed the establishment of an international prize named after Vitaly Churkin, who held the position of permanent representative of Russia to the UN. A copy of the open letter addressed to the foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and the leadership of the Crimea, he posted on his page in Facebook on Tuesday, February 28. In his letter, Keskin stressed the merits of a diplomat’s fight for “the truth about the Russian Crimea”. “I think that the name of such an active patriot should be immortalized. I propose to award the prize each year February 20 — the day of memory of the outstanding Russian diplomat,” reads the text. The MP offers prize to reward the citizens of the Russian Federation and other States, Russian diplomats, politicians and public figures for defending the interests of the Peninsula

The EC presented scenarios of the development of the European Union without the UK BRUSSELS, 1 Mar — news, Maria Knyazev. The European Commission (EC) presented a White paper in which he showed five possible scenarios for the development of the European Union without the United Kingdom, as well as their implications by 2025, according to the message of the EC. In the European Union, currently 28 countries, including the UK, but last year in a referendum in a country where the majority of the participants voted for secession from the EU. As stated by the head of the EC Jean-Claude Juncker, whose words are included in the press release of the European Commission’s White paper, the 27 countries of the European Union it is time to form an opinion on their future. According to him, Brexit should not stop the EU in its development. A source at the European

The defense Ministry denied the information about the impact of Pro-American forces in Syria Moscow. March 1. INTERFAX.RU Military aviation of Russia and Syria have not attacked on the coordinates that were specified by the U.S. military of the USA as the area of action of the Pro-American opposition forces, said on Wednesday the Russian defense Ministry. “Not a single shot on the specified areas of the American side of the Syrian or Russian aircraft are not applied,” — said in the defense Ministry, commenting on the statement of the US military about air strikes in Syria by Pro-American opposition forces. The Russian defense Ministry said that 28 February was the contact through the established channels of communication between the Russian representative of the command of the air group of Russian air force at the air base, “Hamim” with his American counterpart at the air base in al-Udeid (Qatar). During

The Russian foreign Ministry did not expect the recall of the Ambassador of Moldova in Russia The Moldovan government decided to withdraw its Ambassador from Russia Dmitry Braghis, who concurrently represents Moldova at the diplomatic level in Tajikistan. The decision came as a surprise to the Russian foreign Ministry, the reasons for such decisions, the Moldovan side calls. Now the corresponding order should be signed by the President Igor Dodon, which in Moldova is perceived as “Pro-Russian” policy. The government of Moldova at the meeting on 1 March took the decision to recall the Ambassador of the Republic to Russia Dmitry Braghis, who was also a diplomatic representative of Moldova in Tajikistan. The draft decision was presented by Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs and European integration (MFAEI) Daniela Morari, however, neither she nor the press service of the foreign Ministry of Moldova did not provide information about the reasons why

© EPA/XU JINQUAN/POOL GENEVA, 2 Mar. /Offset. TASS Vasily Vavilin, Mr Kostyriv, Konstantin Gain, Grigory Sapozhnikov/. The next round of inter-Syrian negotiations in Geneva nearing the end of (the formal completion is expected on March 3), but significant results have not yet brought in, and contradictions between the participants after several days of consultations was almost more than at the beginning of the discussions. Arrived in Switzerland earlier in the week, Russian diplomats in this situation, trying to mitigate the conflict and to find common ground among the gathering in Geneva of delegations. Eloquent silence For Tuesday and Wednesday, the special envoy of the UN Secretary General on Syria Staffan de Mistura met twice with representatives of the Syrian government and the Higher Committee on negotiations (CPSU), consultations were also held with the emissary of the UN with “Moscow” and “Cairo” opposition groups.

Photo: public domain / Hieronymus Bosch The head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov at a business Breakfast in the framework of the investment forum in Sochi, said that the industry in the region is at the level of the late feudal system. It is reported by the RNS. According to him, now the industry employs about 5 percent of the population of Dagestan, although in the early XX century, the figure was 7 percent. “If we in the industry fell to a feudal level, revives the middle Ages, we are overwhelmed by ignorance,” he was indignant. Also Abdulatipov said that the inhabitants of the Russian Caucasus go to Moscow because of the low standards of social security at home. He stressed that the level of welfare in the region is 60 percent lower than in the capital. “So, for centuries, we are laying the crisis. We have 200 years of one

Photo: RIA Novosti U.S. Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill to rename the street in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington in honor of slain Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, according to the website of the Republican. “Two years ago, Boris Nemtsov was killed in Moscow on a bridge near the Kremlin, and no one was punished. He was one of the critics [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” he said. Senator offers to call her a square of Boris Nemtsov (original – Boris Nemtsov Plaza (open public space like the town square. – “Газета.Ru”). According to him, the name of the street will remind the authorities and citizens of the country that “defenders of freedom cannot be shut up.”

The Syrian army entered Palmyra Earlier it was reported that the army, backed by fighters of the Lebanese Shiite party Hezbollah regained full control of the height of the Jebel et-tar and Jebel Hayal. MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Units of the Syrian army entered the city of Palmyra, which is held by militants grouping “Islamic state” (banned in Russia). This was reported by AFP. Previously received information according to which the army, backed by fighters of the Lebanese Shiite party Hezbollah regained full control of the height of the Jebel et-tar and Jebel Hayal who govern Palmyra (240 km from Damascus).