Category: Politics

Media: Saakashvili may sue for a violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine KIEV, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. Ukrainian human rights activist Oleg Kurchin has applied to the Prosecutor General against the former Governor of the Odessa region, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili for the attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, reports the edition “Segodnia”. “He believes that in his speech, Saakashvili offensive said about the Odessa region, headed for one and a half years”, — stated in the message. As an example, quoted Saakashvili: “of Course, they all hurt, I knew it would interfere with… because it’s a separatist region in power there all the separatists.” “Incitement of national enmity, that is, the actions of Mikhail Saakashvili can lead to set up the people of Odessa, Kiev, Donetsk, Lugansk, one against another”, — quotes the words of human rights activist.

In the state Duma commented on the protest of Japan because of the division in the Kuril Islands MOSCOW, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. Kuril Islands is a territory of the Russian Federation, so the Russian side has the right to use them to protect the country, including for the deployment of its divisions, said the first Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Dmitry Novikov. Earlier, the Japanese government sent through diplomatic channels protest to Russia over plans to deploy divisions of Russia in the Kuril Islands in 2017. The Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu, speaking in the state Duma on Wednesday, said that the Agency expects “this year to finish the placement of the three divisions on the Western and southwestern border.” In particular, he stressed that “continues active work on the protection of the Kuril Islands”, where this year also “must be placed

The Iraqi military launched an offensive on Mosul airport Iraqi forces launched a major offensive on the airport in Mosul and camp al-Ghazlani to the South-West of Mosul, according to Sky News Arabia, citing a source. According to him, Federal police units and rapid reaction forces with air support and heavy artillery began preparations for the assault on the airport. Military managed to destroy most of the fortifications of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IG; banned in Russia). Recall the Iraqi troops with the air support of the international coalition led by the US liberated the Eastern part of Mosul at the end of January. 19 Feb Baghdad announced the beginning of the operation of cleansing from militants and the Western part of the city. Later that same day, the Iraqi army has liberated two villages in the outskirts of Mosul.

Photo: EPA Serbian President Tomislav nikolić posthumously awarded the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin the order of the Serbian banner for his friendly assistance to the country in the UN. “Today I was posthumously awarded Ambassador Churkin, the order of the Serbian flag of the first degree. We have not yet announced it, I mean, as long as we have such friends in the UN, I’m not worried”, — quotes RIA Novosti President’s words. Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Churkin was posthumously awarded the order of Courage. Vitaly Churkin, died February 20 in new York.

Aleksey Borodavkin © Boris Kavashkin/TASS GENEVA, 23 Feb. /TASS/. Moscow considers the absurd demand of the Syrian opposition about the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This was stated by Russia’s permanent representative to the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva Alexei Borodavkin. “It (the position of the delegation of the government of Syria – approx. TASS) the contrast with what we hear from the opposition that arrive from Riyadh, which as a pre-condition again, for the umpteenth time, expose the absurd requirement of immediate resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”

Japan has sent Russia a protest over plans to place a division on the Kuril Islands The Secretary-General of the Japanese government Yoshihide Suga called the unfortunate likely strengthen its military presence on the Kuril Islands, adding that this is contrary to the position of Tokyo. TOKYO, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Plyasunova. The Japanese government sent through diplomatic channels protest of Russia after the head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu about Moscow’s intention to place the division on the Kuril Islands in 2017, said General Secretary of the Japanese government, Acehide Suga. “The protest was directed through diplomatic channels 22 and 23. Sadly, if the armed forces of Russia will strengthen military presence in the Northern territories (so in Japan called the South Kuril Islands). This is contrary to the position of our state,” — said Suga at a press conference. The Russian defense Minister, speaking in

Media: an American journalist said about the presence of dirt on CNN MOSCOW, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti. American journalist and conservative activist James O’keefe said that he has a “secret hours” entry, compromising the CNN. He also noted that the information was obtained legally. This was reported on the website of the company. “My audience, the American people are deeply disappointed with the media. We think that our media needs to be held accountable, including CNN,” said the journalist, noting that the channel plays an important role in the information field. The activist also said that his goal is not only CNN, but also other media According to him, due to the huge amount of data, it was not possible to carefully read all information. This means that the network will be published “raw information” that reminds me of a story from WikiLeaks, the newspaper notes. Earlier, U.S. President

Guterres proposed the creation of the UN office for the fight against terrorism UN, 23 Feb — RIA Novosti, Olga Denisova. UN chief Antonio Guterres has proposed the creation of the world organization, the office for combating terrorism, he said this at a meeting of member States of the UN General Assembly. Speaking at an informal meeting on terrorism, Guterres launched an initiative “to create a new counter-terrorism operation, which will be headed by a new Deputy Secretary General”. At the moment there is a UN counter-terrorism Committee of the Security Council. The structure was established by the UN security Council in 2001 shortly after the September 11 attacks in the United States. Guterres proposed structure, he said, will not supervise, or interfere with existing structures of the UN security Council, and will report to the UN General Assembly through the Secretary General of the organization. Our goal is to

Photo: RIA Novosti The presidential Council on human rights (HRC), public organization “Fair use” and the Russian Red Cross will create an annual prize named Elizabeth Glinka (Dr. Lisa), reported on the website of the HRC on Tuesday. “The President of the Council under RF President on development of civil society and human rights Mikhail Fedotov, President of the International public organization “Fair use” Ksenia Sokolova and Chairman of the Board of the Russian red cross Raisa] agreed to establish a public award named Elizabeth Glinka”, — stated in the message. The prize will be awarded annually on 20 February, the birthday of Elizabeth Glinka. The working title of this public award — the Award is named after Dr. Lisa “For good deeds and decency.” “No one can replace Dr. Lisa. But everyone can do something that she did. The only way we can continue the mission of Elizabeth Glinka.

Photo: RIA Novosti The signing of the agreement on the participation of Rosneft in the oil sector of Libya, Russia increases its influence on the situation in the country, writes the British media. Russia had vast investments in Libya before the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and now Moscow is trying to restore them. At the same time, Libya seeks to increase oil production with foreign companies, writes The Guardian, commenting on the agreement, Rosneft and the Libyan NOC. It is noted that Libya is one of the few countries in OPEC, who have been spared the need to reduce oil production – she even allowed to increase production volumes due to the difficult political conditions. Are already working with Italian Eni and French Total, as well as the largest oilfield services company Schlumberger. Now the agreement with Rosneft. The Chairman of the national oil Corporation of Libya said