Category: Politics

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov discusses bilateral cooperation with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on the sidelines of the Ministerial round of consultations of the “big twenty”. “We communicate regularly, using dvustoronnie visits and multilateral events”, — said Lavrov in the beginning of the meeting. The Minister added that the meeting on the sidelines of the Ministerial consultations of the “twenty” is a good opportunity to see how are the agreements that were reached during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan. “In 2017, has held many meetings on promoting the practical aspect of these agreements, he said. In January Moscow visited the Japanese Parliament. There were several contacts between Deputy Ministers of foreign Affairs”. Lavrov expressed confidence that a good pace of bilateral contacts “will allow to prepare a rich program for the forthcoming year, contacts between the presidents of

Photo: AP Photo/ Odd Andersen Russian President Vladimir Putin does not share the assessment of Sergei Glazyev concerning the new President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Glazyev is a personal and highly controversial, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. Earlier, the Russian President’s adviser Sergei Glazyev wrote on Twitter that the German Parliament was elected President of the country partner of the Nazi putsch in Kiev and contributed to the legitimization of the “neo-fascist regime in Ukraine”. “Does the President do not share (this is opinion). You know, the President congratulated his counterpart sent him a congratulatory telegram, warm enough. In this case, of course, like a message in Twitter is nothing more than an expression of a personal point of view, very controversial,” said Sands reporters, responding to a question, does the Russian President that assessment.

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called “complete nonsense” allegations that the Kremlin Russian TV channels were allegedly ordered to reduce the number of materials on trump. “It’s complete nonsense. And TV and our media – is absolutely free to determine its information policy,” – said Peskov. According to him, in the Kremlin, “so closely do not track” the proportions in which served one or the other information. “The palette is wide, and the choice is huge”, – said Peskov

Iran has declared its determination to create a Union with Russia in the middle East Tehran and Moscow have no differences on the main issues of the middle East agenda, in particular, on the Syrian settlement, said Chairman of the Iranian Parliament. DAMASCUS, Feb 19 — RIA Novosti, Yevgeny Orel. Tehran seeks to create a strategic Alliance with Moscow in the middle East, said in an interview to TV channel “al-Mayadin”, the Chairman of the Mejlis (Parliament) of Iran Ali Larijani. He noted that Tehran and Moscow are “no differences” on key issues of the middle East agenda, in particular, on the Syrian settlement. Iran along with Russia and Turkey is the guarantor of the truce in Syria, where for six years, the ongoing armed internal conflict. It is under the auspices of the three countries in Astana held the first direct talks between the Syrian authorities and the opposition.

Germany this year will receive a record number of migrants Moscow. 19 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — a Record number of migrants to be deported by Germany in 2017, said Peter Altmaier, head of the administration of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In an interview with Bild am Sonntag, he said that of the 700 thousand requests for asylum filed in 2016, about 300 thousand were not satisfied. In 2016, the official said, Germany deported about 80 thousand migrants. Observers note that this decision was made in order to attract voters at the election of the Chancellor in September, because Merkel’s policy towards migrants is not popular among the population.

The parties to the conflict in the Donbass cease fire to repair power lines in Avdeevka The truce will last till 16.00 GMT. The experts have already started repairs on the damaged during the shelling of the power line. KIEV, Feb 19 — RIA Novosti. In the Donbass agreed to a ceasefire on both sides from 12.00 to 16.00 MSK for maintenance works on power lines supplying the plant, the experts began work, according to the State service of Ukraine for emergency situations (SSES). On the eve of Avdiivka and to Avdiivka coke plant in the Donetsk region was again de-energized as a result of the shelling. The data on the cease-fire had been received as at 13.00 GMT. To conduct mine clearance activities in place aimed pyrotechnic unit of the Armed forces of Ukraine, after they repair high-voltage lines will take the brigade “DTEK high-voltage networks”, noted in gschs.

Photo: RIA Novosti The former Governor of Ryazan region Oleg Kovalev will be the adviser of the acting head of the region Nikolai Lyubimov. About it on air of TV channel “Russia 24” Lyubimov said on Friday, February 17, reports TASS. “Yes, Oleg Ivanovich agreed, and I thank him for that,” said the new head of the Ryazan region. He expressed the hope that Kovalev will help him “get into the swing of things very well.” In an interview with Lyubimov also said that in the next two weeks to get acquainted with the situation and the political environment, and then will travel around the region. “After 100 days you have to put forward a programme of changes, to provide socio-economic programmes aimed at addressing long-term challenges”, — quotes the acting Governor of the “Komsomolskaya Pravda — Ryazan”. On 15 February it was reported that Nikolai Lyubimov invited the former

Photo: Chromorange / Bilderbox / Globallookpress.com The security service of Ukraine accused Russia in a wave of cyber attacks on energy and financial system. On Friday, February 17, according to Reuters. In SBU noted that in November and December, 2016 on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine there were about 6,5 thousand cyber attacks allegedly sponsored by the Kremlin. Russian hackers blamed in the power outage, interference in industrial processes and the attack on the facilities of the state system of state Treasury, Ministry of Finance and the national Bank. According to the head of the SBU Alexander Tkachuk, the attacks involved members of Russian security services, the hackers and IT companies, operating on the territory of Ukraine and created the BlackEnergy malware designed for cyber attacks on industrial facilities. “Russian hackers and bots have become an important tool in the fight against our country,” he said. Tkachuk also added that

Photo: RIA Novosti The coup in Ukraine was initiated by Western countries to “annoy” Russia on the successful hosting of the winter Olympic games in Sochi. This opinion on Friday, February 17, was expressed by the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, RIA Novosti reported. “They didn’t think that coming all out of control. They wanted the world press to distract from the Olympics. Came up with the Maidan, they didn’t know who they gave up that role of management in hands”, — said Yevkurov. Further, in his opinion, Western politicians had to go on about the new Kiev authorities. “Today we got what we got”, — said the head of the Republic. At the same time, Russia, in his opinion, have overcome their habit to look to Europe and the US taking some decisions. Yevkurov also unfortunately indicated that all the actions of the West are perceived as relevant global