Category: Politics

Erdogan announced about the beginning of the withdrawal of is militants from al-Bab Moscow. 12 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the Turkish army supporting units of the Syrian opposition, entered the Central part of the Syrian city of al-Bab, his capture is only a matter of time, said on Sunday Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Our forces entered the center (the city — if). The militants of the “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia — if) began to leave al-Bab”, — he told reporters. The Turkish army started a campaign in Syria in late August of last year. The operation to capture al-Baba was one of the toughest in this campaign, remind the Turkish media.

Photo: RIA Novosti Slovenian President Borut Pahor said at a meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that it plans to discuss economic cooperation, steps to end the fighting in Ukraine, as well as the cooperation between Russia and the EU. Pahor noted that given the international situation for their regular meeting with Putin indicate a desire to maintain friendly relations and cooperation. “Of course, we’re going to talk today about economic cooperation. But I really would like to take this opportunity and as head of a state which is a member of the EU and NATO, to talk about what to do, what are the steps that would lead to peace in Ukraine, cessation of hostilities, greater confidence, including between Russia and the European Union as a whole,” said Pahor. According to him, between Russia and Slovenia supported a good relationship.

Photo: TASS By the decree of the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the new Deputy Finance Minister was appointed Vladimir Kolychev, according to the website of the Cabinet on Friday, February 10. “To appoint Kolycheva Vladimir Vladimirovich Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation”, — stated in the decree of the Prime Minister. Kolychev was replaced by Maxim Oreshkin, who at the end of November last year headed the Ministry of economic development. From 2013 to 2015 Kolychev was the chief economist for Russia CJSC “VTB Capital”, from may 2015, he served as Director of the Department of strategic planning of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is not supplying the militia tanks. About it reports TASS. Peskov stressed that the Donbass “after all Ukraine”, though these territories and beyond the control of Kiev. “Despite the fact that Ukraine is carefully rejects these regions. Therefore, we should, perhaps, ask why such a situation arose, it was in Kiev”, – said the representative of the Kremlin. He added that the questions about why “stalling” the implementation of the Minsk agreements, also need to ask Kiev, not Moscow. Peskov assured that through official channels volunteers from Russia in Donbass is not sent, but “there are Russian citizens who voluntarily travel to the region to protect people from the aggressive actions of the Armed forces of Ukraine”. Earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia of supplying arms to the militia. In particular, he said that the

Photo: RIA Novosti The Belarusian delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko went to talks in Moscow, told RIA Novosti press-Secretary of Prime Minister of the Republic Vladislav Sytsevich. “The delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko went to Moscow to participate in negotiations,” said Cichewicz. He noted that “the topics of the talks was not disclosed”.

Photo: RIA Novosti Prospects for a possible extension of the agreement between Russia and the USA on measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (start-3) dependent on the position of Washington. This was stated press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “It depends on the position of our American partners. And, of course, take contact to this account”, — said the representative of the Kremlin, answering the question about prospects of renewal of the contract. He noted that “nestal would now articulate any positions.” Peskov added that in the conditions of a break in the dialogue on strategic security issues, “a mutual update of information positions”. Earlier it became known that the entrance of a recent conversation with prezidentom of Russia Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald trump called failed start-3 Treaty. White house spokesman Sean Spicer in a press briefing on Thursday refused to discuss the

Lavrov expressed confidence in the future of coordinating the forces of Russia and the USA in Syria Coordination between Russian and American military, in particular in the fight against ISIS, will begin to take shape, said Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Russian and American military will again begin to interact and coordinate, including in the fight against militants of the banned terrorist organization “Islamic state” (ISIS) in Syria. In an interview with NTV said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. “We are ready with him [President of the United States Donald trump] to cooperate, and as soon as circumstances permit, I am convinced that the interaction between the military, coordination between the military begins again to form,” said Lavrov, noting that “Americans still are famous for their pragmatism” and trump’s “absolutely sincere when every time confirms its resolve to defeat ISIL”. The Minister added that the dialogue

US returns stolen ancient Greek marble sarcophagus ATHENS, 12 Feb — RIA Novosti, Gennady Melnik. The U.S. returned to Greece a fragment of an ancient marble sarcophagus worth half a million dollars stolen in the area of Thessaloniki in 1988 and was found in new York, informs television channel ANT1. On a marble fragment depicts a standing figure of a man, on horseback, on the top part there are images of animals. The sarcophagus was returned after only 28 days after he was discovered, said the Consul General of Greece in new York Konstantinos Kutras at the ceremony for the return of the artifact. “Cooperation of the Prosecutor with the Greek authorities, it was great, it was passed with incredible speed,” said the Consul General. For security reasons, Koutras did not say when the sarcophagus will be transported to Greece. There is evidence that some stolen Greek artifacts can be

The media learned of the decision of the Russian Navy to raise a sunken MiG-29K and su-33 The Russian Navy considers it inappropriate to raise to the surface sunken in the Mediterranean sea fighters of the aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”, the MiG-29K and su-33. On this edition of the RNS reported sources in the Ministry and the aviation industry. As said by interlocutors of the edition, “after the fall of carrier-based fighter aircraft close to the coast of Syria was considered the possibility of lifting from the bottom”. “However, after assessing all factors, this operation is considered unwise,” — said the source RNS. According to him, the depth at which are the fallen fighters, would be sent to the Mediterranean sea is a special deep-sea submersibles and ships for search operations. “It’s quite an expensive event. The costs are not justified”, — said the source. The source in one of

Natalia Poklonskaya © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee for security and combating corruption Natalia Poklonskaya reported that he had received a request from the one of the Muslim republics of Russia, which expressed concern about the content of the upcoming release of the film by Alexei Uchitel “Matilda”. The former Prosecutor of the Crimea has read this appeal, the TV channel “Russia 24”, not calling on behalf of some religious organizations received the document.