Category: Politics

Mogherini was not confident of the determination of the US to keep anti-Russian sanctions BRUSSELS, 10 Feb — RIA Novosti, Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini said that not confident in the consistency of the sanctions policy of the USA against Russia. A day earlier, Mogherini held a series of meetings in the White house and the state Department, including Secretary of state Rex Tillerson. According to her, the parties agreed to the continuation of sanctions to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. “But I don’t know whether they will continue to remain a common position. As you have not been to my meetings, I was not in the oval office when the President (of the USA Donald) trump called President (Vladimir) Putin”, — said Mogherini, speaking in Washington. She said that this question is important not only for the Europeans. “I think that’s the key question

Trump said that the US and China get along well and it will benefit the entire region WASHINGTON, February 10. /Offset. TASS Boris Makarov/. The United States and China are currently good, and it will definitely benefit the entire region, including Japan. This was stated by the President of the United States Donald trump at a joint press conference at the White house with Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. “Last night I had a conversation with the leader of China (Chinese President XI Jinping — ed. TASS). It was a very constructive negotiations. I think we’re doing well, and I think it will also benefit the entire region, including Japan,” said the American leader. As previously reported the press service of the White house, during a telephone conversation with XI Jinping, the American leader stressed that he intends to follow the policy of “one China.” The White house said

Photo: page “Monson”, “Vkontakte” The chief editor of RT Margarita Simonyan in his Twitter said that one of the employees of the TV channel similar to the US President Donald trump young. “The CIA, pay attention,” said Simonyan. In a tweet she also posted a video in which a “double trump” shows the Japanese portrait of a young President and says that he looked to change hairstyles. Many Japanese recognized that see the resemblance, but several respondents thought that they show pictures of the other person. It turns out that we have a channel a young trump. The CIA note. https://t.co/Gwti7g3lRs — Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) February 9, 2017 In January, the newspaper the New York Times reported that the government’s broadcast of C-SPAN with the discussion of the draft law on securities and exchange Commission abruptly terminated a humorous story about RT, foreign Minister of Poland. The media linked the

Photo: 360tv.EN The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation explore the possibility of meeting the head of Department Sergey Lavrov with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson the meeting of foreign Ministers of the countries “Big twenty” in Bonn, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. This was reported by TASS. Zakharova noted that specific data on the meeting yet. “When will some concrete data, I will share with you” — said Zakharov. The meeting of foreign Ministers of “Big twenty” will be held on February 16-17 in Bonn. The event will discuss the issues of peace and security, including conflict prevention, the implementation of sustainable development plans of the UN for the period up to 2030, cooperation with Africa and other pressing international issues.

Turkey stated that it had notified Russia of its military airstrike in the district HQs ANKARA, 10 Feb — RIA Novosti, Alain Palazhchenko. The Turkish General staff informed the Russian side about the stay of its troops in the area, which underwent an airstrike of Air and space forces (VKS) Russia, it is told in received RIA Novosti news Agency the statement of the Turkish military. Earlier, the press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov explained that the Russian space forces in the strike in Syria was guided by the coordinates passed to Turkey, and there wasn’t supposed to be the Turkish military. “We consider it necessary to clarify the situation in connection with the statement by Dmitry Peskov, in order to avoid erroneous interpretation. Our military that February 9 was attacked by the plane are one and the same point in the last ten days. February 8, the dislocation

The former Governor of Perm region, Basargin was appointed head rostransnadzora Moscow. 10 Feb. INTERFAX.RU Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has appointed the former Governor of Perm Krai Victor Basargin, the head of Rostransnadzor. “You finished the work in the region. Given the fact that you have some serious experience at the Federal level, was the Minister of regional development and, of course, know well the regional specificity, I have decided to appoint you to the post of head rostransnadzora” — said Medvedev at a meeting with Basargin. The head of government noted that this work is serious and covers all types of transport from the point of view of safety of passengers, safety of cargo transportation, which can harm the environment. “Knowing that you had contact with these issues and to continue his work, hopefully that will cope with this new challenge at the Federal level”, — said Medvedev. Basargin

Putin expressed readiness to meet with trump in Ljubljana Moscow. 10 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with U.S. President Donald trump, including in the capital of Slovenia — Ljubljana. “I would like to thank you for the willingness of Slovenia to organize the meeting (with the President of the United States Donald trump — if). We are ready for it”, — Putin said at a press conference after talks with Slovenian President Borut Pahor. Earlier, the Slovenian side proposed to facilitate the organization of the first meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA. As said the Russian President, “if ever these meetings will take place, we have nothing against Ljubljana, these (Russian-American — if) meetings in Ljubljana have already been.” He thanked Pahor for Slovenia’s readiness to organize this meeting.

Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma Committee on defense today recommended the lower chamber of the Parliament adopted in first reading a government bill allowing to conclude the contract on passage of military service the citizens not residing in the reserve, and the military, serving under call, if they have secondary professional education. On Thursday, February 9, reports TASS. According to current regulations to enter military service under the contract, not having served on an appeal, can be only men, not being in stock, and conscripts with higher education. “Every year, civic organizations produce approximately 500 thousand of technical specialists with secondary vocational education, most of them directly after graduation, subject to an appeal on military service”, — stated in the explanatory note, a copy of which is available to the Agency. It is noted that during the spring conscription campaign last year, was called to more than 32 thousand