Republican senators urged trump to toughen its position in relations with Russia Moscow. 9 Feb. INTERFAX.RU a Group of senators from the Republican party of the USA published a letter in which politicians urged the American President Donald trump to take a rigid and principled position in relation to Russia, said on Thursday, the American channel CNN. In the letter, the senators urge that trump “retains current U.S. sanctions (against Russia — if), yet not change Russian policy in Ukraine and Syria,” and urged the President “not to engage in any military or diplomatic agreements with Russia on the future of Syria,” while Russia continues to “violate human rights”. The policy also addressed the issue of “cyber intervention”, allegedly taken by Russia in the election process in the United States. We should provide tough opposition to the cyber and information war that continues with Russia, including attempting to interfere in
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Public servants will protect from dismissal for reporting corruption
Photo: RIA Novosti Employees of government agencies, state enterprises and private organizations that reported cases of corruption in his team, can take under the protection of the state. The labour Ministry has prepared a draft Federal law “On amendments to the Federal law “On combating corruption” (the protection of persons who report corruption)”. This document is available on the official website for publication of draft legal acts. As follows from the explanatory notes, often there are cases of harassment of people who report about corruption in his team. The most common variant is when the man is hung the stigma of “Snitch” and mentally start to squeeze out of the team. And there are those cases when bosses just call to his conscious slave and need to leave the workplace within a few hours. And if the employee refuses to resign, he was beginning to cut wages, to find fault
The defense Ministry confirmed the fact of maintenance of the Tu-160 British fighters
© Office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. The official representative of the Ministry of defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov confirmed the support of the British Royal air force planes Russian bombers Tu-160 over neutral waters, expressed bewilderment why the British side considers such actions “the main news of the day.” He said this to journalists, commenting on media reports UK. “Two Russian strategic bombers Tu-160 today really fulfilled the tasks according to plan of air patrol. The route of the flight took place through neutral waters near the Barents, Norwegian seas and the Atlantic ocean. The crews of Tu-160 has performed aerial refueling aircraft tanker Il-78. At separate stages of the tour of the Tu-160 was accompanied by the aircraft of foreign States, including pilots of the Royal air force, for which the support of Russian aircraft and
Zakharova: Moscow considers provocative report on the alleged mass executions in Syrian prison
Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. Russia considers as a provocation, the human rights organization Amnesty International on the alleged mass executions in Syria’s Sednaya prison near Damascus. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “I saw the report. It is regrettable appearance in the present moment, such a crucial from the perspective of the Syrian settlement, report on the alleged mass executions of opponents of the regime (Bashar) Assad in the Syrian military prison,” – said the diplomat. “Essentially, we are faced with yet another deliberate provocation, whose purpose – to add fuel to the fading fire of the Syrian conflict and begin to pump a little quiet passion, and to force the Syrians is stronger than hate each other, – said Zakharov. The authors of the stuffing untrue material, this fake, do not bother even his own recognition that
State Duma deputies visited the Russian military base in Aleppo
State Duma deputies visited the Russian military base in Aleppo Moscow. 9 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — state Duma Deputies on Thursday visited the Syrian Aleppo. 12фотографий12фотографий12фотографий “Today we visited the Russian base in Hamima and Aleppo. Held very informative and constructive meeting”, — told reporters on Thursday the Deputy of the state Duma Sergey Gavrilov. According to him, a meeting was held with the leadership of the Russian base. We discussed the incident involving Turkish soldiers who died as a result of inadequate coordination of interaction between the Turkish and Russian sides.Sergei Gavrilovitch Of The State Duma He expressed hope that will be made operational implications associated with the increasing engagement of the military of the Russian Federation and Turkey, to prevent similar incidents in the future. He says that local residents actively support the Russian army, and also commend the actions of the Russian engineers and the decision on the
Britain confirmed the support of Russian bombers
Britain confirmed the support of Russian bombers The RAF have confirmed that took to the air several Typhoon fighter jets to escort two Russian Tu-160 bombers. About it reports a press-service of the Royal air force, reports Reuters. As the Agency notes, often such flights of Russian bombers conducted to test the responsiveness of the British colleagues. The Typhoon aircraft were scrambled from bases at Lossiemouth and Coningsby to escort two bombers Blackjack (classification of Tu-160 NATO countries), while they were within the zone of interests of the UK, the report said. Previously, “Interfax” with reference to Western sites tracking the movement of military aircraft, reported that two pairs of British Typhoon fighter jets took off from air bases at Lossiemouth in Scotland and Coningsby in England and headed out into the Atlantic, where they met Russian bombers. Russian aircraft flew in support of British fighters to the Northern part
Media: the Serbian President may become Ambassador to Russia
Photo: RIA Novosti President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic may become Ambassador to Russia, Interfax reports, citing local media. The publication won’t reveal their sources. They report that Nikolic can go on service in Moscow if the Serbian progressive party will not support his candidacy for President. In Serbia the President is elected every five years. Nikolic won the election in 2012, but, according to media reports, most parties want to see the head of state, the current Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic. “Russia is more important to us than the EU”. Why Serbia is committed to the coalition with Russia The President of Russia Vladimir Putin became one of the most popular politicians in the Balkans. Read more.
The Russian foreign Ministry is concerned about the adoption in Israel of the law on the legalization of outposts
© REUTERS/Baz Ratner MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. In Moscow with serious concern in Israel adopted a law on the legalization of settlement outposts, the Israeli state created in the part on private Palestinian land on the West Bank of the Jordan river. This is stated in the commentary of the Russian foreign Ministry.
Russia will continue to deal with the fate of the extradited to Azerbaijan blogger Lapshin
Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. Russia will continue to deal with the fate of extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan blogger Alexander Lapshin. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “We will deal with the fate of the Russian citizen and on,” Zakharova said, Recalling that on Wednesday, the Russian foreign Ministry issued a comment in connection with the extradition of the blogger, where he outlined his position.
Putin held a telephone conversation with Erdogan
Putin held a telephone conversation with Erdogan MOSCOW, February 9 — RIA Novosti. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, the two sides discussed the Syrian issues, the press service of the Kremlin on Thursday. “Today had a telephone conversation with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with President of Turkey Recep Erdogan. The leaders continued exchanging views on key aspects of the crisis in Syria in the context of the joint fight against international terrorism”, — is spoken in the message. During the conversation, Putin expressed his condolences in connection with tragic incident that resulted in the deaths of several Turkish soldiers in the town of al-Bab, said the press service. Earlier Wednesday, the Turkish General staff reported that four Turkish soldiers were killed and 15 were wounded in a shootout with militants (banned in Russia) in the North