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Photo: RIA Novosti Cybersecurity, strengthening social dialogue and the situation in Syria became the Central themes culminating on Friday in Strasbourg session of parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). We also discussed the situation with Russia, whose delegation once again came to the PACE. Despite the lack of Russian parliamentarians, topics related to Russia, the agenda of the Assembly and especially of its lobbies do not go away. Two years — no time PACE in 2014-2015 after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, adopted resolutions, in which he deprived the Russian delegation of the right to vote at the session to participate in the work of statutory bodies and the monitoring of elections. In response, the Russian delegation decided to leave the PACE, as it was planned — until the end of 2015. Since then, however, the situation has not changed, and in January 2017 the Russian delegation

Photo: kremlin.EN Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with students of Moscow state University. M. V. Lomonosov said that Europe must stay United against the wishes of some politicians to isolate themselves from neighbors. On Wednesday, January 25, the correspondent “reports Tapes.ru”. “Europe must be United, despite all attempts to build some new walls,” said the Russian leader. During the meeting Putin also thanked the students, members of the search party. He stressed that their work contributes to the reconciliation of the Russian and German peoples. “This is very true, it is part of the reconciliation of the Russian and the German people, it is extremely important for the future,” the President said. Earlier Wednesday it was reported that Putin, together with the students sang to the guitar one of the most popular Soviet songs from the 1960-ies “Fourteen minutes to start” (“Tucked into the tablet space maps”).

Photo: globallookpress.com The FBI’s actions that led to the wiretapping of the Russian Ambassador in Washington Sergei Kislyak and adviser to the President of the United States Michael Flynn, are illegal. On Wednesday, January 25, stated the Chairman of the Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications, Andrei Svintsov (LDPR) in an interview with “Tape.ru”. “This is a blatant case of lawlessness. The more that we are talking about a diplomatic employee with immunity. The FBI has the right to wiretap only in the case of criminal cases, and if we are talking about terrorism, the threat to life and health of American citizens,” — said the Deputy. According to Lead, the staff of the foreign Ministry and the Russian security services must draw conclusions and take appropriate steps to further prevent such cases. The President of the United States Donald trump is not in vain “clean the

Training for the embattled calculations s-400 Photo: TASS The Ministry of defence will continue to strengthen the troops in the southern military district (YUVO). This was stated by the Minister General of the army Sergei Shoigu. The main reason why it should be done, in the opinion of the Minister – the situation in the South-East of Ukraine, as well as the activities of international terrorist organizations and groups in the North Caucasus. In these circumstances, according to his statement, “it is necessary to continue work on improving the combat troops of the district; the recruitment of contract servicemen; to equip troops with new armaments and military equipment; and the development of military infrastructure”. According to the Minister, last year’s “combat capabilities of the district increased by 10%.” Ongoing collection contract, there are new weapons, improving military infrastructure. The words of the Minister can be understood and so that we

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow does not have no illusions about the possibility of a new reset of relations with the US, reports TASS. “We are not experiencing the illusion that there will be a new restart with the USA, no naive expectations we have,” Lavrov said. Earlier, Lavrov said that Moscow is ready to normalize relations with the United States on the basis of equality.