Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu said that NATO continues to build up its military strength near the borders of Russia. He said this, speaking at a meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of defence. According to him, over the past 10 years, the grouping of NATO near the Russian borders has increased four times, from the Western borders eight times.
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The foreign Ministry had prepared an action plan in memory of Charles
Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian foreign Ministry has prepared a plan of events to commemorate zastresenom in Ankara after Andrew Charles, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov during the funeral for diplomat in Moscow. The Minister expressed the hope that the foreign Ministry plan was approved, and the event will hold in the near future, reports TASS. However, the name Charles is already listed on a memorial plaque, dedicated to those who died in the performance of official duties of employees of the foreign Ministry. To say goodbye to Charles came many outstanding figures of Russia, diplomats, relatives and friends of the deceased, reports RIA “Novosti”. MGIMO rector, Anatoly Torkunov, was also present at the state funeral, said that the trip to Charles as the Russian Ambassador to Ankara was “a huge challenge”. According to him, despite the dramatic events in the international situation and bilateral
Churkin has criticized the initiative of the UN General Assembly to investigate crimes in Syria
Vitaly Churkin © EPA/JASON SZENES MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. Resolution of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on the establishment of the monitoring mechanism on war crimes in Syria is full of flaws and can have unpredictable legal consequences. This was told by the permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin in published on Monday an interview to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
MFA: Ukraine is working on introduction of a visa regime with Russia
Photo: RIA Novosti The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin announced the development of a mechanism for the introduction of a visa regime with Russia. The Minister’s words convey the Rambler/news with a link to the TV channel “112 Ukraine”. “First, of course, must move in the direction of keep track of who comes from Russia to Ukraine. Now it’s analyzed and then we’re off with a proposal and how are we going to do, and about the time frame,” said Klimkin. As noted by the Minister, Ukraine is with Russia classical and hybrid warfare. According to Klimkin, the Russian authorities know which provocations to do in the case of the introduction of the visa regime, as in Russia there are millions of citizens of Ukraine. According to the head of the Ukrainian Ministry, “the visa regime is the relationship between civilized countries.” To speed
Putin will hold an enlarged session of the Collegium of the defense Ministry of Russia
Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia — Supreme commander of the Armed forces (AF) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will hold the annual Board meeting of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Wednesday, press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. “Tomorrow during the day, the President will hold an expanded meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of defense of Russia”, — said Peskov. Annual extended Board meeting of the Russian defense Ministry held in December under the leadership of the President. In 2014 these meetings are held at the National defence control centre in Moscow. They are attended by the senior members of the armed forces, representatives of bodies of state power, the military-industrial complex (MIC). At meetings, summarizing the activities of the armed forces, identifies the main challenges to the military buildup and the main directions of the Russian
Zakharova: “joy” about the crash of Tu-154 Express Kiev radicals and nationalists
© Artur Lebedev/TASS MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. The reasons for the review of certain Ukrainian politicians and public figures who have expressed “joy” in social networks in connection with the crash of the Tu-154, lies in the fact that the authorities in Kiev came the nationalists and radicals. This was written by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on his page in social network Facebook.
Putin told about the payments to “children of war”
Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said, commenting on the proposal on payments to “children of war” that he supports this initiative, but we need carefully to consider. Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov at the meeting of the President with representatives of both chambers of Parliament invited Putin to return to the issue concerning the children of war. “It’s only 120-140 billion 12 million. The average pension of 12 thousand with the growth of prices. Can’t survive, just a shame in the eye. Need to get back in the new year and make a decision,” — said Zyuganov. “About children of war. I want to do it. Just know that you need to carefully considered”, — Putin said. “Remember, I once spoke to an initiative to provide housing for all veterans. It was my initiative. The first figure that we got after calculation for all regions — 12 billion
Zakharov: Obama’s foreign policy has caused “a revulsion of the whole world”
The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS VLADIVOSTOK, December 25. /TASS/. The foreign policy of the Obama administration during the eight years of his presidency, called “the revulsion of the whole world”. This opinion in the program “Sunday evening”, which was broadcast on air of TV channel “Russia 1” in the far East, stated the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “I think this is the man (Obama) and the team – of course, under the man we mean a team in the international arena was bad for everyone. It seems to me that this eight-year reign under the slogan of their exclusivity they aroused disgust around the world. They did not fulfill any of the obligations which they took before the same countries, they did not fulfill what was delegated to them, including the American people on the international arena,” she said.
Operation HQs of Russia stopped Syria’s disintegration – Shoigu
Photo: RIA Novosti Thanks to the actions of VKS RF terminated the collapse of the Syrian state. DL this said the Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu during his speech at the meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation. Shoigu also said that during the RAID a Russian HQs in Syria, only destroyed more than 35 thousand fighters. Also, according to the defense Minister during the operation, the Russian pilots there were 18 thousand 800 departures and also caused 71 thousand strikes on terrorist infrastructure. Shoigu also noted that thanks to the actions of the Russian centre for reconciliation in Syria has surrendered more than 9,000 extremists.
Poltavchenko asked to remove a soulless artificial Christmas tree from the Palace square
Photo: RIA Novosti Deputy of the municipality of Shushary Artemy Galitsyn asked the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko to return a live tree on Palace square. He said this on his page in Facebook on Thursday, December 22. “Now the center of our city is decorated with strange cone, only from a distance resembling a Christmas tree,” wrote the MP. In his opinion, artificial tree deprives the celebrations. A living tree should be set in anticipation of 2017, which was declared the Year of ecology, I’m sure Galitsin. “For example, the main Christmas tree can be promoted among citizens careful attitude to one of the most important natural riches of Russia — to the forest. Here we should talk about buying Christmas trees grown in special nurseries, rather than arbitrarily cut black woodcutters”, — said the Deputy. Artificial fir he proposed to transfer in Shushary, where previously the police