Category: Politics

NYT: U.S. intelligence has ceased to receive information from confidential informants in Moscow NEW YORK, August 25. /TASS/. Key confidential informants of the United States, working in Moscow, which Washington passed secret information about the actions and intentions of the Russian authorities, stopped in recently to get in touch with American intelligence. With such a statement issued on Friday, the newspaper The New York Times. Upstairs According to its sources, the informants of the United States, supposedly close to the Russian leadership, ceased to transmit the relevant information to the CIA and other resolvedall that left Washington in the dark about the intentions of Russia on the eve of the midterm elections in the U.S. Congress in November. According to the publication, earlier, these informants reported US data, including alleged RF interference in the American presidential election in 2016, which is repeatedly denied in Moscow. Now these key U.S. informants

“It seems that really something is brewing” Dmitry drize — about the situation in Belarus. Upstairs Russian Ambassador to Belarus appointed a former military man, Mikhail Babich. Previously, he worked as a presidential envoy to the Volga Federal district. In the Russian power vertical Babich has a reputation as a strict policy. Political commentator, “Kommersant FM” Dmitry drize believes that in the relations of two allied States, possibly we will see a turning point. Combat veteran, former head of the Chechen government in the difficult post-war years, Mikhail Babich known as a tough and largely uncompromising statesman. It is even called “the hawk” by analogy with America. Probably, it is connected with a military background. However, the General public, he is not well known. The post of presidential envoy to the Volga Federal district or the Chairman of the Duma Committee on defense — rather the role of the second

The Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu and Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. The foreign Ministers of Russia and Turkey Sergei Lavrov and Cavusoglu for talks on Friday covered all aspects of the Syrian settlement, with emphasis on the situation in Idlib. Explicit consent according to the methodology of achieving peace and stability in this province of Syria sides have not reached this topic in the near future will be discussed by the presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan, but the common goal – the eradication of the hotbed of terrorism. Heads of depodesta also called for the speedy formation of the Syrian Committee on the Constitution and creating conditions for the return of refugees to their homeland. The bilateral issues included the schedule of contacts at the highest level, and facilitation of the

Erdogan invited Putin to a seafood restaurant instead of the meat The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to visit a fish restaurant in Istanbul with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the correspondent of “Vedomosti”. “Your dear friend, President Erdogan has sent you greetings and best wishes and waiting soon you to visit Istanbul. You have an agreement to go to a fish restaurant,” he said during a meeting with Putin on Friday, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey çavuşoğlu Mevlut. Upstairs The agreement between Erdogan and Putin sounded differently: during a meeting with Erdogan in July in Johannesburg Putin agreed to visit the restaurant with dishes of Russian meat — provided that Turkey will allow meat imports from Russia. Shortly after that conversation, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev announced the beginning of deliveries of Russian beef to Turkey. Before the Russian meat shipped to Turkey

© Michael Pochuev/TASS MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. The Prosecutor General’s office of Russia included in the list of organizations recognized as undesirable in Russia, American non-governmental organization Pacific Environment (PERC, Pacific centre for environment protection and natural resources). About TASS said the official representative of the Prosecutor General Aleksandr Kurennoy.

The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and defense Minister Sergei Shoigu © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Relations of Russia and Turkey are becoming more profound, they, along with other interested countries also managed to make serious progress in the settlement of the Syrian crisis. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in the Kremlin with Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu and defense Minister of Turkey, Hulusi Akar.

The United States demanded from Europe to disengage from Russia Alternatives to the “Nord stream-2” has urged the US presidential Advisor for national security John Bolton. He stated this at a briefing in Kiev, reports TASS. Most importantly, he said, to avoid dependence on Russia. Upstairs Bolton said that the US President Donald trump worries that “Europe voluntarily more tied to Russian energy suppliers”. “One of the issues mentioned by trump about Nord stream”, is not only the economic importance of this issue, when there is such dependence on Russian energy supplies and the strategic importance is that associated with the monopoly supplier of critical resources, — reports TASS the words of the adviser of the President of the United States. Ukraine and other countries Bolton suggested alternatively to pay attention to “search other sources and natural gas resources”. He recalled the proposal to build the TRANS-Adriatic pipeline to supply

Merkel in Tbilisi are presented with a picture and sang a song about pirates State Chancellor joined the Georgian ensemble. Upstairs German Chancellor Angela Merkel, while on an official visit to Georgia received as a gift from the head of the government Mamuka Bakhtadze painting of the XVII century. The painting disappeared from the Museum of Dresden after the Second world war and, as reported in Instagram bundeskantslera, “went to the Soviet Union.” For Merkel were also made by Georgian ensemble “Shvidkatsa” with the song “We love the storms”. During the download an error has occurred.NewsAll pipe: Putin and Merkel pressed on the gas Vintage German folk song “We love the storms” — a favorite song of Angela Merkel, said the Georgian Public television. It is about pirates who go to sea without fear of death and the devil, and hunt for trophies, fighting like lions. Merkel during the gala

The Embassy warned visiting Stonehenge Russians about the interest of the security services Located in the UK, Stonehenge and Salisbury, the Russian tourists risk to attract the attention of British intelligence, said in a message on the page of the Russian Embassy in Twitter. “They really need “proof” of Russian involvement in the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skrobala,” explained the diplomatic mission. Upstairs On Thursday, the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova also recommended that the Russians to be cautious when visiting the Salisbury district and to have at itself phone numbers of Russian diplomatic missions. She recalled that the nearby military facility and chemical laboratory Porton Down. Stonehenge is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, a UNESCO world heritage site. It represents an ancient stone structure (cromlech), consisting of arranged in a circle of large menhirs. Stonehenge is located 13 km North

The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky © Anna Isakova/photo Department of the state Duma of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Russia will not change its course under the pressure of U.S. sanctions, told reporters on Friday, the Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky, commenting on the words of the adviser to the U.S. President for national security Affairs John Bolton.