Category: Politics

London felt the Kremlin was responsible for the drawing of the Johnson prankerami The British government believes that a conversation between Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain with the Russian pranker Vovan and Lexus is Moscow’s attempt to discredit the Kingdom in light of the situation with the “business Skripal”. Two British official, who wished to remain anonymous, said such action, the Kremlin was planning to save face after the departure of the British agent and former employee of the Main intelligence Directorate (GRU) Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia, according to Bloomberg. The Deputy head of the British foreign Ministry in turn said that if it was Moscow’s attempt to make fun of London, it failed and only made the Russians look even more stupid. The representative of the Prime Minister Theresa may announced that the British authorities started checking to see how the culprit managed to get

The US is not interested in de-escalation of the situation around the DPRK, said in the Federation Council The US is not strategically interested in easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, said the Deputy head of the international Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, the parliamentary coordinator of the Eurasian dialogue Andrey Klimov Russian journalists in Tokyo. TOKYO, may 25 — RIA Novosti, Xenia Naka. The US President Donald trump on Thursday said in a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Ynu, he did not consider it expedient to hold a summit on June 12 in Singapore because of the recent “hostile” statements of the DPRK. Trump said that the summit would be cancelled, but emphasized that it would be ready to meet Kim Jong-UN in the future. “If Seoul and Tokyo, all bets (against the DPRK — ed.) will do in Washington, it is unlikely that they will

USA admit that detonated on the ground in DPRK mines are not destroyed USA do not rule out that the mine at the site for nuclear testing in North Korea was blown up in such a way that they can still be used in the future, he told reporters the employee of the White house. “North Korea claims that it has destroyed its nuclear testing ground. We hope so, but actually we don’t know,” the official said (quoted by “RIA Novosti”). According to him, North Korea promised the US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo and the South Korean authorities to invite international experts and officials that they have confirmed that the landfill destroyed. “But this promise was not kept. Instead invited journalists”, — said the employee of the US administration. Agreement on closing the nuclear test site was reached at talks between South Korean President moon Jae-in and with North

American television reported on the successful test of the system With-500 Moscow. May 25. INTERFAX.RU — Russia has tested the air defense system (PVO) of new generation s-500, reported the American TV channel CNBC, citing sources, received information from U.S. intelligence. According to TV channel, the s-500 has successfully hit the target at a record distance of over 480 km. On the assessment of the United States, it is more than 80 km greater than the distance of any known previous tests, the source told CNBC. “Russia argues that missile system land-based missile able to intercept hypersonic missiles, drones, aircraft, including stealth aircraft such as the F-22 and F-35”, — said the TV channel. Meanwhile, Russia has not recognized that the system s-500 was created, and is being tested. As reported, on may 15 at a meeting in Sochi on military construction of the Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the

Macron noted the concerns of the French elite business Serebrennikov The French President added that he had discussed with his Russian counterpart on human rights. STRELNA, may 24. /TASS/. The President of France Emmanuel macron expressed concern over the French intellectual elite of the Russian theatre and film Director Kirill Serebrennikov. At a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin after talks in Strelna macron reported that the two leaders discussed at the meeting the issues of human rights. “We talked about human rights during our negotiations, was mentioned many issues, including the case of Mr. Sentsov, Serebrennikov, who has also led many to mobilize,” said macron. He noted that “these are two very sensitive issue for France, because the French intellectual elite is very concerned about this”. “I hope we can dialogue on this issue,” said macron. Kirill Serebrennikov, whose film “Summer” participated in the main competition at

Chairman of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin © Anna Isakova/photo Department of the state Duma of the Russian Federation/TASS SAINT PETERSBURG, may 25. /TASS/. Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin considers that the Netherlands make accusations against Russia in connection with the crash Boeing over the Donbas in the interests of the US and the UK.

Vladimir Putin met with Emmanuel Macron The President of Russia Vladimir Putin meeting with President of France Emmanuel Macron at the SPIEF said that relations between the two countries are developing, the continuing growth of trade. “I want to thank you for what You have accepted our invitation to participate in the St. Petersburg forum. We use this opportunity to full discuss our bilateral relations, which are developing in spite of all the difficulties today, we have a growing trade turnover”, — quotes the words of Putin in a statement on the Kremlin website. Mr. macron, in turn, noted that countries can dialogue and find solutions on such international issues as the situation in Ukraine, the middle East, Iran and Syria. “I think today is a time when we are two countries that have a special status — we are permanent members of the UN Security Council, we have deep

Kudrin called the most corrupt sector St. PETERSBURG, may 24 — RIA Novosti. The new head of the accounts chamber Alexey Kudrin considers public procurement of the most serious sore point in terms of corruption. He said this to journalists on the sidelines of the SPIEF-2018. “I see a lot of signs of corruption in this sphere, Therefore, with the participation of the accounting chamber, the Ministry of Finance we will be decisive steps in the next two to three years,” he said.

The building of the administration of Yekaterinburg © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS EKATERINBURG, on may 25. /TASS/. The deputies of the city Duma of Yekaterinburg on Friday at extraordinary meeting have made to the city Charter amendment, abolishing the direct election of the mayor, the correspondent of TASS. For this decision voted 31 MP, one against. Previously, the city Duma accepted the resignation of the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Chairman of the city Parliament Yevgeny Roizman. As explained TASS in the press service of the city Duma, to adopt the amendments needed to bring the Charter into compliance with the regional legislation.