Category: Politics

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS./ Russia says lack of assistance from the United States in stabilizing the situation in Syria.

NI spoke about the “supergun”, which helped to equip the “Armata» The experience of creating a “supergun” 2А66 will allow Russian engineers to equip the tank “Armata” a highly effective weapon, poses a grave danger to a potential enemy, says expert on defense Charlie Gao. Column of the analyst published in the journal The National Interest. Gao recalls that 2A66 project was initiated because of fears that the firepower of Soviet tanks will not be enough to destroy a promising combat vehicles NATO. From its predecessor — 2A46 — new gun differed in the improved muzzle brake, designed for the venting, powerful piercing projectiles, increased charging chamber and the greater length of the barrel. However, before mass production is not reached. “The designers soon realized that the cost of retrofitting all the tanks gun with new ammunition will be huge. In the result, it was decided that 2А66 will become

U.S. accused of hiding nuclear weapons The white house is withholding evidence on the state of nuclear weapons in the United States, says the newspaper The Washington Post. A number of experts criticized prepared by the Pentagon’s “nuclear posture Review”, which held back the development of new American weapons, like Intercontinental ballistic missiles. Report of the administration of the tramp was published in early February. It says that Washington reduces the stockpile of nuclear weapons, while Moscow and Pyongyang to develop nuclear systems and ahead of the United States. The attached table shows the achievements of Russia and Asian countries over the past eight years. “Nuclear policy review” sets a new nuclear doctrine that proposes the modernization of the us nuclear weapons. The head of the information project about nuclear weapons in the Federation of American scientists Hans Kristensen in an interview said that the United States has adopted a

The President Of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko © AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS./ The conflict in the Donbass is necessary for the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to save his post after 2019, when the country’s scheduled presidential elections. This opinion was expressed by Director of the Foundation of progressive politics, Oleg Bondarenko at the round table “the Minsk agreement: three difficult years” in TASS.

The U.S. gave Egypt a billion dollars to the fight against terrorism CAIRO, February 12. /TASS./ Washington has provided Cairo one billion dollars for the fight against terrorism. This was announced Monday in Cairo at a joint press conference with foreign Minister of Egypt Sameh shoukry, U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson. “Washington has provided Cairo with billion of dollars to increase the military potential of countries to counter terrorism, he said. — We stand on the side of Egypt in its war on terror and continue our close cooperation in the fight against terrorism.” Annual U.S. military aid to Egypt is about $1.3 billion over the last 30 years within the military and economic aid to Cairo, Washington has allocated a total of $80 billion. However, in August last year, the US announced its intention to reduce the military component of 195 million dollars due to violations of human

Peskov denied the accusations Rodchenkova and pointed to his mental illness The words of the informant, the world anti-doping Agency (WADA) Gregory Rodchenkov not credible, including because of his mental state, said press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. His words on Monday, February 12, the correspondent “Tapes.ru.» “Such insinuations and statements of the man who, even in the film, so to say, naked eye visible as a person suffering psychological and may be and mental problems, can hardly be taken seriously,” — said Peskov. A Kremlin spokesman said that “any allegations against our country are groundless”, and the words that were said about President Putin, “are nothing but a lie”. Earlier, the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Rodchenkov gave an interview to the American TV channel CBS, where he spoke in detail about the allegedly existing in Russia state support of doping. According to him,

The Ministry of education did not support the idea of introducing flexible school holidays The Ministry of education confirmed that it considered the possibility of introducing flexible school holidays, but found this initiative to be feasible. “On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation Ministry of education and science had previously studied the possibility of establishing a rolling schedule beginning of the school year. After examining opinions of all subjects of the Russian Federation, and parent and the educational community, the Ministry came to the conclusion about the appropriateness of existing regulation of the timing of the start of the school year”, — quotes “RIA Novosti” the statement reads. According to the Ministry, against the introduction of flexible schedule in favor of more than 89% of the surveyed teachers, more than 68% of the representatives of the parent community and the majority of subjects of the Russian Federation. That

© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS./ Moscow city hall will soon consider changing the mailing address of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on the proposal of the Chairman of the Duma Committee on physical culture, sport, tourism and youth Affairs Mikhail Degtyarev (LDPR) had taken the initiative to rename its North American impasse, house number 1. This is stated in the answer of the city authorities, upon request of a parliamentarian.

The Russian President’s special envoy on the Middle East and Africa, Deputy foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS./ Questions areas of de-escalation in Syria should be discussed in the format of Astana, Moscow has favoured the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. On Monday said the Russian President’s special envoy on the Middle East and Africa, Deputy foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.