Category: Politics

Lukashenko described the residents of Western Ukraine MINSK, 29 Jul — RIA Novosti. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko “wants” to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine will soon be over. “I really want to see in the brotherly Ukraine the war ended that they began to live like human beings. For me it is the most important issue,” — said Lukashenko, speaking about prospects of development of foreign policy of Belarus in the coming year. The words of the President results on Friday, the press service of the head of state. Lukashenko said that Ukraine and its people are native to Belarus. “This is a very hard-working people that I studied well and I know ever since his youth — I had to serve in the Western border district. I so-called Ukrainian zapadentsev well-learned. This is a very hard-working, decent people should just be able to talk,” he said. The President

The DPRK is not going to abandon plans to build nuclear weapons TOKYO, 30 Dec — RIA Novosti. North Korea does not intend to abandon plans to build its nuclear capabilities, the statement said the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (KCNA), which is the mouthpiece of the state. “Our party and the government, pointing the way the new year of socialist Korea, to claim their position of principle. We will increase defensive power and the ability to pre-emptive strike, the core of which are nuclear powers, until will remain a nuclear threat and blackmail by the US and its henchmen” — said in a statement. The document notes that “the success of the hydrogen bomb September 3 — the great victory that raised our country to the level of the world’s nuclear powers”, and emphasizes that it is thanks to the DPRK’s nuclear weapons had prevented a nuclear war. “Because

Russia has refused to issue a visa to the United States Senator from the “black list” U.S. senators-Republican Ron Johnson and John Baracco refused to travel to Russia after the Russian Consulate did not issue visas to their colleague, the Democrat from the state of new Hampshire Joan Shain. This writes the newspaper Politico. According to the publication, the senators had intended to visit Russia in January to meet with “the next generation of Russian leaders and official policies applicable to understand the prospects for Russian-American relations.” The delegation was aware that Shain will not allow to enter the country. “The decision to deny a visa unsuccessful and counterproductive to improving international relations,” said Johnson. Later in the Russian Embassy explained that Shain is included in the “blacklist”, created by Moscow in response to us sanctions. “We didn’t create this situation. We have repeatedly offered to Washington to lift the

The Ambassador responded to the idea to rename the street in Washington in honor Nemtsov WASHINGTON, 30 Dec — RIA Novosti. Russia is ready to accept any decision of the us authorities to rename the street in Washington, where the Embassy of the Russian Federation, including in honor of Boris Nemtsov, said Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov. “The American authorities to decide where, when and who can call a particular area, or that street… We will accept any decision of the United States in this regard”, — said Antonov in interview to TV channel RTVI. According to him, for Russia it is important that the decision on renaming was pursuing a “noble goal” and not “in defiance of the Russian Federation”. Answering the question of what emotions personally, he will cause the work at the new address, Antonov said, “I have No emotions will not. I worked as

© Sergey Maligawa/TASS WASHINGTON, December 30. /TASS/. Temporary polling stations in 14 cities in the United States will be deployed during the forthcoming elections of the President of Russia. This was reported in the release on Friday aired an interview with a Russian TV channel RTVi Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov.

Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov © Sergey Karpov/TASS WASHINGTON, December 30. /TASS/. Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov said that the American leader Donald trump has not abandoned the desire to get along with Russia. The head of the Russian diplomatic mission shared his views in a broadcast in a Friday interview with international Russian-language channel RTVi. “Based on the content of the conversations between the Russian President and American President, I make the conclusion that the desire to establish [relations] or to get along with Russian Federation, Donald trump refused,” – said the Ambassador.

Browder urged to suspend Russia’s membership in Interpol The founder of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, has accused Russia of abusing its rights as a non-Interpol country. “Russia turns to Interpol for the sixth time in my arrest after five previous requests were rejected as illegitimate and politically motivated. Time for Interpol to suspend Russia’s membership for flagrant abuse of the Interpol system,” Browder wrote in his Twitter. The last request for Browder, directed by Russia in the system of Interpol, was “deemed inappropriate in the course of its consideration by the General Secretariat”, reported the organization. Call Browder was the day of completion in Russia of another of the proceedings against him. On Friday, December 29, the Tver Moscow court found Browder guilty of tax evasion and the withdrawal of funds from the accounts of the company “Distant steppe”. The court ruled in absentia to recover from him and his

Pentagon: the nature of the US operation against ISIS will change WASHINGTON, December 29. /TASS/. The character of the American military campaign against the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) will undergo changes next year. This was announced on Friday at a meeting with accredited journalists the Pentagon U.S. Secretary of defense James Mattis, commenting on the progress of coalition operations led by the United States in Iraq and Syria against ISIS. “As stated by the Minister of defence James Mattis, the destruction of the physical “Caliphate” of the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria will change the way the coalition is fighting with this terrorist group,” reads the material prepared by the press service of the Pentagon. “2017 ends, the followers of the Caliphate are on the run, we destroy it”, — said the head of the military Department of the USA. He did not specify how