Category: Politics

The President of Iraqi Kurdistan has decided to retire Permanent since 2005 the leader of the Kurdish Autonomous region Massoud Barzani relinquishes presidential powers. He notified the regional Parliament, proposing to divide presidential powers. Massoud Barzani, who since 2005 is the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan (Kurdish autonomy within Iraq), will leave the post of President from November 1, reports Reuters with reference to the representative of authorities of the autonomy. About his plans to leave the post Barzani said in a letter sent to the Parliament of the region. It Barzani proposes to divide the powers of the presidency between the government of the autonomy of the Parliament and the judiciary. The presidential term expires Barzani on 1 November. On the same day was scheduled the presidential and parliamentary elections. However, last week it was announced that the elections have been postponed indefinitely in the conditions of aggravated crisis with

The DPRK held a mass training evacuation Moscow. 29 Oct. INTERFAX.RU — the DPRK Authorities over the past weeks have been carrying out training the evacuation of the population across the country, according to Saturday edition of the North Korea News. According to him, the trainings were held in small towns in different parts of the country. In addition, there is a mode of a blackout, when the whole settlement was completely shut off light to disorient a potential adversary. It is noted that the last time similar doctrines in the DPRK was carried out in 2003-m to year. These messages appeared on the background of the visit of the Pentagon chief James Mattis to South Korea. Mattis said that the U.S. will never recognize the DPRK nuclear power, and said that Washington is considering several military options for the resolution of the North Korean problem.

In the US Congress have received information about the accounts of the company, collected a dossier on trump WASHINGTON, D.C., 29 Sep — RIA Novosti. Committee on intelligence of the house of representatives of the U.S. Congress have received access to the banking documents of the company, Fusion GPS, which produced the controversial dossier on Donald trump, said on the Committee’s website. “The parties have reached agreement associated with the agenda of the intelligence Committee of the house of representatives on the issue of access to banking information Fusion of GPS, which will provide the Committee access to records necessary for its investigation,” the statement reads. The New York Times previously wrote that the supporters of the Democratic party and opponents of the trump among Republicans in 2015, when the billionaire was a presidential candidate, has hired a research firm Fusion of GPS, led by Glenn Simpson, to compile a

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated in telephone conversation of the President of the Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated on 29 October national holiday of Turkey – the Republic Day, said on Saturday the press service of the Kremlin.

Walker reported “active discussions” to supply lethal weapons to Kiev The US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker believes that the supply of arms to the one who is protected, should not cause questions. The special representative of the US state Department at Donbass Kurt Volker said that Washington is “actively discussing” the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine. Such a statement he made in an interview with Reuters in Kiev, where he arrived on a working visit. “Nobody gets upset when someone is protected, unless it is a aggressor, so this issue should not be controversial”, he stressed. Speaking about the ongoing conflict in the Donbass, Walker stated that this is due to “Russian aggression”. However, he noted that awareness on the part of Russia that violence is contrary to its interests, may change the behavior of Moscow. “Russia continues to hold the territory, keeping the conflict alive, hoping

The head of the Pentagon told about the military solution of the conflict with North Korea WASHINGTON, Oct 28 — RIA Novosti. The U.S. committed to diplomatic solution of the issue with North Korea, but there are several military options, said Pentagon chief James Mattis after talks with South Korean counterpart the Dream-Yung Mu. “Our military options, as I mentioned, was designed to complement the efforts of our diplomats on the creation of the restraining position and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” the General said. His statement quotes the press service of the Pentagon in the document, placed at the disposal of RIA Novosti. According to him, should “accept the reality” that “the regime of Kim Jong-UN, to the North of the demilitarized zone, threatening peace and stability and, of course, directly aimed against the people’s Republic of Korea”. “To curb such a threat, it is necessary to provide

Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov © Alexander Shcherbak/TASS NEW YORK, October 28. /TASS/. Russia expects the United States suspended operations as regards the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. This was stated on Friday at a meeting with journalists the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov, participated in Youth forum in new York.

Rada has discussed with Volker, the deployment of peacekeepers in the Donbass Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine met with the special representative of the US state Department, Kurt Volker and discussed with him the location of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbass, as well as the release of prisoners, said the head of the parliamentary Committee on foreign Affairs Anna hopko. Hopko also said that handed over to the us special representative letter from the relatives of prisoners of Ukrainians. “Meeting with Kurt Volker. Discussed developments in the promotion of the Ukrainian concept of the UN peacekeeping mission among international partners, the bill in Parliament, which is preparing for the second reading on the recognition of the Russian aggression of the occupied territories; the provision of defensive weapons,” wrote hopko in Facebook. During the download an error has occurred. As reported by the portal iz.ru October 6,

The Catalan government has refused to recognize his removal from power The regional authorities are going to continue to work and begin to implement the measures contained in the Declaration of independence. Moscow. 28 Oct. INTERFAX.RU — the Regional government of Catalonia, dismissed the Prime Minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, plans to try to continue working, according to the Agency EFE, citing people familiar with the situation sources. According to them, the Catalan government does not intend to recognize themselves removed from power. Moreover, they plan to begin to implement a number of steps stipulated in the Catalan Parliament approved the Declaration of independence. In particular, dismissed the leaders of Catalonia want to analyze the situation after the initiatives of Madrid to restore constitutional order in the territory. Shortly after this message, the chief Executive of Catalonia, Carles Putteman said that does not recognize the order of Madrid, his removal

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. New US sanctions against the military-industrial complex of Russia can have a negative impact on Moscow’s cooperation with foreign States in the military-technical sphere. This was stated by TASS program Director of the Foundation of the club “Valdai” Dmitry Suslov. The threat in this sector “That list is now published, painful hits on the prospects of military-technical cooperation of Russia with foreign States, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other countries, because it includes leading Russian companies of the military-industrial defense sector, such companies as “Almaz-Antey”, NGO “Alloy”, “rostec”, “MiG”, “Sukhoi”, “Tupolev”, i.e. businesses that do play a key role in the development of Russian arms and military equipment, he said. – The problem here is that U.S. sanctions are extraterritorial in nature, and those foreign companies, who are developing cooperation with the “Rosoboronexport”, or “Diamond-Antaeus” or “Kalashnikov” or “Rostec” also can fall under