Category: Politics

USA tore a Russian flag from the closed diobjects in San Francisco WASHINGTON, 11 Dec — RIA Novosti. US officials tore down the flags from the closed consular of Russia in San Francisco, the Russian diplomats said the protest, said in a statement the Russian Embassy in Washington. “The American side sent a strong protest in connection with the fact that the objects of our diplomatic property in San Francisco under the control of U.S. authorities disrupted the Russian flag. See this as an extremely unfriendly step. Demand the immediate return of Russian state symbols in place and to prevent the incident in future,” reads the statement of the Embassy. In early September this year, the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco, and a sales office in Washington and offices of trade mission of new York was transferred to the U.S. side at the request of the state Department. The

© REUTERS/Stephen Lam WASHINGTON, October 11. /TASS/. Russia has sent to the American side the resolute protest in connection with the fact that with a blocked diplomatic facilities in San Francisco was disrupted Russian flags, and demanded to immediately return them to the place.

The building of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation © Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Adopted by the NATO parliamentary Assembly resolution on security in the Black sea area is unacceptable and provocative. This was stated on Wednesday in the Russian dipvedomstva.

Washington refused to guess further steps of the Russian Federation to reduce the number of diplomats The American Embassy in Moscow refused to guess Russia’s next steps to reduce the number of diplomats and notes that the deterioration of bilateral relations is not in the interests of the countries. About it the press Secretary of the US Embassy Maria Olson said RIA Novosti. “As we have said, the US hopes that further to a Russian desire to establish parity (the number of employees of diplomatic missions), we can avoid a further exchange of responses and progress in achieving the goals set by our leaders: fix relations between the two countries and enhance cooperation in areas of mutual interest. We hope that the downward trend in the relationship came to an end,” said Olson, and added that the new US Ambassador to Russia gave to understand that he is looking for

The Committee of Congress will publish “the bought of the Russian Federation” is on Facebook Moscow. 11 Oct. INTERFAX.RU — intelligence Committee of the house of representatives of the U.S. Congress intends to publish a collection attributed to Russia’s political advertising placed on Facebook during the elections of 2016 in the USA, informs on Wednesday TV channel CNBC. It is planned that the reports will be published in the public domain before 1 November, when the Committee must undergo a hearing with representatives from Facebook and Twitter. At the same time, the publication Politico claims that, according to him, the Senate, unlike the house of representatives decided that Facebook needs to decide whether to publish the messages. Previously Facebook gave a selection of 3 thousand advertising messages allegedly posted by the Russian Committee on intelligence of the house of representatives. All these ads were linked with 470 pages and accounts

Turkey and the United States blocked the entrance to each other Ankara and Washington cease to be strategic allies Relations between the US and Turkey are experiencing an acute crisis in decades. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, commenting on the suspension of issuance to citizens of non-immigrant U.S. visas, charged the United States with action inconsistent with the strategic partnership. The decision of the American authorities, to bring down the Turkish Lira and limit the freedom of movement of thousands of people, was taken in response to the arrest in Istanbul of two employees of the US Consulate General of Turkish nationality and the accused in the homeland in participation in anti-government conspiracy. The introduction of the “visa curtain” became a new stimulus in a long list of problems, transforming Turkey from a strategic base for the United States in the middle East as unyielding opponent. Statement of Binali Yildirim,

American bombers practiced simulated missile strikes on North Korea Moscow. 11 Oct. INTERFAX.RU Two supersonic strategic bomber USAF B-1B, which on Tuesday carried out missions in the area of the Korean Peninsula, practiced missile strikes on ground targets of the DPRK. This is stated in a statement on Wednesday, the message of the joint chiefs of staff of the armed forces of South Korea. On Tuesday evening, two American bomber B-1B taking off from an air base Andersen on the American island of GUAM in the Pacific ocean, came to the Korean Peninsula. According to reports, after the departure from GUAM, the aircraft first flew to the coast of South Korea from the Japanese sea, simulating a strike cruise missiles against targets in the East of North Korea, and then crossed the South of the Korean Peninsula and, turning over the Yellow sea, repeated passes at the target from the

How to gain independence and become a sovereign state Catalonia, whose leader Carles Pujdeme signed the Declaration of independence after a referendum on 1 October, is not the first time trying to become a separate state. But what it takes to be an independent country? Program of Bi-bi-si, The Inquiry examined the experience of recent history. 1 October in Catalonia has held an unofficial referendum on the independence of autonomy from Spain and turning it into a separate state. On 10 October the leader of Catalonia Carles Pujdeme he signed the Declaration of independence of Catalonia, while urging the regional Parliament to postpone a Declaration of independence to establish a dialogue with Madrid on the question of secession from Spain. According to him, the result of the past 1 October a referendum autonomy has received a mandate from the people to become an independent state. This province is not the

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The planned resignation of heads of regions for today ended, and the new is possible only in the event of any force majeure. TASS reported on Wednesday a source in the presidential administration.

Kiriyenko has announced the launch of the all-Russian competition of managers “Leaders of Russia” To apply for participation in the competition could any Russian citizen to 50 years. MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. First Deputy head of presidential administration of Russia Sergei Kiriyenko announced the launch of the all-Russian competition of managers “Leaders of Russia”, which, according to him, aims to become “an open window in the managerial elite of tomorrow”. The purpose of the project, which will be implemented on an ongoing basis — identifying, developing and supporting the most promising leaders-leaders from across the country, with a high level of development of managerial competences. “Today starts a website on the Internet, which any Russian citizen can apply for participation in the contest “Leaders of Russia”, — said Kiriyenko on Wednesday at the presentation of the project. The launch of the contest — direct execution of orders of the President