North Korea is ready to launch a nuclear strike on the United States after a few months. This was stated by the head of the CIA Mike Pompeo, reports the Washington Examiner. He stressed that there is a significant difference between the ability to launch a missile with one warhead and the creation of a substantial number of missiles with multiple warheads. Pompeo said that now the nuclear capabilities of North Korea is much more serious than it was five years ago, and five months will be even better. According to him, now it makes sense to reflect on the “last step”. October 19, North Korea has promised to inflict “unimaginable impact” on the United States at an unexpected moment. The warning was made in connection with the ongoing in the area of the Korean Peninsula naval exercise of warships of U.S. and South Korea. On 26 September the Chairman
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Finland refused to rule out the possibility of joining NATO
The Minister for foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini in an interview to the newspaper “Kommersant” said that Helsinki does not exclude the possibility of joining NATO, despite the fact that he does not consider Russia a threat to its security. “Finland doesn’t feel threatened by Russia and fears nothing. (…) But our foreign policy is to all — and especially with our neighbours to maintain good relations. We are in the EU, the UN, in Nordic, we have a partnership with NATO and so forth,” he said. Soini added that Finland should not exclude the possibility of joining NATO. “Any country should have such an opportunity, so important to us and open door policy. But the position of the current government of Finland is such that we believe it is irrelevant,” said the Minister. He also pointed out that the EU is interested in Moscow’s offer of peacekeepers in
In Ukraine, stopped the nine-year-old driver of the jeep with drugs and weapons
Rivne region, the police stopped the jeep, at the wheel which there was a nine-year-old child. About this in his Facebook said the Patrol police of Ukraine. As it turned out, driving the child entrusted to 33-year-old father, who was in the passenger seat. The police asked the man to produce documents, and then turned his attention to the weapon in the car. No permit to bear weapons the citizen was not. Then nine year old boy asked for a toilet and on the way tried to get rid of a package with 25 tablets, presumably, of drug origin, said the police. The man was fined, and the child was transferred to the wife of the offender. In a further incident will take investigators, police said.
The Russian Embassy responded to the accusations in “hostilities” against the United States
The Russian Embassy in Washington published a statement in which he accused the US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley in the outbreak of “hostilities” against U.S. “interference” in the elections of the us President in 2016. “Repeatedly and at all levels, we declared: Russia does not interfere in the internal Affairs of States,” the Embassy said. It noted that beginning in November 2015, it was proposed to Washington to hold bilateral consultations on cyber threats, but the response readiness on the American side the Embassy has not seen. “I would like to remind the colleague, Nikki Haley, and that those who interfered in the electoral processes in the United States, and the most open and unceremonious manner, it would have to be officially declared allies and friends. They campaigned in favor of the democratic candidate and expressed their concerns with the possibility of coming to power of the Republican
Nizhegorodka offended by not opening the car door for her friends and burned them
The Prosecutor’s office of Nizhny Novgorod region has directed to court criminal case concerning 38-the summer inhabitant of the town of Vorsma, which a year ago came to his friends, and when they opened her door, was set on fire in the hallway the curtain and left. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor’s office. The fire the two friends of the accused and their guest died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The owners of this house suffered damage amounting to about half a million rubles. A woman is in custody. It is known that earlier it was repeatedly judged. She is accused of killing three people and in the deliberate destruction of another’s property. Also suspect her of stealing.
Crimean authorities denied LGBT activists to hold a gay parade
The authorities of Simferopol, Kerch, Dzhankoy, Feodosia, Krasnoperekopsk and Armyansk had rejected the application to hold a gay parade in these settlements. About this on his page “Vkontakte” said the leader of the Moscow LGBT community, Nikolai Alexeyev. “The authorities of Sochi have banned the marches in the gay pride parade and two LGBT-pickets following the administrations of Kerch, Feodosia, Dzhankoi, Simferopol and Armyansk”, — he wrote. Alekseev said that he was going to appeal against these refusals in the Crimean courts. He also added that “if necessary,” the matter will be brought before the Supreme Court of Russia and the European Court of human rights. In November 2016, the authorities banned LGBT activists from holding public events in Novosibirsk, in October, in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk and Penza. In September refused to agree on holding a gay pride parade in Tyumen, Kaluga, Tula, Tver, Saint-Petersburg, Vladimir and
Putin spoke about the prospects of women to become President of Russia
Vladimir Putin The President of Russia Vladimir Putin answered the question, can a woman be head of state. The words of the Russian leader quoted by RIA Novosti. “Everything is possible”, — said Putin during the final plenary session of the annual meeting of the international discussion club “Valdai”. October 18, plans to compete for the highest office in Russia named Ksenia Sobchak. According to the presenter, its extension can be useful for the opposition and for the whole society. She also compared his candidacy from the column “against all”. The Russian presidential election to be held on 18 March 2018. In accordance with the Constitution, the President is elected by direct universal secret ballot for a term of six years.
Putin has promised to prevent a massacre in the Donbass
Vladimir Putin In Moscow, there are fears that in the event of the closure of the border between Russia and Eastern regions of Ukraine, in the Donbas may occur the repetition of the tragedy that occurred in Srebrenica in 1995. On Thursday, October 19, said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, reports RIA Novosti. “What are we afraid, I tell you. So to say that we are afraid of something. If you give the opportunity to political issues, until the decision on granting to these territories (the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics (DND and LNR) — approx.”Tape.ru”) special status in accordance with the law adopted by Parliament and has now been extended for a year, if not to adopt the law on Amnesty, if not to do all this, then the closure of the border between Russia and unrecognized republics will lead to a situation on a par with
North Korea has found a second submarine with a ballistic missile
American intelligence discovered the latest North Korean submarine Sinpo-C, which is probably armed with one or more Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), according to The Diplomat. Photo: DigitalGlobe / 38 North / Getty Images According to the publication, the submarine is equipped with a diesel-electric engine has a displacement of 2 thousand tons and a maximum width of about 11 meters. Although a satellite image of the submarine made in April 2017, about its existence the newspaper has learned only recently. Currently, it is known about the existence of North Korea is only one of the submarines with ICBM — Sinpo-B. Submarine with a displacement of 1.7 thousand tons first noticed in 2014, the ship is armed ICBMs Pukguksong-1. Submarine Sinpo-C, said The Diplomat, larger and stronger Sinpo-B and probably capable of carrying larger ICBMs. On the other hand, Sinpo-C is likely to be readily available for the detection of forces
Russians convicted over the riots at the G20 summit
A Russian citizen convicted of public disorder, attempted grievous bodily harm and resisting police during the riots during the summit of “Big twenty” (G20) in Hamburg. He was sentenced to one year in prison conditionally. It is reported by RIA Novosti. In a press-service of the administrative court of Hamburg said that these offences Russians committed on 6 July, after the completion of one of the official protests. On 4 September it was reported that the investigative actions in respect of two citizens of Russia of 20 and 30 years who participated in the riots during the summit of “Twenty” has been completed, their cases referred to the court. Riots in Hamburg took place in early July during the G20 summit. Anti-globalists, left-wing extremists and other protesters threw a custody order stones and bottles, set fire to cars, pogroms and looted shops. Injured about 500 police officers. During the mass