Category: World

Street in the Western part of Mosul The correspondent of the Arabic edition of the Agency Sputnik Sarah Noureddine and accompanying military came under fire in the West of the Iraqi city of Mosul. On Sunday, July 23, according to RIA Novosti. “The soldier suffered five bullet wounds in the leg, back, and lost a finger. I only got scrapes and bruises all over my body while I was running to a safe place at the bottom of the school,” said Noureddine. According to her, shot from rifles of the type M16 from the building of primary school At-Tahir in the old part of Mosul. Opened fire during the filming of the report on how to disarm mines in the residential district of al-Maidan near the main mosque An-Nuri. The journalist managed to contact Iraqi military, and she was taken from the scene of the incident. The wounded were taken

The delegation of the US state Department headed by special representative on Ukraine with Kurt Volker arrived in the area at the contact line in the Donbass. About this Facebook reported the press center of the military operation headquarters. The Americans visited the frontline Avdeevka (the Donetsk region), where he met with the military, and residents of the city. According to Volcker, which are listed in the post, he came here “to see details” of what is happening. “I can say it’s a terrible tragedy, because we know that Ukraine is flourishing state,” he said. The special representative noted that he had heard tragic stories of people and saw the destruction. “Our main task — to restore the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. As I understand it, it’s not a frozen conflict, and a hot war”, he continued. Walker, as noted, also said that after his visit to Ukraine he

Divers sunken ship A group of British treasure hunters found a sunken ship with a container, which can be four tons of gold that belonged to Nazi Germany. On Sunday, July 23, writes the Daily Mail. Team members Advanced Marine Services (“Best marine service”) believe that they had found 120 miles South-East of Iceland, the object is a German ship SS Minden, carrying in September 1939 the gold from South America to Germany and flooded on Hitler’s orders after he was tracked down by the British military. The British expect from the authorities of Iceland permit the opening of the container located on the ship. It, presumably, is gold, the total value of which exceeds £ 100 million (about $ 130 million). Thus, as specifies the edition, treasure hunters believe that the found treasure should belong to them. In the spring of Reykjavik expressed concern about the unauthorized actions of

Alexander Vitko The Investigative Committee of Russia explained the reason of the correspondence arrest of the Prosecutor Department of the Ukrainian Chief military Prosecutor’s office Ruslan Kravchenko and the investigator of the Agency Vadim Primacy. A message posted on the website of the UK Sunday, July 23. According to investigators, in 2014, Kravchenko, Primacom, and a former acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleg Magnitskii, his first Deputy Nikolai Golomsha “organized knowingly unlawful criminal prosecution” citizen of Russia Admiral Alexander Vitko for political reasons. “In particular Machnicki and Golomsha gave illegal instructions on conducting pre-trial investigation, Primack led its production, and Kravchenko has carried out supervision over the procedural activity”, — said the Investigative Committee. July 20, the Basmanny district court of Moscow arrested in absentia Kravchenko and Primacy. SK indicates that the earlier a similar measure was chosen in respect Makhnytskiy and Golomsha. In court on Sunday said that Primack

Sean Spicer Sean Spicer, who resigned from the post of press Secretary of the President of the United States Donald trump stole the mini-fridge from the younger members of the administration of the President. This is with reference to the witnesses, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, the incident occurred about a month after Spicer in January took office. The interlocutor of the edition told that Spicer had no place to store food and drinks. In this regard, the official sent the assistant in the office for Junior staff to pick up a mini fridge from them, but he refused. “Then Spicer waited for the sunset, the staff left the office, and took matters into their own hands. One of the official representatives of the White house noticed him carrying the refrigerator after eight in the evening”, — the newspaper writes. The officer resigned on July 21.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the participants of the “Grown-up conversation with Vladimir Putin” in Sochi A student of the Central music school (CMS) at the Moscow Conservatory, Maria Andreeva, asked the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, will be free to study at the second specialty. About it “lente.ru” on Sunday, July 23, announced the Deputy Director of Department of science and education, culture of Russia Svyatoslav Golubenko. “The question of Mary, of course, encouraged to find solutions to the problems associated with the fact that many talented children in the music schools want to master two majors. The Ministry of culture has taken this issue under control, and we together with the expert community will develop a mechanism that will allow you to master two majors, but at the same time would not contradict the current legislation in the field of education,” said Golubenko. Speaking about the

Ruslan Kravchenko Basmanny court of Moscow arrested in absentia of the military Prosecutor of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko and the investigator for particularly important cases of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office Vadim Primacare. On Sunday, July 23, TASS reported the press Secretary of the court Juno Tsarev. According to her, the hearing on which the decision was made, passed on July 20. Kravchenko and Primacom are charged under part 2 of article 299 of the criminal code (“Attraction obviously innocent to criminal liability or unlawful institution of criminal proceedings, connected with accusation of committing serious or especially grave crime”). According to TASS, the military Prosecutor and the investigators are in Ukraine the criminal proceedings against Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Kravchenko also heads the investigative group on the case of high treason of former President Viktor Yanukovych. A criminal case against Shoigu and several senior Russian officials were opened in the

Chuck Schumer The leader of the Democrats in the US Senate Chuck Schumer said his party must cease to lay the blame on Russia for the defeat of their candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential elections. He stated this in an interview with The Washington Post, published on Saturday 22 July. Excerpts from the conversation leads to The Hill. “When you lose someone, who has a 40% popularity, you don’t blame someone else (…), you blame yourself. (…) So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stand for, only what we are against [Donald] trump. And they still believe it,” said Schumer. The United States presidential election held in November 2016, the victory was won by main rival Clinton, the Republican trump. The latter repeatedly accused of communications with Russia, and the Moscow of meddling in the election of the President. So, in July the New York

Archive photo The fire in the Chelyabinsk region killed four children, one adult injured. About it RIA Novosti was informed in the press service of the main Department of EMERCOM of Russia in the region. The fire occurred in the night of Sunday, July 23, in the village of Upper Kubanka. The first fire units arrived at the scene four minutes after receiving the signal. Burned a house in the area of 30 square meters. During a fire in the house was the father of three daughters and a niece. Managed to save only man. The reasons for the fire accurate data yet. According to the acting head of the Department of Constantine, Gandau, the victims were probably asleep and didn’t smell of smoke. On the morning of Monday, July 17, in the Orenburg region in the village of Koltubanovskiy Buzuluksky district a fire killed five people, including three young

In the German foreign office see the threat of deterioration of relations with Russia because of the turbines, manufactured by Siemens, which, according to Germany, was staged in Crimea in violation of the sanctions. About this newspaper Bild am Sonntag said the press-Secretary of Department. According to him, the Federal government repeatedly warned about the threat of violation of the sanctions regime and the violation of Russian companies assumed the contractual obligations. The edition reminded that President of Russia Vladimir Putin in conversation with the current Minister Sigmar Gabriel, the economy Minister, assured that the turbines are not intended for the Crimea. “The Federal government wishes to remind the Russian government of its obligations, and notes that such mass violations of the sanctions can again create tension in relations with Russia”, — said the representative of the foreign Ministry. Friday, 21 July, Siemens announced the termination of the license agreement