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Russia can lower the level of their representation at NATO to chargé d’affaires. On Monday, July 10, the newspaper “Izvestia”. It was suggested that this could happen after the resignation of the current permanent representative of Russia to NATO Alexander Grushko. The newspaper’s sources in the foreign Ministry indicate that these measures are related to the lack of NATO’s attitude to a constructive dialogue and commitment of the Alliance to turn any discussion into accusations against the Russian side. It is noted that Moscow will leave in Brussels chargé d’affaires, if in the near future in relations between Russia and NATO will be a positive change. “However, the Ministry stressed that they are ready to talk and discuss with NATO and find it useful, but when any conversation turns into accusations, the conversation loses all meaning”, — the newspaper writes. The interlocutors of “Izvestia” in the Ministry of foreign Affairs

Donald Trump The US President Donald trump was glad to have occurred on the South-West of Syria truce. The head of the United States Sunday, July 9, wrote in his Twitter. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 09, 2017, 20:09 “It seems that the ceasefire in Syria is enforced. Many lives can be saved. This is the result of the meeting. Okay!” — he wrote. Trump did not indicate what the meeting meant. Ceasefire in Syria was announced after the trump conversation with Vladimir Putin at the summit of the countries “Big twenty” in Hamburg. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov confirmed the agreement on a ceasefire in the area of Deraa and Quneitra. According to him, from 12:00 on July 9 in the area to enforce the ceasefire. According to him, “the United States assumed the duty to comply with the cease-fire by all factions that

Donald Trump The U.S. government agreed to a compromise in the issues of free trade and rejection of protectionism. On Saturday, July 8, Die Zeit reported, citing DPA. As said the interlocutor of the Agency, the final document is likely to be commitments to free trade and rejection of protectionism. This issue has caused disagreements between the United States and other members of the “twenty”. The President of the United States Donald trump when assuming office, promised that authorities will “buy American” and “hire Americans.” Later he signed a decree providing for the priority of American-made goods in public procurement. 27 APR trump led the United States out of the North American free trade agreement. On January 23, he signed a decree on the country’s withdrawal from the TRANS-Pacific partnership — a trade agreement between 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Despite the ending of the summit of “Big twenty”, in Hamburg once again riots broke out with the participation of anti-globalization. According to the newspaper Welt, the clashes of protesters with police continued for the third day. A group of demonstrators threw bottles, stones and firecrackers houses, in some areas of the city was burned several police cars. In addition, the rebels constructed barricades. The guards used in response to water cannons and tear gas. Several people were arrested. Earlier, the Hamburg police requested reinforcements from other regions of Germany because of the riots organized in the city by anti-globalists. The guards admitted that he had underestimated the seriousness of the threat posed by the protesters. The two-day summit of “Big twenty” was opened in Hamburg on 7 July. Each day of the event was accompanied by violent protests, which were attended by over 10 thousand anti-globalization activists, including left-wing

U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson during the meeting in Kiev with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Washington since the crisis in the Donbass country has allocated $ 600 million to overcome it. On Sunday, July 9, reports TASS. According to Tillerson, the way the US show its attitude toward the current problem. However, he stressed the need of continuing reforms in Ukraine. In particular, the U.S. official said the United States expect that Ukraine will carry out reforms in the sphere of fight against corruption. Tillerson stressed that particular importance is the selection of judges of the Supreme court and the establishment of Ukraine’s anti-corruption court. The armed conflict in the South-East of Ukraine began in April 2014. Ukrainian authorities regularly accuse Russia of aggressive actions, including involvement in armed conflict in the Donbass. The Ukrainian courts do not recognize the fact of the armed aggression of

As a result of prolonged heavy rains in Central China in the disaster area were more than 12.2 million residents. On 9 July, reported the Agency “Xinhua”. In Hunan province, 83 people were killed or went missing, cites the local administration. Among them, 28 people were buried under the rubble caused by landslides, 13 were flood victims, 22 were killed in the building collapse, four were sunk, another 16 were killed or went missing as a result of the collapse of the soil or for other reasons. Urgently was evacuated 1.62 million people, more than 470 thousand people are in urgent need of financial assistance. Strong rains, which run from June 22 to a large area of Hunan, 53 destroyed thousands of homes, 68 thousand were seriously damaged. On liquidation of consequences of floods 52 mobilized thousands of troops, police officers, firefighters and employees of government departments, said the Chinese

Haider al-Abadi in Mosul The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi, declared the liberation of Mosul from the terrorists of the “Islamic State” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). On Sunday, July 9, reported on the policy page on Twitter. Al-Abadi arrived in the city and thanked the “heroic soldiers and the Iraqi people for the great victory.” June 29, local TV, citing the military command stated that the ISIS militants out of Mosul. Ground military operation to liberate Mosul began on 17 October 2016. It was attended by units of the regular Iraqi army, the Kurdish militia and formation of volunteers. The international coalition led by the US provided air and artillery support. The second phase of the operation to liberate the Western part of the city was conducted from Feb. In late March, Iraqi security forces stopped a massive attack due to the increased number of casualties, however, on

Donald Trump The US President Donald trump said that at the G20 summit in Hamburg “double-pressed” to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during discussion of the alleged intervention of Moscow in the American elections. The head of state wrote in his Twitter on Sunday, July 9. “I twice kept on pushing President Putin about Russian interference in our elections. He categorically denied it,” said trump. Previously, the newspaper the New York Times reported, citing a source that the discussion of the question of possible Russian intervention in elections in the United States took trump and Putin for about 40 minutes. The publication claims that the President of Russia “loudly demanded evidence” of Moscow’s interference. In the end, trump said his Russian counterpart that it was time to move on to other issues. Putin himself on 8 July at a press conference said that trump paid a lot of attention to

The OSCE parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution on “the Restoration of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”, which is opposed by the Russian delegation, reports TASS. The document contains a call for Russia to “urgently provide unhindered access” to the Crimea and Sevastopol international organizations, institutions, special procedures and independent experts of the OSCE, UN and Council of Europe, human rights non-governmental organizations or the media. Head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE PA, Vice-speaker of the state Duma Pyotr Tolstoy said that almost each of the 36 points the authors of the resolution put forward accusations against Russia. “We didn’t want to go this route, therefore, offered to withdraw from the consideration of the resolution. But if the Assembly wants, Russia can provide 136 points on the facts of violation of fundamental rights, all international norms on the part of the current Ukrainian authorities that came to

U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said that the theme of Russia’s intervention in U.S. elections is an obstacle to improving relations between the two countries and this issue needs to be resolved, RIA Novosti reported. According to him, this issue was raised at the meeting of presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald trump at the G20 summit in Germany. “Regarding the discussion of the President of trump and Putin about the 2016 elections …this was the first topic of our conversation. President trump has raised this issue directly to President Putin and to be honest, we didn’t expect other answer than the one received,” said Tillerson. According to him, pendency of the question on the minds of the American people, as well as hindering the improvement of bilateral relations. “This issue needs to be resolved before we can assure the American people that there is no intervention in our elections,