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Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of France Emmanuel macron © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. The presidents of Russia and France Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel macron discussed the situation in Syria, the Russian President stressed the importance of helping to rebuild the country’s infrastructure. “During the exchange of views on the current situation in Syria, the leaders gave a high assessment carried out in July, the Russian-French operation for the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid among the population of the Syrian province of the East ghouta”, – stated in the message of the Kremlin.

© Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The Central election Commission of Russia at session on Friday has approved two similar formulations of the questions of the initiative groups from Nizhny Novgorod and Vologda regions for submission to a nationwide referendum against raising the retirement age. They are found to be consistent with the requirements of the law. “For you to established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on pension provision as at 1 July 2018, the age at which citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to the appointment of old-age pension is not increased?” is the question proposed in the Vologda region.

© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov in a telephone conversation on Friday with his us counterpart Michael Pompeo expressed its categorical rejection of the new anti-Russian sanctions of the United States. This is stated in the message of the foreign Ministry. “The Russian side had expressed a categorical rejection of the recently announced Washington’s new sanctions, citing the alleged information about the Russian involvement in the so-called business Skrypalia”, – stressed in dipvedomstva.

The trust on the reform has not kept Ratings authorities again declined. According to the latest figures of the Fund “Public opinion” (FOM), the ratings of the institutions of government fell again on the background of the pension reform. If a week ago, the work of Dmitry Medvedev as Prime Minister positively evaluated 26%, now 24%. The assessment of performance of Vladimir Putin as President over the past months, dropped to 63%, but since the end of July is held at this level. Fell to 32% and the rating of “United Russia”. Today fresh data, fixing minor variations, publish and all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM). Fund “Public opinion” published the results of a weekly survey conducted August 4-5, in 73 subjects of the Russian Federation among the 3 thousand respondents (.pdf). The ratings of the authorities, according to him, once again fell on the background of the

Lukashenko accused Russia barbaric attitude towards Belarus According to the President of the Republic of Belarus, Moscow is not fulfilling its obligations in the framework of the EAEU. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Moscow behaves savagely towards Minsk. According to him, Russia does not fulfill its obligations in the framework of the Eurasian economic Union (EEU). Lukashenka said during his visit to the enterprise for the production of agricultural machinery “Gomselmash”. I want to keep “Gomselmash”. We are now having a hard time the Russians behave savagely towards us, publicly talking about it. They demand from us something like we’re vassals they have, and in the framework of the EEU, where they invited us, they fulfil their obligations don’t want to.Alexander Lukashenko the President of Belarus, quoted by BelTA According to Lukashenko, Moscow accuses the West of creating “non-competitive benefits.” “And do something for us they are the

Poroshenko called “Nord stream — 2” the Trojan horse of the Kremlin MOSCOW, 10 Aug — RIA Novosti. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the European partners “bewitched” of Russia concerning the construction of “Nord stream — 2”. “The”Nord stream — 2” is a “Trojan horse” of the Kremlin against European energy and, in the end, geopolitical security,” he wrote in his Facebook account. In addition, Poroshenko says that he sees the “true motives” of Russia regarding the gas pipeline project, which, according to the Ukrainian President, will lead to “catastrophic consequences for the European partners. Poroshenko urged the EU to get rid of the “deceptive and destructive” spells of Russia and to protect its energy interests. The project “Northern stream — 2” involves the construction of two pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year off the coast of Russia through the Baltic sea