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Tillerson called the slave trade one of the main problems in the world WASHINGTON, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson believes the human trafficking is one of the main problems in the modern world, stated in a report published on Tuesday report of the state Department. “The slave trade is one of the most tragic problems related to human rights in the modern world. It destroys families, global markets, undermines the rule of law and contributes to the development of international crime. This threatens public safety and national security,” — said Tillerson in a letter accompanying the report. The report examines the situation on the slave trade in 187 countries from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017. Given the global nature of the problem, Tillerson stressed the importance of international cooperation for its solution. He promised that the state Department “will continue

© TASS MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS/. New hacker attack on the system of the company in Russia has compromised the computer systems of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and the official website of the Kremlin. This was reported by TASS press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. “(All) is stable”, – he said. Previously to the attack of a new virus-ransomware Petya was subjected to a number of companies such as “Rosneft”, “Bashneft”, Mars, Nivea and Mondelez International (maker of chocolate Alpen Gold). This is stated in the message of the company Group-IB, which deals with the prevention and investigation of cybercrime. Petya virus locks computers and demands a ransom of $300 in bitcoins. Experts Group-IB also found that recently, this virus was used by the Cobalt group with the purpose to hide traces of targeted attacks on financial institutions.

The chief of the General staff of armed forces Valery Gerasimov © Olga Balashova/press service of the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS/. The chief of the General staff Valery Gerasimov and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad discussed on the base Hamim coordination of efforts against banned terrorist groups “Islamic state” (IG) and “jabhat an-Nusra.” On Tuesday said the Russian defense Ministry. “The chief of the General staff of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation, army General Valery Gerasimov during a working trip to Syria met with the Russian arrived at the base Hamim President Bashar al-Assad. In the course of joint work were discussed issues on coordination of Syrian government troops, supported by aircraft of Russian air force against international terrorist groups ISIS (the old name of the “Islamic state” – approx. TASS) and “Dzhebhat EN-Nusra” in Syria”, – is spoken in the message. The

Photo: RIA Novosti Director General State space scientific production center Khrunichev Andrew Kalinowski is leaving his post, instead the company will be headed by the head of the design Bureau “Motor” Alex Morocco, said a source in the space industry. According to him, Kalinowski goes to work in the Federal space Agency for the position of quality Director of the Corporation. In this regard, the Center will be headed by Morocco, writes “Kommersant” with reference to “Interfax”. Morocco in 1982 graduated from the Moscow aviation Institute, specialty “Electrical equipment of aircrafts” in 1987 – the Moscow automobile and road Institute majoring in “Automotive electronics”. Currently holds the post of Deputy Director on production development of the Center for exploitation of ground space infrastructure, is the Director and chief designer of KB “Motor”. In June, Kalinowski reported that Khrunichev continues to work on developing options for a reusable booster. In the

Photo: RIA Novosti The most important topic of the meeting of the Supreme state Council (SSC) of the Union state of Belarus and Russia, which will be held June 30 in Moscow, will be the industrial cooperation between the two countries, said in an interview with RIA Novosti, Ambassador of Belarus in Moscow Igor Petrishenko. According to him, the upcoming meeting is important to review conceptual issues on the bilateral agenda that requires relevant decisions of heads of state. The Ambassador noted that the most important topics is, in particular, the problem of equal access of economic entities to the markets of Belarus and Russia in terms of procurement, construction, subsidies for the production of industrial products and implementation of joint projects in the agricultural sector. “Of course, the key question – industrial cooperation. Pursuing a coordinated industrial policy, we must not only declare, but also have a expand long-term

Photo: TASS The government has defined requirements for navigation equipment in Russia. This is referred to in the resolution on criteria for inclusion of electronic components for the GLONASS system to the industrial production, having produced in Russia analogues. The document published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. The purpose of the document is the stimulation of localization of production of radio navigational equipment in the country, navigation systems for all modes of transport, navigation equipment, special purpose, navigators for personal use. In particular, one of the requirements is the presence on the territory of one of the countries of the Eurasian economic Union service center to the navigation apparatus. In addition, the share of foreign components in the navigation from 1 January 2018 must not be more than 50 percent of the total, and from January 1, 2020, no more than 30 percent.