Geopolitical mosaic: the US Congress approved the supply of weapons to the Syrian opposition, and Russia will arm the army of Assad
American "green light". - The Pentagon estimated the cost of the war in Syria. - Russia will continue to supply weapon to Syria. - Speaking for Assad? So the terrorists. - Health in exchange for democracy. - Magician Uri Geller improves his image. - Russian military, having access to secret information, was forbidden to rest in Israel and Egypt. - For that fought for it and ran. - Every fifth killed is a civilian. - The Danish contingent left Afghanistan. - Ukraine predicted default. - How Marc became Marx. - Bulgarian police saved the government. - In Ireland, they know how to overcome the crisis: cut the parliament. - Capitalist paradise: onion, tomato paste and ginger root. - Anti-immigrant advertising starts in London. - "Hunting hijabs." - Big Brother and smaller brother. - Help for Snowden. - America does not give out terrorists. - German image of Russia: bears, vodka, donkey milk and bras.
American "green light". The United States Congress agreed to the Obama administration to supply arms to the Syrian opposition. This was confirmed yesterday at a press briefing for journalists by Jen Psaki, the head of the State Department’s press service. So she commented on the publication in the American press about the fact that after a fierce debate, Congress gave the "green light" to the implementation of plans to supply weapons to the forces of the Syrian opposition, which were developed by the administration, "Sight" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Sanctions on supplies were given by special intelligence committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Answering the question of whether these publications in the media and the statements of lawmakers that the executive branch of the United States could begin to implement the plans for the transfer of weapons to the Syrian opposition, psaki said: "This conclusion is correct, but I can’t say about terms or specifics ".
Supporters of the Syrian opposition in Congress hope that the supply of weapons from the United States will begin in August.
The Pentagon estimated the cost of the war in Syria. General Martin Dempsey, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, presented to US senators approximate plans for a possible US invasion of Syria. According to Pentagon analysts, the intervention will require Washington "the use of hundreds of aircraft, ships and submarines." The operation will be spent billions of dollars.
As transmits "RT" With reference to The New York Times, General Dempsey, in a letter to Karl Levin (head of the Senate Armed Forces Commission), described various options for US intervention in the Syrian conflict. Were listed "training opposition units", "the introduction of a no-fly zone over Syria", "drawing air strikes on Syria."
Dempsey led the calculations for each of the options. The operation in Syria will cost the United States very expensive. A special operation will require the involvement of "hundreds of aircraft, ships and other means of attack." “Its value will be measured in billions,” the general stated.
The letter of the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff angered the supporters of military intervention. John McCain complained publicly.
As noted by Andrey Fedyashin ("Voice of Russia"), Dempsey's three-page letter was a response to Senator John McCain’s threat. The fact is that earlier the chief apologist for the American intervention in Syria threatened to block the next statement of the general for the highest military post of the USA - in that case, if the plans are not presented in the coming weeks. Dempsey and McCain have long been personally disliked, the correspondent points out, and three days before the letter was published a sharp picks took place in the senate between the two.
Dempsey added the letter with political comments: “When we take action, we must be prepared for what follows. It will be difficult to avoid the expansion of intervention. We can inadvertently strengthen extremists or cause the use of chemical weapons that we ourselves want to control. ”
According to the calculations of the Pentagon, allocations for any of the options for military operations in Syria will be from 500 million dollars a year (for weapons supplies and military training) to a billion dollars a month.
A. Fedyashin recalls that Salim Idris, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, arrived in New York two days ago. According to him, Washington supplies light weapons and ammunition to opposition fighters may begin as early as August. They will be carried out through the channels of the CIA.
Russia will continue to supply weapons to Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday during a meeting with Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Kadri Jamil that Russia will continue to supply weapons to Syria under existing contracts, reports "InoTV" with reference to The New York Times.
The ministers stressed that the supply of C-300 systems to the country was not discussed.
The condemnation of the militants. Russian diplomats have condemned the actions of the Syrian militants holding civilians in the northeast of the country 200. They need the latter as a living shield. His position marked the Russian Foreign Ministry, transmit "Vesti".
"In Moscow, in the strongest terms, they condemn the atrocities of the terrorist international in northeastern Syria, the atrocities and harassment perpetrated by extremists on the peaceful Kurdish population who are not involved in the ongoing military and political conflict in Syria," the Russian diplomatic department said.
The fighters of the Kurdish formations pressed the extremists and captured their field commander Abu-Musaab.
In order to ensure their security, the militants seized around 500 women, children and old people of Kurdish origin, and then demanded the release of Musaab. They began to kill the hostages, cutting off their heads. The Kurds were forced to release the leader in exchange for a promise to release the hostages. The extremists did not comply with the agreement and continue to keep civilians in captivity of 200, writes Interfax.
Moscow is confident that this situation will aggravate the collapse of the country and will contribute to the creation of a base of international terrorism on the territory of Syria.
Comrade Abdulatipov’s warning. Acting President of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov warned of the danger posed by Dagestan extremists who are involved in the fighting in Syria on the side of the militants.
As noted by "InoTV"Abdulatipov stressed that the Dagestan extremists who are fighting in the territory of Syria threaten the security of Dagestan and threaten the state interests of Russia.
He called for the mobilization of all security structures to counter such activities.
Are you in favor of Assad? So the terrorists! As Maria Efimova writes (Kommersant), the heads of the foreign ministries of the EU countries have added the military wing of the Hezbollah movement to the list of terrorist organizations. The decisive argument was the support of Bashar al-Assad by this movement.
This EU decision means that the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite organization will no longer be able to receive financial and other support from its European supporters (legally).
As noted by the BBC, European diplomats are skeptical: it will be extremely difficult to separate Hezbollah’s militarized wing from the political. As for his inclusion in the “black list”, it can further destabilize the situation in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, in response to the EU’s 28 decision, made a statement. According to "Lenta.ru" With reference to CNN, according to Hezbollah, the EU resolution is “aggressive and unbalanced.” Leaders of the movement expressed confidence that the document was “inked with Israeli ink by the Americans.” The statement notes that "the Europeans only had to sign the resolution and put a seal on it."
Commented on the decision of the EU and the official Damascus. A source at the SAR Foreign Office condemned the decision taken at the meeting of EU foreign ministers. It was adopted in accordance with the requirements of the United States and Israel and is directed against the resistance movement in Lebanon and other Arab countries. SANA.
A source at the SAR Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that the Hezbollah party is an important part of Lebanese society and enjoys great support from the Lebanese. Therefore, it became the target of states and political forces hostile to Lebanon and the entire Arab nation.
ATS condemns this decision. The Foreign Ministry condemned those who are behind the decision. It, SANA points out, serves the interests of Israel and its plans in the region.
Health in exchange for democracy. A huge number of children with developmental disabilities are born in Iraq. In Falluja, the number of children with congenital defects in 14 is more than the number in Hiroshima. Scientists blame the weapon used by US troops. Corr. "RT" Lucy Kafanov says that many Iraqi cities suffer from this problem.
An-Najaf is a city in 160 km south of Baghdad. Locals still feel the echoes of the war.
Doctors do not think that the eight-month-old Ahmed will live to his first birthday. The boy has a congenital defect of the nervous system, his muscles gradually fade. This nightmare in the family of Leyla Jabar is repeated time after time. Three children of Leila were born with congenital defects, and none of the children survived. Parents believe that these are consequences of the use of radioactive weapons by US troops.
Dr. Sundus Nsaif says that the population of An-Najaf is on the verge of a catastrophe: “When the war began, the incidence of cancer, leukemia and birth defects became much more frequent. Most cases were recorded in areas where there were major battles. We believe that the culprit illegal use of depleted uranium. Here in the hospital, cancer is more common than the flu. ”
It is estimated that more than 400 tons of depleted uranium were used by the two Iraqi wars, mainly by US troops. A report prepared with the support of the Norwegian government noted that depleted uranium was used against civilian objects in populated areas, including An-Najaf in 2003. The case is given when one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in one battle fired 305 shells with depleted uranium.
The number of children with birth defects and a high percentage of miscarriages in Fallujah and Basra are increasing - it was there that American troops used heavy weapons at the beginning of the war.
The Saudi initiative does not like either Israel or Palestine. The Saudi initiative is again on the agenda - in the absence of other settlement options. And although it seems to take into account the interests of both parties, it does not suit either Israelis or Palestinians, writes MIGnews.com.
According to surveys, the number of Israeli citizens supporting this plan fell from 36% to 24% over the year. Among the Palestinian population, the share of those who approve of the Saudi initiative is relatively high - 54%, but only 17% believe in its implementation. It is curious that a little more than 10% of people know from both sides what the essence of the Saudi proposals is.
MIGnews.com recalls this.
In 2002, the Arab League at the initiative of Riyadh proposed a settlement plan. Israel moves away from the territories into the borders of the 1967 of the year (yielding the Golan Heights and the Shebaa farm in southern Lebanon) and agrees to the creation of a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem. The issue of refugees is decided in negotiations. The LAS countries sign a peace treaty with Israel, develop diplomatic and economic relations with it, and reject all other claims of Palestinians against the Jewish state.
This initiative was supported by Mahmoud Abbas and ignored by the leadership of Hamas. Israel was busy fighting terror, and the Saudi proposals were postponed. They returned to them later 11 years, on the initiative of the Prime Minister of Qatar. The Qatar amendment contained the idea of a small (about 5-7%) exchange of territories while maintaining the principle of the boundaries of the 1967 year. She was positively appraised by Abbas and the main Palestinian negotiator Said Arekat, but a high-ranking Fatah activist Mohammed Shatiye rejected the Qatar amendment on behalf of the movement, saying that Fatah was completely satisfied with the Saudi initiative.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has now again invited Israel and the PA to consider the Saudi initiative in its Qatari version. Nine foreign ministers of the LAS countries confirmed their readiness to follow the plan.
But in Jerusalem and Ramallah these proposals did not arouse enthusiasm.
“The Palestinians have no immediate need for additional territory (unless they are really going to accept millions of refugees, but this is unlikely). The state within the borders of 1967, they need to force Israel to retreat and cede, and the whole world - to recognize the moral correctness of the Palestinian national movement. The exchange of territories, even in the smallest size, detracts from this rightness, turns victory into an ordinary deal. None of the current Palestinian leaders would risk agreeing to such a derogation.
For Israel, to go to the borders of the 1967 of the year, with or without exchange, means not only to eliminate the settlements and create a threat to national security. This means recognizing oneself as an occupying state, the policy of the last 46 years is erroneous, the desire of Jews to live throughout Eretz Israel is unqualified, blood shed for this is in vain, and Palestinian terror is a painful but fair manifestation of the liberation struggle of the oppressed people. This means, essentially, rewriting history countries in the defeat manner. For the whole nation, such a move would be a moral blow to an unseen force, incomparable to the damage caused by the evacuation of Yamit and Gush Katif. ”
For Israel, to go to the borders of the 1967 of the year, with or without exchange, means not only to eliminate the settlements and create a threat to national security. This means recognizing oneself as an occupying state, the policy of the last 46 years is erroneous, the desire of Jews to live throughout Eretz Israel is unqualified, blood shed for this is in vain, and Palestinian terror is a painful but fair manifestation of the liberation struggle of the oppressed people. This means, essentially, rewriting history countries in the defeat manner. For the whole nation, such a move would be a moral blow to an unseen force, incomparable to the damage caused by the evacuation of Yamit and Gush Katif. ”
Premier Netanyahu, notes MIGnews.com, does not apply to people who are convinced of the need for such a sacrifice.
Mag Uri Geller improves his image. The Israeli illusionist Uri Geller living in Britain, who was famous for bending his spoons by his power of thought, admitted that he had once worked for American and Israeli intelligence. Illusionist was hurt that few people take it seriously. Now he expects that participation in intelligence will add the right touch to his image, reports "Bi-bi-si." Maxim Dinkevich spoke about improving the image of the magician in Russian ("Vesti").
To improve the image of the British journalists was filmed a documentary. According to the magician himself in this film, called "The Secret Life of Uri Geller," he had dreamed since childhood to be a special agent. As a teenager, resting in Cyprus in a hotel owned by his stepfather, the boy met one resident and told him about his ability to read minds. He promised to make James Bond Geller, if he served in the landing troops and unlearn an officer school in Israel.
Geller did just that. In 1967, the head of Israeli intelligence asked him if he could do "this and that." Then they learned about the unusual abilities of a cadet from Israel at the CIA. In 1972, Geller visited the Stanford Research Institute. There, he allegedly showed the Americans the ability to use the power of thought to disable the equipment.
Forty years ago, an illusionist started a show on British television. He currently lives in a mansion on the banks of the Thames.
The Russian military, having access to classified information, was forbidden to rest in Israel and Egypt. Officers of the Russian army, who have access to secret information, were forbidden to rest in Egypt and Israel. According to "RT" With reference to Izvestia, the General Staff considered the situation in these two states unsafe.
Valery Gerasimov signed a directive with a list of countries where military personnel and civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defense, who have secret information, are allowed to leave. From the list disappeared Israel and Egypt.
According to the Izvestia source in the General Staff, when issuing permits to subordinates, commanders must “take into account the prevailing military-political and criminogenic situation in the states of entry”, and not allow officers to enter countries that are not recommended by the Foreign Ministry.
According to the vice-president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems Konstantin Sivkov, the ban on the departure of officers to unstable regions is fully justified. Officers may be abducted by militants. Sivkov said that Russian officers should not visit Islamic countries where the positions of Wahhabis are strong: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, troubled Syria and Libya.
The list of unstable states includes the United States. But NATO's European countries are open to the public. The expert noted:
"In NATO countries, people are more or less civilized, unlike the United States, so you can go there."
For that fought for it and ran. The passport of a person suspected of being involved in the murder of US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was discovered during a search of the house of one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, Heirath Al-Shater. This was announced by the Egyptian information portal "Al-Balad", reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dina Drunk.
According to sources, the activist of the Islamist movement appears in the list of the CIA, transferred to the countries of the region.
Every fifth killed is a civilian. The secret documents of the Pakistani authorities with the records of the results of the American campaign to destroy terrorists with the help of UAVs became the status of the press. From 746, at least 147 people are civilians, the correspondent notes "RT" Gayane Chichakian.
The report describes 75 CIA-organized attacks "drones» (2006-2009). The document was intended for internal use by the Government of Pakistan.
A total of 746 people were killed during these attacks. 147 of them are officially recognized as civilians. Of these, 94 are children. It turns out that at least one in five who died from the actions of American drones - a civilian, and 12% of the victims are minors.
According to independent researchers, since 2004 in Pakistan, thousands of people have been killed by drones up to 3,5. Since coming to power, Barack Obama has significantly increased the volume of the program.
The Danish contingent left Afghanistan. The Danish military mission in Afghanistan has left the country, writes Galina Dudina (Kommersant).
According to official data, in the twelve years of the Danish mission in Afghanistan, 9,5 has served thousands of troops (43 died, 211 was injured).
In Denmark, the question of the legality and necessity of the participation of Danish soldiers in a foreign military operation is discussed. Earlier, the speaker on foreign policy issues of the social-liberal party “Radikale” Zenya Stumpe called the participation of Denmark “a mistake”, and the mission to establish democracy in Afghanistan was “wrong and impracticable”.
The fact that the situation in Afghanistan was developing “not in the way we would like,” was also acknowledged by the former head of the Danish Ministry of Defense Per Stig Möller.
Ukraine predicted default. The rating agency "Standard & Purs" included Ukraine in the list of ten countries where a default is likely to occur in the coming years. She took the seventh place in the list, notes Maxim Makarychev ("Russian newspaper").
The chances of Kiev in the "default" development of events, according to analysts, compared with the first quarter of 2013, increased by 10%. They now make up 44,25%.
The first place in the top ten is occupied by Argentina (probability of default is 81,6%). Among other "defoltnikov" - Cyprus, Venezuela, Pakistan, Portugal, Croatia, Montenegro, Egypt, Greece. According to Standard & Purs, Russia has a minimal risk of default (13,1%).
The sharp increase in the risk of default for the top ten was caused by the statement by the US Federal Reserve System on the likely reduction of the “quantitative incentive” program. This decision has accelerated the exit of investors from “risky assets”, which include Ukrainian Eurobonds.
How Mark became Marx. An administrative district court rejected the claim of a married couple who wanted to register her son in Latvia under the name Mark. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to DELFI.
The local Citizenship and Migration Board brought the child's name in line with the Latvian grammar: the ending -s was added to it. The complaint was filed by the father of the child, a citizen of Latvia, Indulis Balmarks. He gave a strong argument: the boy was born in Berlin, has German citizenship and is registered there as Hugo Mark.
But when the child was given second citizenship (Latvian), he was recorded in the register of residents of the republic as Hugo Marx. The judge decided that the rights of the child because of the difference in the spelling of names is not in danger. He stressed that on the third page of the Latvian passport the boy’s name is indicated without the letter “s”, and confusion should not arise.
Bulgarian police saved the government. Sofia police managed to break through the barricades erected by participants in an anti-government rally around the parliament building, where ministers and journalists were locked up all night, reports RIA News" with reference to the Sofia Globe.
In clashes with the police on Wednesday night at least nine people suffered: seven protesters and two law enforcement officers.
Previously, a group of protesters blocked the exit from parliament, having built barricades of paving slabs and garbage cans around the building. Demonstrators shouted anti-government slogans.
Rallies in the country began forty days ago after the appointment of media tycoon Delyan Peevski as head of the state service of national security.
In Ireland, they know how to overcome a crisis: cut parliament. The Parliament of Ireland has decided to submit to the popular vote the question of the elimination of the upper house (Senate). The majority of the senators themselves voted for the referendum. They insist that this step will help reduce government spending on 20 million euros in these difficult times.
“All Irish families and businesses are forced to cut costs, and I believe that the political system should do the same. That is why the time has come to give people the opportunity to make such a decision ", - lead "Vesti" With reference to ITAR-TASS, the words of the Minister for Enterprise, Labor and Innovation of Ireland Richard Bruton, who heads the government campaign in favor of the elimination of the Senate.
“Progressive countries such as Denmark and Sweden have long proved that democracy can develop with less cost in a one-chamber parliament,” Bruton said.
Capitalist paradise: onion, tomato paste and ginger root. On the Mixednews.ru The translation of Miss Monroe’s letter from Britain has been published (English original and comments - here). A woman can not find work.
“For reasons unknown to me, this month my allowance for housing maintenance came a hundred pounds less than usual. I did not receive any letter about which I knew, but I can assume that these are consequences of the confusion arranged by various privileged organizations in that short period from March to May when I got a job. Whatever the reason, it’s not hard to count that pounds rent for 670 cannot be paid for pounds for housing maintenance by 438. Therefore, already for a week the payment for housing is overdue, and by the coming Thursday it will be overdue by two weeks, but on this day 167 pounds will have to come. This is already the 31 number, but nothing comes up. I continue to keep the benefit for the poor and the tax credit for child care afloat. Now I am in debt for non-payment of bills, even last night, opening the refrigerator, wanting to find there the remains of tomato paste, onions and a piece of ginger root, I gave my boy pasta and went to bed hungry, with a mug of homemade ginger tea, which was supposed to ease pain in the stomach. "
The babe of this woman ate the last package of corn flakes with tap water. “Where's mom's breakfast?” Asks a two-year-old child.
Things are being sold out. The heating is turned off. Canceled hair salon. Unscrew the light bulbs. Still, "an employee of the energy company rings at your door and says that you have a debt of 90 pounds, and he installs a special measuring device on the counter, due to which electricity will now become even more expensive."
Turns off hot water. Sold for a pittance the rest of things. From the dishes remain "two plates, two bowls, two cups, two knives, two spoons ..."
“Poverty is not only the absence of heating or lack of food, or turning off the refrigerator and turning off the hot water. This is not just a tourist lure, this is not cool, and this is something that deputies with a salary of 65 thousand pounds a year plus expenses, not to mention our deputy, declaring that we are going through this difficult time, do not understand. ”
Anti-immigrant advertising starts in London. The UK authorities will start up vans with billboards in six districts of London where illegal immigrants will be called upon to leave the country. Otherwise, visitors will be threatened with arrest. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to the BBC.
Also on the billboards will print the phone numbers of services, where visitors will be told how to go home.
Moreover, leaflets and newspapers with similar appeals will be distributed in the city.
In the future, the authorities want to disclose information on the number of illegal immigrants in each district.
"Hunting hijabs." In the suburbs of Paris, unrest continues because of an attempt by police to fine a woman for wearing a niqab, reports "RT" with reference to "Izvestia".
From Trapp, riots spread to the neighboring Parisian suburbs of Giyancourt, Montigny and Elancourt, where hooligans burned several dozen cars. People attack law enforcement officers.
The clashes began on July 20 after the arrest of a man who lashed out at the police. Local residents are unhappy that the police fined a woman who appeared in a public place in the burqa.
The prohibition to hide a person in public places was introduced in France in 2011: women wearing a burqa in shops, parks, restaurants and state institutions are threatened with a 150 euro fine.
The president of the French Coordination Center against Racism and Islamophobia Abdelaziz Shaambi sees this as a political provocation. He recalled that police actions are held in distressed neighborhoods. A public figure suggests that the “hijab hunt” started on the eve of the local 2014 elections of the year.
Big Brother and smaller brother. Spiegel has published a new batch of revelations. It turns out that the German intelligence services not only traveled overseas to increase their competence in collecting personal data, but also insisted on closer cooperation. About this tells Irina Popova ("Voice of Russia").
The opposition in Germany accuses the government of deceiving its own people in favor of good relations with the United States. But the German government continues to state that the large-scale surveillance by the NSA in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany and the active participation of the German special services in it learned ... from the press. Angela Merkel reassured journalists of this at a federal press conference - and went to the mountains of South Tyrol. On vacation.
It is important to note that control over the activities of not only intelligence, but also the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, now accused of espionage jointly with the NSA, falls under the purview of the Office of the Federal Chancellor.
One of two things: either the government was silent about its awareness of the special services, or it simply could not control them. Angela Merkel fell into a difficult situation.
The revelations gave rise to the opposition. The chairman of the Green faction in the Bundestag, Renate Kyunast, called the government of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Free Liberals (FDP) "obedient servant of the United States." The head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Sigmar Gabriel, said that "the Chancellor is more likely to represent the interests of the American special services in Germany than the German interests in the United States."
According to opinion polls, 69% of Germans are dissatisfied with the work of the Chancellor to investigate the illegal activities of the special services.
Interestingly, add on my own what is pleased with the remaining 31%?
Help for Snowden. Edward Snowden today may leave the transit zone "Sheremetyevo". This does not exclude lawyer Anatoly Kucherena. While a petition for temporary asylum is being considered, Snowden can be provided with a certificate giving the right to stay in Russia. "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
“According to the practice of the FMS, such materials are reviewed for up to seven days, after which a special certificate is issued, with which Snowden will receive the right to move freely throughout Russian territory. We petitioned 16 July. Accordingly, the review period expires on Wednesday, ”Mr. Kucherena said in an interview with Izvestia.
For security reasons, American Kucherena did not say where Snowden was going to go with a certificate.
Bankruptcy case. The Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan today will hold its first hearings on the application of Detroit crisis manager Kevin Orr, in which he asks to acknowledge the financial inconsistency of the US auto capital. The case will be considered by judge Stephen Rhodes, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Daniel Studnev.
If Orr’s application is approved, the automobile capital will become the largest bankrupt city in US history.
To whom Majorcas helped. An internal investigation has been initiated in the United States against Alejandro Majorca, head of the Citizenship and Immigration Service. This was announced by the official representative of the Office of the Chief Inspector, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zlodorev.
He noted that the investigation is at a preliminary stage and concerns "certain charges against Majorca."
Local media have written that the agency last week informed the senators that Majorca might be involved in a conflict of interest and the use of official position.
A company headed by Anthony Rodham (Hillary Clinton's brother) may be involved. Investigators suggest that Majorca assisted this organization in issuing a visa to enter the United States to one of the investors.
Majorca is a candidate for the post of Deputy Minister of National Security.
America does not give out terrorists. Law enforcement agencies in the United States have been 10 for years systematically ignoring Russian requests for the extradition of two suspected terrorists, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. This was told by Polina Lavrentyeva ("But").
These two are Ilyas Akhmadov and Tamaz Nalbandov. The first is a former militant and former foreign minister of the “government of Ichkeria”. He fought on the side of the terrorists during the first Chechen campaign, was the emissary of Shamil Basaev, and prepared detachments with Khattab. There is information that he was directly involved in the raid on Budyonnovsk.
A wanted by Interpol, Akhmadov reached the United States and took refuge there. Official requests did not give results.
When in the 1990-ies the North Caucasian RUBOP entered the grouping of Tamaz Nalbandov, the criminal escaped punishment, finding not only refuge in the US, but also a residence permit. The requests of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to extradite Nalbandov were also refused.
As says and. about. Sergey Gorlenko, head of the extradition department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, about twenty such examples in the last 20 years. Gorlenko explained: “The United States refers to the absence of an extradition agreement between us, while they themselves do not want to conclude it.”
Hot topic concerns and Russia. Marina Gritsyuk and Tatyana Smolyakova ("Russian newspaper") remind that the Australian government introduced a monetary reward for information about criminals who organize illegal migration (Radio Liberty reported this).
The correspondents of “RG” asked themselves a question: is a similar way possible to fight “illegal guests” in Russia?
The press service of the FMS said in response that the penalty for organizing illegal migration is from 250 thousand to 800 thousand rubles. True, in the 6 months compared to 2012 in the year, the number of violations increased. The “risk group” has also increased. If two months ago its number was 2,8 million, today it is already 3 million. The group includes people who came to Russia for the purpose of labor activity, but after 90 days passed, they did not acquire any work permits or patents.
“I don’t know what such a payment for informing about illegal migration can turn out in our conditions,” said Yulia Florinskaya, a senior researcher at the migration laboratory of the Institute for National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - Everything is already known, but there is no will of the authorities to normalize the situation. Too many people are interested in uncertainty, so that law enforcement practices contradict the law, as it is happening now. ”
German image of Russia: bears, vodka, donkey milk and bras. The magazine "Spiegel" invited its readers to "discover Russia". To do this, you need to pass the test of 13 questions, writes "Inopressa".
The Germans started with vodka.
One of the test answers to the question: "Why do trains on the way from Germany to Russia stand at the border for a long time?"
In addition, according to the answer in the test, vodka can serve in Russia as an alternative dressing for okroshka (along with donkey milk). In another question, readers are asked to choose: “With what gesture do the Russians make it clear that they want to drink vodka?” There are three possible answers: “1) They plug their nose. 2) Touch the throat. 3) Knock themselves on the forehead. "
The Germans were not able to get away from the bearish theme: “What kind of animal launched by the Russians during the flight became the first living creature in space?” - “1) Mouse. 2) Brown Bear. 3) Dog.
As for the bra, then this thing, according to the compilers of the test, is one of the most commonly used words in Russian of German origin.
It is very strange, let us add on our own that in “Spiegel” they avoided questions about the musical instruments of the Russian people. After all, after the Russian touches his throat and eats okroshka, he will need one of the three: 1) harp; 2) button accordion; 3) balalaika.
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