Geopolitical mosaic: the United States banned the Venezuelan president from flying over Puerto Rico, and McCain was offered to be examined at the sanatorium of the Russian Defense Ministry
Russian military ready to destroy the Syrian chemical weapon. “The UN Inspectorate will go to Damascus again.” - John Kerry knows who is to blame. - The USSR has nothing to do with it. - Western interpretation of the behavior of Moscow: upside down. - "Prince of Peace." - Abdurahman from Al-Muhajirin. - The President of Iran told about constructive America and occupying Israel. - Judge son Gaddafi. - Islamists of Nigeria shoot educated. - The first swallows of the "European spring". - China is quietly buying France. - Provencal fate of Mr. Kuznetsov. - Ukraine is "associated." - Saakashvili told about the Russian invitation ... into a trap. - About the "Soviet computer socialism." - USA vs Venezuela. - What does Russia have in common with Tanzania and Uganda. - Terrorists from Greenpeace. - Putin is grateful to the New York Times. - McCain was advised to be examined.
The Russian military is ready to destroy the Syrian chemical weapons. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that a plan proposed by Vladimir Putin proposes the taking of chemicals under international control. Words Shoigu quoted "Russian newspaper": “If our place is determined in this international control, either transportation or destruction, naturally, Russia will be ready to take part and the Armed Forces certainly.”
Shoigu also said that he was ready to send chemical weapons specialists to Damascus.
The inspectors from the United Nations who have been there will expect to return to Damascus.
The UN inspectorate will travel to Damascus again. United Nations chemical weapons experts may come back to Syria. Reports about it "RG" with reference to the RIA "News».
“Yes, we will return to Syria. Plans are not ready yet, so I can not say when we will go, but it will be soon, ”said O. Selstrom.
As for the Americans, they are not in a hurry to participate in the projects for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.
As reported today correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Shitov, the Pentagon’s press service asked to comment on a message in the Russian media that several countries, including the United States, were allegedly about to send servicemen to Syria to help Damascus in the removal and destruction of chemical weapons gave the following answer: discuss the details of a future stockpile destruction program Syria does not have chemical weapons early, and there are no plans to send American soldiers to Syria yet.
Press spokesman Bill Spicks said: “Currently, the US government is focused on getting the Syrian government to provide timely, comprehensive, and accurate information about its chemical weapons program, as well as providing international inspectors with unhindered access to declared and undeclared facilities samples, inventory and evaluation of these objects. " “It would be premature to outline the specific contours of the destruction program,” he added. “There are currently no plans to send American troops to Syria.”
John Kerry knows who is to blame. The report of the UN inspectors confirms the guilt of the Assad government in the implementation of himataki in the suburbs of Damascus. This was stated by US Secretary of State John Kerry, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Surzhansky.
“They (the inspectors) returned, having in their hands several key details that confirmed the guilt of the Assad regime in carrying out this attack,” said the head of American diplomacy. “We know that Assad regime has sarin,” he continued. “However, there is no evidence that the opposition has it.”
Now, D. Kerry noted, “the world community should decide whether chemical weapons were used by the regime that had already used it, or whether the opposition secretly penetrated the territory it does not control to launch missiles that they do not have, containing sarin which they do not possess. ”
Further, the US Secretary of State said: “For many weeks we have heard from Russia and other countries: let's wait for the UN report, these are independent experts, this is the gold standard. Despite the efforts of some to prove the opposite, the facts only became clearer, and the arguments became more convincing ... Every single point (in the report) —the type of munitions and missiles that were used, the trajectory of their flight, the type of toxic substance — all this confirms that what we already knew and what America warned others about. ”
How worthy of trust is Mr. Kerry, the reader will find out from the article "Pathological Liar" from the State Department "recently published on "VO".
The USSR has nothing to do with it. The Soviet Union did not supply warheads with sarin to anyone, said the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov. According to him, this fact no one disputes. So Sergey Ivanov commented on the report of the UN experts on the use of chemical weapons near Damascus, pass "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The report says, among other things, that there were fragments of a rocket with Cyrillic inscriptions on the himatak site. Speaking at the Valdai Club, Ivanov recalled that he had been Minister of Defense for years 6. He said: “Indeed, such inscriptions were made on earth-to-earth missiles in the USSR, when they were produced from 1950 to 1960 a year. This is old, very dilapidated. Over the years, I mean the Soviet, not Russian, such missiles were supplied to dozens of countries, for example, to Libya. Where the Libyan arsenals are, God only knows. ” Ivanov added: “Now imagine: an old, antediluvian Soviet rocket and a warhead that came from no one knows where. This alone should cause big questions. And secondly, the commission on the spot discovered large containers, near which remains of sarin are preserved. Not one army of the world ever employs these tanks. That is, they were almost certainly handicrafts. ”
Western interpretation of the behavior of Moscow: upside down. New review of Western newspapers from "Foreign Press" is dedicated to the theme of the Kremlin’s objections to evidence from the UN. In the West, they believe that these objections weaken the Syria agreement.
After the attack with the use of chemical weapons, Russia opposed the international response to the lack of evidence, writes in the Financial Times editorial. But the UN experts presented evidence: “Although no charges were filed, the data clearly indicate the responsibility of the Bashar al-Assad regime. But now Russia declares that this report is biased and full of distortions. ”
By concluding an agreement with the United States with the goal of putting Syrian chemical weapons under international control, the Russian president showed himself in a positive light - as a force contributing to resolving the crisis in Syria. “However, this agreement is weakening due to Moscow’s unsubstantiated objections against evidence gathered by the UN,” the editorial board believes.
“Moscow must stop confusing this issue. The non-proliferation of the Syrian WMD is as much a matter of strategic importance for Russia as it is for the whole world, ”the newspaper concluded.
"Russia claims to have evidence of the use of chemical weapons by Syrian rebels," the Los Angeles Times says in the headline.
The UN report said that inspectors found "clear and convincing evidence" that the missiles containing sarin were used during the August 21 attack. “Although the report did not identify the culprit, Western diplomats and independent experts stated that this is irrefutable proof of the government’s attacks,” the author writes.
Meanwhile, Bashar Asad renewed the traditional allied pact with Russia, thanking Moscow for helping Syria to repel the “wild attack” by the American president. According to the Syrian leader, the position of opposition to the intervention, taken by Russia, contributes to "creating a new global balance of power" without imbalance in favor of the United States, writes "La Stampa".
“Assad’s statements coincided with the Kremlin’s new diplomatic offensive, which sent Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to Damascus for talks with the regime’s leadership,” the article notes. - Ryabkov was received by the Syrian President personally. The Russian diplomat said that his interlocutors provided him with new evidence confirming that the rebels were behind the attack using the nerve gas 21 of August. ”
The article in "Le Figaro" is devoted to the Syrian opposition. The opposition is the author of this article scares.
“These numbers make you flinch,” writes George Malbruneau. According to the UN, in Syria, there are about 600 influential armed groups, of which 58% are ultra-radical and obscurantist trends of Islam.
“According to my estimates, just a year ago the number of rebels who were in groups associated with Al-Qaeda did not exceed 5%,” said the head of the UN coordinating office, Mokhtar Lamani, referring to “Djebhat al-Nusra” and “Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant. " “Today, the members of these two organizations and the Salafis as a whole make up more than 40% of the 150 thousand of rebels fighting in the country”.
Lamani study lasted more than a year. It turned out that the share of formations subordinating to the Free Syrian Army is small, but “Dzhebhat al-Nusra” and “ISIL” are those who during two years of war never experienced a lack of money or weapons.
After the US has postponed strikes against Assad, jihadists can take advantage and absorb the moderate rebels, the expert predicts.
“ISIS” is a formation, from the cruelty of which the blood runs cold in the veins, the article notes. The organization is developing by coming into conflict with other factions and raiding Alawite villages.
“Their fighters penetrated into a dozen isolated Alawite villages, shooting and killing 137 women,” a Damascus diplomat told a journalist. “The mass exodus of residents to Lattakia and Tartus has inspired Al Qaeda, which now plans to organize similar punitive raids on small villages of Christians and Alawis in the area of Hama and Homs.”
The source interviewed warns: "Al-Qaeda-related groups will eliminate all opponents." The journalist reminds that over the past three weeks, about ten field commanders were killed, who refused to fight for Al-Qaida.
The German journalist continued the Syrian theme and tried to objectively analyze the official position of Russia on Syria.
"Prince of Peace." In a note by Christian Ash “The truth and lies of Putin” («Berliner Zeitung»; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") disassembled Vladimir Putin’s proposal to transfer Syrian chemical weapons under international control.
The author writes: “The unexpected turn of world politics led to Putin appearing in the image of the Prince of the World. The public rubs its eyes in amazement. Is this the very president who supplies weapons to the Assad regime and has done everything possible to protect the cruel dictator? And if it is him, how can he be trusted? Does he speak seriously? ”
The author believes that the answer to these questions is: "Sometimes he speaks seriously, and sometimes he brazenly lies." And if so, it is important for the West to learn to distinguish the first from the second. Ash himself has already learned.
True to the journalist is the thesis that the Russian Federation is not protected by Assad, but by international law. Russia defends the “principle of non-interference in internal affairs,” the author clarifies.
"The Kremlin is frightened by the ease with which decisions about military intervention are made in the West, bypassing the UN Security Council." Putin is equally sincere in his conviction that the Syrian rebels are terrorists: “The fear of armed Islamists is true and understandable. In the end, they fight with them in his own country. ”
As for the second point, the “most arrogant lie of the Kremlin” to the journalist is the assertion that the rebels are behind the gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus. After all, Russia has close contacts with Syria, and she knows better than others how things were.
“Nevertheless, the Moscow leadership decided to present an unconvincing thesis about the guilt of the rebels as unequivocally proven. For him, this is not the truth. The point here is only to recapture part of the territory in the global information war for a short time and to hold it for as long as possible. This is a misinformation of the world community in order to extinguish the Western defiant desire for intervention, ”the Berlin journalist sums up.
Abdurahman from Al-Muhajirin. Al-Qaeda-related Caucasian militants formed a separate detachment in Syria, reports "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
The Islamists announced that in Aleppo, militants from Chechnya and other regions of the Caucasus formed a new unit, Al-Muhajirin (“Emigrants”). He was headed by a Chechen Abu Abdurahman. The source of this information was the network portal of the London newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
The new group has more than a thousand militants. Most of them have experience of fighting in the Caucasus.
According to Abdurakhman, a camp has been set up in Aleppo for the militants of Al-Muhadzhirin, where they undergo military training before going "to the front of the struggle against the army of the Syrian regime."
Iranian President spoke about constructive America and occupying Israel. The proposals of Barack Obama, recently sent to Hassan Rouhani about the Iranian nuclear program, are “positive and constructive.” The Iranian President 18 September reported this in an interview with the American television channel NBC.
“From my point of view, the tone of this letter is positive and constructive,” he was quoted as saying. "Vesti"referring to ITAR-TASS.
“Vesti” reminds that earlier White House press secretary Jay Carney said that B. Obama sent a letter to Rouhani: “In his letter, the president indicated the US readiness to solve the problem by giving Iran the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program pursues exclusively peaceful purposes ".
Speaking on television, Hassan Rouhani called Israel an invader and usurper, creating instability in the Middle East, reports MIGnews.com. Iran itself does not want war.
“We do not seek war with any country, but want peace and friendship with the peoples of the region,” Rouhani told NBC.
The journalist asked Rouhani how he reacted to the comments made by Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the Iranian president "a wolf in sheep's clothing." Rouhani replied: "Israel should not allow itself to give such speeches to a democratically and freely elected government."
Judged son Gaddafi. As the correspondent ITAR-TASS Dina Drunk, the son of Gaddafi Seif al-Islam, appeared before the court of Zintan (Libya).
The court is studying an episode related to his meeting in June 2012 with the International Criminal Court lawyer Melinda Taylor. The prosecutor's office brought against her son Gaddafi charges of receiving from her some documents that could jeopardize the national security of Libya.
It is interesting that, starting a meeting, the court postponed the hearing to December 12, motivating it with the need to present the rest of the defendants in the courtroom.
Lawyer of Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi, John Jones believes that his client is under pressure and that this case should be considered in the International Criminal Court, reports "RT".
“It is not possible to maintain any connection with Safe Al-Islam, since in Libya they keep him in solitary confinement, away from the outside world. For about two years now he has not been able to communicate with his family, with his family and friends, not to mention a lawyer. I represent him in the International Criminal Court, and we made a convincing argument that he should be brought there, ”said the lawyer.
“I worked a lot with cases involving solitary confinement. Studies consistently show that even two weeks of solitary confinement can cause a deep trauma to the human psyche, the lawyer explained. - A Safe, as I said, spent in solitary confinement for about two years, not being able to communicate even with relatives. You can imagine what a terrible mental anguish for him, mental suffering for him. You know that he faces the death penalty. And if armed groups break into prison, then something more terrible. So, sure, mentally it is extremely painful for him. As for the physical condition, here I know the same thing that others know about the news. That he does not have several fingers and, possibly, teeth. As I said, neither I nor other human rights defenders could meet with him. So you can only speculate. "
Islamists in Nigeria shoot educated. Militants from the Boko Haram faction shot 87 people in Benissik (northeast Nigeria). “Boko Haram” is officially called “People who devote themselves to the dissemination of the teachings of the Prophet and jihad.” Radicals oppose schools and other educational institutions. For this, the Nigerians gave the group the nickname “Boko Haram” (“a ban on Western education”).
This time, Islamists dressed as soldiers of government forces, the channel said "RT".
The gunmen, armed with machine guns and grenade launchers, arrived in the town on twenty pickups. Islamists opened fire on civilians who do not share their views on faith and education. Then the members of Boko Haram burned dozens of buildings.
In addition, the Islamists put up roadblocks on the outskirts of the city and killed anyone who tried to leave Benishik. After finishing the massacre, the members of the group left.
The first swallows of the "European spring". British policemen arrested four local residents on suspicion of "carrying out, preparing and inciting terrorist acts", reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the Associated Press.
Two men were arrested upon arrival from France: during a search, the police found an unnamed amount of ammunition in both. In the same case, one man and one woman were taken into custody in Essex County.
Searches were conducted in homes and workplaces of those arrested in Essex, London and Lancashire. Now investigators are working with the arrested.
The police explained that the arrests are related to the alleged terrorist activities of these people in Syria.
As recalled by "Ribbon", earlier the British authorities have repeatedly expressed concern about the fact that British citizens are increasingly traveling to Syria to war on the side of the rebels. According to London, these volunteers will be surrounded by connections among terrorists, which will make them dangerous when they return to their homeland.
China is quietly buying France. Some EU countries are increasingly dependent on Beijing, the correspondent reports "RT" Tesa Arsillah.
Vineyards in Burgundy and Bordeaux have already been sold, the French hotel chain Club Med has been sold, and 80% of the Paris fashion brand Sonia Rykiel is now owned by investors from Hong Kong.
Nevertheless, the French government is considering the possibility of investing more money by foreign investors. The latest indicators of the level of industrial production in France are simply sad. They, the correspondent notes, questioned the statements of Paris about the restoration of the country's economy.
France buys from China much more than it sells: the deficit in trade in goods with the Asian giant reached 26 billion euros.
Provencal fate of Mr. Kuznetsov. Anastasia Popova ("Vesti") spoke about the fate of ex-Finance Minister of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov. She decided in France. The court of Aix-en-Provence rejected his request for release on bail. This former official in Russia is suspected of stealing billions of rubles from the budget.
Lawyers for Mr. Kuznetsov before the meeting filed papers with the request to postpone consideration of the issue of his extradition to Russia. Protection requests to release Alexei Kuznetsov on bail.
At the same time, it took about a quarter of an hour to read the incomplete list of the sane crimes imputed to the former minister. According to the judge, there was no point in listing everything. The overall picture is already clear: we are talking about fraud on a large scale. Indeed, more than 40 billion rubles were stolen from the budget of the Moscow region.
Lawyers have built a defense on the allegation that the case against Kuznetsov is politically motivated.
Anastasia Popova notes that Kuznetsov fled to France in 2008, when he was suspected of dual Russian-American citizenship. For two years this man lived in Paris, three more lived in the luxury hotels of the Cote d'Azur. At this very time, 98% of the regional budget was unsecured debts.
The accused denied this fact. He said: so much to steal is impossible.
Today, the lawyer of Alexei Kuznetsov, Julian Pinelli, speaks of the “inconsistency of the charges.” True, the French prosecutor informed the court that Switzerland had submitted a request to study the data on three false Kuznetsov passports: they were all found on the day of the detention of the former minister in a hotel room in Saint-Tropez.
French lawyers say they do not recall the case when the defendants were extradited to Russia. But it happened that they were released on bail, and then they left the country ...
Ukraine is "associated." The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved the text of an association agreement with the EU, initiating a mechanism for preparing a document for the signing scheduled for November, the EU ambassador to Ukraine, Jan Tombinsky, said. “This is an important step of the Ukrainian government,” Mr. Tombinsky quotes. "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
The newspaper reminds that Kiev expects to sign an association agreement with the EU, part of which is the provision on a free trade zone, during the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, scheduled for November. At the same time, Kiev hopes to receive observer status in the Customs Union in order to preserve the volume of trade with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. True, Russia had previously stated that in the event of the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the EU, the Customs Union would have to take protective measures.
Olga Gavrilova ("Voice of Russia") notes that Ukraine will lose much more from an association with the EU in economic terms than Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will lose from its refusal to join the Customs Union. And the most negative thing about the choice of Ukraine is that the government does not take into account the interests of the people. So experts believe Valery Shnyakin and Igor Shishkin.
Valery Shnyakin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, explained what measures Russia could take after Ukraine signed an agreement with the European Union:
According to the expert, having signed an agreement with the European Union, Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs will buy a ticket to the Titanic.
Why did Ukraine decide on European integration? The expert answered this question quite clearly:
Igor Shishkin, Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS Countries, believes that after the signing of an association agreement with the European Union, changes in the relations of the Customs Union with Ukraine will certainly occur:
Saakashvili spoke about the Russian invitation ... into the trap. The President of Georgia calls it a serious mistake to orient the supply of Georgian wine only to the Russian market.
“The one who ties us only to Russia invites us into a trap. Orientation only to the Russian market is a grave mistake, ”Saakashvili said during a training session at the presidential house in Kvareli, where he set up a training center for Georgian wine-makers. "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
“We brought here from France one of the best experts in the field of winemaking, the famous enologist Jean-Michel Mounier. He will teach us how to enter the European and world market. We should not be tied to the Russian market. Russia opened its market to Moldova and closed it again after two years, ”said Saakashvili, who is also going to bring Spanish and American specialists to Georgia.
Saakashvili himself will also become a winemaker: “After the presidency, I will completely switch to the revival of Georgian winemaking. Here, on the basis of my vineyard, I want to build a small plant, where our growers will be able to get acquainted with the newest technologies, and thus create the prospect for them to enter the world market. ”
About the "Soviet computer socialism." Love Lyulko (Pravda.ru) Recalls that Brazil is determined to put an end to US hegemony on the Internet.
This very hegemony is provided by an agreement within the International Telecommunication Union, which empowered the public company ICAAN (California). Yes, that's just no it is not a "public company": after all, it is under the contract transferred the right to control the Internet services to the US government.
In Brazil, Americans control 80% online search and network traffic. Dilma Rousseff stated that she would insist on new international rules on privacy and security in the field of hardware and software. She intends to put forward relevant proposals during the UN Assembly session at the end of September. Dilma Rousseff, in addition, urged Brazilian parliamentarians to legally force Facebook, Google and other American companies to store Brazilian data on servers located in Brazil.
The Brazilian government, writes Lyubov Lyulko, plans to lay a fiber optic cable under water to Europe. It implies participation in the project of all Latin American countries! Yes, and Europe will connect: the Europeans have repeatedly advocated the destruction of the American monopoly.
Finally, Brazil is going to diversify data exchange points: signal routes from Brazilian users will be far away from potential interception points.
It is also intended to increase investment in domestic technology and buy only software that meets state confidentiality criteria.
Well, there are also plans to implement some trifles: for example, to create a domestic mail system, an alternative to Gmail and Yahoo!, because these companies, according to Snowden, cooperate with the NSA.
The Americans got nervous: after all, ICAAN will suffer huge losses in the event of the implementation of a large-scale Brazilian project (according to expert estimates, 35 billions of dollars in 2016 year). Brazilians are one of the most active users of network services: they have the third place on Facebook traffic, and the second on Twitter and YouTube.
In addition, American experts claim that laying cable to Europe will not ensure the confidentiality of data: the NSA has a technology that allows you to remove information even from optical fiber laid across the bottom of the ocean.
Matthew Green, a computer security expert at the Hopkins Institute, is confident that Brazilians do not have innovative technologies to create a competitive email service.
"It will be kind of like Soviet computer socialism," Green said.
USA vs Venezuela. The United States denied visas to members of the Venezuelan delegation, which met at the UN General Assembly in late September. This was reported by Nicolas Maduro, transmits "RT" with reference to France Press.
Foreign Minister Elias Howa had previously announced that the United States had refused to allow Maduro aircraft traveling to China to enter its airspace (over Puerto Rico). True, the visit will not be canceled: an alternative route will be developed for the flight.
During the official meeting with the South African counterpart Mayte Nkoana-Mashabane, the Minister said: "We received a message from the American authorities that our aircraft is not allowed to fly in their airspace." He added: “We condemn this act of aggression by North American imperialism against the Bolivarian Republic. No one has the right to refuse to provide an air corridor to an airplane of a president flying on an international visit. There was no reason for that. ”
Maduro noted that the provision of visas to the entire Venezuelan delegation "is a duty" of the United States and promised in response to the "Washington aggression" to take "tough diplomatic measures."
As transmits correspondent RIA Novosti Oleg Vyazmitinov, Bolivian President Evo Morales called on Latin American and Caribbean countries to withdraw their US ambassadors and refuse to participate in the UN General Assembly in protest against the US decision to close the airspace for the aircraft of the Venezuelan President. This was reported by the Bolivian agency "ABI".
“As a member of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), we ask <...> to convene a presidential summit in order to seriously consider the issue of US arrogance,” said Comrade Morales, adding that at this meeting Bolivia “will support immediate recall of US ambassadors. "
Morales further stated that he would call on the governments of the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) to refuse to participate in a meeting at the UN General Assembly in protest against the “insult” Maduro.
“We will be preparing an international lawsuit so that Obama and his government will be tried for crimes against humanity. This will be the best tool to protect the rights of states, ”Morales said.
What does Russia have in common with Tanzania and Uganda. Parliaments of most countries are not able to control the work of the ministries of defense. This was found out by experts of the anti-corruption research center “Transparency International”, reports Sergey Goryashko (Kommersant).
According to the study, the Russian Federation, on a par with Uganda, Tanzania, Kazakhstan and Turkey, belongs to the group with a high risk of corruption in the defense industry. Even in 14 states (among which Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Libya, and Syria are named), the level of parliamentary control is close to critical. And only in four countries (these are Australia, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom), the legislature effectively controls the defense industry.
The head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Vladimir Komoyedov (KPRF), says that Russia occupies a worthy place in this ranking. The first deputy chairman of the committee, Sergey Zhigarev (LDPR), in turn, acknowledged that the problem of corruption in this area is:
Terrorists from Greenpeace. The FSB border guards in the Murmansk region on the evening of September 19 detained the ship "Arctic Sunrise" with environmentalists from "Greenpeace", reports Interfax. To force an icebreaker to stop, the border guard station landed on it from a helicopter.
The press service of the FSB border guards in the Murmansk region noted that two Greenpeace activists, a citizen of Finland, Sini Saarele and a Swiss citizen, Marco Polo, spent two days aboard a border guard vessel after they tried to climb on the Gazpromneft platform, but fell into cold water . The border guards got Greenpeace from the water; they have now been transferred aboard the Arctic Sunrise.
In the Russian branch of Greenpeace, the seizure of an icebreaker was called illegal. According to environmentalists, around 19: 00 yesterday, fifteen armed Russian border guards came down from the helicopter from the helicopter. “Several activists managed to lock themselves in the radio room. The rest were gathered at the helipad, they demanded to kneel down, pointing automatic guns at them, ”Greenpeace said. “There were no legal grounds for lifting border guards aboard the Arctic Sunrise. The seizure of the vessel has actually been accomplished, ”said the head of Greenpeace Russia, Sergey Tsyplenkov. He expressed the hope that the leadership of the state would release the activists and “instead of fighting peaceful protests, would really defend Russia's national interests. Including - to provide protection from oil accidents in the Arctic. "
Later, Greenpeace Russia expert Roman Dolgov came out on the phone from Interfax. He said:
Environmentalists claim that at the time of the attack the icebreaker was located outside the territorial waters of Russia, in the exclusive economic zone.
Putin is grateful to the New York Times. As transmits RIA News", Vladimir Putin is grateful to the New York Times for publishing his article "without cuts". The president said this during the anniversary meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.
“We agreed through our partners that this would be the New York Times, warned, agreed with this respected publication that the article would be published without banknotes. If this does not suit us, then we will post the article in another newspaper, but we must pay tribute to the leadership of the New York Times, they have fully complied with our agreements, everything is as it is and printed, ”the president said. To this he added that "they even went away from their usual requirements in terms of the number of characters, the number of words in the article ... there was a little more."
McCain was advised to be examined. In recent days, the famous Senator John McCain does not leave the strips of paper publications and looms on the screens of monitors.
As transmits "RT", the Republican senator stated that he would accept the invitation of President Putin to participate in the international Valdai Discussion Club, but he didn’t have time: “I would gladly accept the invitation if the schedule allowed me.” So the American politician wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin invited McCain to join the work of the Valdai Discussion Club: there he could fill in the gaps of his knowledge of the situation in modern Russia.
According to Pravda.ru, Alexander Brod, director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, commented on the McCain material: “Russians deserve better than Putin,” previously published on the same Pravde.ru.
Alexander Brod called the McCain appeal the agitations of the Cold War era and stated that McCain was “late for years on 30-40”.
By the way, in his article (see resource Pravda.ru) Mr. McCain once again declared himself "pro-Russian."
As for the question of what “Pravda” the senator wanted to send the message to, the answer is here.
Have a good weekend and a peaceful sky over your head.
The Russian military is ready to destroy the Syrian chemical weapons. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that a plan proposed by Vladimir Putin proposes the taking of chemicals under international control. Words Shoigu quoted "Russian newspaper": “If our place is determined in this international control, either transportation or destruction, naturally, Russia will be ready to take part and the Armed Forces certainly.”
Shoigu also said that he was ready to send chemical weapons specialists to Damascus.
The inspectors from the United Nations who have been there will expect to return to Damascus.
The UN inspectorate will travel to Damascus again. United Nations chemical weapons experts may come back to Syria. Reports about it "RG" with reference to the RIA "News».
“Yes, we will return to Syria. Plans are not ready yet, so I can not say when we will go, but it will be soon, ”said O. Selstrom.
As for the Americans, they are not in a hurry to participate in the projects for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.
As reported today correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Shitov, the Pentagon’s press service asked to comment on a message in the Russian media that several countries, including the United States, were allegedly about to send servicemen to Syria to help Damascus in the removal and destruction of chemical weapons gave the following answer: discuss the details of a future stockpile destruction program Syria does not have chemical weapons early, and there are no plans to send American soldiers to Syria yet.
Press spokesman Bill Spicks said: “Currently, the US government is focused on getting the Syrian government to provide timely, comprehensive, and accurate information about its chemical weapons program, as well as providing international inspectors with unhindered access to declared and undeclared facilities samples, inventory and evaluation of these objects. " “It would be premature to outline the specific contours of the destruction program,” he added. “There are currently no plans to send American troops to Syria.”
John Kerry knows who is to blame. The report of the UN inspectors confirms the guilt of the Assad government in the implementation of himataki in the suburbs of Damascus. This was stated by US Secretary of State John Kerry, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Surzhansky.
“They (the inspectors) returned, having in their hands several key details that confirmed the guilt of the Assad regime in carrying out this attack,” said the head of American diplomacy. “We know that Assad regime has sarin,” he continued. “However, there is no evidence that the opposition has it.”
Now, D. Kerry noted, “the world community should decide whether chemical weapons were used by the regime that had already used it, or whether the opposition secretly penetrated the territory it does not control to launch missiles that they do not have, containing sarin which they do not possess. ”
Further, the US Secretary of State said: “For many weeks we have heard from Russia and other countries: let's wait for the UN report, these are independent experts, this is the gold standard. Despite the efforts of some to prove the opposite, the facts only became clearer, and the arguments became more convincing ... Every single point (in the report) —the type of munitions and missiles that were used, the trajectory of their flight, the type of toxic substance — all this confirms that what we already knew and what America warned others about. ”
How worthy of trust is Mr. Kerry, the reader will find out from the article "Pathological Liar" from the State Department "recently published on "VO".
The USSR has nothing to do with it. The Soviet Union did not supply warheads with sarin to anyone, said the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov. According to him, this fact no one disputes. So Sergey Ivanov commented on the report of the UN experts on the use of chemical weapons near Damascus, pass "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The report says, among other things, that there were fragments of a rocket with Cyrillic inscriptions on the himatak site. Speaking at the Valdai Club, Ivanov recalled that he had been Minister of Defense for years 6. He said: “Indeed, such inscriptions were made on earth-to-earth missiles in the USSR, when they were produced from 1950 to 1960 a year. This is old, very dilapidated. Over the years, I mean the Soviet, not Russian, such missiles were supplied to dozens of countries, for example, to Libya. Where the Libyan arsenals are, God only knows. ” Ivanov added: “Now imagine: an old, antediluvian Soviet rocket and a warhead that came from no one knows where. This alone should cause big questions. And secondly, the commission on the spot discovered large containers, near which remains of sarin are preserved. Not one army of the world ever employs these tanks. That is, they were almost certainly handicrafts. ”
Western interpretation of the behavior of Moscow: upside down. New review of Western newspapers from "Foreign Press" is dedicated to the theme of the Kremlin’s objections to evidence from the UN. In the West, they believe that these objections weaken the Syria agreement.
After the attack with the use of chemical weapons, Russia opposed the international response to the lack of evidence, writes in the Financial Times editorial. But the UN experts presented evidence: “Although no charges were filed, the data clearly indicate the responsibility of the Bashar al-Assad regime. But now Russia declares that this report is biased and full of distortions. ”
By concluding an agreement with the United States with the goal of putting Syrian chemical weapons under international control, the Russian president showed himself in a positive light - as a force contributing to resolving the crisis in Syria. “However, this agreement is weakening due to Moscow’s unsubstantiated objections against evidence gathered by the UN,” the editorial board believes.
“Moscow must stop confusing this issue. The non-proliferation of the Syrian WMD is as much a matter of strategic importance for Russia as it is for the whole world, ”the newspaper concluded.
"Russia claims to have evidence of the use of chemical weapons by Syrian rebels," the Los Angeles Times says in the headline.
The UN report said that inspectors found "clear and convincing evidence" that the missiles containing sarin were used during the August 21 attack. “Although the report did not identify the culprit, Western diplomats and independent experts stated that this is irrefutable proof of the government’s attacks,” the author writes.
Meanwhile, Bashar Asad renewed the traditional allied pact with Russia, thanking Moscow for helping Syria to repel the “wild attack” by the American president. According to the Syrian leader, the position of opposition to the intervention, taken by Russia, contributes to "creating a new global balance of power" without imbalance in favor of the United States, writes "La Stampa".
“Assad’s statements coincided with the Kremlin’s new diplomatic offensive, which sent Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to Damascus for talks with the regime’s leadership,” the article notes. - Ryabkov was received by the Syrian President personally. The Russian diplomat said that his interlocutors provided him with new evidence confirming that the rebels were behind the attack using the nerve gas 21 of August. ”
The article in "Le Figaro" is devoted to the Syrian opposition. The opposition is the author of this article scares.
“These numbers make you flinch,” writes George Malbruneau. According to the UN, in Syria, there are about 600 influential armed groups, of which 58% are ultra-radical and obscurantist trends of Islam.
“According to my estimates, just a year ago the number of rebels who were in groups associated with Al-Qaeda did not exceed 5%,” said the head of the UN coordinating office, Mokhtar Lamani, referring to “Djebhat al-Nusra” and “Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant. " “Today, the members of these two organizations and the Salafis as a whole make up more than 40% of the 150 thousand of rebels fighting in the country”.
Lamani study lasted more than a year. It turned out that the share of formations subordinating to the Free Syrian Army is small, but “Dzhebhat al-Nusra” and “ISIL” are those who during two years of war never experienced a lack of money or weapons.
After the US has postponed strikes against Assad, jihadists can take advantage and absorb the moderate rebels, the expert predicts.
“ISIS” is a formation, from the cruelty of which the blood runs cold in the veins, the article notes. The organization is developing by coming into conflict with other factions and raiding Alawite villages.
“Their fighters penetrated into a dozen isolated Alawite villages, shooting and killing 137 women,” a Damascus diplomat told a journalist. “The mass exodus of residents to Lattakia and Tartus has inspired Al Qaeda, which now plans to organize similar punitive raids on small villages of Christians and Alawis in the area of Hama and Homs.”
The source interviewed warns: "Al-Qaeda-related groups will eliminate all opponents." The journalist reminds that over the past three weeks, about ten field commanders were killed, who refused to fight for Al-Qaida.
The German journalist continued the Syrian theme and tried to objectively analyze the official position of Russia on Syria.
"Prince of Peace." In a note by Christian Ash “The truth and lies of Putin” («Berliner Zeitung»; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") disassembled Vladimir Putin’s proposal to transfer Syrian chemical weapons under international control.
The author writes: “The unexpected turn of world politics led to Putin appearing in the image of the Prince of the World. The public rubs its eyes in amazement. Is this the very president who supplies weapons to the Assad regime and has done everything possible to protect the cruel dictator? And if it is him, how can he be trusted? Does he speak seriously? ”
The author believes that the answer to these questions is: "Sometimes he speaks seriously, and sometimes he brazenly lies." And if so, it is important for the West to learn to distinguish the first from the second. Ash himself has already learned.
True to the journalist is the thesis that the Russian Federation is not protected by Assad, but by international law. Russia defends the “principle of non-interference in internal affairs,” the author clarifies.
"The Kremlin is frightened by the ease with which decisions about military intervention are made in the West, bypassing the UN Security Council." Putin is equally sincere in his conviction that the Syrian rebels are terrorists: “The fear of armed Islamists is true and understandable. In the end, they fight with them in his own country. ”
As for the second point, the “most arrogant lie of the Kremlin” to the journalist is the assertion that the rebels are behind the gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus. After all, Russia has close contacts with Syria, and she knows better than others how things were.
“Nevertheless, the Moscow leadership decided to present an unconvincing thesis about the guilt of the rebels as unequivocally proven. For him, this is not the truth. The point here is only to recapture part of the territory in the global information war for a short time and to hold it for as long as possible. This is a misinformation of the world community in order to extinguish the Western defiant desire for intervention, ”the Berlin journalist sums up.
Abdurahman from Al-Muhajirin. Al-Qaeda-related Caucasian militants formed a separate detachment in Syria, reports "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
The Islamists announced that in Aleppo, militants from Chechnya and other regions of the Caucasus formed a new unit, Al-Muhajirin (“Emigrants”). He was headed by a Chechen Abu Abdurahman. The source of this information was the network portal of the London newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
The new group has more than a thousand militants. Most of them have experience of fighting in the Caucasus.
According to Abdurakhman, a camp has been set up in Aleppo for the militants of Al-Muhadzhirin, where they undergo military training before going "to the front of the struggle against the army of the Syrian regime."
Iranian President spoke about constructive America and occupying Israel. The proposals of Barack Obama, recently sent to Hassan Rouhani about the Iranian nuclear program, are “positive and constructive.” The Iranian President 18 September reported this in an interview with the American television channel NBC.
“From my point of view, the tone of this letter is positive and constructive,” he was quoted as saying. "Vesti"referring to ITAR-TASS.
“Vesti” reminds that earlier White House press secretary Jay Carney said that B. Obama sent a letter to Rouhani: “In his letter, the president indicated the US readiness to solve the problem by giving Iran the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program pursues exclusively peaceful purposes ".
Speaking on television, Hassan Rouhani called Israel an invader and usurper, creating instability in the Middle East, reports MIGnews.com. Iran itself does not want war.
“We do not seek war with any country, but want peace and friendship with the peoples of the region,” Rouhani told NBC.
The journalist asked Rouhani how he reacted to the comments made by Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the Iranian president "a wolf in sheep's clothing." Rouhani replied: "Israel should not allow itself to give such speeches to a democratically and freely elected government."
Judged son Gaddafi. As the correspondent ITAR-TASS Dina Drunk, the son of Gaddafi Seif al-Islam, appeared before the court of Zintan (Libya).
The court is studying an episode related to his meeting in June 2012 with the International Criminal Court lawyer Melinda Taylor. The prosecutor's office brought against her son Gaddafi charges of receiving from her some documents that could jeopardize the national security of Libya.
It is interesting that, starting a meeting, the court postponed the hearing to December 12, motivating it with the need to present the rest of the defendants in the courtroom.
Lawyer of Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi, John Jones believes that his client is under pressure and that this case should be considered in the International Criminal Court, reports "RT".
“It is not possible to maintain any connection with Safe Al-Islam, since in Libya they keep him in solitary confinement, away from the outside world. For about two years now he has not been able to communicate with his family, with his family and friends, not to mention a lawyer. I represent him in the International Criminal Court, and we made a convincing argument that he should be brought there, ”said the lawyer.
“I worked a lot with cases involving solitary confinement. Studies consistently show that even two weeks of solitary confinement can cause a deep trauma to the human psyche, the lawyer explained. - A Safe, as I said, spent in solitary confinement for about two years, not being able to communicate even with relatives. You can imagine what a terrible mental anguish for him, mental suffering for him. You know that he faces the death penalty. And if armed groups break into prison, then something more terrible. So, sure, mentally it is extremely painful for him. As for the physical condition, here I know the same thing that others know about the news. That he does not have several fingers and, possibly, teeth. As I said, neither I nor other human rights defenders could meet with him. So you can only speculate. "
Islamists in Nigeria shoot educated. Militants from the Boko Haram faction shot 87 people in Benissik (northeast Nigeria). “Boko Haram” is officially called “People who devote themselves to the dissemination of the teachings of the Prophet and jihad.” Radicals oppose schools and other educational institutions. For this, the Nigerians gave the group the nickname “Boko Haram” (“a ban on Western education”).
This time, Islamists dressed as soldiers of government forces, the channel said "RT".
The gunmen, armed with machine guns and grenade launchers, arrived in the town on twenty pickups. Islamists opened fire on civilians who do not share their views on faith and education. Then the members of Boko Haram burned dozens of buildings.
In addition, the Islamists put up roadblocks on the outskirts of the city and killed anyone who tried to leave Benishik. After finishing the massacre, the members of the group left.
The first swallows of the "European spring". British policemen arrested four local residents on suspicion of "carrying out, preparing and inciting terrorist acts", reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to the Associated Press.
Two men were arrested upon arrival from France: during a search, the police found an unnamed amount of ammunition in both. In the same case, one man and one woman were taken into custody in Essex County.
Searches were conducted in homes and workplaces of those arrested in Essex, London and Lancashire. Now investigators are working with the arrested.
The police explained that the arrests are related to the alleged terrorist activities of these people in Syria.
As recalled by "Ribbon", earlier the British authorities have repeatedly expressed concern about the fact that British citizens are increasingly traveling to Syria to war on the side of the rebels. According to London, these volunteers will be surrounded by connections among terrorists, which will make them dangerous when they return to their homeland.
China is quietly buying France. Some EU countries are increasingly dependent on Beijing, the correspondent reports "RT" Tesa Arsillah.
Vineyards in Burgundy and Bordeaux have already been sold, the French hotel chain Club Med has been sold, and 80% of the Paris fashion brand Sonia Rykiel is now owned by investors from Hong Kong.
Nevertheless, the French government is considering the possibility of investing more money by foreign investors. The latest indicators of the level of industrial production in France are simply sad. They, the correspondent notes, questioned the statements of Paris about the restoration of the country's economy.
France buys from China much more than it sells: the deficit in trade in goods with the Asian giant reached 26 billion euros.
Provencal fate of Mr. Kuznetsov. Anastasia Popova ("Vesti") spoke about the fate of ex-Finance Minister of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov. She decided in France. The court of Aix-en-Provence rejected his request for release on bail. This former official in Russia is suspected of stealing billions of rubles from the budget.
Lawyers for Mr. Kuznetsov before the meeting filed papers with the request to postpone consideration of the issue of his extradition to Russia. Protection requests to release Alexei Kuznetsov on bail.
At the same time, it took about a quarter of an hour to read the incomplete list of the sane crimes imputed to the former minister. According to the judge, there was no point in listing everything. The overall picture is already clear: we are talking about fraud on a large scale. Indeed, more than 40 billion rubles were stolen from the budget of the Moscow region.
Lawyers have built a defense on the allegation that the case against Kuznetsov is politically motivated.
Anastasia Popova notes that Kuznetsov fled to France in 2008, when he was suspected of dual Russian-American citizenship. For two years this man lived in Paris, three more lived in the luxury hotels of the Cote d'Azur. At this very time, 98% of the regional budget was unsecured debts.
The accused denied this fact. He said: so much to steal is impossible.
Today, the lawyer of Alexei Kuznetsov, Julian Pinelli, speaks of the “inconsistency of the charges.” True, the French prosecutor informed the court that Switzerland had submitted a request to study the data on three false Kuznetsov passports: they were all found on the day of the detention of the former minister in a hotel room in Saint-Tropez.
French lawyers say they do not recall the case when the defendants were extradited to Russia. But it happened that they were released on bail, and then they left the country ...
Ukraine is "associated." The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved the text of an association agreement with the EU, initiating a mechanism for preparing a document for the signing scheduled for November, the EU ambassador to Ukraine, Jan Tombinsky, said. “This is an important step of the Ukrainian government,” Mr. Tombinsky quotes. "Sight" with reference to RIA "News".
The newspaper reminds that Kiev expects to sign an association agreement with the EU, part of which is the provision on a free trade zone, during the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, scheduled for November. At the same time, Kiev hopes to receive observer status in the Customs Union in order to preserve the volume of trade with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. True, Russia had previously stated that in the event of the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the EU, the Customs Union would have to take protective measures.
Olga Gavrilova ("Voice of Russia") notes that Ukraine will lose much more from an association with the EU in economic terms than Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will lose from its refusal to join the Customs Union. And the most negative thing about the choice of Ukraine is that the government does not take into account the interests of the people. So experts believe Valery Shnyakin and Igor Shishkin.
Valery Shnyakin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, explained what measures Russia could take after Ukraine signed an agreement with the European Union:
“I think not only Russia, but also the states of the Customs Union will take measures to protect their economic interests first of all. This is not only the tightening of customs regulations at the border, an increase in energy tariffs, but also a host of other measures.
What will win the states of the Customs Union? Ukraine has a qualified workforce. Where will these workers go after integration with the European Union? Naturally, the Ukrainian political elite and oligarchs have something to lose, they have a place to protect their financial interests in Europe. But, unfortunately, the Ukrainian people remain in non-existence ”.
What will win the states of the Customs Union? Ukraine has a qualified workforce. Where will these workers go after integration with the European Union? Naturally, the Ukrainian political elite and oligarchs have something to lose, they have a place to protect their financial interests in Europe. But, unfortunately, the Ukrainian people remain in non-existence ”.
According to the expert, having signed an agreement with the European Union, Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs will buy a ticket to the Titanic.
“This summer I was in one of the Baltic republics, where the automotive industry existed, the electronics industry. There is nothing there, and a third of the residents of the republic work both on the territory of Russia and in the states of the European Union. That is what Ukraine will lead in the near future to an association with the EU. ”
Why did Ukraine decide on European integration? The expert answered this question quite clearly:
“Because the financial interests of the political and economic elite are in the countries of the European Union. That's all. We have a law prohibiting officials and politicians to have accounts abroad. They have no such law, as a result - all rushed to the West. "
Igor Shishkin, Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS Countries, believes that after the signing of an association agreement with the European Union, changes in the relations of the Customs Union with Ukraine will certainly occur:
“Changes will inevitably happen. What Moscow, Minsk and Astana can do has already been demonstrated in August. For some reason, this was seen as an attempt to “unscrew the hands” of the Ukrainian elite, to force them to join the Customs Union. Nothing like this.
I believe that by this time Russia was well aware that the Ukrainian elite had made its choice, and it was impossible to change it at that time, and simply prepared for future relations with Ukraine, which will be part of the economic and civilizational space of the European Union: , if you want to be in Europe, then you will be customs clearance by European standards. Quite a normal situation. ”
I believe that by this time Russia was well aware that the Ukrainian elite had made its choice, and it was impossible to change it at that time, and simply prepared for future relations with Ukraine, which will be part of the economic and civilizational space of the European Union: , if you want to be in Europe, then you will be customs clearance by European standards. Quite a normal situation. ”
Saakashvili spoke about the Russian invitation ... into the trap. The President of Georgia calls it a serious mistake to orient the supply of Georgian wine only to the Russian market.
“The one who ties us only to Russia invites us into a trap. Orientation only to the Russian market is a grave mistake, ”Saakashvili said during a training session at the presidential house in Kvareli, where he set up a training center for Georgian wine-makers. "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
“We brought here from France one of the best experts in the field of winemaking, the famous enologist Jean-Michel Mounier. He will teach us how to enter the European and world market. We should not be tied to the Russian market. Russia opened its market to Moldova and closed it again after two years, ”said Saakashvili, who is also going to bring Spanish and American specialists to Georgia.
Saakashvili himself will also become a winemaker: “After the presidency, I will completely switch to the revival of Georgian winemaking. Here, on the basis of my vineyard, I want to build a small plant, where our growers will be able to get acquainted with the newest technologies, and thus create the prospect for them to enter the world market. ”
About the "Soviet computer socialism." Love Lyulko (Pravda.ru) Recalls that Brazil is determined to put an end to US hegemony on the Internet.
This very hegemony is provided by an agreement within the International Telecommunication Union, which empowered the public company ICAAN (California). Yes, that's just no it is not a "public company": after all, it is under the contract transferred the right to control the Internet services to the US government.
In Brazil, Americans control 80% online search and network traffic. Dilma Rousseff stated that she would insist on new international rules on privacy and security in the field of hardware and software. She intends to put forward relevant proposals during the UN Assembly session at the end of September. Dilma Rousseff, in addition, urged Brazilian parliamentarians to legally force Facebook, Google and other American companies to store Brazilian data on servers located in Brazil.
The Brazilian government, writes Lyubov Lyulko, plans to lay a fiber optic cable under water to Europe. It implies participation in the project of all Latin American countries! Yes, and Europe will connect: the Europeans have repeatedly advocated the destruction of the American monopoly.
Finally, Brazil is going to diversify data exchange points: signal routes from Brazilian users will be far away from potential interception points.
It is also intended to increase investment in domestic technology and buy only software that meets state confidentiality criteria.
Well, there are also plans to implement some trifles: for example, to create a domestic mail system, an alternative to Gmail and Yahoo!, because these companies, according to Snowden, cooperate with the NSA.
The Americans got nervous: after all, ICAAN will suffer huge losses in the event of the implementation of a large-scale Brazilian project (according to expert estimates, 35 billions of dollars in 2016 year). Brazilians are one of the most active users of network services: they have the third place on Facebook traffic, and the second on Twitter and YouTube.
In addition, American experts claim that laying cable to Europe will not ensure the confidentiality of data: the NSA has a technology that allows you to remove information even from optical fiber laid across the bottom of the ocean.
Matthew Green, a computer security expert at the Hopkins Institute, is confident that Brazilians do not have innovative technologies to create a competitive email service.
"It will be kind of like Soviet computer socialism," Green said.
USA vs Venezuela. The United States denied visas to members of the Venezuelan delegation, which met at the UN General Assembly in late September. This was reported by Nicolas Maduro, transmits "RT" with reference to France Press.
Foreign Minister Elias Howa had previously announced that the United States had refused to allow Maduro aircraft traveling to China to enter its airspace (over Puerto Rico). True, the visit will not be canceled: an alternative route will be developed for the flight.
During the official meeting with the South African counterpart Mayte Nkoana-Mashabane, the Minister said: "We received a message from the American authorities that our aircraft is not allowed to fly in their airspace." He added: “We condemn this act of aggression by North American imperialism against the Bolivarian Republic. No one has the right to refuse to provide an air corridor to an airplane of a president flying on an international visit. There was no reason for that. ”
Maduro noted that the provision of visas to the entire Venezuelan delegation "is a duty" of the United States and promised in response to the "Washington aggression" to take "tough diplomatic measures."
As transmits correspondent RIA Novosti Oleg Vyazmitinov, Bolivian President Evo Morales called on Latin American and Caribbean countries to withdraw their US ambassadors and refuse to participate in the UN General Assembly in protest against the US decision to close the airspace for the aircraft of the Venezuelan President. This was reported by the Bolivian agency "ABI".
“As a member of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), we ask <...> to convene a presidential summit in order to seriously consider the issue of US arrogance,” said Comrade Morales, adding that at this meeting Bolivia “will support immediate recall of US ambassadors. "
Morales further stated that he would call on the governments of the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) to refuse to participate in a meeting at the UN General Assembly in protest against the “insult” Maduro.
“We will be preparing an international lawsuit so that Obama and his government will be tried for crimes against humanity. This will be the best tool to protect the rights of states, ”Morales said.
What does Russia have in common with Tanzania and Uganda. Parliaments of most countries are not able to control the work of the ministries of defense. This was found out by experts of the anti-corruption research center “Transparency International”, reports Sergey Goryashko (Kommersant).
According to the study, the Russian Federation, on a par with Uganda, Tanzania, Kazakhstan and Turkey, belongs to the group with a high risk of corruption in the defense industry. Even in 14 states (among which Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Libya, and Syria are named), the level of parliamentary control is close to critical. And only in four countries (these are Australia, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom), the legislature effectively controls the defense industry.
The head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Vladimir Komoyedov (KPRF), says that Russia occupies a worthy place in this ranking. The first deputy chairman of the committee, Sergey Zhigarev (LDPR), in turn, acknowledged that the problem of corruption in this area is:
“What are the only experimental design works, the development of which started back in Soviet times, but which do not bring any effect. They spend a lot of money every year. The state defense order is interesting for corrupt officials because some of its work has been going on for many years. The main thing is just in time to get there.
Terrorists from Greenpeace. The FSB border guards in the Murmansk region on the evening of September 19 detained the ship "Arctic Sunrise" with environmentalists from "Greenpeace", reports Interfax. To force an icebreaker to stop, the border guard station landed on it from a helicopter.
The press service of the FSB border guards in the Murmansk region noted that two Greenpeace activists, a citizen of Finland, Sini Saarele and a Swiss citizen, Marco Polo, spent two days aboard a border guard vessel after they tried to climb on the Gazpromneft platform, but fell into cold water . The border guards got Greenpeace from the water; they have now been transferred aboard the Arctic Sunrise.
In the Russian branch of Greenpeace, the seizure of an icebreaker was called illegal. According to environmentalists, around 19: 00 yesterday, fifteen armed Russian border guards came down from the helicopter from the helicopter. “Several activists managed to lock themselves in the radio room. The rest were gathered at the helipad, they demanded to kneel down, pointing automatic guns at them, ”Greenpeace said. “There were no legal grounds for lifting border guards aboard the Arctic Sunrise. The seizure of the vessel has actually been accomplished, ”said the head of Greenpeace Russia, Sergey Tsyplenkov. He expressed the hope that the leadership of the state would release the activists and “instead of fighting peaceful protests, would really defend Russia's national interests. Including - to provide protection from oil accidents in the Arctic. "
Later, Greenpeace Russia expert Roman Dolgov came out on the phone from Interfax. He said:
“The captain of the ship is being interrogated. We have been charged with quite serious charges - of terrorism, conducting illegal research activities. All these accusations are absurd. We were captured in international waters. We held a peaceful protest. ”
Environmentalists claim that at the time of the attack the icebreaker was located outside the territorial waters of Russia, in the exclusive economic zone.
Putin is grateful to the New York Times. As transmits RIA News", Vladimir Putin is grateful to the New York Times for publishing his article "without cuts". The president said this during the anniversary meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.
“We agreed through our partners that this would be the New York Times, warned, agreed with this respected publication that the article would be published without banknotes. If this does not suit us, then we will post the article in another newspaper, but we must pay tribute to the leadership of the New York Times, they have fully complied with our agreements, everything is as it is and printed, ”the president said. To this he added that "they even went away from their usual requirements in terms of the number of characters, the number of words in the article ... there was a little more."
McCain was advised to be examined. In recent days, the famous Senator John McCain does not leave the strips of paper publications and looms on the screens of monitors.
As transmits "RT", the Republican senator stated that he would accept the invitation of President Putin to participate in the international Valdai Discussion Club, but he didn’t have time: “I would gladly accept the invitation if the schedule allowed me.” So the American politician wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin invited McCain to join the work of the Valdai Discussion Club: there he could fill in the gaps of his knowledge of the situation in modern Russia.
According to Pravda.ru, Alexander Brod, director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, commented on the McCain material: “Russians deserve better than Putin,” previously published on the same Pravde.ru.
“McCain is known for having for his part committed violations during election campaigns. Secondly, he sent a very strange letter in the last US presidential election to the Russian mission to the UN, where he asked for money for his election campaign. To which he received a completely justified answer that the Russian mission does not provide such financing. Perhaps it offended him too.
Further, if McCain is so interested in the development of the human rights situation, which prevents him from applying to the Russian Federation to ask for Russian citizenship, come here and fight for human rights directly in the country, without giving such very strange and non-specific recommendations. Getting McCain citizenship of the Russian Federation will give him the opportunity to be examined in the sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. "
Further, if McCain is so interested in the development of the human rights situation, which prevents him from applying to the Russian Federation to ask for Russian citizenship, come here and fight for human rights directly in the country, without giving such very strange and non-specific recommendations. Getting McCain citizenship of the Russian Federation will give him the opportunity to be examined in the sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. "
Alexander Brod called the McCain appeal the agitations of the Cold War era and stated that McCain was “late for years on 30-40”.
By the way, in his article (see resource Pravda.ru) Mr. McCain once again declared himself "pro-Russian."
“... It is not the first time when Russian citizens hear about me as their opponent. Since my goal today is to destroy the falsifications used by the rulers of Russia to preserve their power and justify corruption, let me start by correcting this lie. I am not anti-Russian. I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that controls you badly today. ”
As for the question of what “Pravda” the senator wanted to send the message to, the answer is here.
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