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Obama urges Putin to advance in the implementation of 'Minsk' before the end of his term in the White House
US President Barack Obama, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, urged the Russian President to try and make progress in the implementation of the Minsk Agreements before the end of his term in January 2017.
Obama discussed the content of his conversation with the Russian leader at the final press conference following the APEC summit.
"I talked with Putin about Ukraine, about the need to implement the Minsk Agreements. I called on him to instruct his negotiating team to work …
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US cancels purchase of Russian helicopters for Afghanistan
The US Department of Defense has notified the Congress that it intends to stop the purchase of Russian MI-17 helicopters for its mission in Afghanistan, stating that it plans to purchase helicopters manufactured in the US.
The decision was made public by Senator Chris Murphy.
“I will never understand why the US government sends over the money of the American taxpayers to Russia paying for the purchase of the helicopters for Afghanistan while Russia supports Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria …
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Ukrainian ambassador to the US is attempting to arrange a meeting between Trump and Poroshenko in February
Ukrainian Ambassador to the US, Valeriy Chaly, stated that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko intends to visit Washington next year shortly after the inauguration of the new US president, Donald Trump, Krym.Realii reported.
Chaly noted that they will try to arrange it so Poroshenko will travel to Washington as early as February, and if a meeting can be arranged, it “will be a big victory for Ukraine.”
According to the ambassador, arranging such a meeting is ambitious, but not unrealistic. …
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Lavrov is frustrated by meetings with the United States about Syria
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is frustrated with the progress of the meetings with the United States about Syria in Geneva. According to him, there have been results, but everything is being hampered by the inability to distinguish the terrorists from the opposition. This was said by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry on air with the Russian television station Russia 24, RIA Novosti reports.
“The meetings are producing results, but everything is held back by the very …
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US Senate prepares a new bill against Russia
U.S. Senators began work on a bill that, according to their plan, should become an effective response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Moscow’s attempts to influence the American elections.
"Russia is a major challenge for America,” said Senator Benjamin Louis Cardin. “They are not our partners.”
Cardin referred to Russia’s behavior in the world scene as “hooliganism." He reminded others that this year the USA accused Moscow of attempts at illegally penetrating computer …
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US 'deeply concerned' over Russia's ban of LinkedIn
The US government is “deeply concerned” over Russia’s recent ban of the LinkedIn website, as stated by a spokesperson of the US Embassy in Moscow, Maria Olson, TASS reported.
Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, also known as Roskomnadzor, announced on Thursday that it had banned LinkedIn and instructed Russian telecommunications operators to block the website.
According to Olson, "This decision is the first of …
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Media: The EU and US will discuss sanctions against Russia
On the 18th of November, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the leaders of five EU countries will discuss the extension of sanctions against Russia, as reported by Reuters, citing several sources. According to the news outlet, this issue will be discussed at a meeting in Berlin with the participation of the leaders of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain.
Reuters also indicated that Donald Trump, who won the U.S. Presidential election, has …
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US State Department believes reports that Russia bombed hospital in Syria are accurate
A spokesperson for the United States Department of State, John Kirby, stated that the U.S. Department of State sees no reason to doubt the validity of reports stating that airstrikes were carried out on five hospitals and at least one mobile hospital in Syria.
“We saw reports from humanitarian organizations that airstrikes were carried out on five hospitals and at least one mobile hospital. We believe this data to be credible,” Kirby said at the briefing, adding that the United States received …
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Media: Trump is planning to visit Russia after his inauguration
The newly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, is planning on visiting Russia right after his inauguration which will take place on January 20. This has been reported by Izvestia, citing an unnamed source in the Republican party.
According to the newspaper's source, Trump advisors convinced him that he should pay a visit to Russia right after the inauguration but not before.
The author of The National Interest, Dimitri Simes, believes that the decision to visit Russia after …
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United States demands explanation from Lithuania concerning sale of donated weapons
The United States is demanding an explanation from Lithuania regarding how the M14 sniper semi-automatic rifles, donated to the Lithuanian Army and highly valued by collectors around the world, appeared in private hands, Delfi reported.
“The US Embassy believes that the aid, transferred by the US government, was illegally handed to third parties, disregarding the signed agreement on prohibition of re-sale of the arms donated by the Americans,” the news portal notes.
It was noted that the M14 …