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The Kremlin rejects idea of the US joining Normandy format talks
The Press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Russia does not support the idea of the US participation in the Normandy Four negotiations to resolve the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, reports Radio Liberty. Peskov also noted that the United States could use its influence on Ukraine.
Peskov’s comment was a response to the statement of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who earlier said that it would be hard to find a solution to the Ukrainian conflict without the …
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Russia and Turkey plan to abandon the US dollar in bilateral trade
The governments of Russia and Turkey signed an agreement on payments in national currencies (rubble and lira), reports the Russian Finance Ministry.
The purpose of the agreement is to increase the attractiveness of national currencies for Turkish and Russian companies, create an appropriate infrastructure of the financial market and gradually move to the use of the Russian ruble and the Turkish lira in payments between the parties.
The intergovernmental agreement provides for the expansion of …
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Dutch parliament votes to investigate ‘Ukraine’s role’ in MH17 air crash
The parliament of the Netherlands has voted to investigate Ukraine’s role in the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 catastrophe that took place over Ukraine’s Donetsk province in 2014, said Chris van Dam, a member of the Christian Democratic party, in a tweet.
Van Dam said that the party motioned to investigate the fact that Ukraine did not close the airspace over the Donbas.
The Dutch MP noted that his party’s motion was approved unanimously in parliament.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo …
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Kurds are ready to start dialogue with Syria and Russia if the US withdraws troops
The official representative of the Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria, Badran Jia Kurd stated that Syrian Kurds, deployed in the North of Syria are ready to start negotiations with the Syrian government and Russian representatives, if the United States completely withdraws its troops from the border zone with Turkey.
Turkey and the United States planned to create a security zone in Northern Syria. However, on October 1, Turkish President Recep Erdoğan declared that Ankara had not …
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China: US’s Trident II intercontinental ballistic missile 10 times more reliable than Russia’s Bulava
The basis of the peaceful coexistence of the major powers is nuclear parity. In late August and early September, submarine forces of both the US’s and Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent performed a series of tests. The Chinese news outlet Sohu attempted to assess the reliability of the submarine-based missiles of the two world powers.
In a possible world war, a strategic nuclear submarine equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) is the most formidable weapon. It is the least …