Russia @en – Pagina 18 – European Affairs Magazine

President Rivlin and PM Medvedev renew the relations between Israel and Russia

12 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

On Thursday, President Reuven Rivlin held a working meeting at his residence with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “Russia has always had an important role in our region, perhaps today more than ever,” Rivlin said. We are faced by many challenges, and at the same time opportunities, and we need to be prepared for both.” President Rivlin concluded, “As we mark 25 years since the renewal of relations between us, your visit here is also an important opportunity to discuss the close ties between our peoples, and I am looking forward to our meeting today with you and your delegation.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Moscow in 2017

11 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected in Moscow for an official visit in 2017. Putin said Russia and China have recently marked anniversary of a major treaty on friendship. Russian leader marked very good, businesslike relations with Xi Jinping during his meeting with Li Kequiang. Li Keqiang, for his part, also conveyed greetings from the Chinese President to President Putin, stressing that Russia and China are major neighbours and strategic partners.

Russian aircraft carrier almost approached by a Dutch submarine in the Mediterranean

11 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

On Wednesday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that a Dutch submarine on Wednesday morning tried to approach the Russian aircraft carrier group in the Mediterranean and spy on it. Northern Fleet’s anti-submarine ships forced the submarine to leave the area where Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier was at the moment. According to the Ministry, the submarine’s maneuvers in the Mediterranean were dangerous and could have led to grave navigation consequences. The Ministry official also said the Russian Navy’s aircraft carrier group regularly discovered NATO’s submarines on its way to the Mediterranean.

With Trump’s victory, Russia is ready to restore bilateral relations with US

11 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en/Politics di

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, commenting on the news of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, said that Russia is ready and looks forward to restoring bilateral relations with the United States. With Trump’s victory, Russia is ready to restore bilateral relations with US. Speaking about to degraded state of relation between the two countries, Russian President stressed that it is not Russia’s fault, if Russia-US relations are as public opinion see them. In a message to Donald Trump the Russian President expressed confidence that the dialogue between Moscow and Washington, in keeping with each other’s views, meets the interests of both Russia and the US. Putin also has expressed confidence that building a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington, based on principles of equality, mutual respect and each other’s positions, meets the interests of the people of our countries and of the entire international community.

Current cooperation between Yemen and Russia renewed

10 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

Acting Minister of Defense Husein Khairan met on Tuesday in Sana’a the acting Russian ambassador to Sana’a. During the meeting, they reviewed the current cooperation relations between the two countries, out of which the ongoing military cooperation between the two countries’ armies, in addition to a number of issues of common interest. Khairan affirmed readiness to facilitate tasks of the Russian acting ambassador in order to boost and expand cooperation relations between the Republic of Yemen and Russia. For his part, the Russian acting ambassador affirmed his country’s firm stance with Yemen’s unity, security and stability, affirming that he will exert all efforts in order to translate that in a way that serves relations of the two countries in different fields.

An offensive against militants near Aleppo is being prepared by a Russian naval group

10 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en/Middle East - Africa di

According to reports published by Interfax and Gazeta.ru, citing a source in the Defense Ministry, Russian naval group in the Mediterranean, headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, is preparing an offensive against militants on the outskirts of Aleppo. Jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov, the Peter the Great battle cruiser and other military ships in the battle group equipped with precision weapons will take part in the operation. The source said that the strikes will be launched in the nearest hours and will target the distant outskirts of Aleppo. The source asserted that ahead of the battle group’s arrival into the waters close to Syria, Russia increased its reconnaissance in the region.

Russia plans to build new nuclear power plants in China

10 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en/Energy di

After a meeting by Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, and his Chinese counterpart, Li Kequiang, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation announced that Russia plans to build new nuclear power plants in China. For many years, Russia and China have been actively cooperating in the nuclear sphere. Russian specialist assisted in the construction of the first and second power units of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Station. The third and fourth power units are now being built. Russia and China will also develop cooperation on the project of floating nuclear power stations and the promising area of fast-neutron reactors, which are the fourth-generation technology. Floating nuclear power stations are a project of Chinese engineering, to make autonomous outposts far from the cost in the South China Sea.

Isolating Russia always leads to severe consequences for Europe, according to Russian Foreign Minister

10 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en/Politics di

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, during a conference at the Russian-German form dubbed “ The Postdam Meeting” , asserted that efforts to isolate Moscow have repeatedly resulted in sever consequence for Europe. According to the Minister, in the modern interconnected world it is impossible to create separate security islands. He added that “ history has repeatedly proved that the attempts to isolate Russia always lead to sever consequence for the entire continent”. Regarding to Russian-German relation, Lavrov affirmed that the development of relations between Russian Federation and Germany is an important factor in maintaining Europe’s security and stability. Russian Foreign Minister also said that Moscow is ready to discuss various initiatives, proposals and address the existing issues in a constructive way.

Damascus: Defense Minister of Russian Federation clarified that no attack were carried out in that area

9 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en/Defence di

Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu denied information about the alleged attacks on Damascus and clarified that “VKS Russian aircraft, on November 7, in the specified area of flights didn’t carrie out and apply any attack. The information published by the media, is another fake “, the ministry said. Moreover, it has already happened that media as “Anadolu Agency” published fake information about russian operation in the territory. In response to such allegations Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian President, declared the sole right of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to resume air strikes on Aleppo.

Iraqi Kurdistan and Russia talk about cooperation

9 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

On Monday, the Foreign Minister of Kurdistan’s Regional Government, Falah Mustafa Bakir, had a meeting in Moscow with Mikhail Bogdanov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Representative for the Middle East and North Africa, to discuss the current situation in Iraq. In an interview realesed to russian newspaper, Izvestia, Bakir outlined the issues that have been addressed, namely; request to support the Peshmerga forces, who have been fighting against terrorism; relations between Iraqi Kurdistan and Russia; fight against terrorism; refugees in Iraq; perspective of russian mediation through the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Erbin and further strenghtening of economic, political, cultural ties between Russian Federation and Iraqi Kurdistan; current state of affairs in Syria. Russia declared is avaible to provide the necessary support to the fight against terrorism. Moreover, the Government of Iraqi Kurdistan is confident about the approval of Russia, as one of their allies, in the event of Iraqi Kurdistan reaching indipendence from Iraq, since negotiations have already been opened on that issue with Baghdad.

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