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The military attache of the Turkish Embassy in Kiev during a briefing in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “expressed interest in attracting Turkish instructors to the training of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
The Ukrainian side noted its readiness to cooperate in this direction. This was reported by the Telegram channel “Military Observer”.
The representative of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on the Settlement of the Conflict in the Donbas, Alexey Arestovich, said that the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, is extremely annoyed by the position of the West on the issue of the republic’s inclusion in NATO. In this regard, Kiev is ready to develop a new strategy of behavior in relations with the European Union and the United States. The experts interviewed by MK believe that Turkey and the United Kingdom can offer an alternative.
According to the TV channel “Our”, the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yevgeny Muraev in an interview with journalists skeptically assessed the geopolitical future of Ukraine.
In his opinion, the constitution currently in force in Nezalezhnaya, as well as the general situation, can provoke the loss of territorial integrity, and, moreover, in the near future.
” Yugoslavia was not the last country that was divided in the last century. In this century, it will most likely be Ukraine… The country is economically unviable, unable to support itself, has no prospects and lives on credit”, – said the ex-parliamentarian.
The chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Democrat Adam Smith, speaking to reporters, said that the authorities have not yet found out who is behind the acoustic attacks and the impact of ” directed energy” on American civil servants abroad.
“Congress will seek answers… We need more clarity about… who is responsible for these attacks, what we can do to protect those who are being attacked”, – said Smith.
He stressed that at this stage the main issue is the establishment of responsibility.
Earlier, the newspaper Politico reported about mysterious attacks “directed energy” on US military personnel stationed in Syria. The report suggested that Russia could be behind these incidents.
The United States of America expects practical results from negotiations with Russia on the issue of combating cybercriminals. This was stated by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
“We had some constructive conversations, we will see if practical results will come out of them,” he said, speaking about the results of the Russia – US summit in Geneva.
According to him, Washington wants to make sure that no responsible country is engaged in harboring, providing shelter to criminal organizations that participate in cyber attacks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on the protection of the minimum income of citizens from being written off for debts. The document was published on the official portal of legal information.
The minimum income is necessary for the existence of the debtor and his dependents. Wages and other incomes of a debtor citizen equal to the subsistence minimum of the able-bodied population are included in the list of property that cannot be foreclosed on.
The debtor receives the right to apply to the Federal Bailiff Service of the Russian Federation with an indication of the account from which it will be impossible to write off the amount of 12,702 rubles as of 2021. The calculation is based on the regional subsistence minimum. However, this rule does not apply to the recovery of alimony, compensation for damage caused to health, damage caused by a crime.
The debtor also gets the opportunity to save wages and other income in an amount exceeding the subsistence minimum of the working-age population as a whole, if he has dependents.
Russian citizen Dmitry Popov, who was arrested in Belarus in 2020, asked President Vladimir Putin to deprive him of his citizenship. According to “Rain”, he expressed such a request in a letter to his sister due to the lack of help from Moscow.
& quot; I have been waiting for more than a year that Russia does not abandon its own, ” Popov wrote. – As Putin has repeatedly said”.
According to the arrested man, the Russian consul visited him only once during the year and said: “Dima, well, you understand everything!”Popov added that he does not want to have a passport of a country that is ready to sacrifice its citizens in the interests of another country”.
In Belarus, Popov was the moderator of the public posts of the politician Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was going to run for president. Even before the start of mass protests in Minsk and other cities, Popov was detained as part of the case “about an attempt of foreign interference in the elections”.
In Russia, Popov was the administrator of the project on the deanonymization of the security forces “Scanner”, as well as the public ” Men’s State”. This community was known in the Russian Federation because of harassment and threats against representatives of the LGBT community, which were distributed by a number of participants. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russian women began to complain about threats, to whom some members of the public wrote insults and messages about the impending massacre because of their intimate relationship with foreign fans. Also members of the ” Male State&”they threatened the girls who starred in one of the videos of Rammstein leader Till Lindemann.
The founder of the ” Male State&Vladislav Pozdnyakov was sentenced to two years of probation by the Nizhny Novgorod court at the end of 2018 for inciting hatred towards women. In March 2019, the sentence was canceled due to the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In 2020, Pozdnyakov staged his murder in Turkey.
The Dutch Defense Ministry has accused Russian fighter jets of creating a dangerous situation for a Dutch warship located in the Black Sea.
We are talking about the Dutch ship Evertsen, which last Thursday was in the Black Sea, near the Crimean Peninsula. But the statement of the Dutch military department appeared only on Tuesday.
The Dutch side claims that the Russian fighters allegedly flew too close and low from the Dutch Navy ship. As a result of “intimidation”, as noted in the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, interruptions in the operation of the electronic equipment of the Dutch ship began.
The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands accused Russia of creating obstacles to the free use of the Black Sea. Meanwhile, a similar incident has already taken place with the British warship Defender. Then the Russian ship was forced to perform a warning fire in the direction of the British destroyer, and the Su-24M aircraft made a warning bombing along the course of the British ship. At the same time, the British authorities noted that the ship was not shelled, but it was in neutral waters.
State television of the DPRK showed a story in which an unknown resident of Pyongyang told how he and other residents of the North Korean capital are “heartbroken” due to the fact that the country’s leader Kim Jong-un has lost weight dramatically. His “haggard” appearance brought them to tears.
However, the director of the Center for North Korea Studies of the Sejong Institute, Jong Song Jang, believes that the plot with the thinness of the leader of the DPRK was invented specifically to exclude speculation about his health problems and to demonstrate the hard work of the leader for the benefit of the nation. The state media of the DPRK could specifically emphasize that he does not even have time for food.
Photo: A frame from the video
Meanwhile, the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that Kim Jong-un’s height is 170 centimeters, and his weight was about 140 kilograms. This exceeds the norm for people aged 30-40 years. As a result, according to the publication, recently the entourage of the North Korean leader asked him to lose weight and rest.
Earlier, Kim Jong-un said that there is a tense situation in the country with the provision of food to the population.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that they decided not to cancel the direct line with President Vladimir Putin in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, since it is possible to meet epidemiological requirements at the expense of technical means.
“First, last year it was held,” Peskov said, recalling that the format was mixed with a direct line and an annual press conference.
As for the current year, ” due to the application to smartphones… they gave the citizens of the country the opportunity to independently ask the president questions”, he said. Peskov added that through the applications it will be possible to ask a question to the president remotely from anywhere and without the participation of journalists, using audio and video formats.
& quot;We are insured against violation of some sanitary regimes”,— & nbsp;concluded Peskov.
Earlier, the representative of the president said that during the full-time celebration of the school graduation “Scarlet Sails” in St. Petersburg, epidemiological measures were not violated.
The President of the European Parliament, Josep Borrel, said that a new package of sanctions against Russia will be prepared in the coming weeks or months. In addition, he intends to identify possible areas of interaction with Moscow.
Borrel noted that the EU is interested in involving Russia in working on solving global problems. According to him, Moscow is a major player on the world stage. He wrote about this in his weekly blog.
“The last pillar of our relations with Russia is interaction. Like it or not, Russia is a major player on the world stage, and it has increased its political presence in many parts of the world, including in countries where the interests of the EU are at stake: Libya, Afghanistan, Nagorno — Karabakh and Syria are illustrative examples,” the politician said.
According to the head of the European Parliament, without Russia, Europe will not be able to solve global problems that affect all countries.
