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Syria starts building tourist resorts for Russians
The construction of tourist resorts for Russian citizens has begun in Syria, said Syria's Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad, RIA Novosti reports.
"The construction of tourist resorts for Russians begins in Syria. There are some working facilities and even now there are some tourists,” Haddad told journalists in Yalta. He said that tourists are on vacation mostly in regions of Syria that are located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. "The situation is better there than in other places. Most …
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LPR and DPR residents to be banned from entering Russia during FIFA 2018 World Cup
Russia intends to ban residents of the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces from entering the country during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. A statement to this effect was made by Oleh Slobodyan, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS), on his Facebook page.
“As the SBGS has learned, as part of preparation for the FIFA-2018 football World Cup, security measures in Russia are being tightened. And so, in the period between June 1 and July 17, 2018, restrictions …
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Germany says relations with Russia improving
In an interview published in the newspaper Saarbrücker Zeitung, German Foreign Affairs Minister Heiko Maas said that he sees progress in improving German-Russian relations.
" As you can see, our approach produces clear results: while some are only talking about dialogue, I have long been ensuring its intensification," said Maas.
The Minister recalled that he held discussions on May 10 in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, noting that during the talks they reached agreements …
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US Treasury Department accuses Venezuelan President Maduro of drug trafficking and money laundering in Russia
The United States has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, Maduro's second-in-command in the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, of getting revenue from the drug trade, reported the Voice of America.
The US Treasury Department published a statement indicating that Cabello had confiscated small quantities of drugs from drug traffickers, collected them in a large batch, and exported them through Venezuela's state airport.
"Cabello, along with President …
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Survey: Russia on par with Uganda in economic crimes
Russia has reached the world’s top five with respect to the levels of economic crimes against business. In the rating compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Russia took fourth place, sharing this position with Uganda. Only in France, Kenya and South Africa do countries face economic crimes more frequently than in Russia.
These are crimes which are qualified as such by companies themselves, not by the government, and the incidents need not have featured in legal cases, PwC explains. The …