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Russia began to prepare for a collapse of oil prices
According to the report of the Bank of Russia on the potential risks for Russia’s economy, by mid-2018, oil prices could gradually decline to about 25 USD per barrel, while the growth rate of Russia's GDP will be significantly lower than in other scenarios.
In March the Central Bank developed a high-risk scenario which provided for the possibility of reducing oil prices to 25 USD per barrel as early as at the end of 2017 and the slowdown of Russia's GDP this year due to this factor to zero.
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Russia: American HIMARS rocket systems are a threat to the Syrian army
Detachments of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" can use the HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems to attack Syrian government troops, as stated by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Earlier it was reported that the US military transferred high-mobile HIMARS systems from Jordan to its Al-Tanf base in southern Syria. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the range of HIMARS reactive systems does not allow the provision of cover to the detachments of …
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Russia condemns the downing of Assad’s forces warplane by the US, says Western coalition jets are now targets of its air defense
The Russian Ministry of Defense called the downing of the Syrian warplane by the US a “violation of the sovereignty" of Syria. The Ministry stated that any drones and aircraft of the US-led coalition in Syria flying to the west of the Euphrates River would now be tracked by Russian air defense and treated as targets.
The Russian Ministry of Defense demanded a "thorough investigation" by the US military regarding the Syrian plane incident.
Earlier, the United States Central Command explained …
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Congressman Marco Rubio: Trump does not oppose new sanctions against Russia
US President Donald Trump has nothing against the imposition of new sanctions against Russia; but the State Department, which is trying to establish a dialogue with Moscow, is opposed to this. US Senator Marco Rubio (a Republican from Florida) expressed this opinion on Sunday.
"I personally believe that at the core of resistance [toward sanctions against the Russian Federation] is not the president," he said in an interview with NBC television. "I do not think the president himself has a …
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Russia wants to ban presence of international observers in its elections
According to Deputy Chairman of the Temporary Commission of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, Andrei Klimov, monitoring missions from countries that do not permit Russian observers in their elections may be banned from attending the 2018 Russian presidential election, reports the Izvestia newspaper.
According to the publication's source, the Russian senators plan to develop appropriate amendments to the current legislation before the start of the election campaign.
The …