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Poland accuses Russian dispatchers of causing the Smolensk Crash
The Polish Prosecutor General's Office accused Russian dispatchers, as well as an unidentified third party of deliberately causing events that lead to the Polish Presidential plane crash near Smolensk.
Deputy Prosecutor General Marek Poshchenek said that Polish authorities will send the Russian Federation a request for legal assistance to interrogate the air traffic controllers.
Warsaw also accused an unnamed third person of driving to the accident site, presumably to interfere. That person …
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Moscow: It’s time for Trump to stop imposing decisions on Russia
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian State Duma Konstantin Kosachev said that U.S. President Donald Trump, in trying to pin the blame on Russia for the situation in Syria and the support of President Bashar Assad, is trapping himself, RIA Novosti reported. The Russian senator noted that Trump is pushing himself into a trap of “notorious decisions” from which it will be almost impossible to be extricated.
“To think that it can be ‘managed’ during …
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Erdogan calls on Russia to stop protecting Assad
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Russia to revise its entire policy on Syria and to stop supporting Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Erdoğan made a statement to this effect while commenting on the US missile strike on the Syrian airbase in response to the chemical attack in Idlib, Anadolu news agency reports.
“It is our hope that this will not be limited to the US action. We hope that Russia gets involved as well, that at least they stop protecting Bashar al-Assad,” Erdoğan said. “ …
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Russian programmer arrested in Barcelona at request of U.S.
The police of Barcelona arrested a Russian programmer at the request of the American authorities. According to preliminary information, 36-year-old Peter Levashov was arrested at the request of the United States on suspicion of involvement in hacking activities, in particular related to Donald Trump’s election campaign.
The representative of the Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in Madrid, Andrey Konstantinov, confirmed the fact that he had been arrested. According to Levashov’s wife, …
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Media: Meeting with Putin has disappeared from Tillerson's schedule
A meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has disappeared from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's schedule.
Voice of America’s White House Bureau Chief, Steve Herman, reported on this in his Twitter blog.
"A meeting with Russian President Putin has been removed from Secretary of State Tillerson's Moscow schedule." Herman wrote.
Tillerson is going to Moscow on April 11-12, after a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the G-7.
The Foreign Secretary of the UK, Boris Johnson was going …