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The Kremlin disagrees with Trump's statement that Iran is a 'terrorist state'
The Kremlin disagrees with the view of U.S. President Donald Trum, that Iran is a "terrorist state," and declares that they have an intention to develop relations with this country, as stated by the Presidential Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, TASS reported.
"We do not agree with this approach," the Kremlin official said, commenting on Trump’s statement that Iran is "terrorist state number one."
"You know that Russia has a good partnership with Iran, we are cooperating on a number of issues, …
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UN is concerned that Ukraine doesn't pay social benefits to Luhansk and Donetsk regions
The U.N. Resident Coordinator in Ukraine, Neal Walker, stated in his interview to Zerkalo Nedeli, that the United Nations is deeply concerned by the suspension of social payments and pensions to some internally displaced people and to residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. According to him, the United Nations has specific examples of shortcomings of the Ukrainian authorities in the humanitarian field.
“I usually don’t discuss the Government because I believe that it is …
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Media: Russian hackers were not able to hack into the computers of the Dutch government
Hackers from the APT28 and APT29 groups, who are behind the attacks on the US Democratic Party servers, tried to gain access to the computers of the Dutch government, as reported by De Volkskrant, the Dutch daily morning newspaper.
The attacks were repeatedly carried out over the last six months and have been unsuccessful.
Hacker groups were testing the capacity of the Netherlands civil servants, sending them phishing messages by e-mail and creating fake web sites in an effort to gain access …
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German Foreign Minister: Rapprochement between the United States and Russia would be useful for Ukraine
Following the visit to the United States, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, expressed confidence that the Administration of the U.S. President, Donald Trump, is still just developing its strategy towards Russia. Gabriel stated this on the air of the ARD TV Channel, Deutsche Welle reported. The Minister welcomed the possibility of rapprochement between the United States and Russia.
“We must all hope that the United States and Russia will reach an agreement but not at the …
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Klimkin: A step-by-step lifting of sanctions against Russia would be 'senseless'
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Pavlo Klimkin, considers the step-by-step lifting of sanctions against Russia, as advocated by Austria, "senseless," as he stated in an interview with Austrian magazine Profil, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s Facebook post. "If there were no sanctions, the temptation ‘to create facts on the spot’ would be much greater for Vladimir Putin. Sanctions are the only line between good and evil, peace and war, which in this situation …