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According to the statement, the officers are also revealing underground tunnels that are equipped with medical complexes as well as detention facilities for civilians. Syrian sappers continue to de-mine settlements in the liberated areas.
"We are in the Zaafarana settlement in the province of Homs at an al-Nusra Front terror group [also known as Jabhat Fatah al Sham, outlawed in Russia] observation point. We can see here a large number of gas masks, weapons produced abroad, for example, TOW-2 anti-tank guided missiles. The facilities are very well-equipped," the center's representative Andrey Nekipelov said.
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The former secretary of state, who has hardly taken a breath in her campaign against Moscow and claims that it colluded with Donald Trump, wasted no time before jumping straight into the topic of Russia on Sunday. After a few obligatory "thank yous" to students and the faculty, she got stuck in.
"I see you are following the tradition of over-the-top hats [at graduation], so I brought a hat too - a Russian hat," she said. "I mean, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
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He's pro-Western, and dare I say a fifth columnist threat to Russian sovereign independence by seeking unattainable improved ties with Washington, perhaps willing to sacrifice plenty to get it.
He supports so-called "liberal" governance - what I call neoliberal harshness, benefitting privileged interests at the expense of most others, how the US and EU are deplorably run, how Washington wants all nations run, along with bending to its will overall.
Thankfully Putin didn't appoint fifth columnist Alexey Kudrin to what Russian analyst John Helmer called vice president for capitulation to the West - "the dominant policymaker...after Putin."
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"Deeper strategic partnership in BRICS is one of the priorities of Russia's foreign policy. Over recent years, the alliance has matured, turning into a full-scale mechanism of cooperation," Antonov said last week, answering media questions following the VI Annual Conference 'Doing Business with the BRICS' in Washington DC.
Noting the increasing global role of BRICS countries, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Antonov highlighted the main benefits of the association of five major emerging world economies, noting that the New Development Bank serves to reform the "outdated" global financial system.
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PM Narendra Modi leaves for Sochi for informal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Mr Modi's one-day trip to Russian summer beach resort of Sochi coincides amid US sanctions against Moscow.
The US move has raised concerns that the Washington's decision could possibly affect Russian military supplies to India, particularly an estimated Rs 40,000-crore deal to buy the sophisticated, long-range S-400 air defence system.
However, it is in this context, a senior official had said on Thursday, "We are not going to allow our defence requirements to be dictated by any other country.
Whatever is in India's interest in terms of procuring equipment for national security and defence is what will determine the manner in which we act with various countries".
The US sanctions against Russia is for its meddling in Ukraine, Syria and the 2016 presidential elections.
India's military and strategic ties with Russia date back to the Cold War era.
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Mr Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a similar informal summit in China recently.
Indian officials say Russia is an "old friend and trusted partner" and thus it is not an issue of building a relationship or deepening trust.
"It is a question of using that trust and friendship that we have to discuss a number of issues those have emerged as a result of important changes in the international and regional situations," a senior official has said.
© Brian Snyder/ReutersFormer FBI Director James Comey at a news conference in 2014.
We wuz robbed. That's the theme Democrats and their media allies are working hard to cement into conventional wisdom. And robbed in a very specific way: The 2016 presidential election, we're to believe, was stolen from Hillary Clinton by disparate treatment. As Democrats tell it, the FBI scandalized their candidate while protecting Donald Trump.
You might think peddling that story with a straight face would be a major challenge. But they figure it may work because it was test-driven by the FBI's then-director, James Comey, in his now infamous press conference on July 5, 2016 - back when the law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus on which we rely to read the security tea leaves was simply certain that Mrs. Clinton would win.
Bruno Le Maire referred to a series of countermeasures that the EU adopted in 1996 in response to US extraterritorial economic sanctions against Cuba. Back then, Brussels argued that those sanctions benefited Washington's foreign policy interests at the expense of EU sovereignty. The regulation aimed "to protect the economic and/or financial interests of natural or legal persons against the effects of the extraterritorial application of legislation."
© WikipediaFormer Acting Attorney General Sally Yates
It's clear from recent revelations that President Obama and his holdovers had a morbid fear of Lt. Gen. Flynn, an anti-Islamic terror hawk, and were gunning for him early in the transition, long before rumors he was involved in any alleged Russian conspiracy.
Just two days after the election, Obama urged President-elect Trump not to rehire Flynn, whom he once fired from the Pentagon. Obama reportedly made it clear he didn't like the man. (Flynn says his views on Islam put him at odds with the former president.)
Comment:
- Trump wants US Congress to ask Sally Yates about classified leaks under oath
- Susan Rice's strange email to herself: Secret meeting with Comey, Yates and Obama about spying on Trump
- Was Sally Yates sabotaging Trump's travel ban from the beginning?
- Comey said Michael Flynn did NOT lie to FBI while media pushed opposite story (Video)
- This should scare everyone: Flynn never lied - was railroaded into guilty plea anyway
- Michael Flynn 'Guilty' Plea and the Entire 'Russia Collusion' Investigation is a Farce
A private investigator has been unable to find the only eyewitness to the sudden death of media innovator and conservative activist
The apparent disappearance of Christopher Lasseter, who says he saw Breitbart drop to the sidewalk in front of a restaurant, adds to the mystery surrounding Breitbart's March 1 death.
On the day the Los Angeles County coroner released Breitbart's autopsy report, a photographic technician at the coroner's office died suddenly of suspicious causes.
In addition, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., just three weeks before Breitbart's death - where he promised to unveil "damning" new video evidence of Barack Obama's radical past that would change the election - Breitbart gave WND details of his upcoming revelations.
He claimed to WND that he had a video showing radical Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at Harvard planning revolution in the United States. But the video, aired just after he died, was of Obama introducing a radical Harvard professor, and the general response was flat.
Christopher Lasseter (right)
On the day the Los Angeles County coroner released Breitbart's autopsy report, a photographic technician at the coroner's office died suddenly of suspicious causes.
In addition, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., just three weeks before Breitbart's death - where he promised to unveil "damning" new video evidence of Barack Obama's radical past that would change the election - Breitbart gave WND details of his upcoming revelations.
He claimed to WND that he had a video showing radical Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at Harvard planning revolution in the United States. But the video, aired just after he died, was of Obama introducing a radical Harvard professor, and the general response was flat.
Comment: Further reading: Kremlin: Russia hasn't delivered S-300 to Syria but reserves the right to