Foreign Ministry Official US Ned Price called Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi's outrageous request to the US and Britain to stop linking any exchange of prisoners to a nuclear deal.
Arakchi called for an early exchange of prisoners and wrote on Twitter: “Ten prisoners from all sides can be released tomorrow if the US and the UK keep their party to the agreement.”
How Price he replied, such comments are “a disgusting attempt to avert blame for the current impasse. “According to The Independent, a final agreement on the exchange of prisoners has not yet been reached.
“We are ready to return to Vienna to complete work on a mutual return to the JCPOA once Iran has made the necessary decisions. “, – assured the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Indirect US-Iran talks to renew the JCPOA action plan have been suspended since the end of the last round. 20 th of June.
According to Arakchi, Iran will not return to the negotiating table until the newly elected President Ibrahim Raisi is elected and the government is formed. He wrote on social media that the Vienna talks obviously have to wait for “our new administration”, which is “required by every democracy.”
Political scientist Oleg Ivannikov was dazzled by the number of pages recently shown on television.
It started. If they start reporting on television about parties I've never heard of, even a lazy observer will understand that Russia is entering a term.
Click on channels & mdash; same & mdash; the party submitted registration documents to the CEC, the party's list was registered. And all right, parliamentary & mdash; at least they learned about them. What are the choices without Volfych? That's right, boring. But here are all sorts of new & mdash; no one has ever heard of them, so they turn out to stand out from the general background. And attempts to stand out in the background are lost in the same attempts by others. How many of these parties are there? Who knows? I tried to recalculate & mdash; certainly more than ten, but he may not have noticed.
You can't envy people on TV & mdash; the law is that you have to show the viewer to everyone. They also inform. The news is flowing. Dry, no comments. First congress meetings and nomination of candidates. Then the ceremonial handing over of boxes with documents to the Central Election Commission. However, boxes and conference rooms are different. But otherwise & mdash; almost one to one. How can you express individuality?
Everyone has chosen the easiest option & mdash; show faces of politicians. Pairs, threes, fives. Only women. Only men. Men and women. Doctors and ministers, the children's ombudsman and creator of music videos, representatives of all levels and for every taste and color, political publicists and public politicians. Social activists, scientists, the military. There is no cleaning lady. But that is inaccurate.
With communists in general, there is beauty & mdash; there are simply communists, as it turned out, there are communists of Russia and some other communists who are not communists by name. They will probably also find those who are socially close. They do not regret ether for them: how the opposition must be respected. And they respect. At the end of June, one of the television channels launched a feature film about how good a man the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is, what his dacha is, how sensitive he is to the household, how great he drives a car and generally served as a chemical intelligence alert. Ideal in everything. Right now in ZhZL. If now the leader of every party list, for equality, demands a film on television about himself, his relatives, army youth and pets, series and talk show on the television network will have to move seriously – “until autumn we will look at a film about the most beautiful and attractive , sorted according to one measure.
In general, electoral politics has invaded our cozy television with a discordant choir. Thousands of people have grown and are actively proving that only they are the best. And journalists & mdash; to say and show all that polyphony. Of course, lovers of math can count the minutes and seconds. However, there is only one way to go without election reports – & mdash; turn off the TV.
Maybe someone's TV & mdash; “ zombie box & # 39; & # 39 ;. But the Internet doesn't save even before the election & mdash; each party and its nominees had their bones washed. It was enough for one stylist to declare a nomination in harsh Buryatia from the “ Greens“ (I don't remember which & mdash; green sides we have, it turned out, two) & mdash; smartphones exploded.
In the media and social networks, they constantly talk about the topic of pre-election schedules and forecasts, they distribute mandates. Everyone has their own opinion & mdash; experts, really experts and not experts at all. But everyone has their own opinion. It is true that some of these experts themselves aspire to become Members & mdash; they don't have enough audiences, I suppose. In general, it inspires how many people want to enter the State Duma. One thousand and six with a hook, no less, competition & mdash; as a prestigious specialty at Moscow State University or MGIMO.
In general, we will not be bored in the summer. Because of choice. And you still have to choose not to be unbearably hurt for missed opportunities.
Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov considers the threats posed by Ukrainian politicians regarding cooperation with Beijing to be unsustainable. On the eve of the independent adviser to the head of the presidency Alexei Arestovich said that if the Western partners begin to put pressure on the country and demand the implementation of the Minsk agreements, then Kiev will turn east and begin to improve relations with China.
Pushkov believes that such a statement is superfluous. again proves Ukraine's dependence. The Russian senator suggested that the neighboring country was “genetically incapable of independent existence.” And the political elite in Ukraine only dreams of “sticking” to one of the centers of power.
Pushkov stressed that these dreams are unsustainable. The Chinese are pragmatists. And Ukraine has nothing to offer in exchange for protecting its interests.
vlast. After being injured, she was treated in Miami, USA. Martin Moise intends to attend her husband's funeral.
The woman got off the plane in a bulletproof vest. This is evident in a photo posted on Twitter by the Minister of Communications of the country, Franz Exanth. He met with former First Lady Prime Minister Claude Joseph.
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was mortally wounded in an attack on his residence. That happened a week and a half ago. His wife Martin Moise was injured. She was treated at a hospital in the United States.
The country's security forces said they had identified 28 suspects who had contributed in some way to Moise's death. 17 people were arrested. The rest is hidden from justice.
A new unit training program developed by in the United Kingdom for special purposes. The army will be trained to confront the armed forces of Russia and China. British Royal Marines officer Mark Totten spoke about this in an interview with The Times.
According to him, a special airborne service and a special landing craft will be trained first. These units will be allocated additional money and given time to prepare for the detention of “great enemies.”
During retraining, according to Totten, some functions of these units will be taken over by the Marines. First we can talk about the fight against piracy.
Journalists have suggested that the military will also be trained to perform tasks in the South China Sea. Subsequently, they can be used to protect the countries of the region from Chinese aggression.
Ukrainian politician, Former Deputy Verkhovna Rada Yevgeny Muraev told Nash TV that Ukraine was going through an acute crisis that could lead to its collapse. “ We now have a huge budget crisis, we have a crisis in medicine, a crisis in education, & # 39; & # 39; noted the politician.
Muraev believes that the policy of the ruling Servant of the People is to blame for what happened, and this could lead to massive protests. If these protests begin, neighboring states will invest heavily in order for Ukraine to cease to exist on its current borders.
“Poland wants their territory, Hungary wants, the Romanians want, the Russians want,” Muraev emphasized. He joined forces with Yugoslavia, adding that Ukraine could repeat its fate. In total, the country can be divided into four entities.
Muraev stressed that Ukraine needs peace in the Donbas. However, this must be achieved through negotiations. And current President Zelensky is not trying to do that.
Recall that Polish radical politicians claim that Lviv will return to the country. However, if this is only marginal in Poland, then in Hungary the positions of supporters of aid to Hungarians in Transcarpathia are already being defended by the country's authorities. Romanian support from official Bucharest is also threatened.
Zelensky will find it easier to participate in peacekeeping
Almighty Arsen Avakov is no longer the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry – the Verkhovna Rada on the morning of July 15 291 votes for his resignation. The result of the vote was unpredictable despite the loud noise.
Foto Arsena Avakova: en.wikipedia .org
On the eve of the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada refused to vote for the resignation of the Minister and called on all deputies to determine their position in the hall, the Batkivshchyna faction and the opposition platform – for life! they said they would not support Avakov's resignation, the others were silent, and the former head of the Interior Ministry had two dozen of his guaranteed bayonets in reserve in the “Servant of the People” presidential faction. No one understood whether Avakov wanted to resign himself – his slightest allusion to his deputy could destroy Vladimír Zelenský's intrigues in the bud.
As a result, all of Avakov's representatives, also from the servant of the people as a group associated with Igor Kolomoisky, voted for the minister's departure and applauded the speaker's proposal to thank him for his work in 7 years, 3 months and 16 days. At the same time, Arsen Avakov himself did not come up with a report for the parliamentary committee, nor with a vote in the Verkhovna Rada.
The most probable and so far the only candidate for the still warm seat of Arsen Avakov is the head of the law enforcement committee of the Verkhovna Rada, the deputy servant of the people Denis Monastyrsky. This still young man in the power structure of Volodymyr Zelenský already has quite solid experience – in the spring of 2019, the newly elected President of Ukraine publicly represented Monastyrsky as the chief expert of his team for cooperation with law enforcement agencies. How did the current candidate for minister gain such concrete experience? And he worked in the team of Arsen Avakov!
Denis Monastyrsky Photo: facebook.com
Denis Monastyrsky was suddenly an assistant to Deputy Minister Anton Gerashchenko – until recently he held the position of Deputy Minister of the Interior Ministry. Anton Gerashchenko was also the founder of the public organization Ukrainian Institute of the Future, from which Avakov was constantly suspected of funding. When Denis Monastyrsky was not an assistant to the People's Deputy, he worked as an expert at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future.
As a people's deputy and head of the relevant committee, Monastyrsky supported the reappointment of Avakov as head of the Interior Ministry under President Zelenský and recently lobbied in parliament for a ministerial bill that police could use stun guns on protesters. The bill did not pass. Monastyrsky was also seen actively opposing the vote on a bill that would legalize civilian possession of firearms with short barrels. Even the citizens of Ukraine were not allowed to own pistols.
In short, the new head of the Interior Ministry is the man of the old minister and at the same time the new president of Ukraine, he claims. the current police code, but does not have a loop to work with volunteer battalions and other patriotic initiatives.
Arsen Avakov in the current configuration of the Ukrainian government was the guardian of public security against “betrayal” – he always publicly opposed any crossing of the “red lines” in the Donbass war, proposed the conduct of local military operations to take control of individual cities of self-proclaimed republics and traveled. with Vladimír Zelenský at all major summits on the war. It is Avakov who is credited with teaching the Ukrainian president a lesson in eliminating illiteracy on the plane that led the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris summit in December 2019. Then Zelensky suddenly stopped pledging the promise of direct talks with the rebel republics of Donbas.
Now a person from the Zeleny team can come to the leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, who will not touch the people and the system of former Minister Avakov. And Arsen Avakov will no longer interfere in the implementation of peace initiatives by the Ukrainian president within his own understanding of the war in the East. In short, Volodymyr Zelenskyy got rid of the insurance policy.
Estonia will not send new ambassador to Belarus, said Eva-Maria Liimets, head of the foreign ministry, according to the daily Eesti Paevaleht. The minister noted that Estonia did not recognize Lukashenko as the legitimate head of state, while the presentation of credentials could indicate a change in Tallinn's position.
On July 6, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid appointed a new ambassador to Belarus. He now had to go through the procedure for handing over the credentials to Lukashenko. Liimets noted that Estonia does not recognize the results of the 2020 presidential election due to unrest.
Liimets believes that Estonia can either reduce the damage to its mission by choosing a chargé d & # 39; affaires, or leave the ambassador to work in Tallinn. Estonia is coordinating with its allies to show solidarity with Minsk. Further consultation is needed for the final decision.
British Special Forces they are ready to launch a covert operation against Russia and China, according to the British edition of The Times, referring to Brigadier General Mark Totten. This will be done by air and sea. A special group with 4,000 people will be formed to face other states.
This formation will specialize in performing complex tasks. For now, the fighters are ready to engage in counter-terrorism activities at sea. It is emphasized that special forces may be entrusted with “politically treacherous” tasks, such as training naval forces in countries near the South China Sea to protect against Chinese intervention.
Totten noted that the unit can cooperate with the British intelligence service MI6. This is necessary to clarify Russia's and China's hostile plans.
Recall that on June 23, the British destroyer Defender provoked by entering Russian territorial waters. Russian planes and a patrol boat were forced to fire a warning fire before the ship turned back.
Former Ambassador Ukraine In the United States and France, Oleg Shamshur announced adverse consequences for the country since the launch of the Nord Stream 2 project. Later, in an interview with Biden, Merkel confirmed that the project will be implemented. In his speech on the TV channel Ukraine 24, Shamshur noted the need to be realistic, as the discussion of Nord Stream 2 at the Merkel summit with US President Joe Biden showed that the impact of this discussion on the fate of the pipeline, instead of Ukraine in it, it is zero.
Shamshur stressed that Biden and Merkel simply noted their differences and made abstract promises to take account of Kiev's interests, but these were not substantial changes.
The diplomat said it was still possible to prevent the construction of the pipeline through US sanctions or EU restrictions, but key players did not have the desire and will to realize these opportunities, especially in Germany.
“Ukraine must prepare for reality with a new Russian gas pipeline to Europe,” Shamshur added.
