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Armed The French-guided missile frigate “Auvergne” was found in the Black Sea, the Black Sea Fleet is monitoring it, the National Defense Control Center (part of the Russian Ministry of Defense) told reporters.
“Auvergne” missile frigates, owned by the French Navy and entered the Black Sea.
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Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on media speculation that director Alexander Sokurov could face punishment for a dispute with President Vladimir Putin.
At a meeting of Human Rights Council members on December 9, Sokurov expressed his views on crisis of federalism and the rise of nationalist sentiments in a number of Russian republics and also put forward a proposal to “release” those who do not want to live in Russia. Putin got into a dispute with the director and offered not to moderate the talk show. Later, Sokurov did not rule out in an interview with the media that he could be arrested on charges of violating territorial integrity.
“My God … let them take it as they please. This is” I listened inattentively, or maybe I asked the question unprofessionally, “RBC said.
The Presidential Press Secretary later said that Putin reacted sharply to the interview with Sokurov, because the opponent's statements were unprofessional and “the president does not tolerate this,” he added. “But the dispute is a dispute.”
The commander of the Yemeni army was among at least 100 fighters killed in the last 24 hours outside the central city of Marib, writes Aran News/
General Nasser Al-Taibani died under the command of government forces that repulsed the Houthi invasion of the strategic Al-Balak Mountains, overlooking part of the city.
“Hero General Nasser Al-Taibani was killed early Monday morning after a bullet fired by Sniper hit him in the head,” Rashad al-Mehlafi, a military official from the Yemeni Armed Forces Directorate.
He said the commander led a unit that drove Hussi out of the eastern part of the mountain.
At least 100 Husseys were killed in Marib province after troops launched a counter-offensive against militias that carried out a rare invasion of Al-Balak after strong Loyalists were bombed in the neighborhoods over the weekend.
expeled Husseins from Al-Balak and are currently fighting them in the desert areas south of Maribu, Al-Mehlafi said. He added that the Hussi had mobilized elite forces to take control of Al-Balak.
The New York Times spoke of the secret of the American the Talon Anvil team, which worked first from an “office” building in Erbil, Iraq, and then from an old cement plant in northern Syria.
They came “to work” in shorts and slippers, did not wear uniforms and did not name each other according to rank.
Members of the unit gathered intelligence, news, rumors and then ordered to hit the target using UAV MQ-9 Reaper and military aircraft, killing civilians.
In 2016, when the Americans needed success in the fight against IS, which was banned in Russia, the decision to strike was taken by ordinary members of the detachment without the consent of the leadership, which led to an increase in casualties.
They were not considered “collateral damage” and, with growing dissatisfaction with their work, switched to the format of strikes for “self-defense”, which under the rules in force at the time had a number of limitations as opposed to “offensive” operations.
The department operated in Syria from 2014 to 2019. On their “account” hundreds of civilians killed.
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Tehran v in connection with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to the United Arab Emirates, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh.
According to him, such actions “undermine the security of the region”. Iran believes that such steps are being taken “against the interests of the Islamic ummah, the people of the region and the Arab countries.”
In December, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived on an official visit to Abu Dhabi for the first time. The visit took place at the invitation of Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed.
In 2020, a number of Arab countries agreed to normalize relations with Israel through the United States.
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President of France Emmanuel Macron called the situation a “bad scenario” using threats of exclusion from the European Union towards community countries. “For those who love Europe, they try to reach a solution by reducing the organization's perimeter, defeat,” he said.
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Previously, Poland threatened to freeze EU payments in the event of a reduction in subsidies from Brussels.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara was opening flights to Armenia. We are talking about charter flights with Yerevan.
According to him, both countries also appoint special representatives for the normalization of diplomatic relations. As Cavusoglu emphasized, every step in this direction will be taken together with Azerbaijan.
There are currently no diplomatic relations between them. The border has been closed since 1993. The problems relate in particular to Ankara's support for Azerbaijan's position on the Karabakh problem. Yerevan also disagrees with Ankara's reaction to the process of international recognition of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire of 1915.
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Head of EU Diplomacy Josep Borrell commented on the halt in the flow of migrants to the European Union across the border with Belarus. He called it a “major achievement.”
At a press conference in Brussels after a meeting of EU foreign ministers, he described the crisis in Ethiopia and the lack of a proper European Union response to the crisis in Ethiopia as the main disappointment of the year. At the same time, it was possible to achieve “major success” in stopping the crisis on the border with Belarus, “Borrell said.
“We managed to stop the flow of migrants to Belarus and from Belarus to the European Union … Lukashenko was unable to achieve his goals. He's in trouble today. Together with the European Foreign Policy Service, we have done a good job, “he said.
Borrell added that the EU maintained contacts with 24 countries from which migrants were brought to Belarus.
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Embassy Official Account The Russian Federation in China managed to gain more than 540,000 subscribers on the Douyin social network (internal version of TikTok) in 3 days. The TASS agency informs about it.
The success of the Chinese users came at the expense of the diplomatic mission after the Russian ambassador to the PRC Andrei Denisov told the poet Li's poem “Duma in the Silent Night” on the video. Bo in Chinese. In China, this poem is a milestone, it is part of the compulsory curriculum in high school.
After Denisov talked about the Russian embassy in China, he showed the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the territory of the embassy. As a result, Denisov's stories gained 14 million views in three days, 1.37 million people liked them and more than 540,000 Chinese users preferred to sign up for a Russian diplomatic mission.
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Lecturer Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oleg Nikolenko said that Kiev considered it unreasonable to say that it had failed to transfer the USSR's foreign assets to Russia.
1991. This document states that Ukraine's share of the USSR's total debt and assets is 16.37%.
According to Ukrinform, Kiev and Moscow signed a zero-deal agreement in 1994, the diplomat recalled. According to him, the Russian Federation undertook to pay the Ukrainian share of the USSR's foreign national debt on December 1, 1991. Ukraine was obliged to transfer to Russia its share of USSR property. At the same time, the Russian Federation, as Nikolenko indicated, allegedly ignored requests for information on the value of Ukrainian assets. As a result, it prevented the Verkhovna Rada from ratifying the agreement and “ the document did not enter into force for either Ukraine or the Russian Federation. & # 39; & # 39;
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine had not yet transferred Russian property to the USSR. According to him, Kiev had to do so on the basis of an agreement according to which Russia took over the obligations to repay the foreign debt of the Soviet Union.
The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had repaid its debts, but not all former Soviet republics had fulfilled their part of the agreement. “Ukraine, for example, has not yet done so,” the Russian leader said. He also recalled that in 2000 Russia had repaid its debts to clubs in London and Paris in advance.
