Permanent Representative Russia Mikhail Ulyanov told international organizations in Vienna that the US threat to Iran could complicate negotiations on a Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA).
The US delegation to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) announced that it was preparing confront Iran from – for failed negotiations on Tehran security.
The United States insists that Iran be cooperating within the IAEA. Ulyanov called the actions of American diplomats a “loss of patience.” In his opinion, the Americans are exaggerating their emotions about the Iranian problem.
Americans could have been thwarted by a unique project
The US Department of Commerce's decision to impose export sanctions on MIPT, the first Russian university to be subject to such a restriction, confused everyone. And in Phystech itself and outside the walls of the technical university. Although there may be something completely different behind such a decision. For example, the war for global fuel markets.
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MIPT has been hit by sanctions along with 26 companies in Japan, China, Pakistan and Singapore. According to the Americans, all those fined engage in “activities that are contrary to the interests of national security or US foreign policy.” Eight Chinese companies are developing quantum computer technologies that are said to be used in antistealth programs and to help hackers.
Specifically, MIPT got into martyrology due to the “development of military products for military purposes.” The United States has decided to “stop the leakage of American technology” for the military progress of the PRC and Russia and activities related to Pakistan's nuclear program, “said US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
“We are surprised by the US authorities' decision to include MIPT in the list of organizations and individuals subject to export sanctions,” said Dmitry Livanov, rector of Moscow University of Physics and Technology. – The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is a world leader in the physical sciences, mathematics and computer science, and many commercial and government companies in Russia and around the world are customers of our basic research and applied development.
We strongly hope that the restrictions imposed on MIPT will not affect close academic collaboration with US universities and research institutes, and MIPT will be able to continue to build fruitful collaborations with the world's leading scientists and research centers to benefit from the development of global science.
As explained in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Industry and Security, licenses for business activities with “military end users” will be issued subject to denial. This means that the company will first have to prove the need to cooperate with MIPT and then obtain permission from the office. And while we talk about export supplies, these sanctions can affect the university's scientific and educational work or its international programs.
Phystech is historically one of the leading research centers in our country, at various times Nobel Prize winners Pyotr Kapica, Lev Landau and Nikolai Semenov worked here. His graduates were also Andrey Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who received the Nobel Prize for the invention of graphene.
“International trade should contribute to peace, prosperity and well-paid jobs, not security risks,” said Gina Raimondo, head of the US Department of Commerce. “Today's decision by the Ministry of Commerce should prevent the transfer of American technology to China and Russia and support Pakistan's dangerous nuclear program.”
It is not known how for Pakistan, but for Phystech as a science center, such a decision will complicate the purchase of American equipment and components, experts say. International interactions will also be complicated, because financial flows, one way or another, will not be bypassed even by the United States. Not only corporations but also individuals are careful when dealing with organizations “under US sanctions.” In general, peace is war, ignorance is power, so it turns out …
As MIPT is Russia's first educational university with this type of “black mark”, doubts are creeping into the authenticity of the reasons for the wrath of the god of American business. This is not related, for example, to the international project of creating autonomous stations “Snezhinka” – an innovative development of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology? It is an autonomous Arctic station powered by pure hydrogen. The oil runs out, the water stays. Therefore, Germany, the USA, China and others are creating hydrogen stations, engines and modules in front of them. And Russia's “Snowflake” has aroused great interest at the 37th International Oil Exhibition ADIPEC-2021.
They were mainly interested in the UAE. We agreed that Sněžinka would serve as a prototype for the creation of a similar station, a “living laboratory” for testing the clean technologies of the future. Snowflake-2 will be built in Abu Dhabi at Khalifa University. The project may be experiencing problems
nowThe sanctions unexpectedly imposed by the US on Physts could be related to the Snowflake project, MK asked a doctor of technical sciences, a member of the public council under the Ministry of Energy Vladimir Tetelmin .
– There is such a possibility. While I can't say the project involves some essentially new, groundbreaking hydrogen technology, Tetelmin said. – Generally speaking, hydrogen fuel cells are nothing new, in China, hydrogen buses run with the main power. They have already produced a number of such buses for the future Olympics. In general, all our success is detrimental to the United States, no wonder here. And satellite technology when we recently filmed our own satellite. And now they're afraid we can blind their entire army. Or hypersonic missiles, or something else. That is why it is difficult to say unequivocally here. But if we assume that they are generally trying to slow us down in all directions, big and small … Then it could be “Snowflake”. Or something else. Unfortunately, we have very difficult relations with the United States and the West.
The State Duma has agreed to the criminal responsibility of Communist Valery Rashkin for illegal elk hunting. And to administrative responsibility – for refusing a medical examination for drunkenness. At the same time, it turned out that on the day of the unfortunate hunt, Mr. Raškin also missed the plenary session … Only the Communist Party faction voted against, which considered everything that was happening to be political persecution.
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According to Attorney General Igor Krasnov, Valery Rashkin was on October 28 in the Saratov region on the territory of a hunting farm that did not have a quota to shoot elk. “An experienced hunter, since 1999, could not know the rules of hunting, but did not get a permit, and concluded an agreement with persons he knew would be committing an offense,” continued Mr. Krasnov, who came to the State Duma with a petition “for waiving parliamentary immunity”. Raškina.
Mr. Rashkin illegally killed an elk, causing 80,000 rubles of damage, and when caught, “made clumsy attempts to apologize,” the attorney general said, personally referring to this kind of insincerity.
“A man who has taken up arms should act like a man, not regret and present himself as a victim of circumstances,” Krasnov said. He believed that a criminal offense under Article 258 (“Illegal Hunting”) had taken place in this case and asked Members to give their consent to the prosecution of Rashkin. And because traffic officers at the deputy behind the wheel noticed a “pungent smell of alcohol and speech problems” who refused to undergo a medical examination, the prosecutor's office also asked for permission to present it. administrative responsibility.
Otari Arshba (“United Russia”), head of the Duma's mandate commission, followed the rostrum. According to him, the Commission “unambiguously” concluded that there were signs of a crime. The Criminal Procedure Code allows the General Prosecutor's Office to refuse to waive immunity in the case of acts related to parliamentary work. But this is not the case, Arshba remarked: on October 28, according to Rashkin himself, he was in the Saratov region in the morning and the State Duma that day adopted the country's budget for 2022 in first reading, and the Communist is wonderful on this issue, as he voted – and also in other matters … (This, we note, is forbidden by the regulations of the Duma, but from time to time it happens in all factions.)
But Arshba still found a good word for his colleague in the chamber: the communist himself. He repeatedly turned to the committee of inquiry and the GPO to testify and “expressed a keen desire to cooperate in the investigation.”/p>
Valery Rashkin, who a few days ago accused, repented and lamented the commission, took an offensive position. He is considered guilty of killing an elk, but only of killing – old friends invited him to hunt and fish, and he was sure everything was legal. Mr. Rashkin is ready to transfer 80,000 to the government of the Saratov region immediately after sending the requisites, and an agreement has already been reached with the kindergarten in the Yaroslavl region to buy a moose cow “to restore the population.”
But Rashkin started with something else. “For almost a month, the media provided many hours and strips for this drama about the Willing, predicted guilt and assured me that I would end my days in prison. Not a single artiodactyl has received so many words, more have been written about the assassination of President Kennedy! ” “The scale of the scandal is disproportionate to the gravity of the act and is unprecedented in such a situation,” because the case has “political consequences,” the deputy said. or use it as a weapon to fight political opponents “…
Each faction had the right to ask three questions. But only the “New People” exercised this right. Sergei Obukhov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) asked why they took weapons for illegal hunting against Rashkin and why the Prosecutor General's Office did not request the waiver of immunity when the United Russia Nikolai Valuyev was suspected of illegal beaver hunting in 2013. But Mr Krasnov did not answer that question. (Valuev then explained that he did not kill the beaver with which he was photographed and who became a victim of the circumstances, but picked him up.)
But Oleg Nilov (SR) decided to develop the issue and asked the Attorney General: “It is to be hoped that after such a significant case of Rashkin, all poachers will not escape with slight dismay.” case of waiver of immunity, and if you really want to discuss the fight against poachers, you must invite the Attorney General separately.
Georgiy Kamnev (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) asked why the investigation should certainly introduce precautionary measures in the form of a ban on certain actions against Rashkin: “Is there a risk that he will continue to shoot tickets?” And he offered to limit ourselves to the guarantee. But Krasnov said the restraint measures “are justified, Rashkin knows the people he was there with and can influence them.” The Attorney General categorically denied the allegations of political subtext in the case.
Here, Valery Gartung (“SR”) decided to clarify whether he correctly understood that after the investigation, the Prosecutor General's Office would turn to the Duma again for permission to transfer the case to court. In answering these and similar questions, Mr Krasnov brought some confusion to Members' minds. According to him, “there are examples from practice that suggest that such consent is not needed,” and he assured that everything would be in accordance with the law. Usually yes, the GPO itself seeks separate consent to refer cases to court, he explained, but “there was a precedent where a case was referred to a court without the additional request of the State Duma, and the case is now in court.”
There was a precedent in the meeting room: Deputy Justice Vadim Belousov, accused of particularly large-scale bribery. The Chamber agreed to prosecute him in 2018, the trial began in 2021, but without further sanctions by the State Duma. And Belousov was re-elected – he had not yet been found guilty …
“You are an experienced hunter and you say you were misled because you yourself have never released a vacuum, your comrades have always done so. And who has paid for your hunting pastimes for 22 years? Expensive fun, elk hunting today in the Saratov region costs from 80 to 150 thousand rubles, “- asked Alexander Khinshtein (” ER “). Rashkin explained that he never issued vouchers, and if someone was shot while hunting, those who “This is a legal practice,” he said, explaining that he usually never took “a single gram of meat and went home.”
Only the representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Yuri Sinelshchikov, spoke in defense of Mr Raškin. He admitted that Mr Rashkin had “committed a number of absurd acts” but had no intention of committing a crime, so there was nothing to bring him to justice – there was ample moral responsibility to his own party. But given all the noise that came around the story, “giving consent is likely to lead to a guilty verdict,” he said. imprisonment means the loss of a Member's mandate.
The speech of the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia showed that Rashkin should be tried at least because he is a communist. “Elk is nonsense, millions of our citizens are to blame!” And when Vladimir Zhirinovsky stepped off the stage, they began to chant loudly: “Shame! Shame! ”Mr Hartung, on behalf of“ SR ”, said there was enough evidence to make an investigation. However, the question of restraint and the right to search in residential and non-residential premises, which is also required by the Prosecutor General's Office, has raised great doubts. Rashkin is a member of parliament, and a ban on certain actions may prevent him from fulfilling his duties in front of voters, the Justice reports reminded him.
Ksenia Goryacheva (New People) and Alexander Khinshtein (United Russia), on behalf of their factions, announced that they were in favor of waiving immunity. Gorjacheva noted that parliamentary immunity was not needed at all because “it has become a personal privilege over the years.” And Mr. Khinshtein said that everything Mr. Rashkin did and said after the unfortunate hunt in recent weeks was “either the law or the morals.”
“All red lines from Crimea to civil society remain”
German Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats have agreed to form a new governing coalition. According to plans, the head of the German chancellor will be filled by the head of the SPD and the current vice chancellor Olaf Scholz. The German Foreign Ministry is likely to be led by ardent criticism of the Kremlin and Nord Stream 2, Green Co-Chair Annalena Berbock and her party colleague Robert Habek, the “superministry” for climate and economic affairs. The expert said what changes in policy towards the Russian Federation can be expected from the new government.
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For the first time at the federal level, a coalition of traffic lights was formed in Germany, named after the colors of the parties involved: Social Democrats (SPD) have red, yellow – from the Free Democrats (FDP), green – from the Union 90/Green Party.
“A traffic light coalition has been formed,” Social Democrat leader Olaf Scholz told a news conference in Berlin. – The SPD, the Greens and the FDP approved a coalition agreement and agreed to form a coalition government. We will now vote on this agreement in our parties and we will do our utmost to ensure that it is approved within the next ten days. ” working groups that have been trying for a month and a half to find common ground on key issues on both the internal and external agendas. According to plans, Olaf Scholz will become the new German Chancellor. He can take the oath from December 6 to 8.
According to Der Spiegel, the parties divided the ministerial posts as follows: the SPD gained six portfolios, the Greens five and the FDP four. This distribution largely repeats the same system that developed during the country's GroKo coalition (Große Koalition – MK ), consisting of the country's two leading political forces – the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democratic Party. Of Germany.
The Social Democrats, as the leading party, will be relegated to the positions of Minister of Defense, Interior and Health. Green is the State Department, which is likely to be led by fierce criticism of the Kremlin and Nord Stream 2's project by Annalena Berbock. The party's second co-chairman, Robert Habek, will become head of the new Ministry of Climate and Economy, which German environmentalists have insisted on.
In addition, Habek is expected to become vice-chairman. -chancellor. This is also indirectly evidenced by the fact that he represented the party's priorities in the new coalition at a political press conference.
The Free Democrats will receive the Ministry of Justice and Finance. FDP chief Christian Lindner is expected to lead the Treasury Department. He has previously described the receipt of this portfolio as one of the key conditions for the party's entry into the government.
In the coalition agreement, Russia is presented as a major international player. Coalition members noted that they would work to maintain “stable and strong” relations with Moscow, “taking into account the different perceptions of threats and focusing on a common and consistent EU policy towards the Russian Federation.”
“Russia is mentioned six times in the coalition agreement and in a very restrained context,” comments MK Vladislav Bělov, head of the Center for German Studies at the RAS Institute of Europe. – As I understand it, the Social Democrats have been able to curb the Greens' anti-Russian enthusiasm. Therefore, the same Annalene Berbock, as perhaps the head of the German Foreign Ministry, will in any case have to follow a general strategy with regard to the Russian Federation.
The coalition agreement states that improvements between countries are not expected in the political sphere. In this respect, our relations are at the lowest point of the value and moral vector of Germany's foreign policy. Therefore, deterioration is possible. For example, the work of the Petersburg Dialogue Forum will not be resumed and other sites may be frozen.
All the red lines from Crimea to civil society remain. Surprisingly, the coalition agreement does not mention Navalný, hacker threats or hybrid wars …
The tone is generally clear. But it could have been worse. There will be no turning points in economics, science, education, but there will be no deterioration. At the very least, it is hoped that Russia and Germany will operate within the framework of European “green trade”, hydrogen energy, digitization, etc. Other ministries will now be responsible for these issues. It is clear that the Greens will lead the new “superministry” of the economy and climate. And that is just one of the party's few points of interest with Moscow.
So cautious optimism is still there. A hydrogen forum will take place very soon. Most likely, the Germans will confirm their readiness to continue their interaction in the field of transport and logistics. At least German business is not leaving Russia. The “Greens” will definitely not “shit” us here. In addition, there are free democrats who advocate economic cooperation. However, during personal interviews, German environmentalists will, of course, express their phi to the Kremlin, the Russian leader.
In any case, while a coalition agreement is being negotiated in the parties, changes may occur. It is possible that the Greens may still add a fly in the part that concerns Russia. By the way, our country is given the most space in the document – neither Ukraine nor Belarus, specifically Russia, is devoted to a few paragraphs.
Moreover, it will by no means be the head of the foreign policy department, which will determine the policy towards Russia in the GDR and the chancellor. At one time, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas decided to play an anti-Russian tune. It was quickly pulled out and repaired. And again, the coalition agreement should not be forgotten. This is not a piece of paper, but a serious document. ”
Liability party question The line of the political party “United Russia” in relation to the participants of the banquet during the mourning in Kuzbass will be decided next week. This was stated in his telegram channel by Alexander Khinshtein, a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the United Russia faction.
The politician drew attention to the fact that the governor of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev, is at the same time the head of the regional branch of United Russia, and therefore there is no need to indulge the ex-head of Prokopyev and other members of the party.
The previously appointed head was removed by the head of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev, Prokopyevsk City Administration Vyacheslav Starchenko. The official decided to celebrate his appointment and held a banquet during the mourning for the miners and rescuers who died in the Listvjažnaya mine.
A 55-year-old Ukrainian industrialist, banker, oligarch Rinat Akhmetov responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for available information about his involvement in the coup dated December 1 and the allocation of a billion
Note that after that Zelensky he said that in his opinion, this information was being disseminated in order to draw Rinat Akhmetov into a war against him and the state. “I do not believe in coups, nor do I believe that Akhmetov will be directly involved,” Zelensky said, adding that he considered it a mistake to get Akhmetov's business involved in the war.
“ The information published by Vladimír Zelenský about the alleged coup in a coup is a complete lie, & # 39; & # 39; Akhmetov said in a statement that was circulated by the press service of the company he founded and nbsp; System Capital Management. Akhmetov added that he was outraged by the very fact that President Zelensky was spreading the lodge, no matter what motives he followed.
The businessman also expressed his political position: “ Independent democratic and the whole of Ukraine with the Crimea and the mining of his native Donbas. & # 39; & # 39; ot;, – added Akhmetov.
Readers Bulgarian portal Today, Dir commented on a meeting between Russian and Serbian presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Vucic, after which the Serbian leader said that the price of gas for Serbia would remain at $ 270 per thousand cubic meters. Vučič himself called this award “incredible”. The Bulgarians are in solidarity with him, but they point out some points.
As always, readers were divided into Russophobes and Russophiles. “Excellent Serbs…. We have to build a nuclear power plant in Belene and be with Russia!” “Putin will tell the Serbs that he will leave them cheap gas, but only if they continue to buy old Soviet weapons from 30-40 years ago for destruction. It will be like in Armenia, “they write.
One of the subscribers noted that Serbs, like any Balkan people, have no choice but to” offer “the will to the” great nations “, because such are the forces of the order in the world.
Federation through Turkish President Recep Erdogan list of Ukrainian citizens captured on Donbasu. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to the head of the Ukrainian state, 450 names are on the list of prisoners. All of these people are reportedly being held in both the self-proclaimed Donbass Republics and the Russian Federation.
As Zelensky noted, Kiev has not yet received a response from Moscow. Zelensky also said that he would not yet pass a law on the transitional period in Donbas, as this could only destabilize the situation in the region.
Leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have started talks in Sochi. The meeting is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan, which was signed last November. At the beginning of the meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that all three countries should seek to strengthen ties, not destroy them. He expressed the view that the outcome of the negotiations should be the conditions for the recovery of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pasinjan thanked Russia for participating in the settlement of the conflict. At the same time, he noted that the crisis has not yet been overcome.
President Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said he supported the Russian party's consultative support in establishing the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia. He expressed his readiness to launch the process.
Later, the heads of Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in a bilateral meeting. It is scheduled for December 15 and will take place in Brussels.
The situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan has worsened in recent weeks. On November 16, the countries signed an armistice, but clashes in the Syunik area continued.
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Photo: Website of the President of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a news conference today that there would be no military operation in Donbass, although the trials in Minsk and Normandy would not work.
Asked if the authorities had a plan if the current formats for negotiating a solution to the Donbas did not work, Zelensky said that the political forces that said we had to go to war today did not think of anyone, including the army. .
“Where” We won't go now, I believe people come first, “Zelensky said.
He stressed that Ukraine cannot lose an entire army.” It's powerful, but today it is impossible and bad, “explained the Ukrainian leader.
