News archive on the topic "US Department of State"

The US State Department is persuading its citizens to refrain from traveling to Crimea. The recommendations published on the department’s website speak of “intolerance” towards foreigners and those who do not recognize the Russian status of the peninsula, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. American tourists are afraid that in the event of an emergency they will not be able to provide assistance to their citizens. “Do not travel to Crimea. Russia's military presence in Crimea...

The US State Department is trying to make the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew the “Pope of Constantinople” in order to gain total control over the Orthodox churches around the world. The former clergyman of the UOC MP, and now the Russian Orthodox Church MP, Archpriest Andrei Novikov, said this on air on the NewsFront channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The unity of the Russian Orthodox Church has solid canonical foundations, and what Patriarch Bartholomew is doing is an implementation...

Mikhail Denisenko, the leader of the unrecognized UOC-KP in the Orthodox world, who calls himself “Patriarch Filaret,” who collaborated with Soviet intelligence services, visited the US State Department with his retinue. The press service of the “patriarchy” reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In the company of schismatic priests and the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, Filaret met with Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wes Mitchell. "We discussed...

The new package of anti-Russian sanctions announced by the US State Department shows that the US President does not intend to risk his political capital for the sake of relations with Russia. Kommersant comes to this conclusion in an article devoted to Washington’s new anti-Russian initiatives. “All branches of American government have entered the war of sanctions against Russia. After a group of senators introduced the “American Defense Act” into the US Congress...

The US State Department has issued a declaration of non-recognition of the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The document was signed by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The declaration states that the territory of Crimea was “seized by force” and this is nothing more than a “violation of international law.” The text of the document notes that the United States does not recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, just as it does not...

Both the US State Department and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry employ people in high positions. which circulate statements that are far from adequate. The director of the Kyiv Center for Political Studies and Conflict Studies, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, said this at a press conference in Kiev, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, and noted that the amount of nonsense that high-ranking officials have spoken about the Skripal case is immeasurable. “A representative of the State Department,…

Western media will criticize those observers who did not come through the OSCE. The head of the International Observer Mission, Alexey Kochetkov, announced this today at a press conference in Moscow. “For some reason, there is an opinion in the West that only structures affiliated with the US State Department can observe. Our mission included people who have a certain weight in their countries: scientists, politicians, social activists...

The appointment of former CIA Director Mike Pompeo to the post of Secretary of State, announced in the United States, instead of the dismissed Rex Tillerson, is an attempt by President Trump to remove his ally from under fire. MGIMO associate professor and political scientist Kirill Koktysh writes about this in Izvestia, according to whom the key reason for the castling is not so much Tillerson’s failures as head of American diplomacy, but...

Washington has decided on its position regarding the outbreak of conflict between the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU, controlled by President Poroshenko. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The corresponding statement appeared on the website of the US State Department. “Recent events, including the breakdown of a high-level corruption investigation, the arrest of officials from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau...

The US State Department published a report noting the pressure and threats from nationalists and representatives of the schismatic UOC-KP against the priests of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The report on international religious freedom prepared by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the US State Department states that nationalists systematically threaten the clergy of the UOC-MP,…

 US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that the United States takes “very seriously” the information that has appeared in the media about Ukraine’s supply of rocket engines to the DPRK, Izvestia reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Nauert noted that Washington intends to check this information and take control of the issue and recalled that Ukraine has made efforts to prevent the supply of materials to countries causing...

Today, there are 95 public organizations that are foreign agents on the Russian register; over 40 have been registered on the initiative of the prosecutor. A number of them subsequently decided on voluntary liquidation. Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Chaika stated this today at parliamentary hearings on preventing interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte...

During a meeting in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced extremely painful things for US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The former head of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Voloshin said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “During a meeting with Tillerson, Lavrov said a phrase that was painful for Tillerson. Was…

A group of deputies of the Ukrainian parliament, close to the US State Department, has again become involved in American internal political squabbles. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The director of the Kiev Center for Political Studies and Conflictology, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, said this at a press conference in Kiev, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, answering the question of what lies behind the new portion of compromising evidence. to someone close to the US President...