News archive on the topic "Mike Pompeo"

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a telephone conversation with the head of the newly created “Orthodox Church in Ukraine” by merging two non-canonical jurisdictions, Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko), expressing US support for religious freedom in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in the official statement of Deputy Speaker of the US State Department Robert Palladino. “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by phone today with the newly elected Primate of the Orthodox...

US Secretary of State Mike Pomeo considers it possible to resume the GXNUMX format with the participation of Russia without the mandatory return of Crimea to Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in a report by the American news agency Associated Press. “As the US and Russia finalize plans for the summit, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Donald Trump is considering Moscow's return to...

The US Senate on Wednesday approved the candidacy of former CIA head Mike Pompeo for the post of Secretary of State, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. AFP reports this. “The US Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State,” the statement said. 54 out of 100 senators have already spoken in favor of approving Pompeo’s candidacy, voting continues, Reuters reports. Let us remind you that on April 24, the US Senate Committee on Foreign...

Well-known anti-Russian hawk, CIA director and candidate for the post of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a toughening of the US policy towards Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The time for a US “soft policy” towards Russia is over, Pompeo said in written testimony to Congress released by the White House. “Russia continues to act aggressively, helped by many years of soft policies in...

There will be no positive changes in relations between the United States and the Russian Federation after the resignation of State Department Head Rex Tillerson. Political commentator Vladimir Volya stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t think that the United States will agree to any easing after Tillerson leaves. In fact, after Tillerson was fired, the Trump administration lost...

The resignation of the head of the US State Department, Rex Tillerson, and the coming to replace him of the former head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, does not promise any positive changes for Ukraine. Ukrainian political experts said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We must understand that Ukraine will be the battlefield. And the battlefield, as you know, goes to the marauders, that we have been for four years...

The arrest of the chairman of the public organization “Officer Corps” Vladimir Ruban on the border with the DPR may be connected with the fact that on that day the then director of the CIA, and now a candidate for the post of US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was in Kramatorsk. Ex-speaker of the SBU Stanislav Rechinsky writes about this today in the Ukrainian weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli”. “It is likely that the head of the Ukrainian special service...

If former CIA head Mike Pompeo is appointed head of the US State Department instead of Rex Tillerson, then we should expect a weakening of the current anti-Russian rhetoric. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the Ukrainian portal “Observer” by American political scientist, director of the international organization “Eurasian Democratic Initiative” Peter Zalmayev, answering the question of what this castling will bring to Ukraine. “It’s difficult to say anything about Ukraine. But I think it’s just as...

US President Donald Trump has decided to replace US Secretary of State by appointing CIA Director Mike Pompeo instead of Rex Tillerson. Trump wrote about this on Twitter. “Mike Pompeo, head of the CIA, will become the new Secretary of State. He will do a great job! Thanks to Rex Tillerson for his work!” - Trump wrote. The fact that the White House is planning to transfer the post of government...