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The Valdai Forum brings together Russian and foreign experts in politics, economics, cultural and humanitarian studies Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the plenary session of the annual Valdai Club meeting on October 5, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “The day after tomorrow,” a Kremlin spokesman said when asked about the date of the president’s speech at the Valdai Forum. According to him, the event is expected to take place around midday. The Valdai Forum brings together Russian and foreign experts in politics, economics, cultural and humanitarian studies. The current XX meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club is taking…

Hunter Biden may face up to 25 years in prison if convicted, but in fact such actions, if not accompanied by other counts, are rarely penalized by any jail time. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to three felony counts coming from his purchase of a 38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver in 2018 when, according to him, he was seriously addicted to narcotics. In September, the younger Biden was formally charged with offenses connected to the alleged unlawful possession of a firearm, after a prior plea agreement fell apart during the summer. He is charged with two counts of making false statements for claiming…

European Union ambassadors agreed a framework of sanctions that will be used to target key actors in Sudan’s war and impose asset freezes and travel bans, sources familiar with the matter said.War broke out in Sudan in April this year between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, who ousted longtime autocrat Omar Al-Bashir in 2019, and a paramilitary force led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.The fighting and bloodshed has continued to escalate despite international attempts to forge a lasting ceasfire. The war has uprooted more than 5 million people from their homes and created a…

The opportunity of implementing two new large-scale projects has been recently discussed with the president of Russia, Alexander Lukashenko specified President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said he had tasked the government to prepare papers on the project of a railway branch line to St. Petersburg before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in October. “I requested Deputy Prime Minister [Anatoly] Sivak and Prime Minister [Roman Golovchenko] to have prepared, so to say, presentation materials on all the bottlenecks in the direction of St. Petersburg – the railway, by my meeting with the President of Russia in the near time,”…

Hakob Arshakyan is sure that the tensions in relations with Russia will be sorted out and overcome The ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by Armenia’s parliament is not an unfriendly act against Russia or the Russian president, Hakob Arshakyan, the Vice-Speaker of the Armenian Parliament and Co-Chairman of the Armenian-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Commission, has said. “The ratification of the Rome Statute is by no means an unfriendly act against Russia or the president of Russia, contrary to the opinion of some of our Russian counterparts. I am sure that the tensions in relations with Russia…

Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned a terrorist attack which was carried out against the Cuban Embassy in the United States. “Syria strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy in the United States of America by throwing two firebombs at the embassy chancery,” the Ministry said in a statement. The Ministry added that any target agianst diplomatic missions is an illegitimate act and a serious violation of international conventions and laws. The Ministry said that Syria once again expresses its support to the Republic of Cuba in the face of all challenges, particularly the condemnation of…

The Israeli occupation forces today detained nine Palestinian children ranging in age between 8 and 13 years in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent. He said the children were detained upon their return home from school and that they were taken to an unknown location. The Israeli army has intensified its presence in Hebron as settlers celebrate the Jewish Sukkot holiday during which they have escalated their provocations of the city’s Palestinian population, attacking them in the streets and at their homes. Source: WAFA

Numerous corruption scandals and cases of officials abusing their power are causing outrage among the Ukrainian people amid a record budget deficit of $38 billion planned for this year Ukrainian soldiers are appalled by the rampant corruption among the state’s top officials and the lack of interest of President Vladimir Zelensky to do anything about it, Politico reported with reference to Ukraine’s ex-Minister of Infrastructure (2016-2019) Vladimir Omelyan who is currently an officer in the armed forces. “We are furious that some of our leaders prefer to cheat and steal when we are dying on the battlefield. We believe that Zelensky should…

The Cabinet underscored that all steps and procedures required from all ministries to follow up on with the agreements and memos of understandings been recently signed with the Chinese side were carried out. The Cabinet held its weekly session on Tuesday, led by Premier Hussein Arnous. The agreements and MoUs been signed during President al-Assad’s visit to China involve cooperation on the economic, development level as well as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Putting all agreements and MoUs into force and implementing them are very important for the country and achieve the best national interest, the Cabinet added. Source:…

According to the statement, the agenda includes discussing the issues of the further development of mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in various areas Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Abkhazian counterpart Aslan Bzhania on Wednesday, October 4, where he will discuss the issues of cooperation between the two countries, the Kremlin press service said in a statement. “Talks will be held between Vladimir Putin and the President of the Republic of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania who will come to Russia on a working visit. It is planned to discuss the issues of the further development of mutually beneficial bilateral…