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… out of Russia to more stable jurisdictions, including the United States,” Ariel Cohen, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Newsweek.
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| Ариэль Коэн о ситуации в Сирии: Это серьезная победа для России и Ирана | ||
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В проигрыше, по мнению эксперта Атлантического совета, оказываются США, Саудовская Аравия и Израиль
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| По делу об убийстве посла России в Турции задержали медиамагната | ||
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Издание Sabah называет полное имя задержанного Хайреддин Айдынбаш, глава продюсерской компании Guru Medya. По данным журналистов, в ноябре его допросили по подозрению в причастности к “спланированному убийству”, а затем поместили под арест. Компания Айдынбаша выпускает журналы “Повестка Евразии” и “Повестка России” на турецком языке.
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| Cuba Marks First Anniversary of Fidel Castro’s Death | ||
Cuba marks the first anniversary of the death of communist leader Fidel Castro Saturday followed by municipal elections on Sunday that will lead to the selection of a new head of state early next year, who for the first time in 60 years will not be a Castro brother. The island will hold a series of remembrances from Saturday through December 4, the day Castro was laid to rest in a cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, where he had launched the Cuban revolution. VOAs Isabela Cocoli has more.  |
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| В 2017 году в ВДВ было проведено более 300 тренировок по противодействию терроризму | ||
Они проводились в военных городках и на объектах городской инфраструктуры под руководством оперативных штабов в субъектах РФ совместно с подразделениями ФСБ, МВД и МЧС России. (1).jpg) |
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| Much ado in Britain about Prince Harry and (maybe) an American bride | ||
The tabloids are abuzz over rumors that Harry and Los Angeles-born actress Meghan Markle will soon announce their engagement. One tidbit: Theyve had tea with the queen.    |
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| Voice of America: Turkish Official: Trump Has Agreed to Stop Arming Syrian Kurdish Fighters | ||
U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Turkish counterpart that the U.S. will no longer supply weapons to Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria, according to a Turkish officials summation of the call on Friday between the two world leaders. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Trump made the comment Friday after speaking by phone with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to Cavusoglu, Trump said he had given clear instructions that the YPG not be given arms. Cavusoglu also quoted the U.S. president as saying, This nonsense should have ended a long time ago. A White House statement issued Friday evening said Trump informed Erdogan of pending adjustments to the military support provided to our partners on the ground in Syria. The statement described the change as consistent with our previous policy, and said it reflects the new phase of the battle after the fall of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State’s self-described caliphate. The battle of Raqqa is complete and we are progressing into a stabilization phase to ensure that ISIS cannot return,” the White House statement said, using an acronym for the militant group. The statement did not specifically name YPG. Erdogan and Trump also discussed the purchase of military equipment from the United States by Turkey, according to the White House. Turkey has been pushing to persuade the U.S. to abandon support for the YPG as the militia fights the Islamic State group. The U.S. considers the Syrian Kurds its best fighting force on the ground against Islamic State, but has to balance that interest with maintaining good relations with Turkey, a NATO ally. Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist organization linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in Turkey. The PKK has been fighting Turkey since 1984 in a conflict that has left about 40,000 people dead. Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union consider the PKK to be a terrorist group. Relations between Ankara and Washington also have been strained over issues that include the U.S. refusal to extradite a cleric wanted by Turkey in connection with a failed coup last year. The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, denies involvement. Additionally, Ankara has been critical of U.S. plans to try Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab and Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive with Turkish state bank Halkbank, on charges of defying sanctions against Iran. Ankara describes the case as political. The defendants are scheduled to go on trial next month in New York.  |
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| Voice of America: Trump Wants to End Welfare of Clinton Era | ||
Overhauling welfare was one of the defining goals of Bill Clintons presidency, starting with a campaign promise to end welfare as we know it, continuing with a bitter policy fight and producing change that remains hotly debated 20 years later. Now, President Donald Trump wants to put his stamp on the welfare system, apparently in favor of a more restrictive policy. He says people are taking advantage of the system. Trump, who has been signaling interest in the issue for some time, said this past week that he wants to tackle the issue after the tax overhaul he is seeking by the end of the year. He said changes were desperately needed in our country and that his administration would soon offer plans. Work on new policy begins For now, the president has not offered details. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said more specifics were likely early next year. But the groundwork has begun at the White House and Trump has made his interest known to Republican lawmakers. Paul Winfree, director of budget policy and deputy director of Trumps Domestic Policy Council, told a recent gathering at the conservative Heritage Foundation that he and another staffer had been charged with working on a major welfare reform proposal. He said they have drafted an executive order on the topic that would outline administration principles and direct agencies to come up with recommendations. The president really wants to lead on this, Winfree said. He has delivered that message loud and clear to us. Weve opened conversations with leadership in Congress to let them know that that is the direction we are heading. Trump said in October that welfare was becoming a very, very big subject, and people are taking advantage of the system. Clintons campaign promise Clinton ran in 1992 on a promise to change the system but struggled to get consensus on a bill, with Democrats divided and Republicans pushing aggressive changes. Four years later, he signed a law that replaced a federal entitlement with grants to the states, placed a time limit on how long families could get aid and required recipients to go to work eventually. It has drawn criticism from some liberal quarters ever since. During her presidential campaign last year, Democrat Hillary Clinton faced activists who argued that the law fought for by her husband punished poor people. No evidence of fraud Kathryn Edin, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who has been studying welfare since the 1990s, said the laws legacy has been to limit the cash assistance available to the very poor and has never become a springboard to work. She questioned what kinds of changes could be made, arguing that welfare benefits are minimal in many states and there is little evidence of fraud in other anti-poverty programs. Still, Edin said that welfare has never been popular even from its inception. It doesnt sit well with Americans in general. Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at Heritage, said he would like to see more work requirements for a range of anti-poverty programs and stronger marriage incentives, as well as strategies to improve results for social programs and to limit waste. He said while the administration could make some adjustments through executive order, legislation would be required for any major change. This is a good system, he said. We just need to make this system better. Administration officials have suggested they are eyeing anti-poverty programs. Trumps initial 2018 budget proposal, outlined in March, sought to sharply reduce spending for Medicaid, food stamps and student loan subsidies, among other programs. Budget director Mick Mulvaney said this year, If you are on food stamps and you are able-bodied, we need you to go to work.  |
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| Russia | The Guardian: EU anti-propaganda unit gets 1m a year to counter Russian fake news | ||
East Stratcom taskforce will be funded from EU budget for first time after summit highlights threat from cyber-attacks and fake newsThe EU is stepping up its campaign to counter disinformation and fake news from Russia by spending more than 1m a year on its specialist anti-propaganda unit. For the first time since the team was set up in 2015, the East Stratcom taskforce will have money from the EU budget, rather than relying on contributions from EU member states or squeezing other budget lines. The unit has been granted 1.1m (£980,000) a year from the EU budget for 2018-20, according to a source familiar with the teams work. Continue reading… |
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| FB-RSS feed for gazeta.ru: Reuters: США занижают численность своих войск в Сирии | ||
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| Voice of America: Trial of Turkish-Iranian Trader to Start Without Main Suspect | ||
The politically fraught trial of a Turkish-Iranian businessman accused of running a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran gets underway next week but is widely expected to start without the main suspect: Reza Zarrab. Zarrab is a 33-year-old multimillionaire of dual Iranian-Turkish citizenship with business interests in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, and ties to the governments of Turkey and Iran. He was arrested in Florida in March 2016 while on a family trip to Disney World and later moved to New York to face criminal charges of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions between 2010 and 2015 by laundering money through the U.S. financial system and bribing Turkish officials. US-Turkey relations The impending trial has become a flashpoint in deteriorating U.S.-Turkish relations. Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan has personally lobbied the U.S. to release Zarrab, raising questions that Erdogan and other Turkish official are worried Zarrab could implicate them with bribery and corruption. Meanwhile, the recent transfer of Zarrab from a federal detention center in New York to an undisclosed location has prompted speculation that he is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors, possibly on unrelated matters of interest to Turkey. Zarrab is accused of using a network of front companies in Turkey and the UAE to disguise hundreds of millions of dollars of business transactions on behalf of the Iranian government and other Iranian entities. One entity, Mahan Air, is charged with ferrying fighters to Syria. Among other things, Zarrab is accused of shipping gold to Iran in exchange for Iranian oil and natural gas in a scheme known as gold for gas. To facilitate his scheme, Zarrab allegedly paid tens of millions of dollars to Turkish government officials and bank executives. The sanctions, aimed at Irans access to U.S. financial institutions, were lifted after Iran struck a deal with the U.S. and other major world powers in 2015 to keep a peaceful nuclear program. Eight other people, including Zarrabs 39-year-old brother, Mohammad Zarrab, and a former minister of economy, Mehmet Zafer Caglayan, have been indicted on charges related to the scheme. But only one other, Mehmet Atilla, a former deputy general manager of Halkbank, one of Turkeys largest banks, has been arrested. Their trial has been repeatedly postponed and is now scheduled to start Monday in New York with jury selection. Allegations In court filings, prosecutors have alleged that Zarrab has had a personal relationship with Erdogan and that Erdogan may have known of of Zarrabs sanctions-busting scheme. Erdogan is not accused of any wrongdoing, but he and other Turkish officials have slammed the case as a conspiracy against Turkey. Erdogan has repeatedly pressed President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama to drop the case. In September, he said Trump told him that the prosecution is out of his jurisdiction. Yet as Zarrabs trial draws near, there are indications that Zarrab may be negotiating a deal with U.S. prosecutors. For starters, his whereabouts remains a mystery. According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website, Zarrab was released from the Metropolitan Correction Center, a federal detention center in New York, Nov. 8. But the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, where Zarrab will be tried, says he remains in federal custody. Nick Biase, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, confirmed Zarrabs detention to VOA but declined to elaborate. Indication hes talking Legal experts say Zarrabs release from federal detention is an indication that hes talking to prosecutors as part of a guilty plea deal. One cannot be sure, but the most likely explanation for the release of a detained defendant, in the absence of any formal release from detention, is that he is in the custody of the FBI, said Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor now a professor at Columbia University in New York. This move rarely happens, but has occurred in extraordinary circumstances. Benjamin Brafman, Zarrabs lead attorney, did not respond to a request for comment. In recent weeks, Brafman and Zarrabs other lawyers have not participated in key pretrial proceedings, such as providing questions for prospective jurors. That has fueled speculation that Zarrab may skip his own trial. In an Oct. 30 court filing, Victor Rocco, an attorney for Atilla, Zarrabs co-defendant, wrote that it appeared likely that Mr. Atilla will be the only defendant appearing at trial. Eric Jaso, a former federal prosecutor now a partner at the Spiro Harrison law firm in Short Hills, New Jersey, said the absence of Zarrabs lawyers from court proceedings could mean Zarrab is cooperating with the government. Adding to the mystery, the federal judge overseeing the case dropped Zarrabs name from the title of the case in an order issued Monday and replaced it with Atillas name. The title change suggests Atilla will be the only defendant on trial Monday, Richman said. It is also consistent with Zarrabs having already entered a guilty plea, although that is not necessarily the case, Richman said. Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, whose office is prosecuting the case, gave no indication last week that his office has dropped the case against Zarrab. This case, our case, the prosecution thats going on and well start next week in the courthouse, was brought and will continue to be brought by career prosecutors, by career FBI agents and investigators, Kim said at a press conference.  |
