Новости за 17.04.2018

The stadium commentator joked that the bear Tim would open the matches for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Russia has all it possibly needs to survive any sanctions the US might want to slap on it for failing to toe Washington’s line.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Clean-up work is beginning in Salisbury, which was the site of the suspected nerve agent attack against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the UK government said on Tuesday.

According to the agreement between the Syrian state and Jaysh al-Islam, about a thousand militants must leave the city and head to Jarablus in the north of Aleppo province, the SANA agency reported.

According to the agreement between the Syrian state and the Jays al-Islam, about a thousand militants must leave the city and head to Jarablus in the north of Aleppo province, the SANA agency reported.

Despite having source references, fact-based leaflets portraying Sweden's immigration policy in a negative light, students have been reported to the security police as "racist."

French President Emmanuel Macron has recently stepped up his anti-Assad rhetoric after having supported US-led airstrikes against Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by government forces in the city of Douma last week.

According to a statement, issued after the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, both countries have agreed to resume a political process on Syria, including the discussion within the Geneva and Astana platforms.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The International Football Federation (FIFA) expects all the tickets for the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches to be held in Russia this summer to sell out, FIFA Head of Ticketing Falk Eller told reporters Tuesday.

BERLIN (Sputnik) - Russia is necessary for dialogue on Syria, a political solution to the Syrian crisis is impossible without Moscow, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday.

The US set up the case of the Sergei Skripal his daughter Yulia's poisoning, as well as the story of the chemical weapons attack in Syria, and sanctions against Russia, RF Presidential Envoy to the Privolzhsky Federal District, ex-head of the State Commission for Chemical Disarmament Mikhail Babich said.

US Senator and onetime Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders believes that an end to the Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state hold the key to a lasting peace in the region.

The Russian security service (FSB) has announced it had foiled the Daesh cell planning terror attacks in Russia's south.

The US will remain in Syria until its goals there are accomplished according to Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN. She has said that ensuring that chemical weapons are not used in any way that poses a risk to US interests is among the three goals Washington is pursuing in Syria. The defeat of Daesh and monitoring Iran are the other two aims.

A commander of a military alliance that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters earlier that the malfunction was caused by "a joint electronic attack" by Israel and the US that targeted the Syrian radar system.

A commander of a military alliance that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters that the country's air defense was set off overnight due to a false alarm.

LONDON (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom was not conducting any military operations in Syria on the night of Tuesday, a UK Defense Ministry spokeswoman told Sputnik.

Brits, beware of gorgeous Russian girls – that is the message conveyed by an intelligence expert, who fears that their spectacular beauty represents a “sex threat” and might distract footballers from this summer’s FIFA World Cup, held in Russia.

A remarkable finding of silver coins in the massive stash dating back to the Viking era has been made by hobby archeologists. The remarkable chunk of jewelry, some of the largest unearthed in the Baltic Sea area, is believed to have been owned by none other than Harald Bluetooth, the legendary King of the Danes.

The Times has released an article accusing top-notch British academics of promulgating pro-Assad, Russian conspiracy theories, claiming that the founders of a self-styled Working Group on Syria are spreading disinformation on Syria. Sputnik spoke to one of them, Piers Robinson, professor of political journalism at the University of Sheffield.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will suspend supplies of rocket engines to the United States in case if a relevant decision is taken by the country’s leadership, but such decision has not been made yet, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and Walter Smolarek and Nicole Roussell, sitting in for John Kiriakou, are joined by Rick Sterling, an investigative journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement, and Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The hotline between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in may be launched later this week in the run-up to the forthcoming inter-Korean summit, the South Korean presidential office spokesman said Tuesday.

With Britain failing to provide any tangible evidence of Russia's involvement in the Skripal poisoning case, many people are beginning to wonder whether London’s accusations really hold any water.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a delegation to Syria's Duma only to assess the medical situation in connection with the alleged use of chemical weapons in the city and will have no role in confirming or denying whether the attack had taken place, a spokesman for the organization, Tarik Jasarevic, told Sputnik on Tuesday.