Новости за 21.05.2017

Death threats and racial epithets have deluged Texas Democratic Representative Al Green, after he became the first member of Congress to officially request impeachment charges be levelled against US President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.

ISS crew members will carry out an unscheduled spacewalk next week, NASA reported.

Russia's critical infrastructure facilities have avoided serious damage as a result of the recent large-scale WannaCry virus attack, Oleg Khramov, a deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, told Kommersant newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

A budget proposal to be submitted this week by the administration of US President Donald Trump will include conditions that replace American military grants to foreign countries with loans, potentially ending several billion dollars in weapons and logistics giveaways by Washington.

Oleg Khramov, a deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council said that the United States filed a request to Russia in November 2016 over DNC breach.

President Trump is in the middle of his first trip abroad. The grandeur he intended to convey during the trip has been overshadowed by the appointment of a special prosecutor to probe alleged Russian meddling in the US election. Expert.ru explains why, months after stepping into office, Trump still can't get a grip on the Washington establishment.

The latest accusations against Donald Trump are a desperate attempt by "globalists" to topple the US President and install somebody more like Barack Obama, expert in American affairs Alexander Domrin told Radio Sputnik.

At least 45 people were killed and 30 wounded by suicide bombing in Syria's Idlib province.

The US media has limited the President's room for maneuver with endless false stories about Russia.

US State Secretary Rex Tillerson called on North Korea to stop "disturbing" ballistic missile tests.

Military analyst, small-arms expert and Lenta.ru contributor Vladislav Grinkevich breaks down the Soviet Union's unique innovations in assault rifle design, and explains what separated Soviet weapons designers from their US counterparts.

Over 58 percent of Swiss nationals supported in referendum the country's Energy Strategy 2050, encouraging development of renewable energy sources and ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants (NPPs), according to the preliminary results.

Advisers to President Trump who are pushing him to deliver strikes on the Syrian pro-government army are rendering him a disservice, according to Russian geopolitical analyst Araik Stepanyan, who also warned of the danger it might pose to the President.

Russia defeated Finland on Sunday in the third-place match at the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship in German Cologne with the score 5-3 and became the bronze winner.

The US didn't resolve Macedonia's crisis, it made it much worse, and the fate of the Balkans is now in jeopardy because of the latest American-brokered "deal".

The last group of militants has left the Syrian city of Homs.

A peculiar incident occurred in Richmond, Canada as a wild sea lion suddenly snatched a little girl right off a pier and dragged her into the water below.

Russia's latest State Armaments Program plans to give the land and airborne forces extra funds to spend on state-of-the-art weaponry.

Dmitry Shugaev, the head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), stated that Russia will continue defense products supplies to Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan in 2017.

Russia’s decision to ban Jehovah's Witnesses and to confiscate the organization’s assets in the country may lead to a sharp decline in the group’s numbers and help protect the rights of its adherents.

The voting had only one candidate.

While Ukraine threatens to start confiscating Russian coal shipments to the country, claiming that they’re in fact originating from the restive Ukrainian region of Donbass, it remains unclear whether Kiev will actually follow up on these threats.

Brexit Secretary David Davis warned on Sunday that Britain will quit Brexit talks with the EU unless Brussels drops its demand to pay a €100bn (about $112bn) bill.

During the May 10 meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US President Donald Trump pointed out that domestic issues would not get in the way of his foreign policy, illustrating it by the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday.

The US' top officials have recently announced that the US is changing tactics in Syria and is working on the possible de-confliction of operations in Syria with Russia. Russian media suggested what might be behind the revised US' policies.