MOSCOW – October 23, 2018 National security adviser John Bolton answering a question over Syria, as well as cooperation on Idlib noted the importance of both issues. "The Treaty on Idlib holds, despite a large number of problems. As well as the situation in Syria, it's difficult: a lot of players, each with its own goals in confined spaces," Bolton said. "We believe that it should be paid more attention to these issues. In particular, we need to pay attention to the Iran behavior, which is behaving negatively both in Syria and throughout the Middle East." Bolton said al...

MOSCOW — October 23, 2018 The US National security adviser John Bolton announced that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in Paris next month. It is expected that it will be on November 11 in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. Bolton, speaking to press conference after meeting with Putin in Moscow, said the details have yet to be worked out. "So we will make the precise arrangements on that but it will happen in connection with the 100th anniversary, the celebration of the Armistice that the French are hosting o...

MOSCOW — October 23, 2018 President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton said he thinks Russia's meddling in the 2016 US election didn't have any effect on the outcome and warned Russian officials that, from a "very cold-blooded cost-benefit ratio," interfering in the American electoral process is not worth the trouble. He also assured that the country currently doesn't feel threatened with interference in the upcoming midterm elections to the US Congress. "As you know, we are closely monitoring the situation, FBI Director Chris Ray said that now they do...

BABCOCK RANCH, FLORIDA – October 23, 2018 French-based transport firm Transdev has been ordered to stop an “unlawful” test of a driverless school bus in Florida by US regulators. According to the officials, the test was “irresponsible” and “inappropriate” and said Transdev had not been authorized to transport school children in Florida. In August, the firm said the fully electric shuttle for 12 people, which would operate with a safety attendant, had a top speed of 8 mph, with a potential of reaching 30 mph. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sa...

Marcelo Sánchez with the new report on police brutality in the US.  

NEW YORK – October 23, 2018 A Russian draft law proposing limiting foreign ownership of news aggregators in Russia is justified, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Russian officials’ statement will weaken Yandex NV’s (NASDAQ: YNDX) position, potentially leading to new massive sellouts by U.S. and European hedge funds, repeating last week’s scenario of a few days of stock price declines, analysts warn. Shares in Russian search engine Yandex were down on Monday after a report that the government was proposing to limit foreign ownership in o...

USA – October 23, 2018 The Federal News Agency (FAN), based in Russia, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. in the Northern Californian Federal district court (San Francisco). The basis for the claim is the blocking of FAN’s Facebook account that took place on April 3, 2018, without any explanation. USA Really has also been targeted by Facebook and other American social media platforms numerous times. As a result of this sudden ban, the huge number of FAN subscribers and readers of news on this social network have been deprived of access to information provided by...

NEW YORK – October 23, 2018 Despite all the efforts to slow-down the panic selling of Yandex NV (NASDAQ: YNDX) shares that occurred last week, this Monday showed another 2% drop in the Russian Tech giant share price. This latest fall is due to a Monday report from the Interfax news agency that said the government was proposing to limit foreign ownership in online news aggregators to 20%, according to Reuters. Yandex, known as “the Russian Google,” is Russia’s biggest internet search engine with around a 56% share in Russian search traffic, and is also the biggest news ag...

LINCOLN – October 22, 2018 Nebraska is considered to be of low electoral importance, as it only sends three representatives to the House, yet, it just mightbecome a battle state for both the Republicans and for the Democrats, since there are many undecided voters registered there. Thus, Nebraska’s midterm campaigns are ratherinteresting to follow. So who is running for Congressional seats in Nebraska?  There are two candidates who will probably hold their posts. Republican Jeff Fortenberry (1st District) has been representing the state in the House since 2005. An econom...