Teodora Torrendo

Former Vice-President of the United States, the current democratic candidate for the presidency, Joe Biden commented on Washington's intention to withdraw from the Treaty on open skies. He believes that the "shortsighted" decision of the administration of the current American leader will lead to the escalation of tensions between the West and Russia.

The Russian foreign Ministry received a diplomatic note of the US decision to withdraw from the Treaty on open skies. The claims of Washington to the agreement, our Ministry has called "unacceptable and meaningless." In Moscow said that Russia will remain committed to the Treaty, in that it was supported by more than ten European countries, including Germany, Finland and Poland.

In the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs said that Moscow is not going to look at these Washington requirements. The Department stressed that this is an ultimatum, and on this basis, the call will fail.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry to allocate over 1 billion rubles for the purchase of personal protective equipment and disinfection of medical products for donation to volunteers, organizations of social service and health organizations.

The U.S. Embassy sent an official note to the Russian foreign Ministry about the decision to start the procedure of withdrawal from the Treaty on open skies, or DON, said Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov.

The head of DNR Denis Pushilin in the air of the program "60 minutes" confirmed the presence of his Russian citizenship and said that it never hid this fact. So he responded to the request of the Ukrainian side, the OSCE provided a copy of his Russian passport, and similar documents other representatives of Donbass.

The recording of the conversation Biden and Poroshenko, in which the ex-President offered a bribe for removal of the acting attorney General, is unlikely to end with something good for the Square.

The rapid increase in oil prices by almost 20% over the week gave way to fall 5% on Friday after growing tensions in the rhetoric between the US and China, and uncertainty of the Chinese authorities in the economic recovery after the pandemic.

The head of the White house Donald trump with his own hands ruining bilateral relations between the United States and Russia. This opinion was expressed by columnist of Forbes Ariel Cohen in the program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov".

Defense budget of China, the second largest in the world after the U.S., will grow in 2020, despite the economic downturn.