Russia bans Soros Foundation as ‘threat to Russian national security’ | Pamela Geller

Russia bans Soros Foundation as ‘threat to Russian national security’ | Pamela Geller

Russia bans Soros Foundation as ‘threat to Russian national security’

ByPAMELA GELLER on November 30, 2015

OBAMA: POST AMERICAN IMMORALITY RUSSIA SOROS: THE BLACK HAND 

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Russia is not alone. Hungary, too. Prime Minister Orban has publicly blasted Soros for the funding and promotion of the Muslim invasion of Europe.
Everybody knows …… countries with sense are banning the black hand, here in the US — he’s the puppet master behind the plant in the White House. I wrote extensively about their relationship in my book: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America.

Prosecutors ban Soros Foundation as ‘threat to Russian national security’ RT, November 30, 2015

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has recognized George Soros’s Open Society Institute and another affiliated organization as undesirable groups, banning Russian citizens and organizations from participation in any of their projects.

In a statement released on Monday, prosecutors said the activities of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation were a threat to the foundations of Russia’s Constitutional order and national security. They added that the Justice Ministry would be duly informed about these conclusions and would add the two groups to Russia’s list of undesirable foreign organizations.

Prosecutors launched a probe into the activities of the two organizations – both sponsored by the well-known US financier George Soros – in July this year, after Russian senators approved the so-called “patriotic stop-list” of 12 groups that required immediate attention over their supposed anti-Russian activities. Other groups on the list included the National Endowment for Democracy; the International Republican Institute; the National Democratic Institute; the MacArthur Foundation and Freedom House.

In late July, the Russian Justice Ministry recognized the US National Endowment for Democracy as an undesirable group after prosecutors discovered the US NGO had spent millions on attempts to question the legitimacy of Russian elections and tarnish the prestige of national military service.

READ MORE: US National Endowment for Democracy labeled ‘undesirable’ group under new law

The Law on Undesirable Foreign Organizations came into force in early June this year. It requires the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Foreign Ministry to draw up an official list of undesirable foreign organizations and outlaw their activities. Once a group is recognized as undesirable, its assets in Russia must be frozen, its offices closed and the distribution of any of its materials must be banned.

If the ban is violated, the personnel of the outlawed group and any Russian citizens who cooperate with them could face heavy fines, or even prison terms in the case of repeated or aggravated offences.

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Obama: Talking About Climate Change ‘Act of Defiance’ Against Islamic State | Pamela Geller

Obama: Talking About Climate Change ‘Act of Defiance’ Against Islamic State | Pamela Geller

Obama: Talking About Climate Change ‘Act of Defiance’ Against Islamic State

ByPAMELA GELLER on November 30, 2015

OBAMA: POST AMERICAN IMMORALITY 

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It’s official: Obama is evil and mentally defective.

No matter how high the pile of  bodies in the cause of Allah, Obama sees no Islam, hears no Islam, speaks no Islam.

Obama’s cold-blooded comedy in Paris is a step too far.

Climate change is an industry started when I was just a kid. Then it was called ecology. The modern equal to the emperor’s new clothes. It has made the left rich and enabled the government to control more and more of our lives. But to use this fairy tale to duck real life and death issues is malevolent. Fact is, the climate changes. It has for millions of years, with or without man. The idea that it is man’s fault is the height of hubris.

ISIS doesn’t give a fig about the weather. They are planning their next conquest, their next country, their next wholesale slaughter.

Obama: Talking About Climate Change ‘Act of Defiance’ Against Islamic State, Breitbart, November 30, 2015

President Obama is like a beautiful sunrise: each morning, he astonishes anew. Except that the sunrise is beautiful, and President Obama is simply stupid.

That’s the kind gloss on Obama’s latest trip to Paris, where he has repeatedly stated that he is fighting ISIS by sitting in mahogany-paneled rooms eating delicacies with fellow world leaders and chatting about how to hamper global economic growth on behalf of environmentalist redistributionism. Speaking in Paris, Obama said that talking climate change is “an act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us.”

Deter us from what? Obama said that we would build a better future, and that ISIS couldn’t stop us, as though Muslim terrorists are sitting around in Syria making nefarious plans to expend carbon, cursing the new Global Alliance Against Cow Farts. Naturally, Obama trotted out his favorite language to describe those who disagree with his agenda: they’re cynics. “One of the enemies we will be fighting at this conference is cynicism,” Obama said – and fighting cynicism will presumably be a more important task than fighting radical Muslims who wish to murder Westerners.

Leave aside Obama’s arrogance here – he was supposed to speak for three minutes and spoke for fourteen. Leave aside his pathetic apologetics for the American economy, the planetary driver for economic growth since the turn of the 20th century — Obama said he had come “personally as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second largest emitter to say the USA not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.” Focus instead on Obama’s prioritization: he believes that what he’s doing in Paris right now is of far more global importance than what he does to stop Russian aggression in the Middle East, or to stop ISIS’s terror campaign, or to stop the devolution of American global power. That’s not an aberration. That’s a fundamental part of the leftist philosophy from which he springs. As Paul Krugman of The New York Times wrote just days after the Paris massacre, “Sorry, conservatives: when President Obama describes climate change as the greatest threat we face, he’s exactly right. Terrorism can’t and won’t destroy our civilization, but global warming could and might.”

Obama obviously agrees. During his speech, he stated, “We stand united in solidarity not only to deliver justice to the terrorist network responsible for those attacks but to protect our people and uphold the enduring values that keep us strong and keep us free. And we salute the people of Paris for insisting this crucial conference go on…What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it?”

This is nonsensical to the point of madness. The goal of ISIS isn’t to “tear down our world” to their own material standard – if it were, Obama would be on their side, given his intent to do away with the two greatest engines for the alleviation of poverty in the history of civilization: capitalism and carbon based fuels. Their goal is to replace our civilization with one of their own, barbaric and cruel, theologically rooted in a shared vision of radical Islam.

President Obama doesn’t like the villain with which history has presented him, and so he’s instead crafting a villain of his own from broadcloth, a sort of alien civilization that wants to stop us from signing leftist agreements. President Obama, in viewing ISIS, is like Jackie Kennedy in viewing the assassin of her husband, Lee Harvey Oswald: “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights…it had to be some silly little Communist.” Obama feels the same way about radical Islam: the people of Paris didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed by pro-oil right-wingers. Instead, it had to be some silly little Muslim fanatics. So he’ll simply manufacture the enemies he wishes he had, and slap the label of ISIS on them. According to Obama, ISIS isn’t Islamic, but they sure as hell hate climate treaties.

Obama’s real point in Paris, of course, is exactly what the left says it is. In February, the executive secretary of the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change openly stated, “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution…This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

Obama feels the same way. In his speech today, he said that wanted to “reaffirm our commitment that resources will be there for countries willing to do their part to skip the dirty phase of development” – as though if we just pay off poor countries to skip development, they’ll go directly to being developed countries without any of that nasty, you know, development. He said we need to “makes sure that these resources flow to the countries that need help preparing for the impacts of climate change that we can no longer avoid” – as though if we just hand cash to the world’s most impoverished countries and the world’s cruelest dictators, they’ll surely use it to relocate their populations from coastal cities sure to be swamped by unscientific concepts of climate change. And finally, he said he wanted a crony capitalist global system by which his green energy initiatives in the United States – a massive failure by any metric – are expanded worldwide.

Obama’s agenda isn’t America’s agenda in Paris. It’s the left’s agenda, which means ignoring America’s true enemies in order to bring the West down a peg. And if he has to prop up the bodies of a few dead Frenchmen to make that agenda – well, that’s just an act of defiance to the terrorists, right?

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Obama's In Paris, Obsessing Over The Weather And Blaming America - Chicks On The Right

Obama's In Paris, Obsessing Over The Weather And Blaming America - Chicks On The Right

Climate Change

Obama’s In Paris, Obsessing Over The Weather And Blaming America

Red Dawn

November 11, 2015 01:21pm

President Obama’s currently in Paris, meeting with world leaders and coming up with a definitive strategy to defeat ISIS discussing the weather.

During the COP21 climate change summit Monday, Obama stopped short of apologizing for the destroying the entire planet. Because climate change is all America’s fault. We’re so greedy. We just leave lights on all the time and have too many diesel trucks and don’t love the earth. (He likes flying around the world, apologizing for America almost as much as he likes to play golf. Almost.)

“I’ve come here personally, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it,” Obama said.

We embrace our responsibility, everybody. That’s what we’re doing now. (No word if he plans to cut back on his high emission world travels.)

But seriously. He’s adamant about establishing a solid plan to fight climate change. ISIS? Not so much. But the weather? YES.

“Our task here in Paris is to turn these achievements into an enduring framework for human progress, not a stop-gap solution, but a long-term strategy that gives the world confidence in a low-carbon future,” Obama said.

Oh, and this is TOTALLY a spit in the face to ISIS, FYI.

“What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it,” Obama said proudly.

*facepalm*

So yeah. World leaders are actually meeting in Paris– where Islamic radicals recently murdered and injured hundreds of people– to discuss the freaking weather.

If you need me, I’ll be over here. Weeping for all of humanity.

h/t The Hill

We're Back to "Global Cooling": It's the Marxist Circle of Life..

WE’RE BACK TO “GLOBAL COOLING”: IT’S THE MARXIST CIRCLE OF LIFE..

Rodney Lee Conover — December 1, 2015

In the 1970’s, scientists agreed there was an impending ice age because of man-made “Global Cooling.”

It was in all the papers – including the cover of TIME Magazine. The debate was over.

by Rodney Lee Conover – Friend or LIKE me on Facebook – no one turned away!

Another Ice Age?

Until the 80’s came and it was time for Ozone Depletion. Man-made. Gonna kill everyone unless my mom gave up her hairspray..

… Good luck with that one, by the way.

Then in the 90’s it was Over-Population. No food, no water, no life – we’d all be dead soon..

But that was nothing compared to… drum roll please:

GLOBAL WARMING !!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Rising tides, dead polar bears, desert sands covering the earth because of … wait for it:

Man-made global warming.

98% of scientists agree we’re all gonna be dead from Global Warming if we don’t send our hard-earned tax-dollars to Al Gore and Company. There was even an Academy Award in it for Al, in addtion to a couple hundred million dollars for playing the role of Chicken Little.

The Debate was over…

Not so fast there, rub-down boy! The earth once again didn’t cooperate with the Maoist wannabes who only want your money redistributed, so they came up with the ultimate catch-all: “Climate Change”!!!! Which pretty much means no matter what happens, it’s your fault because you are pursuing happiness and doggone-it, that’s bad for everybody.

Well, if Al Gore really thought the tides were going to rise, I doubt he would have purchased a seaside mansion in California, right? Wouldn’t he buy in the mountains? He’s a smart guy, right?

Smart enough to know the whole thing is a scam..

Well guess what? “Climate Change” is out and “Global Cooling” is back in. Just like old torn up jeans with oil stains selling at Abercrombie & Fitch for $200, good ole’ Global Cooling is back in style, baby.

Turns out we’re in a cosmic cooling trend and have been for some time now. 4-500 years to be not so exact, so guess what? That’s right, send your tax dollars somewhere to stop it, darn you!!

From the UK express:

A team of European researchers have unveiled a scientific model showing that the Earth is likely to experience a “mini ice age” from 2030 to 2040 as a result of decreased solar activity.

Their findings will infuriate environmental campaigners who argue by 2030 we could be facing increased sea levels and flooding due to glacial melt at the poles.

However, at the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales, Northumbria University professor Valentina Zharkova said fluctuations an 11-year cycle of solar activity the sun goes through would be responsible for a freeze, the like of which has not been experienced since the 1600s.

From 1645 to 1715 global temperatures dropped due to low solar activity so much that the planet experienced a 70-year ice age known as Maunder Minimum which saw the River Thames in London completely frozen.

The researchers have now developed a “double dynamo “model that can better predict when the next freeze will be.

Based on current cycles, they predict solar activity dwindling for ten years from 2030.

Professor Zharkova said two magnetic waves will cancel each other out in about 2030, leading to a drop in sun spots and solar flares of about 60 per cent.

So there you have it. Get your parka because things are gonna start freezing up – especially your bank account, if the Marxists prevail…

The Jewish Press » » ISIS and Iran: A New Era Ignites in Israel, America and the World

The Jewish Press » » ISIS and Iran: A New Era Ignites in Israel, America and the World

ISIS and Iran: A New Era Ignites in Israel, America and the World

ISIS and Iran are drawing closer in the operational ranks, and it may be only a matter of time before the two merge their forces for bigger "projects."

By: Hana Levi Julian

Published: November 30th, 2015

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An ISIS Gaza rocket launcher.

This month’s massacre in Paris was horrific — it stole the lives of 130 people and wounded more than 350 others — but may be only the beginning of a new era.

Da’esh (ISIS) has from the start made no secret of its intent to build a worldwide caliphate through brutality, violence and genocide. The group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is also clear about the organization’s perfect willingness to simply eliminate those standing in its way.

If al-Baghdadi is neutralized, there is no guarantee whatsoever that the organization will disband. In fact, it is highly likely that it will not: Al Qaeda has simply mushroomed and metastasized since the death of Osama bin Laden, probably as he intended and designed it to do.

The battle begun by Da’esh was likewise never intended to be limited to the Middle East, nor has it been: Da’esh attacks have been recorded throughout the Middle East – in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Israel, and Iraq, but also in Africa, southeast Asia, Europe, Australia and North America.

More than a third of Iraqi territory now belongs to Da’esh, stitched to the swathe of what formerly was known as Syria. President Bashar al-Assad has barely hung on to the province around the capital, Damascus — and even that only with the assistance of Russia, and Iran with its elite Revolutionary Guard troops and its Lebanese proxy, the Hezbollah guerrilla terrorist fighters.

Likewise, Da’esh has been clear from the outset that Israel is far from being an exception to the targets: it dreams of seizing the Holy Land for the crown jewel among its territorial conquests.

To that end, the terror group recently launched a cyber jihad fundraising campaign to provide arms to help Palestinian Authority Arabs in their attacks on Israeli Jews in this latest wave of terror.

Plus, in recent video threats Da’esh promised a Paris-style massacre “coming soon” to Washington DC, along with renewed attacks on Paris for good measure.

As all this Sunni-based radical Islamist activity takes place, however, Shi’a Iran is now becoming eligible to receive new uranium enrichment hardware from Russia, and economic sanctions that were slowing down its nuclear technology race towards an atomic weapon are now being relaxed as well.

But the Islamic Republic of Iran has yet to keep up its end of the nuclear deal agreed upon by the six world powers in Vienna this summer. The uranium enrichment centrifuges already in its possession have not been powered down in the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran, according to international inspectors who monitor the plant. And there are other issues as well.

So it would seem that while Sunni extremists are on a rampage, Shi’a scientists are hard at work making sure their own proxies will have the proper equipment to finish the job.

The Iranians so far have fought Da’esh on behalf of Assad, and frankly, in fear that their own country would be swallowed.

Israel has fought them both.

But in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the Iranian-backed Hamas terror group — spawned by the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood — has strongly supported Da’esh, providing arms and technical support. This has taken place even though the two are bitter enemies in Gaza, where the Shi’ite Iranians still generously support Hamas against the increasing strength of the radical Islamist Da’esh, which insists that Hamas does not represent “true Islam.”

And it is here — in this dichotomy — that the seeds of a new Axis of Evil are beginning to sprout.

Sunni and Shi’ite Muslim terror factions normally at war with each other are perfectly willing to set aside their differences when presented with a common enemy. In Egypt, in the Sinai Peninsula, they are fighting together to rout what they perceive as “secular” government forces from the region, who ousted former Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohammed Morsi from office.

Under the same banner, they are already beginning to unite in Judea, Samaria and elsewhere in Israel to share resources toward a common goal: annihilating Israel.

In the future, they will eventually do the same when aiming at America.

How will Europe, Russia and the United States respond on the day that Da’esh and Iran formally put aside their differences and unite their forces to attack?

About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.

You can’t even imagine what thousands of children go through In Sharia countries

You can’t even imagine what thousands of children go through In Sharia countries

You can’t even imagine what thousands of children go through In Sharia countries

This is what happens in Muslim countries with Sharia law. where girls as young as five are forced to marry.

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WORLD | The moral revolution’s threat to Christianity | R. Albert Mohler Jr. | Nov. 28, 2015

WORLD | The moral revolution’s threat to Christianity | R. Albert Mohler Jr. | Nov. 28, 2015

The moral revolution’s threat to Christianity

BOOKS | Helping Christians and the church understand the challenge and face it with faithfulness

By R. ALBERT MOHLER JR.

Posted Nov. 28, 2015, 09:57 a.m.

How did we get here? How did we get here so fast? And where do we go from here?

Many Christians find themselves asking these questions now that things that were once considered immoral and harmful are now openly and unquestionably celebrated by society.

Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,attempts to answer these questions in his new book, We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong (Thomas Nelson). Mohler sees this “moral revolution” as an immense challenge to Christians and the church and a major threat to Christianity, but one that must be faced with a “monumental act of faithfulness.”

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With the gracious permission of the publisher, we offer Chapter 1 below, which helps us better understand the origins of this revolution. —Mickey McLean

Chapter 1: In the Wake of a Revolution

The prophetic writer Flannery O’Connor rightly warned us years ago that we must “push as hard as the age that pushes against you.”[1] This book is an attempt to do just that.

We are living in the midst of a revolution. The Christian church in the West now faces a set of challenges that exceeds anything it has experienced in the past. The revolution that has transformed most of Western Europe and much of North America is a revolution more subtle and more dangerous than revolutions faced in previous generations. This is a revolution of ideas—one that is transforming the entire moral structure of meaning and life that human beings have recognized for millennia.

This new revolution presents a particular challenge to Christianity, for a commitment to the authority of Scripture and to revealed truths runs into direct conflict with the central thrust of this revolution. Christians are not facing an isolated set of issues that cause us to be merely perplexed and, at times, at odds with the larger culture. We are instead facing a redefinition of marriage and transformation of the family. We are facing a complete transformation of the way human beings relate to one another in the most intimate contexts of life. We are facing nothing less than a comprehensive redefinition of life, love, liberty, and the very meaning of right and wrong.

This massive revolution is taking place across the entire cultural landscape, affecting virtually every dimension of life and demanding total acceptance of its claims and affirmation of its aims. Christians who are committed to faithfulness to the Bible as the Word of God and to the gospel as the only message of salvation must face this unavoidable challenge.

A Comprehensive Revolution

British theologian Theo Hobson has argued that the scale and scope of this challenge are unprecedented. According to critics of Hobson’s argument, the challenge of the sexual revolution and the normalization of homosexuality is nothing new or unusual. Churches have always shown the ability to plod their way through hard moral issues before, and so they will again with homosexuality. Hobson himself confessed that he would have agreed with this line of reasoning at one point, but not anymore. For Hobson, the issue of homosexuality presents the church with a challenge it has never faced before.[2]

Why is this such a challenge to Christianity? Hobson has suggested that the first factor is the either-or quality of the new morality. There is no middle ground in the church’s engagement with homosexuality. Either churches will affirm the legitimacy of same-sex relationships and behaviors or they will not.

Hobson’s second factor is the new morality’s rapid rate of success. The normalization of homosexuality—something regarded as “unspeakably immoral” for centuries— as happened at breakneck speed. It has happened so fast that homosexuality is now considered as a legitimate lifestyle, and one that deserves legal protection. Moreover, as Hobson argued, the speed of the new morality’s success “has basically ousted traditionalist sexual morality from the moral high ground.”[3]

In other words, the sexual revolution has actually turned the tables on Christianity. The Christian church has long been understood by the culture at large to be the guardian of what is right and righteous. But now the situation is fundamentally reversed. The culture generally identifies Christians as on the wrong side of morality. Those who hold to biblical teachings concerning human sexuality are now deposed from the position of high moral ground. This change is not simply “the waning of the taboo.” As Hobson explained:

The case for homosexual equality takes the form of a moral crusade. Those who want to uphold the old attitude are not just dated moralists (as is the case with those who want to uphold the old attitude to premarital sex or illegitimacy). They are accused of moral deficiency. The old taboo surrounding this practice does not disappear but “bounces back” at those who seek to uphold it. Such a sharp turn-around is, I think, without parallel in moral history.[4]

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Russia: No Turkish imports, we will import from Israel - Israel News, Ynetnews

Russia: No Turkish imports, we will import from Israel - Israel News, Ynetnews

Russia: No Turkish imports, we will import from Israel

Following downing of Russian jet by Turkey, the Russian agriculture minister announces the cessation of vegetable imports from Turkey; Israel among the countries that could benefit from the ban on Ankara.

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Published:  11.26.15, 11:39 / Israel News

Tensions between Russia and Turkey continue to mount as Moscow announced this week that it would stop importing vegetables from Ankara, listing Israel as a possible alternative.

Russia: No Turkish imports, we will import from Israel

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Russian President Vladimir Putin recently ended security cooperation with Ankara and asked Russian citizens to avoid visiting Turkey, but the Russian president seems to want to punish Turkey even more for downing a Russian combat jet two days ago.



On Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said that Russia may substitute imports of vegetables from Turkey with those supplied from Iran, Israel, and Morocco due to a "breach in sanitary regulations."



 

Anti-Turkish protests at the Turkish embassy in Moscow (Photo: AP)

The Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper reported that Russia had recently stopped importing Turkish goods.



Adnan Dalgahran, a member of the Turkish Exporters Association, told the Daily Sabah that the Russian customs authorities had refused to receive Turkish goods, providing a variety of excuses.



 

Israeli vegetables (Photo: Moti Kimchi)

 

Russia's secret weapon – food boycotts 

"Turkish vegetables account for 20 percent of the total Russian imports of vegetables. Import of vegetables, tomatoes in the first place, will be substituted with those from Iran, Morocco, Israel, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan," the minister said, adding that Turkey supplies more than 360,000 tons, of tomatoes to Russia.

Paint thrown at the Turkish embassy in Mosocw (Photo: AP)

"Turkey imports about 250,000 tons of citrus fruits, a quarter of the total citrus imported into Russia," he said. "We can replace citrus imports by supplies from South Africa, Morocco, China, Argentina, Israel, Abkhazia, Georgia," the head of the Agriculture Ministry concluded.





According to the data provided by the ministry, in 2014, Turkish imports of food and agricultural products to Russia stood at $1.7 billion, which is in line with the previous year. Turkey accounted for four percent of Russia’s total food imports.



Russia has previously banned Western food imports after the fallout and sanctions that followed the crises in Crimea, and the Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine.

Protests against Turkey at the Turkish embassy in Mosocw (Photo: EPA)

Relations between Turkey and Israel, which is likely to be a major beneficiary of the new Russian arrangement, have been icy at best since the famed IDF raid killed 10 Turkish citizens on the Gaza-bound Mavi Maramara ship in 2010.





On Tuesday, a Su-24M frontline bomber of the Russian aviation group in Syria crashed in Syrian territory. The plane was downed by an air-to-air missile launched by a Turkish F-16 fighter.

Later on Tuesday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry and the Federal Tourism Agency recommended Russian citizens refrain from traveling to Turkey due to security threats.