Under the agreement, Israel is to free 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of the 25-year-old soldier.

The withdrawal could allow future but limited U.S. military training missions in Iraq if requested, senior U.S. military official said.

For any country, and especially for CIS states, elections are almost a catastrophic phenomenon. Often these countries experience nervousness not only due to “lack” of democracy, but also because of its excess. In this case quite understandable is the activation of major powers in the process of driving Russia out of internal political developments. Noticeably stir up embassies of the West and the accompanying structures initially designed to “strengthen democracy and build a civil society”, but actually controlling the pre-election and post-election processes, making sure “the wrong” candidate fails.