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Medvedev added in an interview with the website “Argumenty i Fakty” that he put Rutte in this position as a natural order from the West, as he is an official who lacks independence and was appointed as a “supporter of NATO and known for his hostility to Russia.”

“I know Mark Rutte, he is a typical representative of the multi-coloured Netherlands, the rainbow Netherlands, and there is no need to overstate this description. The country of origin of the NATO Secretary General is of no importance to Russia. He is an official who lacks independence by nature, a multi-coloured parrot who talks a lot and repeats in an obedient voice what the barn keeper in Washington orders him to do,” he added.

According to him, Mark Rutte is just an ordinary European bureaucrat who deliberately emphasizes his strong friendship with Bandera supporters in Kiev.

“Rutte was appointed the new NATO Secretary General as a pro-Russian and well-known person, which is why he is acting as he is required to, starting with issuing aggressive and ill-considered statements in line with the general political line of the alliance, which Hungary and Slovakia do not blindly adhere to, but are partly focused on preserving nation states,” Medvedev concluded.

NATO has previously appointed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the new Secretary General of the alliance, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg.

Rutte will take up his duties as NATO Secretary General on October 1, when Jens Stoltenberg’s term ends.

Source: Novosti

THAILAND.- Thai authorities said on Friday that the list of exempt countries of targeted to travel to the Asian country will be expanded from 57 to 93 Starting next Monday, including new additions such as MexicoColombia and Uruguay, among others.

On its Facebook page, the Thai Ministry of the Interior noted that It will come into force on July 15 the new list of countries that will also extend the permitted stay to a total of 60 days, a measure that seeks to encourage tourism still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic (2020-2023).

Countries such as Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru did not require a visa before the new measure, while the extension will benefit more Latin American countries such as Panama, Guatemala, Cuba and Ecuador.

Over the past year, Thailand has reached agreements visa exemption o extension of residence permits with countries such as China, India and Russia in an attempt to revive tourism, which once accounted for 12 to 20 percent of their gross domestic product before the pandemic.

Tourism in Thailand

In 2023, around 28 million foreign tourists visited Thailand, mainly from Malaysia (4.6 million), China (3.5 million), South Korea (1.66 million), India (1.62 million) and Russia (1.4 million), according to official data.

For this year, the Ministry of Tourism expects a more robust recovery of the sector with the arrival of some 35 million international tourists.

In 2019, before the pandemic, Thailand had nearly 40 million tourists, of which Chinese travelers accounted for more than 27 percent of the total with more than 11 million visitors from the Asian giant.

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According to Indian media reports, Raju Soni, the father of rickshaw driver Bharat Soni, involved in the ‘Ujjain Rape Case’, which shook the whole of India, expressed his shame and demanded the death penalty for his son.

Last week in Ujjain, a 12-year-old girl was left injured following being sexually assaulted by an auto driver.

Bharat Soni’s father, who raped the girl, said in a conversation with the media, “That girl might have been my daughter, we can’t get out of shame, I don’t understand anything that this situation What should I do? If I were in my son’s place, I would have accepted the crime and also accepted the punishment.

Raju Soni on Thursday demanded the death penalty for his son Bharat Soni, arrested in the Ujjain rape case. “This is a shameful act, I have gone to the hospital to meet my son and will not go to the police station or the court. My son has committed a crime, so he should be hanged,” he said.

Meanwhile, Ujjain Bar Council President Ashok Yadav appealed to the lawyers that the reputation of the temple city has been damaged by this incident, so they should not fight the case of the accused.