The US Justice Department appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow, Reuters reports.
The first session of the 6th convocation of Armenia’s Parliament kicked off. The session is chaired by Knyaz Hasanov, leader of the country’s Kurdish community and most senior Member of Parliament.
“On May 17 and overnight May 18 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime over 60 times by firing more than 650 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.”
Designed in 1891 by renowned Beaux Arts architect Richard Morris Hunt, the Newport, Rhode Island, mansion known as Belcourt was inspired by Louis XIII’s hunting lodge at Versailles and built for banking heir Oliver Belmont.
Armenian contractual soldier Grisha Karapetyan received fatal gunshot wounds in the military position of the N regiment on May 17, at about 10:30.
The regulation on the EU visa liberalization for Ukrainian citizens has been signed in Strasbourg on May 17, reports TASS. The document was signed by President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, the current chair of the European Union.
The decision of the Russian Court guarantees the full and unconditional implementation of the verdict of life-sentenced Valery Permyakov as prescribed by the international agreements between the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation.
Germany’s decision to grant asylum to Turks accused of participating in last year’s coup has heightened tension between the two NATO allies, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday.
Arthur Hovhannisyan, first deputy minister of justice, has temporarily assumed the duties of justice minister of Armenia, the government’s press service told.
“If the US administration deems it possible, we are ready to provide the Senate and Congress with the transcript of the conversation between Lavrov and Trump,” Putin said at a press conference, following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday.
