“It is no wonder that there is so much aggression in the air when diplomacy is seen to have achieved so little. A vacuum has been created which will be filled either by negotiations or by threats and potential military action. Another problem is that the other two Minsk Group co-chairs, France and the United States, have been seen to be too passive recently and that therefore the impression is created that Russia—and in particular foreign minister Sergei Lavrov—is the sole negotiator.”
The Metropolitan Police said there had been no prior intelligence about Masood’s intention to carry out an attack. But he was known to the police and his previous convictions included causing grievous bodily harm, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.
“It may sound strange, but this has psychological reasons. The EU actively prepared for signing the association agreements with four EaP countries in Vilnius, it was touched upon for months, however, on the threshold of Vilnius there was a surprise in case of two countries, which was a blow to the EU, a bigger one was Ukrainian war, after which the EU basically doesn’t intend to give great importance to signing of the agreement.”
During the spy games of WWII, the result of the war was hanging by a thread. Gevorg Vartanian, a young Armenian who joined the Soviet intelligence circle through his father, proved to be a valuable asset, even when he was 16 years old. Vartanian’s father posed as a rich Persian merchant in Tehran for 23 years, having moved there in 1930 when his son was six years old. He worked as an informant and an intelligence officer for the Soviets.
The European Commission has summoned Turkey’s EU ambassador, Selim Yenel, to get an explanation over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments on safety of Europeans, its spokeswoman said Thursday.
In Miami hosted a ceremony of opening of the restaurant, owned by Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal and famous singer Enrique Iglesias, reports Marca.
Former Russian lawmaker of the State Duma Denis Voronenkov was shot dead in a firefight in Kiev, Ukraine, a senior law enforcement official Andrey Krishchenko said.
“It is very funny to watch all this (Kiev’s ban) from outside, because I don’t understand what is it so special that they saw in me. They saw some threat in me, such a small girl. I am not upset, generally speaking. I keep training, and I still believe the things will change,” she saying as quoted by TASS.
The President’s Office told the President signed an order on March 23 on appointing Oleg Yesayan as Ambassador of Armenia to Belarus (residence in Minsk). Yesayan has also been appointed as permanent plenipotentiary representative of Armenia in the statutory and other bodies of the CIS.
Lights on the Eiffel Tower have been switched off in solidarity with Britain after Wednesday’s terror attack in central London, which left at least five people dead, the Daily Mail reports.
