“It is public knowledge that there have been efforts, as U.S. intelligence forces have said, by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system,” Freeland told reporters in Parliament.
“Who’s the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Russia? Do you know him? Maybe you know by position, and do you know who’s the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia? Polad Bülbüloğlu, he is a bright personality.”
The friend said: “His father was a sailor who served on the submarines before the war. He then went to work for the KGB. It was very dangerous work – he was a paratrooper and he went into a German occupied area to try and destroy a weapons factory.
Hollande said Moscow was seeking to affirm itself as a global power while “testing our resistance”, the Guardian reports. He said Russia was “using every means to influence public opinion,” including by using new technology.
On March 5, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan drew parallel between the German authorities and Nazis criticizing Berlin for banning Ankara’s campaign rallies on German soil ahead of a crucial vote on the constitutional reform.
While the public still has considerable confusion about what, precisely, individuals connected to the Russian government did — and how they might have been connected to the Trump campaign — there is general consensus that whatever happened, it merits further independent investigation.
Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, who is under arrest in Baku is provided with an opportunity to communicate with him family by phone, Lapshin’s lawyer Eduard Chernin said on Monday, March 6.
German politicians reacted with shock and anger. German justice minister Heiko Maas told broadcaster ARD that Mr Erdogan’s comments were “absurd, disgraceful and outlandish” and designed to provoke a reaction from Berlin.
“I exclude this, as there aren’t interested external players. Neither Iran, nor Turkey, nor the USA, Russia completely doesn’t need any war, Europe itself is sinking.”
The Armenian diaspora, estimated at 10 million, is three times the population of Armenia itself, with migrants and their descendants sprinkled across the continents from Russia to the United States, UK, Lebanon and Australia.
