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.
“We have many famous people like Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Levon Aronian. We have Olympic champions. But we can also be useful for the EU by exporting our products and not only. IT is also developing very fast in Armenia, and above all, we can be a friendly neighbor for the Europeans, a predictable neighbor at that.”
Russian government has submitted a draft bill, which anticipates imposing ban on turnover of goods of separate category supplied to Russia from EEU member countries, ministers’ cabinet website informs.
Jordanian firms Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine signed a deal in 2014 to import 2 billion cubic meters (around 70 billion cubic feet) of gas from Israel’s Tamar field over 15 years. At the time reports said the deal was worth $771 million.
