Category: Politics

Media: Rouhani leads in the presidential election in Iran MOSCOW, may 20 — RIA Novosti. The current President of Iran Hassan Rouhani in the lead in presidential elections after the counting of the 37 million votes, reports the Agency Reuters citing its own sources. According to the source Agency, Rouhani is gaining 21.6 million votes after counting 37 of the 40 million ballots. Followed by Ayatollah Ibrahim Raisi than 14 million votes. “It was all over, Rouhani won”, — quotes Agency the words of your source. He also added that it remains to calculate the order of 4 million votes. Polling stations opened on Friday morning in all cities of Iran on the election of a new President. Simultaneously with presidential in Iran held elections to municipal councils and elections to the Parliament. Have the right to vote approximately 56 million people. Participated in the election of four incumbent President

Photo: RIA Novosti Certain circles in the United States are doing everything to Russian-American relations with the arrival of President Donald trump has not returned to normal, and prepare the way for his impeachment. This opinion was expressed to journalists by the first Deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Frants Klintsevich. “Are there any real chances that Russian-American relations with the arrival of trump finally came to normal? I’m not sure. If there are, the minimum” – quoted Klintsevich his press service. “But certain circles in the United States is doing everything to exclude them in principle. They do not need any surprises, and they will not stop before anything. You have to be blind not to see: preparing the ground for impeachment of the President,” says the Senator. According to him, attacks the American establishment and the press on trump’s mainly due to the

Trump went to Saudi Arabia to unite the Islamic world WASHINGTON, may 20 — RIA Novosti, Tatyana Kalmykova. The President of the United States Donald trump is starting his first foreign visit since taking office. Saudi Arabia will become the first country he will visit. Then he will go to Israel, the Palestinian authority, the Vatican and Italy, and will also participate in the NATO summit in Brussels and the summit “the Big seven” in Sicily. In Riyadh he will hold bilateral talks with the king of Saudi Arabia, and will also participate in the meeting with the heads of six Arabian monarchies within the cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, and in the summit of leaders of Arab and Muslim countries. As noted by the foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir, Riyadh and Washington will sign the political agreement and major contracts during the

Photo: 2017 AFP / Olivier Douliery The appointment of spectracolor investigation “RF interference” in the elections of the President of the United States may adversely affect the relations of the USA and Russia, including in the fight against international terrorism, stated RIA Novosti the head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Viktor Ozerov. The U.S. Department of justice has appointed the former head of the FBI Robert Mueller spectaculorum to investigate the so-called “RF interference” in the U.S. presidential election in 2016. US intelligence agencies had previously accused Russia of trying to influence the election, Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations, press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov called them “completely unfounded”. “The probability is high that it can negatively affect relations of Russia and the United States, if the (President Donald) trump will succumb to this pressure and starts to prove that he has no plans

Photo: Reuters Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov said that if the US President Donald trump would approve the bill, which proposes to consolidate the accusations against the Russian space forces in the deliberate bombing of the civilian population in Syria, “will sign his powerlessness to resist (Senator John) McCain and Co.”. Earlier it was reported that the house of representatives of U.S. Congress passed on Wednesday a bill to consolidate the accusations against Russia in the deliberate bombing of the civilian population in Syria. “If trump would approve the bill, will sign in its impotence to confront McCain and Co. Will not sign — will become the object of the next attack,” he wrote in his microblog on Twitter. If trump would approve the bill, will sign in its impotence to confront McCain and Co. Will not sign – will be the object of another attack. — Alexei Pushkov (@Alexey_Pushkov) may

Photo: RIA Novosti First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Affairs of public associations and religious organizations Ivan Sukharev issued a request to the President of the inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy Sergey Popov with the request to raise the issue of the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate that is part of the Russian Orthodox Church, and to take all possible measures. About this RT said the MP. “Today the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will consider two draft law that gives the authorities the right to control the Church. In the case of their adoption, officials will have the opportunity to declare a Church outside the law. I Express my concern about what is happening and I think that is a matter for the entire international community. Please raise it at the next Assembly of the MOP and to take all necessary measures to pressure

In the South of Libya more than 140 people were victims of the attack on the airbase MOSCOW, may 20 — RIA Novosti. The representative of the Libyan national army under the command of Khalifa the Haftarot Ahmad al-Mesmari said that at least 141 people were killed in the attack on the airbase in the South of the country, reports Agence France-Presse. “Soldiers returning from a military parade. They were unarmed. Most of them were killed”, — quotes Agency the words of al-Musmari. According to him, among the victims of the attack were also civilians who worked at the air base, or were nearby. Earlier it was reported that the head of the national consensus government Libya fees as-Sarraj has dismissed defense Minister al-Mahdi al-Balasi due to the attack on the airbase in the South of the country. According to Sky News Arabia in an attack the Federal government in