Good morning! In Armenia, the parliament chose the temporary prime minister of street protests, the deputy from the Elk party Nikola Pashinyan - 59 deputies supported him, 42 voted against, how Armenia was jammed, you can see the forecasts about who the new Armenian Prime Minister will work - here . A new prime minister also appeared in Russia, and you can look at it endlessly. 374 deputies voted for Medvedev, against 56.

In Moscow, on May 9, for the fifth time, the Immortal Regiment was held, during which citizens carry photos of relatives participating in the Great Patriotic War. According to the authorities, more than a million people took part in the procession.

Attack on the building of the Embassy of Latvia in Moscow, May 9, 2018 In Moscow, on May 9, there was an attack on the building of the Latvian embassy. Two people were detained. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgar Rinkevich on Twitter.

Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin The Parliament of Chechnya prepared a bill that allows to extend the powers of the President of Russia up to three terms in a row. This was stated by the speaker of the Republican Legislative Assembly Magomed Daudov. He claims that such an amendment to the Constitution "does not detract from the democratic foundations of" Russia, RIA Novosti reports .

Provocations of people dressed in a Cossack form during the rally "He is not a king for us"

Opening of the 71st Cannes Film Festival The 71st Cannes festival was opened with a picture of Asgara Farhadi "Everyone knows everything." This year, the organizers of the film festival decided to bring several changes to the order of things that have been established over the years.

Donald Trump signed a memorandum of sanctions against Tehran and everyone who supports this regime

Telegram created the first service for its future Ton blockchain platform (Telegram Open Network). This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to sources. According to the publication, now the Telegram Passport service is being tested closed. Vedomosti notes that the new service will identify the identity of the Telegram user. It is claimed that all the necessary documents and data will need to be loaded to the messenger once.

Boris Stomakhin (archive photo) The severity of the punishment of publicist Boris Stomakhin, convicted in Russia on charges of calling for terrorism and exciting hatred, violates his rights. This is stated in a statement by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), published on Wednesday. The court admitted that Russia violated the right to freedom of expression, and ordered to pay 12.5 thousand euros for moral damage to the convict.

The Polish competition protection department (Uokik) opened a case against Gazprom and five foreign companies responsible for financing the North Stream 2 gas pipeline. This is stated in the message posted on Wednesday on the website of the department with reference to the chief of the antimonopoly department of Marek.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States refuses to fulfill an agreement on limiting the Iranian nuclear program signed in 2015, since it is not able to prevent the appearance of nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran. President Trump announced the restoration of American sanctions against Iran and warned that Washington was ready to punish the country's sanctions that would help Tehran in nuclear weapons.

Nationalists block the Inter office Several dozen representatives of the Ukrainian right -winging organizations National Corps and National Friends block the Inter Central Office in Kyiv, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports from the scene.

In 2016, hackers related to the Russian government conducted an unprecedented, coordinated cybercard against the US state election infrastructure. This is stated in a statement by the US Senate Intelligence Committee, distributed on May 8. It notes that Russian hackers were looking for vulnerable places, attempted invasions and, in a small number of cases, successfully penetrated into the database of voter registration in a number of states.

20 years after the victory, this word in the USSR rarely sounded, on May 9 was a working day. On June 24, 1945, having adopted the first Victory Parade, Marshal Georgy Zhukov uttered almost the shortest of his official speeches.

On the Cannes Film Festival on May 9, the premiere of the film "Donbass" took place. Four years ago, Sergei Loznitsa shot the Kiev Maidan , and in Donbass talks about what happened in the territory that rejected the revolution and plunged into the war in Moscow. Russian troops ineptly depict the inhabitants of Gorlovka, there are commodity compositions with coal, and new owners of life, "militias", rob everyone-from poor old women to local heroes.