Citing an unnamed state official, Russia’s leading daily, Kommersant, wrote on Friday that Moscow had proposed ending the current situation with the blocked access to Nagorno-Karabakh by opening both the Agdam and Lachin roads.
Carl Bildt, one of Europe’s most experienced diplomats and politicians, has described Armenia’s democratic transition in 2018 that was devoid of any geopolitical orientation as a “much better analogy” for Belarus than Ukraine’s revolutions.
The Armenian embassy in Russia has condemned what it described as an act of vandalism against a memorial in the southern Russian city of Armavir honoring a historical figure hailed by many Armenians as a national hero.
Official Baku has strongly condemned Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s statement made at an August 5 rally in Stepanakert that “Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] is Armenia.”
Russia believes that the key part of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s offer of the status of an autonomous republic for Nagorno-Karabakh was that it will happen “if the parties reach an agreement”.
Armenia’s former Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian, who currently serves as the country’s ambassador to the United States, will be appointed head of the Eurasian Economic Commission next year, it emerged on Friday.
The escalation of violence around Nagorno-Karabakh undermines not only the international mediation efforts, but also the commitment of the presidents to resolve the conflict peacefully, the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group said in an interview with a Karabakh-based news agency.
Armenia and Iran pledged to give a new boost to the development of their economic ties as Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian paid a visit to the Islamic Republic this week.
Renowned Russian conductor Vladimir Spivakov led a group of musicians to Yerevan on a rare direct flight from Baku on Thursday after giving a concert in the Azerbaijani capital attended by former culture ministers of Armenia and Russia.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International has criticized the state of human rights protection in Armenia, noting persisting “impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations.”
Tbilisi welcomes the ongoing rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey as a process that will also open new prospects for the South Caucasus countries and contribute to stability in the region, according to an ethnic Armenian advisor to the Georgian president.
A Tupolev plane operating a Caspian Airlines commercial flight from Tehran to Yerevan crashed on Wednesday in northwest Iran, near the city of Qazvin.
