The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan avoided holding more face-to-face talks on the sidelines of an informal summit of seven former Soviet republics held in Yalta, Ukraine over the weekend.
The influential head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, paid tribute to Armenia’s history and Christian heritage as he began a three-day official visit to the country on Tuesday.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has defended his response to the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1988 and said world powers should do their best to avert another Armenian-Azerbaijani war for the disputed territory.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hosted on Monday yet another meeting of his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts which appeared to have failed to resolve their remaining differences over a framework agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh proposed by international mediators.
The presidents of Armenia and Russia spoke of their countries’ common geopolitical interests in the South Caucasus as they held talks outside Moscow late on Monday.
Turkey should not link the normalization of its relations with Armenia to further progress in international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Russia is ready to reopen its main border crossing with Georgia heavily used by Armenian exporters despite refusing to deal with the current Georgian leadership, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev welcomed what he called further progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process during talks with his visiting Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, the Kremlin said late on Wednesday.
The presidents of Armenia and Russia praised the current state of bilateral ties on Monday during talks held just days after significant developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and the Turkish-Armenian dialogue.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian arrived in southern Russia on Wednesday on the last leg of his weeklong five-stop tour of major Diaspora Armenian communities that also included France, the United States and the Middle East.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan were in meeting for more than three hours in Russian capital Moscow on Friday late afternoon in the latest round of internationally mediated negotiations over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area. They made no announcement for the press after their negotiations.
Armenia and Azerbaijan reported further progress towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after a fresh meeting of their presidents held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia on Thursday.
Former President Robert Kocharian is poised to be appointed to the board of directors of a leading Russian corporation that controls Armenia’s largest mobile phone operator.
Russia and Armenia signed on Wednesday an agreement on the release of a $500 million Russian loan aimed at helping the Armenian government mitigate the effects of the global recession on the domestic economy.
The presidents of Armenia and Russia reported fresh progress in international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the development of economic ties between their countries after informal talks near Moscow on Thursday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev reported progress in peace talks with Armenia and expressed hope that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be resolved soon during an official visit to Russia to Friday.
