Most of the contracts required for the upcoming delivery of large amounts of more Russian weapons to Armenia have already been signed, according to the Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Ivan Volynkin.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh are scrambling to resettle hundreds of local residents who fled their homes immediately after heavy fighting broke out along the Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” around the territory on April 2.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian commended Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaderships for their response to the escalation of the conflict with Azerbaijan as he wrapped up a visit to Stepanakert on Tuesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian dismissed three senior Armenian military officials on Tuesday more than three weeks after the outbreak of heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh that nearly escalated into a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should deploy observers and gunfire-locator systems around Nagorno-Karabakh in order to minimize ceasefire violations there, a senior French government official said on Monday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov did not press Armenia to make unilateral concessions to Azerbaijan during his latest visit to Yerevan, his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian insisted on Sunday.
Russia urged the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to “reduce military risks” and resume peace talks as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov headed to Yerevan on Thursday.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon after its worst escalation in over two decades, a senior representative of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has yet to come up with convincing “economic grounds” for realizing its ambitious plans to build a new nuclear power station in Armenia, a senior Russian official said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s top army general raised its concerns over the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone with his counterparts from other ex-Soviet states making up the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) when they met in Yerevan on Friday.
A senior representative of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Thursday condemned as “rude and unacceptable” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin’s angry reaction to Armenian protests against Russian arms sales to Azerbaijan.
Economy Minister Artsvik Minasian has played down a 9 percent reduction in the price of Russian natural gas delivered to Armenia, saying that it will not give a significant boost to the Armenian economy.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian will attend after all a Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) summit that was due to take place in Yerevan but was moved to Moscow because of the escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
In a stern rebuke to Moscow, President Serzh Sarkisian told Russia’s visiting Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev late on Thursday that Azerbaijan used Russian weapons purchased in recent years during heavy fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh that broke out a week ago.
Russia has agreed to a 9 percent reduction in the price of its natural gas supplied to Armenia, it was announced during Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s official visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian asked his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday to accelerate the planned delivery of $200 million worth of Russian weapons to Armenia during their talks held in Yerevan following a sharp escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Hostilities around Nagorno-Karabakh effectively stopped on Tuesday afternoon as a result of a meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s top army generals held in Moscow, Armenia Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Wednesday. (UPDATED)
The Azerbaijani military on Saturday acknowledged that it went on offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and said 12 of its soldiers died and an Azerbaijani attack helicopter was shot down by the Armenians as a result.
Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia Piotr Switalski gave an exclusive interview to RFE/RL’s Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) on Tuesday. See the full transcript below.
European Union officials have expressed concern over the continuing detention of opposition activist Gevorg Safarian and other critics of the Armenian government.
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