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MOSCOW (Armenpress) — The chief designer of Russia’s multifunctional fighter-bomber Sukhoi-34, Rollan Martirosov, died at 84, on February 28, a source in the aircraft building industry told TASS. Martirosov was born[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia demonstrated on Friday, December 27, for the first time four Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets which it has purchased from Russia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Defense Minister Davit[...]

MOSCOW (Armenpress) — Soviet intelligence officer Gohar Vardanyan, the wife of the Hero of the Soviet Union Gevorg Vardanyan, died at age  93, the Armenian Embassy in Russia said in a[...]

By Nina Nazarova MOSCOW (BBC Russian Service) — In July 2018 three teenage sisters stabbed and battered their father to death in his sleep, in their Moscow flat. Investigators have[...]

By Grigor Atanesian Former president Robert Kocharyan, widely despised in Armenia and currently being held in a Yerevan jail, has released a memoir in which he takes shots at his[...]

MOSCOW (RFE/RL) — Russia again demanded on Friday, January 11, that Azerbaijan stop barring Russian citizens of Armenian descent from visiting the South Caucasus country, saying that the practice is[...]

By Joshua Kucera MOSCOW (Eurasianet) — Russia has raised the price for the gas it sells to Armenia by 10 percent. The negotiations over the gas price were seen as[...]

MOSCOW (Panorama.am) — Moscow’s Maxim Gorky Art Academic Theater hosted on Wednesday, 28, a commemorative event dedicated to the 1988 devastating Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake. Anna[...]

By Rick Pushinsky MOSCOW (Financial Times) — Ruben Vardanyan recalls earning a first monthly salary of just $100 shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed. Today, his focus is more on[...]

MOSCOW (Arka) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan later this year, Russian daily Izvestia reported quoting a presidential aide on foreign affairs Yuri Ushakov. According[...]