Russia

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[...]

ISTANBUL (Jerusalem Post) — Turkey aims to be an energy center, Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said on Monday, November 19. His comments came as Turkish President[...]

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[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A Russian commercial bank has gained control over Armenia’s second largest copper and molybdenum mine after its owner’s failure to repay hundreds of millions of dollars in[...]

MOSCOW (Combined Sources) — Russian President Vladimir Putin received Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the Kremlin on September 8. The quickly-arranged meeting between Pashinyan and Putin came after a[...]

Common folks in Egypt have a very keen sense of humor.  They can create anecdotes to render the most complex political issues into simple humorous stories. One such anecdote is[...]

MOSCOW (RFE/RL) – Russia has criticized Armenia, its main regional ally, in unusually blunt terms following criminal charges brought by law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan against Yuri Khachaturov, the Armenian secretary[...]

YEREVAN (Guardian, Washington Post, RFE/RL) – The Armenian parliament decided to hold a special session on May 1 to elect a new leader, as part of a three-step plan by[...]

By Haykaram Nahapetyan Mirror-Spectator Video Correspondent “The Red Army was as multiethnic as the Soviet Union, but its generals were overwhelmingly Russian. Very few non-Slavs reached high rank and the[...]