Topic: Russia

BAKU (Armenpress) — The decision of the Supreme Court of Russia to dissolve the All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress has caused a serious stir in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani minval.az reports. “We assess the[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — In a further show of support for Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, more than three dozen Russian businesspeople of Armenian descent launched over the weekend a multimillion-dollar investment[...]

MOSCOW (Public Radio of Armenia) — Russia will help Baku and Yerevan reach mutually acceptable solutions to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, March 6, after[...]

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Public Radio of Armenia) — The prime ministers of Armenia and Russia, Karen Karapetyan and Dmitry Medvedev, met on the sidelines of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council summit here.[...]

LONDON (RFE/RL) — Amnesty International has condemned the extradition from Belarus to Azerbaijan of a Russian-Israeli blogger who has visited Nagorno-Karabakh in the past and demanded his immediate release from[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory has received as a gift the bust of composer Aram Khachaturian. The composer’s bust will be placed in the foyer of the[...]

MOSCOW (Armenpress) — Owner of the Tashir Group Samvel Karapetyan has been included in Forbes’ list of real estate “kings” of Russia. On January 26, the Russian version of Forbes[...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) – A court in Armenia has upheld the life sentence for the Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who had killed seven members of a family in[...]

ZURICH (Combined Sources) — Super heavy elements do not occur naturally in nature; instead they are created in labs. Four new chemical elements now have official names and symbols, the International Union[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s parliament is currently discussing President Serge Sargisian’s announcement last week that Armenia intends to join the Russia-led Customs Union. Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian has been invited[...]