PACE has invited the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to “use all the tools at its disposal”, including under Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights, to ensure full and prompt execution of the Strasbourg Court’s ruling in the case of Navalnyye v. Russia, and in particular the immediate release of Mr. Navalny. Approving …

NATO leaders will meet in Brussels on June 14 for a summit to discuss updating the alliance’s strategy to deal with key challenges including Russia and China, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday. “This is a unique opportunity to reinforce NATO as the enduring embodiment of the bond between Europe and North America,” Stoltenberg said in …

“The military hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the developments since the trilateral statement of 9-10 November 2020 are of great importance to the Council of Europe and have been closely followed by the Monitoring Committee. In coordination with other relevant committees, it has heard from representatives of both countries as well as independent experts, …

President Biden is poised to formally declare that the massacres of Armenians in the early 20th century constituted genocide, U.S. officials said, a rare step that would further inflame ties with Turkey, The Wall Street Journal reports. Mr. Biden is expected to describe as genocide the deportation, starvation, and massacres of Armenians at the hands …

Artsakh Defence Army issued a statement. “In recent days, the enemy has violated the ceasefire in different directions with different caliber firearms. The peculiarity of the mentioned violations is that if in the past the enemy fired mainly in the air, now the firing of the Defense Army’s combat positions and peaceful settlements on the …

As of 11:00 am on April 22, a total of 211.399 cases of COVID has been confirmed, 191․158 of which have recovered and 3.969 been fatal. 15.281 patients are currently under treatment. A total of 951.500 tests has been performed. Thus, 4.858 tests were performed yesterday, of which 881 new cases of COVID were confirmed. …

On April 20-21, the operative tactical situation along the entire Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact on the RA state border did not change.  According to the information received from the RA National Security Service, no border incidents were registered on the Vorotan-Davit Bek section of the Goris-Kapan interstate highway under the responsibility of the NSS border …

London Bridge train station was evacuated by police with “multiple helicopters” seen hovering over the transport hub on Wednesday. British Transport Police (BTP) say they were called to the station at 12.33 pm on April 21 following reports of a suspicious item on board a train. One Twitter user wrote: “Strange scenes at London. The police are …

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in remarks Tuesday called the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd a step forward toward a more just America but emphasized that more must be done. Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges — second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree unintentional murder, and second-degree manslaughter. “A …

As of April 21, 1.033 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Armenia, bringing the total number of reported cases to 210.518, RA Ministry of Health informs. 25 people died of COVID in one day, 5 of which had coronavirus infection, but the death occurred because of another disease. As of April 21, the …