Russia hopes that holding “3 + 3″ meetings is not so far away,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has told TASS. “The elaboration of those issues is still going on, the consent of all the participants must be obtained. When it is obtained, we will announce where it will take place. Rudenko said Georgia’s …

Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Thursday to push back thousands of people, many of them women, who took to the streets of Istanbul to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Al Jazeera reported. The protests, part of a week of nationwide mobilisation, came amid calls for …

At his meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Sochi today, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He also stressed the strategic nature of relations between Azerbaijan and Russia. “Our strategic cooperation is developing quite successfully. Just to say that despite all the epidemic problems and the economic constraints caused by …

An attempt to violently seize power has been foiled in Kyrgyzstan, the State National Security Committee said in a statement on Friday, TASS reported. “The State National Security Committee and the Interior Ministry have exposed a criminal group plotting to violently seize power in the country,” the statement reads. According to the committee, “solid evidence …

The Constitutional Court continued today the hearing of the application of the Armenia bloc, disputing the Article 20.1, Part 3, Article 22, Paragraph 3 of the Armenian Law on Ensuring the Sanitary and Epidemiological Safety of the Population, and the health minister’s Order No. 65 of August 20, 2021, according to which public workers must …

In a telephone conversation with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday, Amirabdollahian reaffirmed Iran’s policy of rejection of any change in the borders of regional countries, expressed concern over the recent military conflicts in the Caucasus region, and called for restraint and respect for the territorial integrity of nations, Tasnim reported. Calling for the enhancement …

The World Health Organization is monitoring a new variant with numerous mutations to the spike protein, scheduling a special meeting Friday to discuss what it may mean for vaccines and treatments, officials said Thursday, CNBC reported. The variant, called B.1.1.529, has been detected in South Africa in small numbers, according to the WHO. “We don’t …

Two servicemen have been arrested under the criminal case launched by the Central Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia in connection with the November 16 Azerbaijani offensive on the military bases of Syunik and Vayots Dzor regions. They include the acting commander of the military unit, a major, and a contractual serviceman, who …

Azerbaijan has handed over to Armenia two Armenian citizens, one of whom was taken prisoner during the November 16 border clashes, TASS reported, citing the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Citizens of Azerbaijan. One of them, Arin Aramyan, was wounded during the hostilities on November 16, 2021, and was taken captive, …

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has left for Sochi, Russia, for a trilateral meeting with the Russian president and the president of Azerbaijan. A separate meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be held prior to the trilateral meeting. Azerbaijani media reported that Ilham Alyev has also arrived in Sochi for the meeting.