Azerbaijani President Aliyev has said that a lawsuit has already been filed against foreign companies who worked in the occupied Kovsakan (Zangelan) region of Artsakh for “conducting illegal activities there,” Azerbaijani media reported. “Vezhneli gold mine was illegally exploited by Armenians together with foreign companies. We have started lawsuits against those companies,” Aliyev said during …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday threatened to expel the ambassadors of the United States, Germany and eight other Western countries after they condemned the detention of a civil society leader.Parisian-born philanthropist and activist Osman Kavala, 64, has been in jail without a conviction since 2017, becoming a symbol of Erdogan’s growing intolerance of …

The overall inflation is 8.9 percent, but food inflation is higher; we are, of course, very worried, Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan told reporters today. “The result of our work should be people living better, and inflation, we can say, consumes most of the work we do, we must fight against it. In other …

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received today the delegation led by EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar, the PM’s Office reported. Assessing the Armenia-EU partnership as dynamic, the PM highlighted the visits of the President of the European Council, the Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement to …

Organization announced a ban on drivers and Iranian citizens entering the Nagorno-Karabakh and Lachin regions. According to Mehr News Agency , Mohammad Javad conductive Director transit between international and transit of toll and transit road in a letter to the association of unions companies, transportation between the International pointed to Circular 9 October this year, the State Department of Maintenance Road transport considers any entry into the territory of the Republic of …

The statement of Ashot Harutyunyan, a member of the board of the Armenians Forcibly Displaced from Shushi NGO, about the dispersal of the Defense Army by the President of the Artsakh Republic at the demand of Azerbaijan does not correspond to reality, Lusine Avanesyan, the spokesperson of the Artsakh president said in response to the …

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan received NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Javier Colomina Píriz. The interlocutors commended the level of political dialogue between Armenia and NATO. Minister Ararat Mirzoyan attached importance to the implementation of the Individual Partnership Action Plan as an effective tool for the development of Armenia-NATO …

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has said that the Armenian authorities are interested in opening Russian schools in Armenia. Speaking to reporters after the government meeting, Minister of Education and Science Vahan Dumanyan, referring to this statement, said: “Honestly, I have not found any news with such wording. I have not seen anywhere that the Armenian …

A Turkish court has sent to jail pending trial six suspects, including four Russians, accused of espionage after they were detained on suspicion of preparing armed attacks on Chechen dissidents, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Thursday, Reuters reported. It said Turkish police first detained the suspects on Oct. 8 in an operation focused on …

The Covid pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, BBC reported. Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at the WHO, said it meant the Covid crisis could “easily drag on deep into 2022”. Less than …