The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan approved on Tuesday a “roadmap” to Armenia’s accession to their Customs Union which a senior Russian official said should be completed by next May.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Armenia early next month, a pro-Kremlin leader of the Armenian community in Russia said on Thursday.
Russian law-enforcement officials have assured Armenian diplomats that they did not mean to humiliate an Armenian migrant worker who was paraded on Russian television after causing a deadly bus crash near Moscow late last week.
President Serzh Sarkisian did not take part in another meeting of his counterparts from Russia and four other former Soviet republics that was held in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Wednesday.
International efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should intensify after a presidential election in Azerbaijan due this fall, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said during a visit to Moscow on Tuesday.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan could meet soon for the first time in more than a year to try to revive the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said during a visit to Moscow on Thursday.
President Vladimir Putin on Friday appointed a Russian diplomat who was controversially expelled from Georgia in 2007 as Russia’s new ambassador to Armenia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Russia’s “special” relationship with Armenia and hailed his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian’s “convincing” victory in last month’s presidential election during their fresh meeting held near Moscow on Tuesday.
Russia deplored on Monday a pardon granted by Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev to Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov, saying that it will complicate a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Former President Robert Kocharian has reportedly met with Russia’s President-elect Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid continuing media speculation about his possible return to active politics.
President Dmitry Medvedev indicated Russia’s intention to organize further high-level Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks and facilitate Armenia’s transport links with the outside world after meeting with his visiting Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian on Monday.
Ruben Vardanian, a well-known Russian businessman of Armenian descent, said on Thursday that he is pressing ahead with the construction of a first-ever international school in Armenia fiercely resisted by local opponents of foreign-language education.
President Dmitry Medvedev has again defended a Russian-Armenian agreement extending Russia’s military presence in Armenia, saying that it contributes to peace and stability in the volatile South Caucasus.
Azerbaijan on Monday officially responded to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s proposals aimed at salvaging the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Russia has again called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to agree on some basic principles as a way to start resolving their longstanding dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. A similar call has been heard from the European Union as well.
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian met in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg on Friday for talks which their offices said touched upon a broad range of issues of mutual interest.
Armenia’s top leaders on Tuesday expressed shock and indignation at a suicide bomb attack killed at least 35 people and injured more than a hundred others at a Moscow airport on Monday. (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian condemned on Friday the pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament for blocking Armenia’s recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence championed by his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party.
President Serzh Sarkisian expressed hope that Russia’s latest push for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will prove successful as he met with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Wednesday.
Four Armenians were reportedly among at least 16 people killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a busy market in Russia's North Caucasus republic of South Ossetia on Thursday.
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