Extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin by Belarus to Azerbaijan will negatively impact those two states and not only in terms of reputation, Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia told at the National Assembly during parliament-government question and answer session.
“I can’t understand what I’ve done wrong. If it was only about the money, instead of transferring to Borussia I would’ve gone to Anzhi. But I don’t need that. I wouldn’t grow,” Mkhitaryan said as quoted by Bild.
“The Armenian National Committee of Australia calls on the Australian government, as well as all human rights and civil liberty organizations in Australia and internationally, to join us in condemning this blatant act of the Azerbaijani dictatorship in attempting to ‘export’ its repression of freedom of speech.”
I want to mention another circumstance as well. There is a situation, which not everyone in our country imagines well. He was arrested for visiting Karabakh. I mean he was blacklisted and visited Azerbaijan after it, and before that he had been in Karabakh.
“The most important is official information of Artsakhi Defense Army. Even if we suffer losses, which is regretful, one casualty, one wounded soldier is an awful phenomenon to us, we never hide, thus, as long as respective information isn’t provided by respective bodies, one should refrain from disseminating unconfirmed information,” Babayan said.
Gegham Manukyan, a 38 year old soldier of Nagorno Karabakh was fatally wounded by Azerbaijani ceasefire violations at 11:00, February 8, in a military post located in the northern direction of the Defense Army, the ministry of defense of Nagorno Karabakh informed.
President Trump cast doubt on whether Moscow is backing separatists engaged in the recent escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine, appearing to side with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has long denied involvement in the conflict despite evidence to the contrary, the New York Times reports.
The arrest and extradition of Alexander Lapshin cannot have any significance for the work of reporters and human rights advocates in Nagorno Karabakh. This work has been considered and will always be considered as legitimate: this is the principle. A. Lapshin’s extradition fact is obviously linked with the infringement on freedom of speech.
During the phone talk the two Presidents talked about Turkey-US relations and reaffirmed their readiness to fight against terrorism. Trump said the US supports Turkey as a NATO ally and strategic partner.
Kara-Murza “knew that there was no moral equivalence between the United States and Putin’s Russia. I repeat, there is no moral equivalence between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill,” McCain said. “To allege some kind of moral equivalence between the two is either terribly misinformed or incredibly biased. Neither, neither can be accurate in anyway.”
