Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced that the issue of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is not solved.

BBC’s “Witness” program has aired an interview with an Armenian woman who survived the 1988 December 7 devastating earthquake.

The Spitak earthquake shattered the peace of Armenia 30 years ago. A 10 magnitude near the epicenter devastating earthquake took place in 40% of the territory of Armenia at 11:41 (local time), December 7, 1988. Spitak, Leninakan, Kirovakan, Stepanavan towns, over hundreds of villages and settlements of Spitak, Akhuryan, Gugark, Aragats, Kalinino, Stepanavan were fully or partially demolished during a few seconds.

 Before the launch of today’s outgoing session of the government in Gyumri, acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan attended the cancellation ceremony of a postage stamp dedicated to the theme Earthquake of Spitak in the Gyumri City Hall.

The outgoing session of the Armenian government has kicked off in Gyumri on December 7.

The next sitting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council will take place May 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan, Eurasian Economic Commission Chairman of the Board Tigran Sargsyan said during the ongoing sitting of the structure in St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Unfortunately, the serviceman was found dead,” he said.

The narrow format session was followed by an extended one. The session participants summed up the EAEU annual activities during Russia’s chairmanship, highlighted the key sectors for further deepening the Eurasian integration, such as trade, energy and digital agenda.

In the first ten months of 2018 trade turnover growth between Armenia and EEU countries has amounted 15% against the same period of 2017. In the same time period, export volumes of EEU countries grew more than 22%, while Armenia’s general exports volumes 11,7%.

The policy of the Turkish leader is leading to clashes with almost all its neighboring states, and from this point of view it is important for the Armenian-Turkish relations normalization issue to remain on the political agenda, however it is not a priority with its urgency, Republican MP Armen Ashotyan, who seeks re-election in the December 9 general election, told reporters.