Access to social media and sharing websites has been blocked in Turkey following the arrests of 11 Kurdish-backed politicians, according to an internet monitoring group.

“These changes will not be limited by changes of only names or persons. The changes will be large-scale and structural the results of which will be visible soon. Moreover, they must be tangible for each Armenian citizen,” the Armenian President said.

“Obviously the statement issued by the PM is simply ridiculous, as for that reason our group of MPs wouldn’t have been arrested. This is a part of wider policy by Turkish authorities, spread both in Syria, Iraq, as well as inside the country, tended to weaken Kurdish people and destroy perspectives for Kurdish autonomy,” Gür said.

“The point, that the Government attempts to bring much money to the country, is correct. However, there is the reverse of the coin as well.”

“It seems like that anti-Armenian propaganda in Azerbaijan is facing some quite serious obstacles. That’s why they report such horrible and false information,” Babayan said.

The end of Azerbaijan’s energy boom requires economic reform, which is harder to implement without allowing some politics from below. While there are signs that the country’s leaders are prepared to undertake some economic liberalization, the new changes enacted in the constitution suggest the president wants only to protect and prolong his long-standing political system.

The ongoing exercises along the front line are aimed at enhancing the combat skills of tank and armed vehicle units, and increasing their fighting spirit and morale, the press service of Azerbaiajni Defense Ministry reads.

Like prior to all elections, this time again, on the threshold of pre-election round, the political agenda is full of talks on unification of the opposition. Almost everyone is touching upon inevitability of opposition powers consolidation, alternativeness of participation in alliance format.

Armenia will receive 9.1 billion AMD official grant from the European Union in 2017, First Deputy Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan said during the parliamentary debates of the 2017 state budget.

Gagik Melkonyan, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments, informed that trade regime was provided to Armenia in an updated form, for 10 years since 2014. According to him, the EU regularly touches upon its assessment and implementation of the country’s liabilities, internal decisions are being made based on them to move forward its natural development or implementation of changes. According to the Deputy Minister Armenia has submitted a report twice, and the last one was on September 15.