The $1 million award for the first Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity will fund projects in Rwanda, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil. The proceeds will support initiatives that are combatting child poverty, advancing aid and rehabilitation for child refugees and orphans.

“We have provided detailed explanations over it to the media. We do not consider this issue on a national basis. For us the Russian citizens are not divided on national basis,” Zakharova said.

The meeting focused on the Armenian participation in UN peacekeeping missions, trainings which are necessary in this context and issues of the upcoming projects of the Global Peace Operations Initiative – reconstruction of the peacekeeping training center, acquisition of devices for locating and disposing improvised explosive devices etc.

“On the whole, in my perception of the process, serious issues on the settlement will be postponed until next autumn. Various premises are available for that, both domestic policy issues (e.g. elections in mediator countries, Armenia and NKR), and dynamics of implementation of existent agreements.”

Mockers of Putin and Armenia should be backed through actions. And they should be replied in a language and actions comprehensible to the world, precedent of which, by the way, quite recently the same world has given. It refers to Great Britain, Brexit, which being regretful for the Western world and the EU, however, was acceptable and clear, as it was expressing political will of the country’s citizens.

Team Armenia has won the first gold medal in Rio 2016. Armenia’s Greco Roman wrestler Arthur Alexanyan defeated Cuba’s Yasmany Lugo at the Greco-Roman 98 kg final.

Mihran Harutyunyan was defeated by Serbian Davor Stepanek at the men’s GrecoRoman 66kg final and won silver.

“Probably they intend to hint that they anticipate concession from the side of Azerbaijan. Of course, it’s not good that NKR president also indirectly accepts that the so-called principles, put forward throughout the last 10-15 years, not realizing that the April war gave a serious ground to change the formula.”

The key to Karabakh conflict settlement, in fact, is not in Moscow, Paris or Washington, but as it has been repeatedly stated with disgust—in Yerevan. The key is in Yerevan not in the sense, by which those repeatedly stating mean, but absolutely, in the internal sense. And the sense has nothing to do with geo-political centers or conspiracy theories and is called an electoral system.

“The international recognition process of Nagorno Karabakh is proceeding quite actively, and we have already achieved several results in this direction. As of today, administrative entities of USA’s Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Louisiana, California, Georgia, Hawaii and Australia’s New Wales’s states, Basque Country, Fresno, Los Angeles and several others have expressed in favor of recognizing the independence of Nagorno Karabakh.”