Alexander Lapshin, a Russian-Israeli blogger, was extradited to Azerbaijan from Belarus on February 7 on a special fiight, Interfax correspondent reported from Baku airport.
“This policy of Washington shouldn’t become a hindrance to Armenia’s authorities in Armenia-Iran relations, as those relations are a serious component of national security diversification. New, very complicated factor has appeared in the South Caucasus—contrasts of Israel and Iran, which are vividly expressed in the South Caucasus. If we observe Middle East developments under all these processes, maybe not so obviously, but there is a crucial threat—those very Iran-Israel contrasts.”
The Supreme Court of Belarus has denied the appeal of Alexander Lapshin regarding the Belarus Prosecutor General’s decision on extraditing him to Azerbaijan, Sputnik reports. The Supreme Court’s session on the appeal lasted less than half an hour. Lapshin’s attorney, Natalya Shekina, said her client was not present in the Court.
Ukraine and Azerbaijan have decided not to allow goods made on the territories that are not under control of Baku and Kyiv to enter their territories without permits from official authorities, Ukrainian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Oleksandr Mischenko has told Interfax-Azerbaijan.
“We have listened to Trump’s promising statements both during the campaign and after that who said the priority must be given to fight against terrorism, and, in particular, the “Islamic State”, we have proposed this during the last 6 years,” Assad told the Belgian media.
he EU law enforcement agencies still have not identified and arrested all militants of the “Islamic State” terrorist group who were sent to Paris and Brussels to carry out terror attacks, and the threat of “largescale attacks” is still persistent in Europe, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a report on threat from IS published on February 6, reports TASS.
Mistry said that before opening a restaurant in any country McDonald’s considers and analyzes appropriate economic and business factors. At the moment, he said, there are no plans to open restaurants in Armenia.
The documentary is about a Turkish woman, Maya, who discovers that her great grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. As Maya wrestles with this new reality, she comes to embody the conflict that remains unresolved between the two people. She has two conflicting identities: one that suffers and the other that denies the suffering and its causes.
“I wanted to address the unspeakable tragedies of the past, to talk about the Armenian genocide, share the grief, try to build bridges. The novel was widely read in Turkey but I was attacked by the nationalist media and put on trial under article 301, which is supposed to protect Turkishness against insults.”
After the collapse of Europe’s last empire—USSR and 25 years later from Armenia’s independency it’s still difficult to insist without ambiguity on the complete and irreversible elimination of neo-colonization risks if not for many of former soviet republics, then surely for some of them, including Armenia.
