Russia considers the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to be one of its priorities in the post-Soviet territory, minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov said in response to Armenian news media.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin has appointed Sergei Kopyrkin to serve as next Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, as the term in office of Ivan Volynkin has ended.
Investments in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey, which is under development by Russia’s Rosatom, have reached nearly 3 billion dollars, Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak said, TASS reported.
Armenia follows the process of the Russian-Turkish relations and draws conclusions, deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan told reporters after today’s Cabinet meeting, commenting on the recent rapprochement of the Russian-Turkish relations, in particular, Putin’s visit to Turkey.
One person has died and six firefighters have been injured in a shopping mall fire in Moscow – just days after the Kemerovo disaster.
Pope Francis will bless the bronze statue of Saint Gregory of Narek – a real bridge between the East and West, a symbol of ecumenism, who was proclaimed by the Pope as Doctor of the Church. The inauguration of the statue will take place midday April 5 in the gardens of the Vatican.
The first delivery of the Russian S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey is scheduled in July 2019, Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industries Ismail Demir said on Twitter, TASS reports.
More than 6,000 people have been evacuated as heavy smoke filled in the Burger King fast food shop in Moscow’s Afimall trade center,
The Kemerovo district court has taken into custody Yulia Bogdanova, the owner of the shopping mall which engulfed in a massive fire on March 25, killing 64 people, mostly children, RIA Novosti reports.
The budget agreement recently signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump includes funding for foreign assistance programs, including those in Armenia. Recent reports that the funding plan eliminates all foreign assistance to Armenia are wrong and based on a misunderstanding of the U.S. budget process.
