State Development Corporation VEB.RF made the transition to rubles and does not make transactions in dollars and euro anymore, its CEO Igor Shuvalov said at the meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Kremlin website reports. “We shifted to ruble transactions exclusively. We also use other currencies of friendly states but we do not…
The meeting of the commissions for demarcation and border security between Armenia and Azerbaijan is planned to take place by the end of August in Moscow, Russia, Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan’s office said. No separate agenda of items is decided yet.
Reuters. Iran accused the United States on Monday (August 22) of procrastinating in efforts to revive Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal – a charge denied by Washington, which said a deal was closer than two weeks ago because of apparent Iranian flexibility. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said talks regarding the deal had ‘languished,’…
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday (August 22) that a response from Iran to the EU’s latest proposal on a nuclear deal with the U.S. was “reasonable”. “There was a proposal from me as coordinator of the negotiations… and a response from Iran that I considered reasonable. It was transmitted…
The weather conditions complicate the fire extinguishing process in Borjomi Municipality, said Davit Sukhishvili, head of the Fire and Rescue Forces Department of the Emergency Situations Management Service, on Sunday Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. Three border police helicopters have been mobilized on the spot, awaiting the strong wind to subside. Up to 250…
A passenger bus has hit an ambulance, a fire truck and an outside broadcast vehicle in southeast Turkey on Aug. 20, killing at least 16 passengers, including journalists, Turkish media report. The accident occurred on the Gaziantep (Ayntap)- Nizip Highway. 21 passengers were also wounded, Gaziantep Governor Davut Gül has said. Among the…
Reuters. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday (August 20) the United Nations is working with the United States and European Union to overcome obstacles to Russian food and fertilisers reaching world markets. Guterres said that under a U.N.-brokered deal agreed in Turkey last month to resume Ukraine’s grain exports cut off since Russia’s…
Iran has officially dropped a key “red line” demand that had been a major sticking point in efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal, a senior administration official told CNN. In its Monday response to a draft nuclear deal agreement proposed by the European Union — which the EU has described as a “final”…
Toivo Klaar, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia informs that Armenian and Azerbaijani top officials had a meeting in Brussels. Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of Security Council of Armenia and Hikmet Hajiyev, Advisor to the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, had a meeting joined by EU representatives. “Good and…
Reuters. Turkey and Ukraine signed a deal on Thursday (August 18) to reconstruct infrastructure damaged in Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported as their leaders Tayyip Erdogan and Volodymyr Zelenskiy met in Lviv. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday (August 17), met with Zelenskiy and…
Reuters. Four times the tonnage of the original Open Arms rescue tugboat and with a capacity to carry up to 1,000 people, the shapely Open Arms Uno made its first rescue on Wednesday (August 17) picking up 101 migrants stranded on a wooden boat off the Tunisian coast. “Sit down, if you don’t sit…
France expresses its solidarity with Armenia on this first day of national mourning declared after the August 14th explosion at a shopping mall in Yerevan, the Foreign Ministry of the French Republic website reports. “We offer our condolences to the families of those who died and wish those who were injured a speedy recovery….
An ethnic-Armenian Turkish lawyer is set to become the first ever Armenian to hold the post of district governor in Turkey after his appointment as the District Governor of Babadag, a city and district in the Denizli Province, Agos reports. Berk Acar, born in 1995, will assume the position in the coming days. He…
Spanish firefighters were seen running from a violent blaze as they scrambled to stop a wildfire from reaching a residential area in Bejis in the Spanish region of Valencia, footage released by the Castello firefighters on Wednesday (August 17) showed. Two firefighters were injured in the event which took place on Tuesday (August 16),…
Tehran is ready to reach with Washington an agreement on prisoner swaps that would not be linked to the talks on reviving the nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Wednesday. “Away from the nuclear deal, Iran has repeatedly informed the United States across various channels of its willingness to address…
A contract has been signed to deliver a second regiment of the S-400 missile system to Turkey, with the production of some components to be localized there, the head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), Dmitry Shugayev, told TASS on the sidelines of the Army-2022 international forum on Tuesday. “A corresponding agreement…
Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia, offered her condolences over the deadly explosion in a Yerevan market. “Deeply saddened by the shocking explosion in Yerevan. I express my deepest condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones, but also strength and resilience to the emergency workers. I stand with the people of Armenia”, she…
Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia, offered his condolences over the deadly blast at a Yerevan market, which left 16 dead, eight missing. “Deeply saddened by the news of the fatal fireworks storage explosion in Armenia’s capital, leaving people missing & injured. My sincere condolences go out to our Armenian friends in this time…
Reuters. The first ship to depart Ukraine under a U.N.-brokered deal to resume grain exports from the country two weeks ago was approaching the Syrian port of Tartous on Sunday (August 14), two shipping sources said. The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni set sail from Ukraine’s Odesa port on Aug. 1 under the deal between Moscow…
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) has voted to support President Volodimir Zelensky’s decree extending the martial law and mobilization in Ukraine for 90 more days, till November 21, Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Monday. “Parliament has supported bill 7664 on the extension of the martial law for 90 days, till November 21, 2022. The…
The Embassy of Lebanon in Armenia expresses its deepest condolences to all those who lost loved ones in the tragic blast at the Surmalu market on August 14, the embassy said in a Facebook post. “We wish quick recovery for the injured, and our thoughts and prayers remain with the friendly people of Armenia …
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reported on Saturday Barbados-flagged Fulmar S cargo ship left the port of Chornomorsk and headed to Turkey. According to the ministry, the ship formed a caravan with Marshall Island-flagged Thoe bulk carrier, bringing the total number of vessels to depart the country under a UN-brokered deal to 16. …
The soaring natural gas prices have driven up the global demand for oil, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. In its monthly report, the IEA said that high temperature and soaring natural gas prices have made power generation switching necessary in some countries, which are now using oil to generate electricity. …
Mélanie Joly, Foreign Minister of Canada met with the members of Armenian Diaspora. “A treat to meet Armenian-Canadians here in Scarborough (no matter how small or tall! We discussed the strong relationship between Canada and Armenia, supporting Armenian democracy, and building a more vibrant community. Thank you Sevag and the ANCC team for hosting…
On August 11, the Australian Liberal Party State Conference, held in the State of New South Wales, adopted a motion recognizing the independence of the Republic of Artsakh and the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides committed by the Ottoman Empire, as well as calling on the Federal Australian Government to recognize the independence of the…
The foreign ministry of Cyprus said Thursday it’s lodging formal protests against a meeting between the leader of the ethnically split island nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriots and the president of Azerbaijan amid concerns of a stepped-up partition campaign, AP reports. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed “disappointment and regret” over the Tuesday meeting Azerbaijani President…
In a letter to UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, a group British lawmakers have raised concerns regarding the deteriorating security situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. The letter sets out six urgent concerns, all of which should be urgently addressed. The letter reads: Dear Foreign Secretary, The security situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is now critical. We have six urgent…
The situation in the South Caucasus is in the center of Russia’s attention. Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Ivan Nechayev said this during a briefing in response to the question of ‘Lurer’. “On August 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry made a statement regarding the escalation of the…
Beijing and Moscow have entered the most successful period of inter-state relations characterized by the highest level of mutual trust and the greatest strategic significance, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told TASS in a special interview on Wednesday. “Under the strategic direction of [China’s] Chairman Xi Jinping and President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin, the…
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Ersin Tatar in Konya. During the meeting, the sides emphasized the importance of holding the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games, which serves to strengthen relations between peoples in the Turkic world, in Turkey. They noted that this prestigious…
