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European Team Championships: Armenia beats Norway
Armenian Men’s Chess Team had a second victory at the European Team Championships in Iceland. ON Sunday, November 15, the team took a 2,5:1,5 victory over the Norwegian team led by World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Playing with white pieces, Hrant Melkumyan beat International Master Frode Urkedal and Levon Aronian won Magnus Carlsen with black...
Monitoring in the eastern direction of the Talish village
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of the Talish village of the NKR Martakert region. From the positions of the...
OSCE to conduct monitoring in Martakert region
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the east direction of Talish settlement of the NKR Martakert region. From the positions of the NKR...
OSCE Mission conducted monitoring in the Martakert-Tartar road section
On October 27, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Martakert-Tartar road section, with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen. The monitoring...
Turkey threatens Russia
After the operations of Russia in Syria, President of Turkey Erdogan announced that Ankara may look for alternatives in its projects of imports of natural gas and construction of nuclear power plant. Turkey is one of the largest importers of Russian gas, the two countries have come to an agreement to build “Turkish stream” gas pipeline, which is...
Commission chief Juncker: EU must improve Russia ties
The EU must restore a “practical relationship” with Russia and not let the US “dictate” that policy, BBC cited the European Commission chief as saying. Jean-Claude Juncker criticised US President Barack Obama’s description of Russia as merely “a regional power”. EU-US sanctions were imposed on Russia because of its intervention in Ukraine....
October 8 on the calendar: Did Armenia sell Armenia vs. Ukraine match?
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Russia’s presence in Syria reason for new geopolitical situation
New geopolitical situation has been created in the Middle East since September 30. “Russia has tried to become a doer in this region. One of his goals was to keep his friend Bashar al-Assad and the second goal was that by becoming a doer here, Russia thinks that its role can be sold in Syria for obtaining serious concessions in Ukraine in...
Weightlifting: Izabella Yaylyan becomes Champion of Europe
Armenian weightlifters won three medals at the Junior and U23 European Weightlifting Championships. At U-20 girls’ fight, Izabella Yaylyan performed very successfully and won gold and a Champion of Europe after lifting 194 kg (88+106) in 58 k/w category. She left behind her main rival, Ukraine’s Veronika Ivasyuk, by 1kg. Irina...
Conflictologist: Russia is always a party
Russia is always indirectly or directly a party in the conflicts in the territory of former Soviet Union, thinks Natalia Mirimanova (Belgium), specialist in Conflicts’ analysis and resolution. For example, she believes that in the near future the Transnistria conflict will undergo serious transformations in connection with the necessity of...
