March 18, 2024 - 12:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The polls are now closed across Russia, but the outcome was never in doubt: Russian President Vladimir Putin has secured a fifth term in office through a dubious national plebiscite. In an address to the Russian people on the eve of the election, Putin urged voters to cast ballots as...
Read full story March 15, 2024 - 12:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Voting has begun in Russia's presidential election, which is all but certain to hand Vladimir Putin another six years in power, the BBC reports. Ballots will be cast over three days, even though the result is not in doubt as he has no credible opponent. Polling stations opened in th...
Read full story March 7, 2024 - 13:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The United States calls on Azerbaijan to release all individuals incarcerated in politically motivated cases, Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Matthew Miller told a briefing on Wednesday, March 5. “We are deeply troubled by the reports that Azerbaijani police raided the o...
Read full story March 6, 2024 - 13:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said a diplomatic delegation from Azerbaijan will be sent to Iran soon, more than a year after bilateral ties were strained after an attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran, IRNA news agency reports. Amirabdollahian made the remark...
Read full story February 28, 2024 - 12:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ryzhkov has died at the age of 95, Chairwoman of Russia’s Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said on Telegram. A monument in recognition of his personal contribution to the reconstruction in Armenia after the 1988 Spitak earthq...
Read full story February 16, 2024 - 16:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country’s prison service has dead, in what is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin, The Guardian reports. Navalny, 47, one of Putin’s most visible and persistent critics, wa...
Read full story February 12, 2024 - 11:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mikhail Evdokimov has said that Moscow and Baku are working to agree on the dates of the next round of negotiations on matters regarding the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh. After a statement was signed by the leaders of Armenia...
Read full story February 10, 2024 - 13:07 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia discusses conditions of the stay of its peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh only with the Azerbaijani side, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Mikhail Galuzin has said in an interview with TASS. “Taking into account the radical change in the situation in Karabakh, the condition...
Read full story February 9, 2024 - 15:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The United States shares the observations and concerns of the OSCE ODIHR monitoring mission that the February 7 presidential election in Azerbaijan occurred in a restrictive environment with a lack of genuine competition. “Azerbaijan has expressed its commitment to fundamental free...
Read full story February 9, 2024 - 11:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - President of the European Council Charles Michel has welcomed Azerbaijan’s “commitment” to resume the Brussels process of normalization with Armenia. “Had substantive discussions also on Armenia-Azerbaijan normalisation. Welcome AZ commitment to resume the Brussels process trilater...
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