ArmInfo. On the square in front of the Moscow cinema in Yerevan, the protest action "No rise in price" starts, organized by the opposition bloc "Elk". According to ArmInfo correspondent, Elk leaders Nikol Pashinyan, Edmon Marukyan, Artak Zeynalyan, Aram Sargsyan are already in the square. Participants of the action will march along the central streets of Yerevan and return to the Moscow cinema. At today's protest action, the "Elk" bloc came up with a new initiative, namely, with a proposal to hold an extraordinary session of the parliament on the new Tax Code, which came into force on January 1, 2018 and increased the tax burden. Several hundred people gathered in the square. This is the second protest action of the bloc. The first took place on 19 January.

ArmInfo. "Russia and Armenia's interests do not match in many matters, despite the fact that we are a strategic partner of Moscow. One of the points of conflict of interest is the supply of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan. In this situation, our interests are being sacrificed, but we can change this situation.

ArmInfo. The main pledge of Moscow's refusal from the "weapons policy" in the Karabakh issue in the conduct of Armenia's alternative policy. Stepan Grigoryan, director of the Analytical Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation, shared his opinion with ArmInfo. Russia, in accordance with an intergovernmental agreement with Azerbaijan, continues to supply Baku with new arms. Last week, it became known about the delivery of another batch of modern military equipment of Russian production. According to the SIPRI report, Azerbaijan continues to import more than 85% of its weapons from Russia.

ArmInfo. If there will be no results after the first protest of Yelk bloc against the increase of prices, second and the third protest will come, Edmon Marukyan, lawmaker from the Bloc stated while talking to the journalists.

ArmInfo. Ankara's decision to acquire the latest Russian S-400 air defense systems is proof of Turkey's slow drift from NATO. Anatoly Tsyganok, director of the Military Forecasting Center of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis (Moscow), expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan will not be allowed to unleash another war around Karabakh with substantially reduced financial resources and Turkey. Anatoly Tsyganok, director of the Military Forecasting Center of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis (Moscow), expressed this opinion to ArmInfo. "The agreement on the ceasefire from 1994 as a whole will be observed not least because of a significant reduction in the financial revenues of Azerbaijan.I can say that the purchase of new types of weapons, in contrast to past years, has already become a significant problem for Baku," he said. According to the report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), only in 2015 Baku allocated 18% for military articles - up to $ 5 billion of all budget allocations. More than 85% of weapons Azerbaijan continues to import from Russia. According to unofficial data, during the years of Azerbaijan's independence, Moscow supplied weapons worth $ 12 billion to the country-participant of the Karabakh conflict. As a second factor in curbing the militancy of Baku regime, the military expert points out the lack of interest in the new Karabakh aggravation of Turkey. In this issue, according to his estimates, Ankara's position is consonant with the position of its temporary, but an ally in the person of Moscow. "Russia and Turkey will not want to spoil relations over Karabakh, it is unprofitable for the Kremlin or Ankara, these two countries will not simply allow Baku to initiate new military actions, which is why it is not necessary to predict the repetition of the April 2016 provocation in the near future. Despite periodic escalations on the line of contact, the ceasefire agreement will continue to be observed, in general, "the Tsyganok summed up. The OSCE Minsk Group has been dealing with the settlement of the Karabakh conflict since 1992, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the United States and France. Currently, the settlement process is based on the Madrid Principles put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in 2007 and the updated Madrid Principles in 2009, including, among other things, the deployment of a peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone.

ArmInfo. Ankara is quite capable of abandoning the Russian S- 400 systems not only under the pressure of NATO, in particular the United States, but also having  achieved the results of its own policy of blackmail. Such an opinion  was expressed by ArmInfo director of the Institute of Oriental  Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Ruben  Safrastyan.

ArmInfo. Russia welcomes the activation of the negotiation process on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, including the upcoming meeting of the Armenian and  Azerbaijani foreign ministers, and is interested in its effectiveness. This was in an interview with the information agency Interfax, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Grigory Karasin, commenting on the forthcoming meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

ArmInfo."I had the opportunity to participate in the first event" Mandarin ", which was held in tangerine in 2013. Today, we are holding our first such event in Armenia, the most important thing in this event is to give children joy and provide them with a festive New Year mood," December 26 at the event "Mandarin" said the general director of JSC Kapan mining Dmitry Ushkov.

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ArmInfo.From the standpoint of promoting foreign policy interests, the year 2017 was successful for Armenia. On December 22, in Yerevan, summing up the results of  the year, stated the head of the parliamentary commission on foreign  affairs of the National Assembly of Armenia Armen Ashotyan.

ArmInfo. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, most likely, after the expiration of his term as head of state in April 2018, will head the Cabinet. The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee expressed such a view on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Konstantin Zatulin.

ArmInfo. Turkey will never give up its centuries-old policy towards Russia, one of the  initiators and leaders of the Karabakh movement, the well-known analyst Igor Muradyan, are convinced.

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ArmInfo. The Defense College of the North Atlantic Alliance issued a report on the Russian military presence in the South Caucasus and the troops in Armenia.

ArmInfo. Artsakh Foreign Minister Masis Mailyan is convinced that Russia did not change its position in favor of Baku during the "four-day" April war in 2016.

ArmInfo.The aspiration of Europe to withdraw allies from Russia, including Armenia, is conditioned by the "cold war" declared to us several years ago by the  West.  Such an opinion was expressed by ArmInfo President of the  Institute of the Middle East (Moscow) Yevgeny Satanovsky.  

ArmInfo. Russia can not prohibit post-Soviet countries, in general, and Armenia, in  particular, to have trade and economic relations with the EU similar to their own.  It's no secret that Brussels is the main trade and economic partner of Moscow. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the scientific director of the German-Russian forum (Berlin) Alexander Rahr.

ArmInfo. Recep Erdogan returned to the Karabakh issue after the Sochi talks with Vladimir Putin is not accidental. And Moscow's unwillingness to go for  unmotivated exchanges in the Karabakh issue does not mean loss of  Turkish interest in Trans Caucasus and the Black Sea region, such an   opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the Russian expert Sergei  Markedonov.

ArmInfo. To assume that Moscow will go to certain "exchanges" by implementing the so-called plan of Lavrov today there are no grounds. A similar opinion was  expressed by ArmInfo Russian analyst Sergei Markedonov.