ArmInfo. Foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are planning to coordinate a statement on Karabakh, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said  during a weekly briefing.  "On the eve of the opening of the OSCE  Ministerial Meeting in Milan, December 5, that is, today- a meeting  of the Armenian and Azerbajanii FMs on the Nagorno-Karabakh  settlement mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group is scheduled", Zakharova  said, noting that the corresponding announcement had already been  made a couple of days ago.

ArmInfo. Consultations on  the issue of the new CSTO Secretary General are conducted between all  the member countries of the organization. The official representative  of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced this on  November 30 during a weekly briefing.

ArmInfo. For Russia, full-fledged development of relations in all areas and setors with the countries of the Caucasus region is extremely important. The  official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria  Zakharova, announced this on November 1 during the briefing answering  the question of how important for Russia is mutual understanding  between the peoples of the Caucasus.

ArmInfo.One of the main issues related to the visit of the national security adviser to the President of the United States John Bolton was related to whether the  US policy towards the South Caucasus has changed or not. The director  of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of  Sciences of Armenia, turkologist, professor Ruben Safrastyan stated  this at a press conference.

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ArmInfo. Vice Speaker of  the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov expressed concern over the  sarcasm of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in response to the  statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

ArmInfo.Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Pankin received Armenian Ambassador to Moscow Vardan Toganyan.  

ArmInfo. In the near future, the first consultations between the Foreign  Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be held. The official  representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova  announced on July 12 during briefing.

ArmInfo. "Your loud statements, which do not fit into the rails, the OSCE, in particular, is probably represented non-constructive ". 

ArmInfo.Russia has always played a very active role in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. This May 23 at a press briefing said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, responding to a journalist's question about whether Russia is going to play first  fiddle in the Karabakh settlement in the near future.

ArmInfo. Armenia is now experiencing not simple political times.  This was how Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry,  reacted at a traditional briefing in Moscow on May 4 to the question  whether the Republican Party of Armenia's loss of power could  positively or negatively affect the process of resolving the Karabakh  conflict.

ArmInfo. The number of diplomatic missions is a matter of bilateral agreements. This was announced at the briefing in Moscow on April 26 by the Director of  the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry  Maria Zakharova, reacting to the fact that, for example, the number  of the US diplomatic mission in Armenia is one of the largest, more  than 1,500 employees and whether there are any limits on the number.

ArmInfo. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia came with a statement on the situation in Armenia.

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ArmInfo. The Russian Foreign Ministry urged its citizens to avoid places of mass congestion in Yerevan.

ArmInfo.The topic of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement is being discussed by a number of our partners. On March 15 at a briefing in Moscow, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said, answering the question whether the Russian and Turkish foreign ministers discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement issue.  "The topic of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement is being discussed by a  number of our partners: the co- chairmen and the countries of the region, which is normal, this is part of the diplomatic work," Zakharova said.

ArmInfo. Russia's position on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement is well known and has not changed. This was announced at the briefing on March 2 by Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, expressing Moscow's attitude to the issue of returning Nagorno-Karabakh to the negotiating table.

ArmInfo. The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Azerbaijan, Sergey Lavrov and Elmar Mammedyarov, during a telephone conversation, discussed the Karabakh conflict. According to APA, the head of the press service of the Foreign Ministry Hikmet Hajiyev said this.

ArmInfo. Issues of conflict settlement were discussed in Moscow by the State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and Acting Co-Chair of the Geneva Discussions on the Transcaucasus from the UN Levent Bilman. As reported by the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry, special attention was paid to the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia. "Bilman was also received in the profile departments of the Russian Foreign Ministry, where the situation in the east of Ukraine, the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, as well as general issues of peace and security were discussed, focusing on the role of the UN in preventing conflicts," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic responded to the joint letter of the ambassadors of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia in this country to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Martin Stropnitski about the situation around the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union IS Konev in Prague. Stropnitsky in his response open letter, published on the website of the Czech Foreign Ministry, described it as "an inappropriate gesture." "In your joint letter of December 22, 2017, you express deep concern about the decision of Prague-6 to establish biographical tablets on the monument to Marshal Konev.You consider this step as an attempt to belittle the importance of the monument, rewrite history and disgrace the fallen in the fight against Nazism You also argue that the issue of the monument is used for political purposes and can not be left to the discretion of the local authorities.I think this is a misunderstanding, and the letter you published is an inappropriate step, "the reply letter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. At the same time, Stropnitsky stressed that the municipal authorities in the Czech Republic are a legally separate body elected by citizens with their own property and budget and is one of the pillars of democracy in the country. He stressed that, based on the foregoing, the country's foreign ministry can not interfere with the decision of the Prague self-government body, since the monument to Konev belongs to the city municipality. The Minister also stressed that the Czech Republic respects all fighters against the Nazi regime, as well as the victims of the latter, including the soldiers of the Red Army of all nationalities. He also recalled that the monument to Konev is not a military grave and, therefore, is not subject to the Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Russian Federation on mutual care of military townspeople and their democratically elected representatives to decide on their own how the monument and its pedestal will look> , the statement says.