ArmInfo. Over the past 48 hours, Baku has managed to compare Russia to Nazis through state media, accuse us of being chauvinists, cancel cultural events, be rude to our diplomats, ban entry to a number of Russian officials and call for unrest in Russia through the Turkish-Azerbaijani commission. The formal reason for this is the arrest of Azerbaijanis for crimes in the Urals (they are Russian citizens).  Mikhail Onufrienko, well-known Russian political  observer, writes about this.

ArmInfo.In Azerbaijan, 8 Russian citizens who were caught in the heat of the moment in the latest round of tensions between Moscow and Baku have been  demonstratively arrested for 4 months. They are charged with "participation in drug trafficking from Iran and committing IT crimes." This was reported by APA.

ArmInfo.  Today, more than ever, Armenian society is observing European double standards, which are manifested here and there, based on narrowly opportunistic interests.  For example, yesterday the reaction of the EU Ambassador to Azerbaijan Peter Michalko to the events in Russia caused  bewilderment. And this is in conditions when Russian law enforcement  officers, within the scope of their authority, came to members of an  organized criminal group - Russian citizens with Azerbaijani roots,  who have been terrorizing and killing their own compatriots for  decades.

ArmInfo.Russia is concerned that for over two hours Russian diplomats in Baku have been unable to  get in touch with journalists - Russian citizens, as stated to TASS by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

ArmInfo. Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, has  expressed gratitude to the authorities of the states, including Armenia, for their assistance in evacuating Russian citizens from Iran and Israel during the recent escalation in the Middle East.

ArmInfo.. Approximately  550 Russian citizens have been evacuated from Iran to Armenia and  Azerbaijan by land since June 14, as reported by Maria Zakharova, spokesperson of Russian Foreign Ministry, during a weekly briefing on June 19. 

ArmInfo.The Russian Embassy in the Republic of Armenia presented a guide for Russians on leaving  Iran through the territory of Armenia.

ArmInfo. On June 6, a group of pro-Westerners once again organized a picket near the building of the Armenian parliament in connection with the expected visit of the  Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of  Russia Valentina Matviyenko, who arrived in Yerevan today on an  official visit.

ArmInfo.By the decision of the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan on February 6, four Russian citizens and one Lithuanian citizen, accused of hooliganism, were placed under arrest for a period of two months.

ArmInfo. A "show" trial of the former leaders of the Nagorno- Karabakh Republic and several of their compatriots captured during the Azerbaijani "blitzkrieg" to seize the entire territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023 has begun in Baku, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Affairs, CIS Countries and Relations with Compatriots Konstantin Zatulin noted in his statement.

ArmInfo. Moscow considers the ban on entry to Armenia for political scientist Andranik Migranyan as an absolutely unfriendly step by official Yerevan. This was stated on December 18 during a weekly briefing by the official  representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to the question of whether the Russian Foreign Ministry would comment on Migranyan's declaration as an undesirable person by Armenia. 

ArmInfo.The implementation of the Western Azerbaijan project is beginning. This is how Stanford  University political science doctor Artur Khachikyan responded to the news that from January 1, 2025, the Border Troops of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia will also participate in  the protection of the Armenia-Iran and Armenia-Turkey state borders, and at the checkpoint on the Armenia-Iran state border, the service will be carried out entirely by the Border Troops of the National  Security Service of the Republic of Armenia. 

ArmInfo. Russian border guards have left the Zvartnots International Airport, where they have been guarding Armenia's air gates since 1965.

ArmInfo. Advisor to the  President of Russia, Chairman of the Presidential Committee for Civil  Society and Human Rights (HRC) Valery Fadeyev sent a letter to the  Ambassador of Armenia to the Russian Federation Vagharshak  Harutyunyan, in which she asked him to look into the situation in  connection with cases of discrimination against Russians at the  Zvartnots International Airport.

ArmInfo. The average  international migrant in Russia is a married man of working age  originally from Tajikistan, according to Rosstat data.

ArmInfo.Breaking through the "Zangezur Corridor" is not on the Russian agenda, which they are also  trying to attribute to Moscow. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin.

ArmInfo. "Eyebrows were raised after POLITICO - and no doubt other media outlets - last week received an email from a PR firm about what it described as Russian influence operations in Europe. While this sounded very juicy, it focused exclusively on one man, my colleague Gabriel Gavin spotted: Russian-Armenian oligarch  Ruben Vardanyan," Elisa Braun writes in an article titled "The spies are coming"

ArmInfo.Tens of entrepreneurs and leaders of major companies from Armenia visited Germany on June  19 to discuss joint educational programs between one of Europe's top business schools, ESMT Berlin, and the Armenia- based Matena International School. 

ArmInfo.The presence of Russian border troops in Armenia is justified in every possible way and this  has been proven by time, since the threats emanating from the neighboring state were neutralized. First commander of the border troops of Armenia, Major General Levon Stepanyan, stated in response  to ArmInfo's question of how high is the probability of the withdrawal of Russian border troops from Armenia today and whether Armenia is capable of independently ensuring the protection of its borders on the Armenian-Turkish and Armenian-Iranian border.

ArmInfo.Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan gave a manipulative answer to the question whether the Armenian side asked Moscow for Russian border guards to continue guarding the Armenian-Iranian and Armenian-Turkish borders, as stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.