ArmInfo.The leaders of the CIS member states will participate in the celebrations on May 9 in Moscow, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This was announced by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Sergei Lebedev at a meeting of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, TASS reports.  "I am happy and pleased, just like you, to announce that all CIS heads of state will be  attending the celebrations in Moscow on May 9," he noted.

ArmInfo.  Press Secretary of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nazeli Baghdasaryan denied rumors circulating in the media that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Prime Minister of Armenia  Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev before the annual parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9.

ArmInfo. In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the heads of diplomatic missions of a number of Eurasian states accredited in Russia.

ArmInfo. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in his congratulatory message to his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov on the 33rd anniversary of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Baku, has emphasized Russia's commitment to ongoing coordination  between the  two countries Foreign Ministries.

ArmInfo. Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the head of the Russian and New Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Yezras  Nersisyan, the Order of Alexander Nevsky; the corresponding decree  was published on the legal information portal, RIA Novosti reports.

ArmInfo. On March 17, RA NA Speaker Alen Simonyan assured journalists that there are no risky points for Armenia in the peace agreement. <All the points there are bilateral. If you say that there is a risky point, then it is equally risky for Azerbaijan,> he said.  When asked when the text of the peace agreement will be published, the NA Speaker said: <Part of the document is already known at the level of talk. Then, we are dealing with a party that, to put it simply, needs a reason  everywhere to announce something and create problems in some way. When we determine the time and logic to publicize and the moment comes, we will publish it. The question is not whether Azerbaijan will publish, then us.>

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has never sought peace with Armenia and does not currently seek it, as stated by Artur Khachatryan, a member of the National Assembly of the  Republic of Armenia from the opposition faction "Armenia", in a  conversation with journalists on March 17.

ArmInfo. The phone conversation between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place at the initiative of the Armenian side, the Kremlin press service reports.

ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the PM's office informs.  <The Prime Minister informed the Russian President about the agreement on the text of the draft < Agreement on Peace and  Establishment of Interstate Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan> and the completion of negotiations on it. Other issues related to regional and bilateral relations were also discussed.>

ArmInfo. Using the opportunities of the changing world, it is possible to succeed in releasing the Armenian hostages by increasing pressure on Azerbaijan and changing the content of the trial. This was stated by political scientist, co-founder of the Alternative Projects group Vahe Hovhannisyan.

ArmInfo.The alternative socio-political movement "Together " has sent  an open letter to the presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries - Russia, the USA and France requesting their attention to the trial of the  military-political leadership of the Republic of Artsakh  in Baku. 

ArmInfo. If the people of Armenia tolerate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and the Ukrainians tolerate President Volodymyr Zelensky, it is definitely not the fault  of the leaders of the United States and Russia, Donald Trump and  Vladimir Putin. Political scientist Suren Surenyants wrote about this  on his Facebook account. 

ArmInfo.  Against the backdrop of improving Russian- American relations, Turkey's role in  the South Caucasus region is significantly reduced. Turkologist  Varuzhan Geghamyan holds a similar point of view.

ArmInfo. Russian President Vladimir Putin  was a in recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, as stated by the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, to journalists in parliament on February 11.

ArmInfo. The monument to the outstanding Russian diplomat Alexander Griboyedov in Yerevan is a symbol to the centuries-old fraternal ties that unite the peoples of Russia and Armenia, as emphasized by the Russian Ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin, during a conversation with reporters on February 10, following the flower-laying flower ceremony at the  Griboyedov monument in Yerevan to mark the Day of the Russian  Diplomat.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan himself renounced Nagorno-Karabakh. This was announced on January 26 at a press conference for foreign and Belarusian journalists after voting in the presidential elections of Belarus by President Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko touched upon  the "resentment of the Armenian leadership towards Belarus". 

ArmInfo.Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not discuss the issue of unfreezing the republic's participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) during their recent telephone conversation, as stated by Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov to journalists.

ArmInfo. The capture of the military-political leadership of Artsakh has damaged Moscow's reputation worldwide. Levon Kocharyan, a member of the parliamentary faction , stated this in a conversation with journalists in the National Assembly on January 20. He was responding to a question  about why, in his opinion, Russian President Vladimir Putin allowed  the capture of the former leadership of Artsakh. Despite the presence  of peacekeepers in the region and assurances of safety from the  Russians, these officials were ultimately captured.  Levon Kocharyan noted.

ArmInfo. The Islamic Republic of Iran is conducting a session of simultaneous foreign policy games in the Caucasus and the Middle East, in the Afghan direction, in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea. This is how Russian political  scientist Sergei Markednov commented on the agreement on strategic  partnership signed between Moscow and Tehran on January 17.

ArmInfo. Russia and Iran a priori consider the policy of many countries in the South Caucasus, which seek to establish strategic partnership relations with the United States or begin the process of rapprochement with the European  Union, as Armenia is doing today, for example, to be harmful,  political scientist and expert on Central Asia Arkady Dubnov said as  he commented on the signing of the agreement on strategic partnership  between Russia and Iran.