Yuri SIMONYAN

The subsequent summit of the presidents of CIS countries will take place on June 9 in St. Petersburg. There is no essential change in the relations of the presidents of the CIS countries after a similar meeting a year ago. Perhaps president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is the only one who is making passionate speeches …

Russians evaluate the recent Armenian parliamentary elections as the beginning of the process of transferring the post of president to current prime minister, Serge Sargsyan. Numerous Russian observers who were working on behalf of the CIS in Armenia have not recorded any violations and have evaluated the elections as exemplary. In fact, they were almost …

Relations between Georgian-Armenians and the Georgian government have become considerably strained recently. Nearly a month ago a policeman in Javakh, for some reason, decided that if the motorcyclist doesn’t stop upon hearing the policeman’s demand, he must shoot him. The shot was fired and became fatal for a 30-year old father of two. Nonsensical things …

During his exclusive interview to Russian “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, Serge Sargsyan spoke about the campaign, foreign policy, and the internal situation of the country. – The Republican Party, which you head, should perhaps not have any problems during the campaign. What are the chances of the opposition parties during elections? – I can already predict the …

During this week in different countries of post-soviet states various events will be held dedicated to the Armenian Genocide of 1915, committed by Ottoman Turks. Besides Armenia, the most remarkable of those events will be held in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. A week ago, the youth organizations of Moscow announced that they were going to …

It is not clear how these talks began. The “Imedi” television station of Tbilisi was the first to broadcast the report on the Georgian parliament’s discussion on the issue of taking the grave of the great Russian poet, Alexander Griboyedov, out of the Pantheon of Tbilisi. “Imedi” had also appealed to one of the influential …

The visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Armenia last week may be considered significant in that he visited his native land (as it is known, the minister is half-Armenian). He didn’t visit to discuss serious issues, nor did he pay the visit on the threshold of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The fact of …

The Russian Ministry of Foregn Affairs organized an extremely interesting meeting in Moscow for foreign accredited journalists. The ministry officials mentioned right from the beginning not to mention the name of the representative who was going to meet with us, rather to simply write that he is a “top-ranking Foreign Ministry representative”. The meeting was …

Last week Moscow proved once again the importance of Moscow-CIS countries relations and it turned out that they are not that important. Vladimir Putin rejected the invitation to meet with Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko. The meeting has been postponed for an unknown reason and the reason was clarified later. The Kremlin was mad at Yushchenko …

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a multilateral “Burgas-Alexandropolis” oil pipeline construction treaty in Athens last week during his round-trip to Europe, Greece and Bulgaria. What does Russia have to do with this treaty? Well, for one, the oil will reach the Bulgarian Burgas harbor by tanks from Novorosiysk, after which the oil will travel to …