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With his arrival in Guatemala, and giving speeches in English and French, Russian president Vladimir Putin played a decisive role in the issue concerning the holding of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. That victory seems startling at first sight. Based on preliminary accounts, there were more people for holding the Games in Australia and …

An unofficial meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliev was expected to take place last week. It was supposed to take place during the unofficial summit of the presidents of the CIS countries in Doni Rostov, where the horse races for the Russian president’s championship cup were taking place. The expectations …

The South Caucasus is once again on the brink of danger. The speeches of the leaders of the regional countries have once again turned bellicose and aggressive, and certain activities reinforce these announcements. Last week, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliev announced on the day of the graduation ceremony of military school students that he will never …

The principal result of the last visit of Georgian President Mikhail Sahakashvili to France was the preliminary agreement for the possibility of constructing a nuclear power plant. Generally, the topic on the construction of a nuclear power plant is starting to become widespread in the post-Soviet region, and that is understandable. The CIS countries, and …

President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, is not against having Russia and the U.S. jointly use the radar station of Gabala. This is what was stated in the Japanese “Nikkey” newspaper on Friday. “When I received the offer from President Putin for the joint use of the radar, I immediately gave a positive response, because that …

A month prior to the Armenian national elections the attention of the American-Armenians was focused on the Glendale elections. In Glendale, the elections were held to elect two out of five members of the city council, who together with three other members are supposed to manage the community on a rotational basis. People were sure …

Yesterday Youri Merzlyakov, the Russian co-chair of OSCE MG, said in Baku that “the possible agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan might satisfy the parties by only 50%”. He said that “they could already imagine what the possible agreement could be”. OSCE MG French co-chair Bernard Fasier said that for the purpose of reaching an agreement, …

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 …

On Tuesday a mass brawl took place among Armenian and Azerbaijani students in the “Friendship of Nations” Russian University in Moscow. As a result many suffered. According to Regnum, the fight inside the university was stopped with the mediation of the police and the security of the university, however it later continued in the vicinity …