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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 …

The International Relations committee of the U.S. Senate recently postponed the discussion on Resolution 65 condemning the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. The bill was presented by Democrat of the committee Joe Bayden. Executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America Aram Hambaryan expressed his worry about the postponement of the resolution discussion …

Broken cars of the subway, broken jaws, several people in the hotels, many others in the police… These are the consequences of the super cup championship of Russia’s BKMA and Spartak soccer match, which took place on Saturday. Everybody predicted that it’s going to be a tense match. Besides this match the warring opponents played …

Yesterday the Police of Istanbul arrested the 9th suspected criminal, Veisel Toprak, connected with the murder of chief editor of “Agos” newspaper, Hrant Dink. According to “France Press”, the Police have not informed any details concerning the accusations instituted. The Turkish press informs that this person is a close friend of another crime suspected, Yasin …

Starting from 7 p.m. of Monday all the local TV channels moved all their programs. The downtown was surrounded by nearly 100 police cars. The traffic was stopped. A day prior to the Valentine’s Day at about 6:40 p.m. one young person approaches one of the most famous malls of Salt Lake City – Trolley …

Yesterday the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev paid an official visit to Germany, where he’s planning to meet the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merger and Foreign Affairs Minister, Frank Valter Shteinmayer. And today Aliyev will make a presentation on “Azerbaijan in the 21 century and prospects” at the foundation named after Conrad Adenauer. The event …

“The OSCE is trying to turn the guaranteeing of a group of countries’ foreign political interests to others into a vulgar instrument,” announced Vladimir Putin during the Security conference in Munich. “The bureaucratic system of the OSCE is hidden behind this; the system has nothing to do with the founding countries,” he continued, recalling that …

Moscow showed precaution when accepting the announcement made by Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan about Yerevan discussing the possibility of joining the Trans-Caucasian gas pipeline. Certain Russian political activists perceived the minister’s announcement, which corresponds to the current world tendencies of keeping energetic security and diversification of resources, as a result of that, as betrayal …

One of the foreign political events of 2007 waiting to happen is the discussion of the draft declaration of the frozen conflicts at the UN General Assembly. This draft, presented by GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova), already caused a big scandal last year. Many considered it the collective answer of GUAM to Russia which, according …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press conference held last week was in the center of attention of the international community. This is definitely a standard and there is no need to explain why. Putin wasn’t maneuvering and answered to all questions. Then, when the conference ended, many of the president’s answers were forgotten. Yes, he did …