Already at the beginning of the summer holiday season all Sochi stations will be ready to resuming rail communication with South Caucasian countries - Georgia and Armenia.

"Tigran Mets" brandy of "Great Valley" Armenian company received the highest premium at the tasting competition held within "Prodexpro" Russian biggest production exhibition.

The meeting participants paid special attention to the OSCE planned monitoring of the contact line between the troops planned for today.

According to Russian sources, the meeting is supposed to take place in Moscow this May.

Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russia Sergey Mironov, Georgian parliament head Nino Burjanadze and chairman of Azeri Milli Mejlis Murtuz Aleskerov will also take part in the meeting.

Members of "Union of Constitutional Right" have expressed dissatisfaction with the course of the investigation and the way the law-enforcement bodies tried to portray the incident, who "try to juggle with facts and present it as a provocation by a group of hooligans."

Abiyev was passed to Azerbaijan on the decision of NKR president Arkady Ghukasian and with the cooperation of the NKR state commission on prisoners of war, hostages and the missing with the ICRC representation in Nagorno Karabakh.

BSTDB press secretary Valery Aksenov named direct financial contribution to the small- and medium-scale business, as well as projects for financing the building of hydroelectric power stations among the priority directions of the Black Sea Bank activities in Armenia.

Thus, 12 days before the Armenian presidential elections 10 candidates claim the highest post of the country.

Last Friday the President of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasian stated the readiness to release Elmeddin Abiyev, war prisoner, a member of a sabotage group who attempted to get in the territory of NKR. We’ll remind that the incident took place on January 8 in the Agdam sector of the contact line of Karabakh and Azerbaijani forces. As a result of a cross-fire, Abiyev was wounded, while other members of the group escaped.