Azerbaijan suspends gas supplies to RussiaJanuary 15, 2014 - 14:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan has cut off gas supplies to Russia for technical reasons, Russia’s state-run gas monopoly Gazprom said, and it is unknown when deliveries will resume, according to RIA Novosti. A Gazprom representative told Prime business news agency that Azerbaijan, which had been supplying 3 million cubic meters of gas per day to Russia, halted deliveries on the morning of Jan 13. Azerbaijan provided Russia with about 1.37 billion cubic meters of gas in 2013, according to estimates by Prime, down by 31.5 percent on the year before. Russia first began importing natural gas from Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company SOCAR in January 2010 and agreed to a five-year extension of the deal later that year. Related links: Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia. Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements. Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of Armenia Henrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |