Nikolai Zlobin: Russia regards Armenia as reliable regional allyOctober 1, 2010 - 19:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia regards Armenia as a reliable regional ally, according to Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the World Security Institute. “Moscow clearly realizes that Armenia secures Russia’s presence in South Caucasus,” Zlobin told a news conference in Yerevan, suggesting Russia needs Armenia more that the latter needs Russia. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |