Lieutenant Gurgen Alberyan was captured on Sunday morning (23 August) near the Guranboy sector of the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone
Announcing the discovery, president Erdogan said that although the present amount could meet Turkey's needs for fewer than 10 years, data collected as a result of tests and studies show there is strong possibility of larger natural gas reserves in the same area.
In a telephone conversation on Thursday (20 August) the Russian Foreign Minister told the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE that "it was necessary to give the Belarusians a chance to resolve their issues themselves without interference".
EU Council president Charles Michel spoke to president Putin on Thursday (20 August), informing him of the EU's position agreed yesterday by the leaders of the 27 member states.
A report by the Baku think-tank CESD says the shadow economy has to be eliminated, while state-owned enterprises must be required to implement deeper reforms. The report concludes that "transition to a more liberal regime seems to be reasonable within this context."
The bombings came a day after it was reported that a Russian general was killed and two other servicemen were wounded by a land mine explosion in eastern Syria.
On a visit to the MZKT Tractor factory on Monday Lukashenko expected to be cheered. Instead he was jeered, bringing back images of the fall of the Romanian dictator in 1989.