An event in the framework of the Hague Conversations on Conflicts

The exercises involve about 2,000 troops and more than 500 motor and armored vehicles, according to a statement from Russia's Southern Military District at Rostov-on-Don

With Pompeo due in Minsk this week, and the Belarus presidential elections on the horizon, Moscow and Minsk have some difficult decisions to take. Benyamin Poghosyan discusses the state of Russia-Belarus relations in this op-ed for commonspace.eu

It is easy to succumb to the pressures of the arms lobby and to rush into a military spending spree without understanding that there are still alternatives to this, and that these alternatives have not yet been exhausted, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary on commonspace.eu

The prime minister said that the opposition was often accusing him of squandering the "Sargsyan legacy" on Karabakh. He said he now wanted those contesting the forthcoming presidential elections in Karabakh to declare publicly if they supported this legacy or not.

The German Chancellor joined the Turkish president on Friday morning for the official opening of the new German-Turkish University in Istanbul. The two leaders were expected to hold talks later on a range of regional and international issues.

Answering in parliament to a question by MP Sos Avetisyan, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said that Armenia has no desire to avoid meetings with the Azerbaijani side

The bill was proposed by Prosperous Armenia party lawmakers Naira Zohrabyan, Vahe Enfiajyan, Shake Isayan and Arman Abovyan.

The de facto authorities of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have appointed 31 March as the day for presidential and parliamentary elections

The Conference on Libya held in Berlin on Sunday (19 January) was high diplomacy at its best. In this week's Monday Commentary Dennis Sammut asks what if the same level of commitment by the top leaders of the top countries of the world is put in solving some of the other big challenges and conflicts?