Analysts say that the 2012 Parliamentary Elections will define Armenia’s future in a way that none of the others have, and the stakes are high for all concerned.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denied any change in Russia's position on Nagorno-Karabakh after comments he made a few days earlier in Baku and Yerevan cause controversy.
A meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the armed forces of the CIS member states and a meeting of chiefs of the General Staffs of the armed forces of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) was held at the Defence Ministry of the Kazakh Republic in Astana on April 5.