A voter's guide on political parties participating in the upcoming Parliamentary elections in Armenia was presented to political parties, civil society, media and international community in Yerevan, Wednesday.
18 April: Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree creating the first-ever public television channel in Russia that he vowed would be fully independent from the state.(Kommersant)
A defiant Ilham Aliev says that Azerbaijan's position on the Karabakh conflict remains unchanged and speaks about his country's defence procurement. Meanwhile SIPRI reports that Azerbaijan had the highest increase in military spending in the world in 2011.
Serzh Sargsyan was out on the campaign hustings yesterday as activists from all nine parties and bloks contesting the 6 May elections intensify their activity in one of the most hotly contested elections in Armenia's history
17 April: Azerbaijan will chair the UN Security Council next month. President Ilham Aliyev announced this at a meeting of the Cabinet this morning. He noted that this was the first time that Azerbaijan will chair “ the biggest, most competent and importan