Russia

Five years have passed since Georgia and Russia fought a short but costly war that again brought suffering and death on a huge scale to the Caucasus. Lessons need to be learnt and the world and the people of the region together must say "Never again", and must with their actions and their will avoid the spiral that leads to war. Commonspace.eu summarises the conflict and its background in ten short questions and answers as an introduction to a series of articles, interviews and special reports which we will be publishing over the next few days

"Something has to change that will shuffle all the certainties and create a new basis for negotiations".

ArmInfo’s Interview with Ashot Manucharyan, member of the Karabakh Committee, national security advisor to the first President of Armenia

ArmInfo’s Interview with Vadim Mukhanov, senior researcher at the Center for Caucasus Studies of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

ArmInfo’s interview with Andrey Ryabov, analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Vedomosti

Rossiiskaya Gazeta

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan expressed his satisfaction with the present level of military-technical cooperation between Armenia and Russia and noted that this is of major importance in the relations between the two strategic allies.

The highest ranking Azerbaijani official ever to travel to Armenia officially since the collapse of the Soviet Union has arrived in Yerevan. The Minister of Interior Ramil Usubov is participating in a meeting of CIS Interior Ministers