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Meetings and Condemnations On April 5th Armenia, the EU, and the US are to hold a tripartite meeting in Brussels, Belgium. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is travelling to Belgium, along with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in order to meet with President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. While Armenia, the US, and the EU have...

Armenian banks are scheduled to cease processing payments with Russian Mir cards from March 29 2024, following U.S. sanctions on Russia's National Card Payment System (NSPK) imposed in February 2023. The Mir system became Russia's alternative to major international payment systems after Visa, Mastercard, and American Express suspended their services in Russia in March 2022. After this suspension, Mir became...

What Happened The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has claimed that peace with Armenia is closer "than ever before." He made the claim in a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was in Azerbaijan in order to hold a series of meetings with Aliyev. Secretary Stoltenberg travelled to Armenia on Tuesday in order to hold talks...

A Potential Reality Armenia's potential bid to apply to become a member of the European Union seems to have gotten distinctly more likely, after the EU passed a resolution calling for a distinct increase to cooperation between Armenia and the EU. The resolution also offered a series of condemnations towards Azerbaijan, as well as made a number of different calls. The...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, Russian peacekeepers (Border Service) were stationed at Armenia’s Zvartnots International Airport as a temporary measure to protect the vital import/export hub. That was in 1992. However, last week Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced that the peacekeepers were no longer welcome. This followed two weeks ago when Armenia’s President announced the withdrawal from the Collective...