Azerbaijan has threatened the newly-elected prime minister of neighboring Armenia, former journalist and former opposition leader Nikol Pasjinian, with large-scale military operations in protest against Yerevan's policy on the controversial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian parliament has elected opposition leader Nikol Pasjinjian as a new prime minister in a second round. He was the only candidate. Pasjinjian received 59 votes in favor and 42 against.
Demonstrating Armenians started Wednesday morning blocking some access roads to the capital Yerevan. Also the road to the airport of the city is blocked, according to eyewitnesses.
The Armenian leader Serzj Sarkisian has announced his departure after large-scale protests. In recent days, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Yerevan capital. They demanded that the 63-year-old prime minister step up to pave the way for early elections.
In the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, the situation has become explosive, after Prime Minister Serzj Sarkisian ignored the opposition's call for resignation and started mass arrests of demonstrators in the capital Yerevan.
After two weeks, the twenty armed hostage takers, who surrendered Sunday several people hostage in a police station in the Armenian capital Yerevan. Two officers were slain during the hostage and there were several wounded.
At least fifty people, including 25 officers, were Wednesday night injured in riots at the police station in the Armenian capital Yerevan, where since Sunday is a hostage situation going on.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday visited the memorial to the genocide in the Armenian capital Yerevan. In memory of the possible 1.5 million deaths Steinmeier laid a wreath.
A day after the killing of Armenians by Turks labeled as genocide, Pope Francis to reconcile the two countries Saturday called now, a century later. He did that in the Armenian capital Yerevan, where he is visiting.
The South Caucasian republic of Armenia genocide resolution by the German Bundestag welcomed as a valuable contribution to the international debate.
American Hollywood star George Clooney and the French chansonnier Charles Aznavour on Sunday commemorated the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. They laid flowers at a memorial in the Armenian capital Yerevan, accompanied by President Serzh Sargsyan.
Eighteen people in recent weeks in Armenia died as a result of swine flu.
In Russia, in the night of Monday to Tuesday happened a serious bus accident. In addition, at least seven people have been killed, Russian media reported. Further 35 people were injured, one of whom would be seven in critical condition.
