Israel has avoided answering the Armenian question. At least until the Knesset elections Residents of Yerevan on Republic Square during a torchlight procession in memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide, April 26, 2026. Photo: Alexey Smyshlyaev / TASS The Israeli Knesset suspended consideration of the issue of recognition by the government of the country of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Why separatism turns from a romantic project into a conservative one More than 2.9 thousand people left Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia, 2023. Photo: AP / TASS “Can you really imagine that the flag of Azerbaijan will ever hang here again?” - asked one of the leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, and he himself laughed at the absurdity of such an assumption even in the heat of polemical.

The first steps of the new Hungarian Prime Minister Magyar, or 50 days without Orban Peter Magyar. Photo: AP / TASS Peter Magyar played his last election chord at a rally on Budapest's Heroes' Square, against the backdrop of the Danube and parliament, where 37 years earlier Viktor Orban first won the hearts of citizens with similar ideas. This was clearly a deliberate symbol: to end his era where it began.

Why did both the authorities and the opposition consider Nikol Pashinyan’s victory to be theirs in Georgia? Salome Zurabishvili. Photo: AP / TASS The fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, was the first to congratulate Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, even before he himself announced his victory in the elections. Zurabishvili, although he insists on his leadership in the Georgian opposition, is an unofficial person.

Why in Armenia this weekend everything was not what it seemed Photo: Alexander Patrin / TASS In one of the villages of the Noyemberyan region of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan’s “Civil Contract” party won significantly more in the elections than the national average. Supporters of the authorities explained this by the fact that the village is located near the border with Azerbaijan, and therefore citizens value peace more than others.

Sudeten Germans held their first congress in the Czech Republic Congress of Sudeten Germans in the Czech Republic. Photo by the author IT specialist Michael was born in a small town near Frankfurt in the early 80s of the last century. His father was born in a Bavarian village in 1949. “In general,” I clarify, “is a German like a German?” “In general, yes,” he laughs and also clarifies: “but Sudeten... The nuance cannot be understood right away; it cannot be explained in a few words.

How Moscow and Yerevan prepared for life after the elections Photo: Olesya Kurpyaeva / Kommersant Every last move in the endgame of the Armenian-Russian election battle turns out to be the penultimate one. As part of the announced choice between Russia and the West, Nikol Pashinyan is opening an unprecedented “AI factory” - a new generation data center, with an investment of $50 million.

Moscow against Nikol Pashinyan. Election play with old political props and famous ending Photo: Alexander Patrin / TASS On the eve of the apricot season, Rosselkhoznadzor deprived Russians of not only Armenian apricots and peaches, but also other fruits and vegetables. As well as alcohol, including cognac. As well as Armenian sparkling water “Jermuk”. Armenian flowers have also become dangerous. The sanctions, despite their massive scale, do not look crushing.

How the Slovak leader is adjusting to European loneliness after the departure of Viktor Orban Robert Fico. Photo: AP / TASS “When you enter the room, you won’t notice him. But he will notice and remember everyone,” this is how an acquaintance from his student days once described Robert Fico.

How Moscow talked to Yerevan about Europe 8th Summit of the European Political Community in Yerevan. Photo: AP/TASS The reaction of official Moscow to the summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Yerevan, which ended in early May, turned out to be unpredictable only in part because it was somewhat belated. The Kremlin, as if deciding to save money on statements, included the Armenian theme in the general thematic presidential package for Victory Day.

How and why Russia and Azerbaijan made peace and what does the criminal cases of citizens involved in the conflict have to do with it? Meeting of Russian President Putin and Azerbaijani President Aliyev in Moscow, February 22, 2022.

Nikol Pashinyan faces infrastructure claims in Moscow Nikol Pashinyan during a meeting in the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin. Photo: Sofya Sandurskaya / TASS Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not mark his visit to Moscow with a traditional finger-shaped heart-shaped rail for the first time in a long time. Just as an exception to the rule sometimes confirms the rule, so breaking a tradition sometimes turns out to be more significant than consistently following it.

Former leaders of Karabakh received sentences up to life in Baku, but the promised “second Nuremberg” still did not work out President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Photo: AP / TASS “Will the topic of the convicted leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh be raised in Baku?” - US Vice President J.D. Vance was asked in Yerevan, seeing him off in Baku, and he answered: certainly. And he didn’t deceive.

Pashinyan’s power now depends only on whether lasting peace is established in Armenia. But such a world will reformat the entire country - and the “old” Church stands in the way Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan during the Christmas religious procession. Photo: Alexander Patrin / TASS The episcopal meeting of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which was supposed to take place in December, has been postponed to February and will be held in St. Pölten, Austria.

How the new world works between Baku and Moscow Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the government residence Kokhi Somon. Photo: Grigory Sysoev / POOL / TASS The meeting of the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan, which resolved the ten-month crisis, was hardly the only significant memory of the Dushanbe summit of the CIS heads. He only continued the established tradition, according to which this event had long been reduced to meetings in the required format, often one on one.