Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has again proclaimed that Armenians in Karabakh will enjoy no special status or privileges when the area comes under the control of Baku.
Mkhitar Matevosyan, the mayor of Vayk, a community in Armenia’s Vayots Dzor province, has signed contracts totaling 537 million drams (US$1.323m) with a company owned by his wife Mary Margaryan.
The Turkish news website Hürriyet claims that the special representatives of Turkey and Armenia (Serdar Kılıç and Ruben Rubinyan) have talked by telephone 500 times since talks to normalize relations between the two countries began in January of this
Given the current rate of cigarette use in Armenia, the World Health Organization estimates that of the 600,000 smokers in Armenia today, nearly 300,000 will prematurely die due to cigarette use.