Russia is in contact with Turkey regarding the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems supplied to that country. Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the head of state, announced this during the briefing.

“Here I can say only one thing. this topic belongs to a very sensitive area. We had contacts with the Turkish side on this topic. And we will continue the contacts,” answered the representative of the Kremlin.

Earlier, the pro-government Turkish Hürriyet newspaper reported that the S-400s that Turkey once bought from Russia were sold to one of the Persian Gulf countries. According to him, the deal will be announced soon. Peskov was asked if Ankara applied for a sales permit and how Moscow reacted.

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Human rights defender Siranush Sahakyan is going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the former Minister of State of Artsakh, philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, who was imprisoned in Azerbaijan for almost three years and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The international law specialist notes that they finally managed to get Vardanyan’s verdict, which was necessary to start a process at the European Court.

“We are in the preparatory stage, after weeks the case will be submitted,” Sahakyan told Azatut. “In the case of Ruben Vardanyan, we will show that the accusation is political, no individual criminal act was ever carried out by Vardanyan. The right to collective self-determination has been illegally qualified as terrorism, while there can be no punishment without an act provided for by law,” the human rights defender emphasized.

As for the other 15 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan’s prisons, among whom is the former military-political leadership of Artsakh, Baku still refuses to provide them and their public defenders with the verdicts that were published eight months ago. In other words, the 15 Armenian prisoners are still deprived of the opportunity to get acquainted with their verdicts, in particular, what actions were attributed to them and based on what evidence.

“I think they are trying to hinder the process of submitting international complaints, and we also do not rule out that the verdict is not even finalized, because the trial itself was fictitious, and the outcome of the trial was shaped by a political order. I think it takes time for the entire law enforcement system to present some reasons in that judicial act, because they realize that these processes are transferred to international courts,” said the international law specialist.

Human rights defender Siranush Sahakyan says that in order to apply to the European Court of Human Rights, it is necessary to have the judgments. If the judicial authorities of Azerbaijan continue not to provide it, they will receive it already through the ECHR. The Inter-Asia Court made an interim decision, according to which the authorities of Azerbaijan must submit the verdicts of 15 Armenian citizens to the European Court by August 31.

“If they don’t give it to the European Court, we will have allegations of violation of human rights of a new quality here, I think the Azerbaijani authorities will not go that way and will at least give the judgments to the court,” emphasized Sahakyan.

In February, the Baku military court sentenced 16 Armenian prisoners, including the military-political leadership of Artsakh, to life or long imprisonment.

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Yesterday, we were in the courtyard of the court with Anna Grigoryan and Christine Vardanyan, inside the court, in a closed session, the issue of the restraining order against our former deputy colleague, Aregnaz Manukyan, was being examined. Agnesa Khamoyan, deputy of the National Assembly “Armenia” faction, wrote about this on her Facebook page.

In particular, he noted: “The session lasted quite short, 1.5 hours. And although it was obvious that Aregnaz was going to be detained, deep down we cherished a woman’s hope that the fact that the woman had a minor child could prevent the judge from taking Aregnaz into custody. But no, the arrest decision was already on the judge’s shelf, the investigator’s petition was completely satisfied.

And this is despite the fact that Aregnaz’s apartment was searched weeks ago, he knew months ago from various sources that a case would be opened, and during all that time he did not hide from the investigation, he did not even try.

This proves once again that the decision to use the most severe preventive measure, detention, is a political order and never the implementation of justice.

But even this was not the biggest absurdity. the manifestation of petty revenge and vindictiveness is that the judge deprived the female opposition politician of the opportunity to even see her own child. Aregnaz meetings are completely closed.

This is Nikol Pashinyan’s message to all female opposition figures: I will hit your weakest point, your children. Nothing can be more terrible for a woman than not seeing her child. But I am sure that Aregnaz will go through this test, will pass with honor, as Lidia, Lilit, Tatev and many other women have passed.

Nikol Pashinyan is wrong in his calculations. mothers do not become poor, but become beasts when the hands of others reach their children. Know well.

I have known Aregnaz since his years as a journalist and I can confidently say that he is a principled, stubborn and strong person who does not betray his own ideas. We express our full support to his family and will do everything possible to change the restraining order.”

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RA Deputy Economy Minister Edgar Zakaryan visited the Ararat cement factory today and got acquainted with the organization of the production process. During the tour, he was accompanied by the general director of the factory.

Edgar Zakaryan expressed the readiness of the Ministry to support the solution of possible obstacles arising during the production activity of the factory.

Referring to the process of restoration of the factory, the deputy minister noted that the uninterrupted and continuous process of the production process is important both from the point of view of maintaining the industrial potential and promoting economic activity.

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The press secretary of the mayor of Yerevan stated that Gagik Tsarukyan’s proposal to transfer the animals to the zoo was conditioned solely by the need to ensure the safety and professional care of the animals.

“The proposal of the municipality to transfer Gagik Tsarukyan’s animals to the zoo was the top topic of speculation in the last two days. The main thesis is to connect the investigative actions related to the businessman and the leader of the political force and the proposal to provide the most suitable and safe shelter for the animals at this stage and, which was the most absurd, to present the painful fact of the fall of one of the animals as a political revenge.

Yes, it was very unfortunate that one of the animals, in particular the female lion, did not wake up after sedation, but this is a professional conversation in the range of steps and possible mistakes, which could be assumed and subjectively or objectively disputed, but at least it was not difficult to predict that the fact of the lion’s fall would be politicized, attributed to intention, generating a whole theory of conspiracy, which is not so much sympathy as manipulation, a tool to quickly package up a sorry case and target people, simple demonization.

Leaving aside the controversial provision of the right to keep large numbers of animals in private areas, let’s record a fact: due to the legal process, the animals had to be moved to an area, which is the only one in our country, where they could be reintegrated and be under the constant care and care of specialists, this was the only, non-political, exclusively environmental motivation for the proposal and relocation,” wrote the press secretary of Yerevan Mayor.

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