Supplying weapons to other countries is Moscow’s sovereign right, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday when asked to comment on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s call to stop arming Armenia.
Citing the need to mitigate consequences of a continuing drought in Armenia, lawmakers have approved a government-drafted bill to allow additional drainage from Lake Sevan for irrigation purposes.
An Armenian serviceman has been wounded in a skirmish along the border with Azerbaijan in an incident in which military officials in Yerevan claim Azerbaijani forces have also suffered casualties.
An Armenian serviceman has been killed in what the country’s Defense Ministry describes as another provocation by Azerbaijani forces at the heavily militarized state border.