Escorted by a joint Russian-Armenian security detail, Tempest Storm at Rocky Shores, an 1875 painting by Hovhannes Aivazovsky that was stolen 21 years ago was finally returned to Armenia's National Gallery in Yerevan.
With the flurry of foreign news at the moment, you will be forgiven for missing the statement of Presidents Medvedev, Obama and Sarkozy from the G8 summit Deauville on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. But it is the most serious international declaration on the conflict for many years.
Here's a bit of the banter between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov before their meeting in Washington D.C. on June 3.
In particular, it was noted that the Armenian representative from Holland was perturbed that the Minister selected a community spokesperson without consulting local Armenians.