A Bishkek court informed OCCRP's Kyrgyz partner Kloop that its lawyers missed the deadline when they submitted their appeal to a February decision ordering the independent media outlet to be closed down.
The family of former Minister of State of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan, now jailed in Baku and facing various terrorism charges, has again called on the international community to exert pressure on Azerbaijan to release him and the other Armenian detainee
Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova met on the sidelines of the first meeting of the Organizing Committee of the VI World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments in Geneva on May 16.