Today in “Maendorf” castle near Moscow, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliev signed a very important declaration on the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and international guarantees. The meeting was initiated by the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a rare visit to military bases in the restive northern Caucasus.

MOSCOW (Armenpress)--"The efforts of Yerevan and Moscow are directed at achieving stability in the South Caucasus," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting Wednesday with his Armenian counterpart Vartan Oskanian.

The Russian and Georgian presidents, who talked by phone Friday, said the 2014 Winter Olympics at a Russian seaside resort would help bring peace to the Caucasus, the Kremlin said.

Karabakh conflict doesn't stop Armenians and Azeris buying each others' goods.

Azerbaijan's deputy foreign minister, Araz Azimov, was in Brussels today looking for EU support on Baku's stance on the disputed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani government fears that any decision granting independence to the Balkans' predominantly ethnic-Albanian territory of Kosovo could set a precedent for Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a mainly Armenian population.