at 04:13 January 31, 2023 UTC, Location: at 08:21 February 12, 2023 UTC, Location: 16.2 km from Epicenter at 41.148, 44.007 Maksim Lypkan's lawyer, Alan Kachmazov, says cellmates forcibly shaved his clients head, leaving a Mohawk strip on it, and threatened to rape him. The abbreviation ChVK usually stands for private military company, such as Russias notorious Wagner mercenary group, but apparently does not signify anything in the groups name. In a previous sign of warming relations, Turkey and Armenia in February 2022 resumed their first commercial flights in two years. See if there was a quake in or near Armenia just now! The hearings in the other courts ruled that Khan was immune from arrest on separate charges relating to allegations of terrorism, attempted murder against a rival politician, and graft. Langer/U.S. (7.2 miles), 2022-10-05 13:51:38 UTC 20.2 km from 7.2 km from In response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland last May applied to join NATO, having until now relied solely on its own armed forces to defend the 1,300-kilometer border it shares with Russia. Khvoy at 10:52 March 01, 2023 UTC, Location: Add to Cart. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Uzbek Service, click here. Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan visited a number of neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo to find out the extent of damage to buildings as a result of the earthquake disaster, and was briefed on the measures taken by the governorate to remove rubble, open roads and shelter the affected people. at 12:37 October 10, 2022 UTC, Location: USGS Magnitude 2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day 40 earthquakes. The caption of the image read, "Romania deployed antiaircraft systems to the border with Moldova. Epicenter at 41.157, 43.936 10.2 km from Russian President Vladimir Putins spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters in Moscow on February 28 that the Kremlin's attitude toward Ryodan is "negative," adding that the "illegal activities" of the movement must be stopped. The most recent of these was last year from Sept. 27 to Nov. 10, in one of the most brutal wars of the 21st century. He did not say what the deadline for the diplomats to leave was. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Thursday, as the Syrian regime seeks to end its international isolation following 6 February's devastating earthquakes.. Mirzoyan expressed his "condolences and support" for Syrians following the earthquakes, which killed tens of thousands in Turkey and Syria, according to the Syrian regime's news website SANA. A border gate between long-feuding Turkey and Armenia has been opened for the first time in 35 years to allow aid for victims of the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey, Ankara's state-owned Anadolu news agency and a diplomat said.. Turkey's special envoy for Armenia, Serdar Kilic, tweeted photos of trucks passing through the Alican checkpoint at the Turkish side of the Aras river . (9.2 miles), 2022-12-08 06:42:15 UTC at 12:37 October 10, 2022 UTC, Location: "You may see small portions of territory change hands in the coming weeks and months," Colin Kahl, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, told a U.S. House of Representatives hearing. REUTERS/Stringer ANKARA, Feb 15 . Shalyakin's case stemmed from his posting on social media a video about the Soviet-Afghan war and a crisis in Georgia. The government has held several counterrallies to try and quell the dissent, but people continue to take to the streets across the country, as universities and schools have become leading venues for clashes between protesters and the authorities. (15.2 miles), 2022-07-11 03:36:23 UTC Epicenter at 40.718, 42.889 A lawmaker in the Russian region of Samara who mocked President Vladimir Putin's annual address to lawmakers says he has been summoned to meet with police. RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. REUTERS. Happy to have been able to assist, Ruben Rubinian, vice president of the Armenian National Assembly, wrote along with a photo showing an Armenian truck entering Turkey from the bridge. An Azerbaijani delegation on March 1 met with representatives of the mostly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh to discuss issues related to the reopening of the Lachin Corridor, which connects the region with neighboring Armenia. Epicenter at 38.613, 44.78 (12.2 miles), 2023-01-29 14:41:14 UTC Geological Survey) When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit his hometown, Gyumri, on December 7, 1988, 14-year-old Ara Tadevossian's apartment building collapsed on top of him and his mother. Epicenter at 38.565, 44.784 16.2 km from "Russia is attempting to encircle [Bakhmut] right now, and they're using their best Wagner troops, apparently, the most well-trained and the most experienced to do that," economic adviser Oleksandr Rodnyanskiy told CNN. 20.2 km from Newest First. 14.2 km from But Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, has signaled that the debate may take some time. The earthquake measured 6-7 at the epicenter and was felt across Armenia. "I thought I was going to the cradle of the Mongol people, to a democratic country, where my situation would be fully understood," he added. Last summer, the Fidesz-dominated parliament took only two days to approve an Orban-proposed tax increase on small businesses despite violent street demonstrations against it. Russian officials have previously accused Ukraine of carrying out sabotage attacks with drones on infrastructure such as oil refineries and military installations near the border with Ukraine. The two countries have never established formal diplomatic relations, although diplomatic contacts were resumed in late 2021. Epicenter at 38.424, 44.909 at 14:55 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: 8 earthquakes in the past 30 days. 16.2 km from The leaders pledged in that call to build on a recently established process aimed at normalizing travel, trade, and diplomatic relations between their two countries. at 16:38 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: At least one death has been linked to the outbreak of illnesses, the news release said, but the girl's father refused to confirm there was a connection between her death and the alleged poisonings. Now, the deadly February 6 earthquakes appear to have paved the way for Turkey to mend its ties with yet more of its neighbours. 9 earthquakes in the past 30 days. The talks were held in Uzbekistan's capital on March 1, one day after Blinken took part in the C5+1 summit in Astana, which included foreign ministers from the five Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The Peace Implementation Council for Bosnia-Herzegovina, and international body that includes representatives of the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Turkey, Japan, and the European Union asked Bosnia in September 2004 to come up with a permanent solution for the issue of state property. (6.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:24:40 UTC "Formally, the border guarding service officers are carrying out their duties and act in accordance with the regulations, but they in fact are trying to remove from the country a person who may face persecution on politically motivated charges," Boromangnaev told RFE/RL. The 22-year-old died while in custody after being arrested by the notorious morality police for improperly wearing a mandatory Islamic head scarf, or hijab. For the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Armenian earthquake, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers together with Armenian volunteers have initiated a project called Story Beyond the Ruins. It is unclear how and under what conditions Boromangnaev was allowed to travel to the United States. It is unclear what may be causing the illnesses, though some of those affected have said they smelled chlorine or cleaning agents, while others said they thought they smelled tangerines in the air. Khvoy Our heart goes out to the nearly 50,000 dead . Devastating effects of the earthquake in Armenia. Prior to his speech at the Oxford Union, Pahlavi met with British lawmakers along with Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. President Erdoan visits Antakya, Hatay, February 20, 2023. He has accused Sharif of conspiring with the United States to oust him from power. The influx of Russian citizens, mostly of Kalmyk, Buryat, and Tyvan origin, to Mongolia has dramatically increased since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization to support the war in Ukraine in late September last year. See how many recent quakes occurred in or near Armenia, report a quake if you felt one! The New Website Presents Stories from the 1988 Armenian Earthquake and Beyond. The executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said on February 28 that the girls were deliberately poisoned. During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan regained control of much of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. So far, theyve held the city, but, if need be, they will strategically pull back -- because we're not going to sacrifice all of our people just for nothing," Rodnyanskiy said. 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. Epicenter at 40.803, 42.929 A U.S. Defense Department official on February 28 described the front line in Ukraine as a "grinding slog" but said he did not expect Russia to be able to make significant territorial gains in the near term. 5.2 km from Some analysts said the spate of recent drone flights into Russian territory could be practice runs for a potential future strike by Ukraine deep inside Russia. 7.2 km from "Referring to the concerns created in connection with the poisoning of a number of students in some schools, [the president] gave the Minister of the Interior a mission to follow up and find the root of the issue as quickly as possible, and to provide documented and continuous information about the results of the follow-ups," the president's office said in a statement following the cabinet meeting. 11.2 km from Human Rights Watch said on December 21 that the blocking of the Lachin Corridor had disrupted access to essential goods and services for tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians living there. Khvoy More than twenty-five thousand people were killed. Opposition politician Marina Litvinovich said on March 1 that Aleksei Moskalyov was arrested over his own anti-war posts online and charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces. A dreadful earthquake struck a densely populated region of Armenia on December 7, 1988. The phrase "to hang noodles on someone's ears" in colloquial Russian means "to lie to someone." The implementation of the law is a direct challenge to previous decisions by Schmidt to repeal the original decree creating the law and his decision on February 27 to suspend it pending a final decision by Bosnia's Constitutional Court. About 80% of structures there were destroyed, primarily large apartment blocks built in the late Soviet era. Epicenter at 40.802, 42.961 12.2 km from Romanian military tanks and armored vehicles have also been deployed at the border.". (13.2 miles). The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the Armenian Republic on December 7, 1988, was considered one of the strongest in more than 80 years, affecting at least 20 cities and towns and destroying . at 17:57 September 21, 2022 UTC, Location: Khvoy Ozurgeti at 10:52 March 01, 2023 UTC, Location: Tyvans are another mostly Buddhist indigenous people in Siberia, whose language is Turkic. Every donation will be highly appreciated. Two circumstantial events focused unprecedented world attention on . Last week, Nafiseh Moradi, a researcher of Islamic studies at Al Zahra University, an all-female public university in Tehran, said in a commentary that it was suspicious that girls, not boys, were mainly affected by the illnesses. The names and positions of diplomats were also not given. At least one death has been linked to the outbreak of illnesses, the CHRI said, but the girl's father refused to confirm there was a connection between her death and the alleged poisonings. Khvoy The Russian authorities said earlier that Ryodan members had been involved in brawls in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Kursk in the second half of February. Khvoy The article on Qom News was later deleted from its website. Khvoy Khvoy Epicenter at 42.273, 46.894 Susuz 25.2 km from ", Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who is visiting Berlin, said there were two options to deal with Iran: reimposing UN sanctions using the so-called snapback mechanism in the Security Council resolution that enshrined the 2015 nuclear deal or having a "credible military option on the table. 2.7 earthquake - East Azerbaijan, 32 km southeast of Khvoy, West Azerbaijan, Iran, on Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023 at 10:36 pm (GMT +3:30). Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84 percent in Iran's underground Fordow uranium enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi confirmed on February 28. A spokesman for Iran's civilian nuclear program, Behrouz Kamalvandi, sought last week to portray any detection of uranium particles enriched to the level of 84 percent as a momentary side effect of trying to reach a finished product of 60 percent purity. Some rights activists have accused Iranian authorities of trying to suppress information about the death of the girl, while others have accused the authorities of not doing enough to find the cause of the outbreak of illness and prevent new cases. 2023-02-12 02:43:51 (UTC-08:00) 44.1 . That decision on April 12, 2022, was the first time Schmidt used powers allowing his office to impose or change laws, remove elected and appointed officials from their positions. Air traffic has since resumed. at 18:14 January 28, 2023 UTC, Location: Khvoy 5.9 on Saturday, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:44 pm (GMT +3:30). 32.2 km from To read the original story by Reuters, click here. Maintaining our website and our free apps does require, however, considerable time and resources. Whenever the plates moving beneath Armenia interlock, pressure builds. A day earlier, Ukrainian police said 18 online channels and social-network groups created "to destabilize the situation in Ukraine via a new youth movement from the Russian Federation" had been blocked. 19.2 km from Mag. Earlier this week, top Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid, who is regarded as a spiritual leader for Irans Sunni Muslim population, said schoolgirls were being poisoned as "revenge" for the role young women have played in recent protests against the government. Khvoy Around 58,700 students, teachers, and school staff will benefit from an ADB project improving the seismic safety of 46 schools in Armenia. Despite Schmidts decision to repeal the decree, the law on immovable properties was published in the official journal of Republika Srpska and was passed by the Republika Srpska Assembly on February 10. Epicenter at 38.543, 44.878 The agreement is set to expire on March 18. A teacher from Qom - which is about 135 kilometers south of the capital Tehran -- told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that out of 250 students, only 50 attended classes. It is seen as an attempt by Republika Srpska to transfer state property from Bosnia to the Serb entity. Between 25,000 and 100,000 people are estimated to have died, upwards of 130,000 were injured, and half a million people were rendered homeless. The protests pose the biggest threat to the Islamic government since the 1979 revolution. On February 10, a group of exiled Iranian opposition figures pleaded for unity and an end to infighting to help recent nationwide protests in Iran against the country's Islamic theocracy. Republic of Armenia After Russia launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, most of the group's members fled the country. In addition, one drone was downed in the Bryansk region and another crashed down near the city of Kolomna, near Moscow. A court in Pakistan has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case involving state gifts and concealing his assets from the sale of the gifts. Members of the Ryodan youth group in St. Petersburg on February 26. 11.2 km from We will provide our support to Finland and Swedens NATO accession, Fidesz said. The two also asked Iranian protester Vahid Beheshti, who has been on a hunger strike outside the House of Commons for days, to end his hunger strike. The post by the account, which claims to be located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and reports "geopolitical & military news from all over the world, has since been deleted. 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