Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday stated that despite the deep disagreements between the US and Russia, their cooperation has not suffered on the efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, reported RIA Novosti news agency of Russia.

“It doesn’t affect [this collaboration] in any way,” said Lavrov. “Settlement of the Karabakh conflict is unique from the viewpoint of the intermediary countries, in the sense that despite very deep disagreements which are now accumulated in our relations, ‘thanks to’ the Russianphobe politics of, first of all, the Congress and the Democratic Party, [and] mostly the Republican Party [of the US].

“Of course, many domains of [Russian-American] relations have entered a deep deadlock. But cooperation did not suffer from it, on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.”

Gazete Karınca website of Turkey has published an article on destruction of the Armenian quarter in once densely-Armenian-populated Gaziantep (Antep) town in the country.

The website stressed that after the Armenian Genocide in 1915, several historical buildings belonging to Armenians in Gaziantep were turned into mosques, or cafés.

Gazete Karınca added that the majority of houses that once belonged to Armenians have now either turned into cafés, or provide services as boutique hotels.

An exhibition devoted to the 200th birth anniversary of celebrated Russian Armenian seascape artist Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) will be held in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.

Vahe Petrosyan, Executive Director of the “Erebuni” Armenian community of Zhytomyr, informed that this exhibition will open on Wednesday.

The great painter’s little known works devoted to Ukraine and Armenia, as well as his religion-themed works and icons will be displayed at this event.

Copies of materials, in which Aivazovsky’s family members and the separate chapters in his life are depicted, also will be put on view in this exhibition that will run until November 30.