Vedant Patel
The State Department said on Thursday that it considers Zaporizhzhia a Ukrainian facility after Russia's Vladimir Putin announced the seizure of the nuclear power plant.
“Zaporizhzhia belongs to Ukraine, the power plant belongs to Ukraine, and the electricity and the energy that it produces rightly belongs to Ukraine,” Vedant Patel, the department's principal deputy spokesperson, told TURAN's Washington correspondent during a daily press briefing.
“President Putin has absolutely no authority to take over a power plant in another country, and a piece of paper issued by him or his government certainly doesn’t change that fact, either,” he added.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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Activist Jlala Dzhavadov has been detained. The young man stopped responding to calls on Thursday from 4 p.m.
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On January 31, lawyer Elchin Sadigov was not allowed to meet with Polad Aslanov, the head of the website xeberman.com, and blogger Rashad Ramazanov in jail No. 15.
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"We are not against unimpeded communication, but this does not mean unimpeded bypassing of Armenia’s jurisdiction," said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a press conference on Friday. He confirmed that two points of the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan remain unresolved. However, he added, Yerevan has proposed solutions for both issues.
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On January 31, the Tbilisi City Court extended the arrest of Afghan Sadigov, the founder of the Azerbaijani website Azel TV, for another three months. According to Turan, Sadigov's wife, Sevinc Sadigova, reported that both Afghan and his lawyer from the Center for Social Justice learned about the court proceedings at the last moment.
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