The country's first socially transformative investment fund will be created with an initial endowment of $100 million with a further increase to $500 million.

Russia wasted no time in dismissing both the outcome of the talks in Washington and the chances of a meeting sometime this year between Putin and Zelensky.

According to S&P analysts, the key factors supporting Kazakhstan's rating are robust fiscal and external reserves.

The homes in Yenokavan, 140 km north of Yerevan, are modest, generally two-story dwellings of Tufa rock – a dense material formed by ancient volcanoes with a characteristic pinkish hue. Many families have their own cow sheds.