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Lawyer Robert Hayrapetyan, a member of the opposition Armenia bloc, deplored the passage of a bill calling for criminalization of swearing by the National Assembly on Friday. “Thus, gravely insulting a person, including using swear words or hurting someone’s dignity in another extremely obscene manner, was criminalized. 1. If...

Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE Armen Papikyan delivered a statement on "The aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters" at the 1326th meeting of the Permanent Council on Thursday. The Armenian diplomat informed about the Azerbaijani ...

The U.S. President Joe Biden prolonged the moratorium on prohibition of deliveries to Azerbaijan of the military equipment and the weapon at the end of April. Previously Baku could not benefit from the opportunity of purchasing of armament from Washington according to the Section 907 amendment of the Freedom Support Act of the U...

The Azerbaijani authorities must compensate for damage caused to all Armenian villagers, Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan said on Friday. He shared the copies of two documents on Facebook, presenting damage caused to villagers due to the illegal presence of Azerbaijani forces on Armenian territory. “O...

Security expert Tigran Abrahamyan, the head of the analytical center Henaket, reacted to the tensions along the Yeraskh section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. “Two days ago Nikol Pashinyan stated that according to the information he had obtained, Azerbaijan intended to provoke new military clashes in Artsakh and on the bo...

Armenia saw a growth in electricity generation in the first five months of this year, according to the latest official statistics. The country produced a total of 3,310 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in January-May 2021, up by 2% from the same period of 2020, the Statistical Committee reported. In the meantime, the ele...

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned the world about the 'early stages' of COVID-19 third wave amid Delta surge, The Economic Times reported. "Unfortunately...we are now in the early stages of a third wave," he said. On Wednesday, the head of WHO said that Delta variant's spread,...

By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Several Azeri websites claimed that Armenians in Azerbaijan sent last October, in the midst of the Artsakh War, an appeal to “Catholicos Karekin II, Armenians of the world, and Armenians in Karabagh.” One of the Azeri websites (Report News Agency) alleged that the “appeal...

The heads of the relevant diplomatic missions were invited to the Armenian Foreign Ministry with regard to the participation of the diplomatic representatives of some countries in the visit organized by the Azerbaijani authorities to the occupied territories of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) on July 9-10, the ministry said in a sta...

There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of the global population – up to 811 million people – were undernourished last ...