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Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan assesses the presence of the Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh as positive, ARMENPRESS reports Pashinyan said during the parliament-Cabinet Q&A session. ‘’Nothing has changed in the security relations between the Repubvlic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh, but obviously a ne...

Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Armenia Vahram Dumanyan met on January 20 with the EU Delegation to Armenia, led by Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the Ministry, greeting the Ambassador, Vahram Duamnyan highlighted the programs implemented in the spheres of ed...

Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikyan will visit Syunik province to get acquainted with the problems which emerged after the recent war. “Next week I, Mr. Papikyan and several deputy ministers will visit Syunik because there are issues connect...

The Armenian side has reached an agreement with the Russian and Azerbaijani sides over the security of the Yerevan-Kapan road, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan said during a Q&A session in the Parliament. “As of this moment, we have concrete agreements with both the Azerbaijani and Russian sides over the section of the road ...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called Azerbaijan’s latest Armenophobic postage stamp “unacceptable” and compared it with similar postage stamps that the Nazi Germany used to issue. Speaking in parliament during a Q&A, he told lawmakers that they should show the stamps to the international community at different platforms. “The i...

A stable operational situation with no incidents has been maintained along the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact of the Armenian state border overnight January 19-20, the Defense Ministry of Armenia told Armenpress. According to the information provided by the Armenian National Security Service, no border incidents were regis...

Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan received today Ambassador of the Netherlands to Armenia Nico Schermers, the justice ministry told Armenpress. The minister congratulated the Ambassador on appointment, highlighting the entry of the bilateral relations into a qualitatively new stage after the 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution and...

January 20, 2021 - 14:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian Defense Ministry has published footage from the road connecting the towns of Goris and Kapan in Syunik Province, roughly one month after parts of the roadway came under Azerbaijan's control. The reportage prepared by Zinuzh Media reveals the work of the Russian peaceke...

January 20, 2021 - 11:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Armenia grew by 309 to reach 165,221 on Wednesday, January 20 morning, according to information provided by the Health Ministry. Fresh figures also revealed that 357 more people have recovered, nine patients have died from Covid-19,...

Parliament approved with an overwhelming 101 votes in favor at first reading a bill authored by MP Rustam Bakoyan (representing the Yazidi community) from the ruling My Step bloc on introducing the “Republic of Armenia National Minorities Day” in the calendar of public holidays. Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan...