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The wife of the Prime Minister of Armenia Anna Hakobyan hosted the wife of the President of the Republic of Lithuania Diana Nausėdienė. The Lithuanian President is in Armenia on a two-day official visit. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the Office of Anna Hakobyan, Anna Hakobyan and Diana Nausėdienė held a private conversation. W...

The Supreme Religious Council, chaired by Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, referred to the external and domestic challenges, geopolitical and regional developments facing Armenia and Artsakh following the 44-day catastrophic war. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the Mother See, the Supreme Religious C...

Head of the Migration Service of Armenia Armen Ghazaryan delivered speech at the International Migration Review Forum in New York, highlighting the format of the Forum as an opportunity to better reflect the migration trends and unite the global efforts since the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migra...

After many years of waiting, one more Armenian family has become a homeowner. The Hovsepyans, who started their family 27 years ago, celebrated housewarming only months ago. The house that they had rented and later purchased was dilapidated, with deteriorated partition walls and roof, so they rebuilt it and turned it into a hom...

May 20, 2022 - 17:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Marc Behrendt, the Director for Europe and Eurasia programs at Freedom House, has said that Armenia has made progress in democracy and human rights, but added that the organziation is concerned about legislation criminalizing defamation, Factor TV reports. Behrendt told a forum on Arme...

The two Azerbaijani saboteurs who had crossed into Artsakh in 2014 and murdered a 17-year-old and a soldier have confessed that they were acting on the orders of the then-Azeri deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov. Saboteurs Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilham Askerov, heavily armed, illegally crossed into Artsakh’s Karvajar on June 29, 201...

Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan received Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Armenia Bedrich Kopecky, the ministry said in a news release. During the meeting the engagement of Czech companies into energy and transportation sectors was discussed. The sides emphasized the importance of the c...

The camera traps of the World Wide Fund for Nature Armenia (WWF Armenia) captured the daytime walk of the Caucasian leopard in the Arpa Protected Landscape in Armenia's Vayots Dzor Province. Since 2002, WWF has been taking steps to restore the Caucasian leopard population in Armenia. ...

On May 20, the 132nd Ministerial Session of the Council of Europe was held in Turin, Italy, where Ararat Mirzoyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, participated and delivered remarks, the foreign ministry said. In his speech, Minister Mirzoyan, particularly, noted: “Honorable Minister Di Maio, Honorabl...

An Italian coffee shop owner is in hot water after being fined 1,000 euros ($1,050) for failing to display the cost of a 2 euro ($2.12) espresso, CNN reports. The owner of the Ditta Artigianale cafe in Florence has been punished by police after a customer reported him at the end of April for not advertising his prices as legal...