The certification scheme in the Armenian military offered by the government contains risks, MP Seyran Ohanyan, the head of the largest opposition Hayastan faction in the Armenian parliament, claims. Speaking at the parliamentary debates on the government-drafted amendments to the laws on the status of servicemen and their sala...

Russia is interested in securing a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Moscow on Monday, TASS reported. "We are interested in promoting the unblocking of transport links, delimitation of the border, signing of a p...

ARF Armenia Chair Ishkhan Saghatelyan, an MP representing the main opposition Hayastan faction in the Armenian parliament, claims his family members and other relatives have been facing strong pressure from the authorities recently. “It includes criminal cases, raids and interrogations,” he told a briefing in the parliament on...

Robin the Robot will join Iveta Mukuchyan, Garik Papoyan and Karina Ignatyan on Friday 11 December as the 4th host of this year’s Junior Eurovision in Yerevan, the official website of the Eurovision Song Contest revealed. For the first time in Junior Eurovision history, the contest will be hosted by an AI (artificial intellige...

The Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory on Wednesday hosted the awards ceremony of the Golden Seeds Scholarship of Appreciation and Respect honoring famous Armenian-Lebanese opera singer Kevork Hadjian, who was killed on the Artsakh frontline during the 2020 war. The Golden Seeds Scholarship has been launched by the Armenian ...

Ameriabank has launched a new tool for contactless non-cash payments - AmeriaPhonePOS, enabling the clients to use a smartphone as a POS-terminal and receive payments anywhere in a convenient, fast and reliable manner. The application is designed for legal entities/private entrepreneurs offering an opportunity to receive non-cas...

The US Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the US representative in the Caucasus negotiations, Philip Reeker, will leave Azerbaijan for Tbilisi, from where will arrive in Yerevan, ARMENPRESS reports Reeker announced in his video message. "The United States supports the direct dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan and calls to ma...

The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has uncovered another case of high treason involving an Armenian army major. In a statement on Tuesday, the law enforcement agency said the officer was recruited by foreign intelligence services in July 2021 and signed a cooperation agreement with them. Being the chief of a depar...

MP Eduard Aghajanyan, the head of Armenia’s parliamentary delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), addressed the autumn meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Friday. In his speech, the deputy called attention to the Azerbaijani invasion of sovereign Armenian territory starting from...

Opposition Hayastan bloc MP Lilit Galstyan, a member of Armenia’s delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), addressed the 20th autumn meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Friday. Her full statement is provided below. "Dear colleagues, Today, rightfully, the main concern of the Int...