Russian President Vladimir Putin is self-isolating after members of his entourage fell ill with COVID-19 and will therefore not travel to Tajikistan this week for planned regional security meetings, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, CNBC reported. Putin, 68, was due to travel to Tajikistan for high-level meetings of the CSTO and SCO regional alliances with …

An appeal has been filed against detention of former Armenian Prosecutor General and former Chairperson of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan at the Criminal Court of Appeals, Gagik Khachikyan, Hovsepyan’s attorney, told Factor.am.  He said the selected preventive measure is groundless and does not correspond with factual circumstances. According to the Special Investigative Service, Aghvan …

The official visit of Slovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Korcok to Yerevan has begun, MFA said, Accompanied by the Armenian Foreign Minister, he visited today the Armenian Genocide Memorial to pay tribute to the memory of the Genocide victims.

Reserve Sergeant Mkrtich Hovakimyan, 43, serving in a military position in south-eastern Armenia, received a lethal gunshot wound on September 13 as a result of a violation of military service the rules, Ministry of Defense said today in a statement. An investigation is underway to find out the circumstances of the incident.

The National Assembly’s ruling party and opposition factions have agreed to hold discussions on the situation in Syunik with the participation of the director of the National Security Service, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Prosecutor General, the chairman of the State Revenue Committee and other relevant bodies, Artsvik Minasyan, a member of the Armenia …

Being neglected for more than 30 years, the main collection area of the Botanical Garden of Yerevan that preserved green trees, which covers about 15 hectares territory, from now on can be irrigated anytime of year. For that purpose, with the financing by benefactor Karen Vardanyan, a 5 km long irrigation system has been constructed, …

Some 5,067  COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 657 new cases; 16 people died As of September 14 Total number of tests performed in Armenia- 1,594,150 Confirmed positive cases – 249,803 Deaths – 5,034 Recovered – 233,521 Patients currently receiving treatment – 10,068

Traffic jams have blocked the movement of Iranian trucks on the Goris-Kapan road. As reported earlier, the Azerbaijani police have set up a checkpoint in that area, allowing Iranian trucks to move on only after passing inspections and making payments. “The checkpoint has been operating since last Friday. If they don’t pay, they are not …

Iran is concerned about the incident of Azerbaijani police stopping Iranian trucks on the Kapan road in Armenia and checking documents, but they believe that the issue will be resolved through negotiations between the parties, Vali Kaleji, a researcher at the Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and expert on the South Caucasus and Central Asia, …