The meeting with the new Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Khovayev in Yerevan is very important in Artsakh, Artsakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Davit Babayan told Factor.am. “The other issues are secondary, not important,” he added, answering the question what they think about the fact that the newly appointed Minsk Group co-chair …

Russia’s FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukrainian military intelligence of organising an attack on a gas pipeline on Crimea after Moscow arrested a Crimean Tatar leader over the incident. The FSB said Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence service and the Mejlis, the outlawed representative body of the Crimean Tatars, had conspired to blow up a …

Azeri troops, positioned near the villages of the Karmir Shuka-Taghavard section in Martuni region, opened fire at Armenian position and the peaceful settlement at 19:30 on September 6, Artsakh’s ombudsman said in a statement. The statement said at least four bullets hit a Taghavard house where six civilians, one of whom is a minor, live. …

Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Tuesday received Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin, Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Armenia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.The parties discussed the agenda of Armenia-EU relations, democratic development and ensuring the rule of law, and stressed the importance of promoting cooperation in political dialogue, trade and economic ties, education, …

Armenian National Security Service’s Anti-Corruption Department officers have arrested a person who has smuggled about 221.08 grams of Cocaine into Armenia for the purpose of selling it, the NSS said in a statement. The person, whose name is withheld, who entered Armenia through Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport on September 3 on the Nice-Paris-Yerevan, is a French …

Aghvan Hovsepyan, former prosecutor general, was arrested on September 7, Armenia’s Special Investigation Service said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement says that Hovsepyan, while serving as prosecutor general between March 18, 2004 and September 13, 2013, then Chairman of the Investigative Committee between July 18, 2014 and June 11, 2018, participated in the …

The Ministry of Defense said in a statement today that the reservists who fail to show up for the three-month training that starts on September 15 under a government decree will be subjected to criminal prosecution. The statement also said that all those participating in the training will be given the status of serviceman and …

The US is not going to recognize the Taliban radical movement (outlawed in Russia) as the new leadership of Afghanistan in the near future, US President Joe Biden stated on Monday after returning to the White House after spending the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware, TASS reported. On the White House lawn, journalists asked the president …

Some 4,659 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 501 new cases; 15 people died As of September 7 Total number of tests performed in Armenia- 1,581,821 Confirmed positive cases – 245,765 Deaths – 4,939 Recovered – 229,957 Patients currently receiving treatment – 9,702

Some 303,325 vaccinations have been carried out against COVID-19 as of September 5, of which 195,290 are first doses and 108,035 are second doses, the Ministry of Health said. Vaccinations with Coronavac (only 2nd dose), AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V and Sinopharm are available for persons over 18 on voluntary basis. Foreigners are also eligible for vaccination that …