“At the moment the situation is relatively calm,” Vardenis Mayor Aram Melkonyan told Factor.am as of 10:30. According to the latter, the shooting started in Sotk, then continued in the direction of Verin Shorzha. According to the Ministry of Defense, as a result of the skirmish, as of 08:30, the Armenian side has three victims, …

An agreement was reached on the resumption of the ceasefire on the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact in the north-eastern direction through the mediation of the Russian peacekeeping command. At the moment, the mentioned agreement is mainly being fulfilled. Both sides used firearms and mortars during the hostilities launched as a result of the Azeri provocation. …

Armenia has accepted Russian mediation and agreed to cease fire in Gegharkunik border, Armenian Defense Ministry told Factor.am. It is reported that Azerbaijan too has agreed to cease fire. The cross-border shooting began on July 28, at around 3:40 a.m. after Azerbaijani troops, violating the ceasefire, opened fire in the north-eastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani …

Some 46,932 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 280 new cases; no death was reported; 4,278 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 28, a total of 1,322,177 tests have been performed in Armenia, 229,337 of them were positive; 219,379 people have recovered, 4,597 have died.

The Speaker of the Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova spoke today about the so-called “Zangezur Corridor” during the first trilateral sitting of the Speakers of the Parliaments of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan, local media reported. “The Zangezur Corridor will become a new corridor from brotherly Pakistan to Turkey and Azerbaijan,” Gafarova said. She said …

Former Armenian Ambassador to the United States Varuzhan Nersesyan had a farewell telephone conversation with US Senator Bob Menendez to thank him for the support to Armenia and Artsakh. The ambassador wrote about this on his microblog. This morning I had a farewell call with Chairman Senator Menendez. I thanked him for his outstanding support …

During the search operations carried out in Mataghis, the rescuers of the State Emergency Service found and evacuated the body of one Armenian soldier, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. His identity will be confirmed after a forensic examination. Thus, from November 13, 2020 to July 27, 2021,  a total of 1,616 remains were found.

The U.S. President Joe Biden prolonged the moratorium on prohibition of deliveries to Azerbaijan of the military equipment and the weapon at the end of April. Previously Baku could not benefit from the opportunity of purchasing of armament from Washington according to the Section 907 amendment of the Freedom Support Act of the U.S. Congress, …

The Criminal Court of Appeal ruled to reject the defense lawyers’ appeal against the detention of Kajaran Mayor Manvel Paramazyan, Yervand Varosyan, the mayor’s lawyer, told Factor.am. “Mr. Paramazyan understands very well what is happening, there was nothing surprising for him. Naturally, it was expected in the case of Judge Armen Danielyan, if it was …