The head of Geghamasar village of Gegharkunik Province, Hakob Avetyan, told Factor.am that he was invited to the National Security Service. “I was not taken there but invited, I introduced myself, I answered a few questions,” said the mayor. Avetyan is still in Yerevan at the moment, but said that he is going to return …

The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, Ruben Rubinyan, said that on September 16 of this year Armenia will assume the presidency of the CSTO, with all the ensuing consequences. “We think that the CSTO should respond accordingly to these situations, because it is its obligation,” Rubinyan said in an interview …

On July 28, in the administrative complex of the RA Ministry of Defense, the head of the General Department of Defence Policy and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Defence Levon Ayvazyan received the military attachés of the foreign embassies accredited in Armenia. During the meeting, the attachés were informed about the military operations carried …

The government has put a draft decision into circulation on the joint website for publishing draft e-draft legal acts, proposing to hold drills  for reservists from September 15 to December 15, 2021. The Ministry of Defense wants to announce the drilss for priates, non-commissioned officers, registered in the first category of the first group of …

Russia will bolster Central Asian ally Tajikistan’s military with weapons, equipment and training amid a “deteriorating” situation in neighboring Afghanistan, Moscow’s defense minister said Wednesday on a visit to the country. Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will hold joint military drills next week near Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan, where the Taliban has made huge military gains …

Baku Court of Grave Crimes sentenced Armenian prisoner of war Davit Davtyan and Gevorg Sujyan to 15 years in prison. Azerbaijan charged them under Articles 228 (illegal possession of weapons), 279 (creation of armed groups), 318 (illegal crossing of the state border), 276 (espionage) of the country’s criminal code. Gevorg Sujyan said he “regreted what …

Gegharkunik Governor Gnel Sanosyan said that the soldier who was considered missing after the night military operations was found wounded. The soldier’s condition is extremely serious; the doctors are struggling for his life. Earlier the governor of Gegharkunik had said that due to the Azerbaijani armed provocation, the Armenian side has three victims, three wounded …

“I am fully aware that at the moment, when we are carrying out this event, there are armed operations in the territory of Armenia, in Gegharkunik. Naturally, we are with the soldiers, the families of the killed soldiers. We also realize that all this is happening in the context that the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani …

On the night of July 28, while resisting a provocation carried out by the Azerbaijani armed forces, Sen.  Lt. Hayk Gorgyan, Pte. Koryun Harutyunyan and Pte. Davit Kocharyan were killed, Armenian Ministry of Defense said in a statement. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia shares the grief of the loss, expresses support …

“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, …