Lufthansa will start operating in the Armenian market following successful negotiations, the Armenia International Airports and Lufthansa have announced. The airline will operate flights between Frankfurt (Germany) and Yerevan three times per week. Flights from Frankfurt to Yerevan will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and from Yerevan to Frankfurt on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. …

Some 5,662 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, confirming 163 new cases; 4 people died; 3,261 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 15, a total of 1,253,024 tests have been performed in Armenia, 226,949 of them were positive. The total number of deaths stands at 4,556; 218,028 people have recovered. …

The Russian embassy in Baku responded to the question regarding the Russian ambassador’s refusal to visit Shushi, under Azerbaijani occupation. In response to the question of Haqqin.az, why did Russia, the guarantor of the trilateral agreement, ignored the invitation to visit Shushi, the embassy answered: “We do not comment on the ambassador’s schedule and trips …

Belarusian police have raided the offices of 12 nongovernmental organizations, including the Vyasna human rights center and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, as authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka further ramps up his crackdown on opponents and dissent. Activists said the offices searched on July 14 also included those of the Lawtrend rights group, the Association of the World’s Belarusians …

At the meeting with Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin today, acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan highlighted the continuous development of Armenian-Russian allied relations in the political, economic, security and humanitarian spheres. According to Nikol Pashinyan, the two countries have a broad agenda of cooperation, for the implementation of which the governments are carrying out …

Baku is trying to create new sources of tension, undermining regional peace and security, a statement released by Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with today’s border incident says. “On July 14 the Azerbaijani armed forces initiated a provocative advancement in the section near Yeraskh community of Armenia as a result of which serviceman …

At dawn on July 14, in foggy conditions, while performing official duties in the south-eastern section of the border, two servicemen of the Armenian Army, Aramayis Torozyan and Artur Nalbandyan, in a military vehicle, stopped answering calls. Search and rescue operations launched immediately have not yielded any result so far, the Ministry of Defense said. …

On the morning of July 14, Samvel Alaverdyan, born in 1983, a contract soldier of the RA Armed Forces, was fatally wounded by a provocation carried out by the Azerbaijani armed forces on the Yeraskh section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported. “The Ministry of Defense of the …

Four TV stations – TV Pirveli, Mtavari Arkhi, Formula and Kavkasia – have stopped broadcasting for 24 hours, silently protesting violence against journalists on July 5 at the Tbilisi Pride counter rally which was followed by the death of TV Pirveli cameraman Lekso Lashkarava. The TV stations are also demanding the resignation of Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili. …