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. …

According to accounts in social networks, a number of bodies were kept in bags on the floor in the former ambulance station of the Vanadzor Medical Center. A Vanadzor resident had found a female body in a plastic bag there. According to his Facebook post, the man called the police telling them about his discovery. …

The report issued by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense that the Artsakh Defense Army units on July 13, between 9:34 pm and 9:45 pm opened fire on the Azerbaijani positions on the outskirts of Shushi from machine guns and automatic rifles does not correspond to reality. Adhering to the agreements reached, the Defense Army vanguard …

Armenia’s National Security Service has arrested two men suspected of extorting money from individuals through a scheme they organized in Facebook. According to a NSS release, they set up fake Facebook accounts and pages, and posing as a charity that provides aid to the Karabakh war victims, between March and July 2021, they extorted some …

Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Armen Grigoryan first deputy foreign minister. Prior to this appointment, Grigoryan held the position of National Security Council secretary from May 17, 2018.