Finland’s northernmost Arctic Lapland region has recorded its hottest temperature for more than a century at 33.6 degrees Celsius (92.5 Fahrenheit), during a heatwave that’s been afflicting the entire Nordic country for weeks. The temperature was measured Monday at Finland’s northernmost Utsjoki-Kevo weather station near the border with Norway by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The …

Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is scheduled to pay a working visit to Russia on July 7 to meet with President Vladimir Putin. The parties are set to discuss issues related to the Armenian-Russian strategic agenda, and the implementation of the trilateral declarations of November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021, the provision of humanitarian …

The United States welcomes the July 3 release by Azerbaijan of 15 Armenian detainees and their return to Armenia, a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan says. “We also welcome Armenia’s decision to share information with Azerbaijan that will facilitate humanitarian demining. These actions follow Azerbaijan’s June 12 release of Armenian detainees and …

Azerbaijani soldiers have provoked a crossfire in the border section near ​​Verin Shorzha village of Gegharkunik Province, an Armenian Army senior officer has said. In response to Armenpress’ news agency question, the head of the General Staff Information Department, Col. Samvel Asatryan said that the Azeris started the shooting leaving one Armenian soldier wounded. He …

Azerbaijan continues to fabricate criminal cases against Armenian prisoners of war illegally detained in that country. According to Azerbaijani media, the investigation of two more captives, Davit Davtyan and Gevorg Sujyan, charged with espionage, is over and the cases has been referred to court. The trial is scheduled to start on July 14. In other …

Artsvik Minasyan, a member of the ARF Supreme Body, spoke today about the application filed with the Constitutional Court with regard to the past parliamentary election. He said the main idea and logic of the application is based on the evidence, according to which large-scale violations took place in the June 20 elections, distorting the …

Renowned duduk player and composer Jivan Gasparyan has died at the age of 93. Born in Solak, Kotayk Province of Armenia, Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six. In 1948, he became a soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1947 he participated in a …

France welcomes the release of 15 Armenian captives by Azerbaijan in exchange for mine fields maps, TASS reported quoting the French Foreign Ministry statement. “France welcomes the release of 15 Armenian citizens detained by Azerbaijan, as well as the transfer by Armenia of minefield maps of the Fizuli and Zangelan regions,” the statement said. The …

The number of beneficiaries of the Servicemen Insurance Fund has changed. The families of 81 more hero servicemen killed in the war unleashed by the enemy on September 27 have received compensation, the Soldiers’ Insurance Fund reported.

A passenger plane with 28 people on board that went missing over Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East was located at sea Tuesday. News agencies citing emergency services report contact was lost with the An-26 flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana on the Kamchatka Peninsula when the plane failed to make a scheduled call-in. AP citing the local transportation …