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 …

Some 3,655 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 55 new cases; three people died; 2,780 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 6, a total of 1,209,287 tests have been performed in Armenia, 225,661 of them were positive; 217,250 people have recovered, 4,530 have died.

Russia has increased the number of its warships in the Black Sea as the NATO exercises continue. I has added the “Moscow” missile cruiser “Admiral Essen” with “Caliber” cruise missiles. “The flagship  Moscow and the frigate Essen, are crossing the Dardanelles-Bosphorus Strait,” the Russian Navy said on Monday, DW reported. “After arriving in Sevastopol, the …

The head of the village of Karahunj in Syunik Province has been arrested and charged with vote buying, Armenia’s Special Investigations Service reported. According to the Service, he has paid sums equal to about US $200-400 to several residents of the village to vote for the Armenia bloc of former President Robert Kocharyan in the …