The escalation of the situation in southern Armenia in connection with the setting of a new border with Azerbaijan is simply a border incident, and does nto call for applying the provisions of the CSTO Collective Defense Charter, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas has said, TASS reported. “It must be understood that the CSTO uses …

European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Oliver Varhey is set to pay a visit to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia on July 6-9, the office of the EU Delegation to Armenia reported. The report said that this is the Commissioner’s first visit to the countries of the South Caucasus․ The visit will take place …

Some 5,073 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 125 new cases; one person died; 2,744 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 1, a total of 1,197,651 tests have been performed in Armenia, 225,464 of them were positive; 217,074 people have recovered, 4,521 have died.

In response to the Armenian Genocide anniversary, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Office of Information and Communication opened an exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey, about diplomats “killed by Armenian terrorists.” Fahrettin Altun, the head of the public relations department of Erdogan’s staff, made an anti-Armenian speech at the exhibition. Recently, YouTube removed the video of Altun’s …

Renowned singer and songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan has asked Diaspora Armenian celebrities  Kim Kardashian, Cherilyn Sarkisian (Cehr) and Serzh Tankian to “help us get our 200 prisoners out of Turkish or Azerbaijani prisons.” Kardashian, Tankian, Cher and other celebrities have recently called on to join the “Teach, Armenia” initiative aimed at expanding the educational opportunities of …

A wildfire in a record heat wave in western Canada has ordered residents to evacuate a British Columbia village that broke the record for the third consecutive day of the week. Mayor Jan Polderman of Lytton issued an evacuation order on Wednesday, saying on Twitter that the fire threatened the structure and safety of local …

Kyrgyzstan proposes to create a new interregional platform uniting the countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbekov said today at a joint news conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Baku today. The press conference was preceded by talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries, Azerbaijani …

The spokesperson of the Constitutional Court, Yeva Tovmasyan, has said in a Facebook post that three applications have been filed with the Constitutional Court requested that the results of the National Assembly election be invalidated. The forces demanding invalidation of the election results are  the Armenian Homeland party, which filed its application on July 2, …

The trial of 14 Armenian prisoners of war from Shirak Province continued in Baku’s Court for Grave Crimes. The POWs standing the trial are Hrachya Avagyan, Armen Bagasyan, Gor Gasparyan, Kamo Sefilyan, Volodya Hakobyan, Gevorg Asatryan, Romik Sedrakyan, Aram Minasyan, Mkrtich Minasyan, Edgar Matevosyan, Yuri Karapetyan. Baku accuses Armenian the captives of committing terrorism and …