According to the Council of Europe’s annual criminal statistics (SPACE) report, Armenia is ranked among the countries with the lowest number of prisoners. Thus, it is noted that there are 75 prisoners per 100.000 people in Armenia, which is significantly lower than the European average of 103.2. According to the report, as of January 1, …

Armenian painter, member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia Armen Atayan passed away on Thursday. As the Union informed, the requiem service will take place on April 9. Armen Atayan was born in 1922 in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1952, he graduated from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and later lectured in the same Institute. …

RA Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan and Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov signed a joint statement on the intention to develop cooperation between the two Prosecutor General’s Offices, Arevik Khachatryan, Head of the Public Relations Department of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office wrote about this on her Facebook page. “The statement is aimed …

As of 11:00 on April 8, a total of 200.129 cases of COVID has been confirmed, of which 179.043 have recovered and 3.675 been fatal. 16.471 patients are currently under treatment. A total of 889.872 tests have been performed so far. Thus, 4.943 tests were performed yesterday, out of which 1.231 new cases of COVID …

The government has drafted a law that would allow young people over the age of 27 who evaded mandatory military service, to make respective payments and be released from criminal liability. The draft is included in the agenda of tomorrow’s Government sitting. The bill suggests granting amnesty to those individuals liable for military service as …

A military plane, which belongs to the “Turkish Stars” (Türk Yıldızları) military pilot group crashed near the central Turkish city of Konya, Turkish Sabah reports. According to the newspaper, the military vehicle crashed during a training flight. The source initially said that it was an F-16 Fighting Falcon, but then it was mentioned that the …

RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is in Moscow, at the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to discuss issues related to strategic investments, in particular, the issue of building a new nuclear power plant (NPP). “Issues related to economic cooperation are extremely important for Armenia. I hope we will discuss issues related to …

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu discussed the settlement of the situation in Nagorno Karabakh with Armenian Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan in a telephone conversation. This was reported on Wednesday by the Russian Defense Ministry, TASS informs. “On Wednesday, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Shoygu had a telephone conversation with the …

As of 11:00 on April 7, a total of 198․898 cases of COVID has been confirmed, of which 178.227 have recovered and 3.647 been fatal. 16.088 patients are currently under treatment for COVID. A total of 884.929 tests has been performed so far. Thus, 4.639 tests were performed yesterday, from which 1.025 new cases of …

The State Service of Emergency Situations of Artsakh informs that today the search for bodies of the servicemen killed during the hostilities did not yield any results in Hadrut. The total number of remains found in areas beyond the control of Artsakh after the ceasefire is 1.529. The search will continue tomorrow in Jrakan (Jabrail).