PSRC Chairman Garegin Baghramyan told journalists today that water rates may increase from January to become 200 drams (about $0.4) per cubic meter from today’s 180 drams. “We are discussing a proposal to have a 10-year stable pricing policy,” he said “I would like to remind you that the base price won by the 2016 …

A delegation headed by Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan is on a two-day visit to Moscow for the intergovernmental trilateral commission of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Grigoryan told reporters yesterday that the reopening of transport routes in the region is on the agenda. “Some ideas have been formed about the railway, there is a …

A meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Joe Biden of the United States is possible in ‘one format or another’ by the end of the year, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference, Peskov said that Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov and US Under Secretary of State for …

On the instructions of the Human Rights Defender, the Defender’s representatives, including the staff doctor, visited the persons who returned from captivity in Azerbaijan yesterday, the ombudsman’s office said, adding that their health condition will be examined and other necessary actions will be taken.

A Gazel minibus travelling to Yerevan from Gyumri rolled over on the highway, near the village of Kakaghadzor, today at around 07:00 a.m. on its way to Yerevan, killing five of its passengers and leaving 14 others wounded, a Police spokesman told Factor.am. According to early reports, the passengers of the minibus were harvest workers. …

Ali Nagyev, the head of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan and the chairman of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, yesterday received a delegation led by the Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Gilles Carbonier, Azerbaijani media said. Speaking about the search for Azerbaijani citizens …

A bomb attack on a bus carrying troops in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 14 military personnel and wounded three others, state TV and a military official said, Al Jazeera. The attack early on Wednesday was the deadliest in Damascus in years, and a rare event since government forces captured suburbs formerly …

Speaking about the drills in Berdzor, MP Tatevik Hayrapetyan of the Civil Contract faction said that “all this is taking place in an area very close to the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops.” She said that in September, a joint Turkish-Azerbaijani military exercise was held in Berdzor and that more than 50 military exercises have …

A group of Armenia POWs has arrived at the Erebuni airport in Yerevan. According to Factor TV, five prisoners are returning to the homeland. They are: Mels Ambardanyan, Rafik Karapetyan, Zhora Manukyan, Sedrak Soghomonyan, Hovsep Manukyan. Following the war, Azerbaijan has returned 108 prisoners, including servicemen and civilians.

Some 15,065 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, 2,066 new cases were confirmed; 31 people died. As of October 20 Total number of tests performed in Armenia- 1,925,266 Confirmed positive cases – 286,303 Deaths – 5,842 Recovered – 256,525 Patients currently receiving treatment – 22,607