About 300 citizens are waiting for hospitalization in their turn, Deputy Minister of Health Gevorg Simonyan wrote on his Facebook page. Romella Abovyan, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health’s National Center for Disease Control and Prevention said today that the hospitals are overloaded. “We are running out of beds․ …

During the meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Yerevan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar proposed to use Iran’s Chabahar port as a hub of the North-South international transportation corridor. At a press conference in Yerevan, the Indian FM said that the lack of direct communication obstructs the contacts between the peoples …

A meeting of the religious leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan, Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Head of the Department of Muslims of the Caucasus, Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshyukur Pashazade, started in Moscow. It is held at the residence of the Russian Patriarch, in Daniel Monastery. Due …

Following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan tweeted: “I met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting was very productive. We discussed both the bilateral agenda and the situation in the region. We will continue our contacts to implement the agreements reached.”

Some 8,497 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 1,217 new cases; 28 people died. As of October 13 Total number of tests performed in Armenia- 1,827,100 Confirmed positive cases – 275,077 Deaths – 5,646 Recovered – 250,576 Patients currently receiving treatment – 17,624

12 Azeri activists who participated in a rally in support of the Artsakh war in 2020 were arrested in the Iranian city of Ardabil which has a significant Azeri population, according to an Iranian media report. The report says that on October 9, a local court sentenced each of them to 14 years and 32 …

In response to Factor.am, the press service of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde refused to comment on “3 + 3” format proposed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, just saying that the presidency fully supports the work of the Minsk Group co-chairs. The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran announced at a …

The Turkish lira (TRY) fell through the 9.00 per dollar threshold to its latest all-time low on October 11. The currency is enduring another bout of weakness with the markets concerned that Turkey’s central bank in late September cut interest rates despite high and rising inflation. The TRY stumbed to 9.0123 against the USD, marking a 0.5% decline …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will discuss the implementation of the Nagorno-Karabakh agreements in Moscow on October 12, the Kremlin’s press service said. “Progress on fulfilling the statements of the Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders on Nagorno-Karabakh on November 9, 2020, and on January 11, 2021, is set to be …