Gyumri Rock Fest 2016
256 communities will go to the polls to elect both mayors and municipal council members. 36 communities will only elect mayors and 83 only municipal council members.
Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan posthumously awarded soldier Sevak Khachatryan, killed yesterday along the Karabakh Line of Contact by Azerbaijani fire, the Combat Service Medal.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) MP Tigran Ourikhanyan has launched a petition drive in Armenia’s parliament to change the pre-trial detention status of Andreas Ghukasyan, a member of the Votki Hayastan (Rise Up Armenia) civic group now facing charges of inciting public disorder.
Sevak Khachatryan was killed yesterday morning while serving at a southern Artsakh army base when he was hit by Azerbaijani fire, this according to the NKR Defense Army.
Armenia’s First Deputy Minister of Defense Tavit Tonoyan (photo) discussed the current situation along the Karabakh Line of Contact with Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
Regarding the upcoming Georgian parliamentary elections scheduled for October 8, the Council of Armenian NGOs of Samtske-Javakh and Kvemo-Kartli has announced that as of now it will not be supporting any of the candidates in the race.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) says its inspectors thwarted an attempt to smuggle Georgian and Turkish tomatoes into Armenia at the Bagratashen border crossing.