Tevonyan adviser Armenak Baghiryan conveyed the news to Hetq, saying the resignation was unexpected and that he had no other details.
Armenia is participating in the Zapad (West) 2021 military exercise held every four years by Russian and Belarussian forces in Russia’s Western Military District and in Belarus.
Former Armenian residents of Hadrut, Karvatchar and Shushi, areas in Artsakh now occupied by Azerbaijan, demonstrated outside the Government Building in Yerevan, demanding that the government provide them with housing or land to build on.
Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan, addressing the Armenian National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs today, declared that the housing issue remains the most serious issue facing post-war Arts
Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan plans to raise salaries for civil servants, pensions and other social payments by an average of 20% starting in 2022.