While Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan signed a decree today stating that all MPs would receive a one-time cash bonus, it turns out that the money will only go to MPs in his Civil Contract faction.
Armenia’s defense ministry has rebuffed claims made by Azerbaijan’s defense ministry that Armenian troops opened fire on Azerbaijani military positions along the eastern border last night.
A gas explosion earlier today at a Unibank branch in the city of Ashtarak, a town of some 18,000 just north of Yerevan, killed one person and sent seven to local hospitals with burns and other injuries.
Armenian law enforcement uncovered an illegal gambling hall in the basement of a building in Yerevan’s Shengavit neighborhood.
Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, arrives in Armenia on July 7 and is scheduled to meet with PM Nikol Pashinyan.
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