After the signing of the ceasefire agreement in 1994, Azerbaijan has been constantly escalating tension at the line of contact by opening fire in the direction of Nagorno Karabakh and undertaking infringement on its territory, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said at a government meeting today.

Members of the informal minority coalition in the Armenian parliament intend to contest the constitutionality of the amended law on funded pensions portions of which were already recognized as unconstitutional earlier this year.

The recent, tougher sanctions against Russia announced by Washington on Wednesday, targeting major banks and energy companies, will not affect the financial stability of Gazprombank, Areximbank-Gazprombank Group, Gazprombank’s Armenian subsidiary, said Thursday in a statement.

On June 30, ONEArmenia launched a community bus that doubles as a creative space.

The arrest, on Tuesday, of prominent Karabakh businessman and philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan in Moscow could have political motivations led by Azerbaijan, according to a statement released by General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, commander of the Karabakh forces during the liberation of Shushi.

Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh insist they have “serious grounds” to assume that an Armenian teenager who was found dead on Tuesday, after a long search, had been killed by Azerbaijani “saboteurs,” RFE/RL’s Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) reports.

The remains of the a 17-year-old Karvachar resident, Smat Tsakanian, believed to have been abducted from his home by Azerbaijani commandos earlier this month was found in Nor Erkedj, reported Armlur.am.

“The United States attaches great importance to its relationship with Armenia,” said US President Barak Obama on Tuesday as he ceremonially accepted the credentials of Armenia’s new ambassador to the United States, Tigran Sargsyan, who served previously as Armenia’s prime minister.

Russia will lose Armenia as an ally if it continues to supply arms to Azerbaijan in large amounts, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Tuesday.

The Government of the Republic of Armenia intends to engage in the case of Turkish nationalist Doğu Perinçek in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as a third party.

Armenia’s representative to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Siranush Vardanyan became a leader of her regional department of the organization, the Internet Society of Armenia’s deputy director Grigory Saghian said following his return from a pivotal ICANN international conference in London.

Armenia’s Defense Ministry on Monday said a band of what it called Azerbaijani “saboteurs,” which last week infiltrated the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and were captured in the Kelbajar (Karvachar) district, will be prosecuted as criminals, and not as prisoners of war.

The 11th edition of the annual Golden Apricot International Film Festival commenced in Yerevan on Sunday, as filmmakers, artists, and critics attended its opening ceremony.

Internet URL’s may appear written in the Armenian alphabet starting next year, as the governing body of Internet domain names continues to announce major changes to the system, Deputy Director of the Internet Society of Armenia Grigori Saghian told reporters.