Russia announced on Tuesday the deployment of newly modernized warplanes at its military base in Armenia that has already been reinforced with more sophisticated weaponry in recent years.

Now, more than ever, the United States wants further expansion of ties with Armenia and to become better partners.

The Armenian embassy in Washington, DC, issued a statement on Monday calling attention to Azerbaijani efforts to spread misinformation about the Khojaly events that took place during the Kharabakh War, voicing concern that this propaganda campaign attempts to divert attention away from Baku’s responsibility over the numerous pogroms and massacres that led to the Karabakh War.

Some 220,000 Armenian citizens will have to return home because of a new Russian immigration law that came into force on Jan. 1, Armenian demographic expert Ruben Yeganyan told a news conference today.

Armenia will finish the implementation of a “roadmap” to join the Russian-led Customs Union as early as next month, Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharian said over the weekend.

In a recent interview with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Press Office, ARF Bureau member and head of the party’s Political Central Council Hagop Der-Khachadourian spoke about a letter published last month by the Istanbul-based Agos Armenian newspaper from Kurdistan Workers Party’s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan.

YEREVAN—Swiss coach Bernard Challandes, 62, will head the Armenian National Team, the President of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan announced Friday, according to Public Radio of Armenia.
Challandes has managed the Swiss National Under-21 soccer team, FC Zürich, and a host of other Swiss teams – including Servette, Young Boys, and FC Sion – [...]

A team of U.S. military instructors will finish on Saturday a weeklong training course for dozens of new sergeants recruited by Armenia’s armed forces, highlighting NATO’s growing role in the selection of Armenian non-commissioned officers.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili pledged to develop all the regions of the Republic equally, including Javakhk (Samtskhe-Javakheti), during an address at the Atlantic Council held as part of his first official visit to the United States this week, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

The Fuller Center for Housing Armenia (FCHA) and the Republic of Artsakh have reached an agreement to help low-income families build safe, decent, and affordable homes.

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has arrived in Armenia for a two-day official visit at the invitation of Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian.

Armenia’s recent rise on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking was indebted to their late surge in FIFA World Cup qualifying, which saw them finish just three points adrift of second-place Denmark in European Zone Group B.

Seventy-five members of the Armenian National Assembly voted Wednesday to set up an ad hoc parliamentary commission to look into the government’s recent agreements with Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom.

Armenia’s four competitors at the Sochi Winter Olympics didn’t come close to winning a medal. But a joke making the rounds in Yerevan goes that since the athletes made it into Russia, they should at least stick around and look for work.