"Rostelecom" company has increased the Internet speed twofold at daytime and offers an unlimited Internet at night for the summer season, press-service of the company reported.  

Sources in and around the mainly-Armenian-populated town of Kessab indicate that the rebel and al Qaeda-affiliated militants, who seized the town in March through the Turkish border, have withdrawn from Kessab, Asbarez reports.

 NATO will continue its efforts on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, said President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly Hugh Bayley at the ongoing the 86th NATO PA Rose Roth seminar entitled: "South Caucasus: Challenges and Opportunities" in Baku, according to APA. 

 "Twenty years after the ceasefire peace remains elusive but it is clear that the status quo is unsustainable," Barroso said during his speech at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. He called on the world community to bend every effort for peaceful resolution of the conflict on the basis of the international principles, APA said.

The statement made by the head of the Russian International Agency "Russia Today", Dmitri Kiselev, about the link between the status of the Russian language in Armenia and Russian security guarantees is a direct blackmail, secretary of the ARFD parliamentary faction, Aghvan Vardanyan, said at today's briefing in the parliament. 

 Hillary Rodham Clinton's book "Hard Choices," which hit bookstores Tuesday, claims that Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian was balking at signing the Armenian-Turkish protocols in Zurich in 2009.  

If the West makes Europe refuse from Russia's gas supplied via Ukraine, Russia will block the communications in the Caucasus, Ashot Manucharyan, a member of the Karabakh Committee, Armenian first president's adviser for national security, told reporters on 13 June.  

Sergey Parajanov's "Color of Pomegranate" film will open the XI International Film Festival "Golden Apricot", Michael Stamboltsyan, Golden Apricot Yerevan IFF Program Director, said at today's press-conference. 

  Following a proposal by Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the Commission, EU Member States have given political endorsement to the nomination of Herbert Salber as EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia. 

 The fact that electric power tariffs have grown for three times in Armenia since 2009, means that the economy of the republic is unpredictable. This frightens investors to make long-term investments in the Armenian economy, secretary of the ARFD parliamentary faction, Aghvan Vardanyan, said during today's briefing in the parliament.  

 Several police officers were injured after a man began to fire with a gas pistol before the start of the court trial against activist Shant Haroutiunyan in Yerevan, Thursday.

 Armenia's leaders is no longer able to maneuver in the foreign policy arena, Aram Karapetyan, Leader of New Times Party, told ArmInfo.

The I am Against! civic initiative has organized an action in support of people whose employers decline their refusals to be part of the compulsory accumulative pension plan.

 In order to reduce the tension on the Armenian-Azeri border, it is necessary to build confidence, to remove the snipers and to carry out an international inquiry into incidents happening on the border, Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan told the Armenian MPs on Wednesday.

The parliamentary discussions on fulfillment of the state budget 2013 is a good opportunity to assess the 6-year activity of the ex-prime minister Tigran Sargsyan, said Nikol Pashinyan, oppositionist MP, a member of the Armenian National Congress Faction, in the Parliament, Wednesday.

 Orinats Yerkir Party (OYP) that has recently left the ruling coalition, held a meeting with representatives of the Prosperous Armenia and Heritage parties in the Parliament on 11 June.
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation stopped financing Armenia because of corrupt schemes applied in the country, opposition MP Naira Zohrabyan said in the parliament on Wednesday.

Once Armenia joins the Eurasian Economic Union and Ukraine signs the association agreement with the European Union, the countries may face certain trade-related problems, Ambassador of Ukraine to Armenia Ivan Kuhta told journalists on Wednesday.

Azerbaijan has been trying to whip up tension at the line of contact, which is very much dangerous, press-secretary of Armenia's Defense Ministry, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, told Arminfo correspondent.

The Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will not attend the session to be held in Baku from 28 June to 2 July, the head of the delegation, Artashes Gegamyan, told ArmInfo correspondent.