The law-enforcement agencies will institute criminal proceedings against the Azeri saboteurs and they will incur responsibility in accordance with the laws of Artsakh and international standards, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan told journalists.    

 VTB Bank (Armenia) has once again applied to the first instance court of general jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan to recognize the forcible bankruptcy of Avalon LLC and to collect the latter's debt to the Bank. Avalon LLC is mostly engaged in construction of high-class apartment buildings.        

The permanent sabotage attacks of Azerbaijan demonstrate that the war in the Karabakh conflict zone is not over, Hovhannes Sahakyan, member of the Republican Party of Armenia, Head of the Armenian State Parliamentary Commission for State and Legal Affairs, has told ArmInfo correspondent.      

Civil initiative "No to robbery" has called on Armenian citizens to take an active part in signatures collection against growth of electric power tariffs.
Activists of the movement  have issued a statement saying that the research held by Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) on the expenditure predictions submitted by the energy system companies and their obligations for 2014-2015, the discussion of the energy tariffs, as a result of which a decision was adopted to raise tariffs, as well as the explanation, why they need adopting such a decision,  are suspect. The citizens which have signed under the  requirements, demanded to fix reasonable tariffs. 
The statement of the civil initiative consists of 8 points:
1. To set up a commission to investigate profit and expenditure of the energy companies, including the formation of the deficit in an amount 17,9 billion AMD. 
2. To involve specialists of the civil initiative  "No to robbery" and members of the Armenian parliament in the commission as its fully-fledged members. 
3. To provide the needed level of transparency of the work of the commission. 
4. To give such authorities to the Commission which would let it implement the above-mentioned functions. 
5. Not to raise electric power tariffs until ending of the work of the commission. 
6. After ending of the work of the Commission, to discuss in the PSRC a problem of decrease of the electric power tariff. 
7. To revise the regulating sector of legal norms. 
8. To create conditions for using of alternative energy sources, offering tax privileges to the companies generating them, which will result in dropping of the electric power tariffs.

 Golden Apricot Yerevan 11th International Film Festival was announced as open on July 13.

Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry said they had discovered and neutralized all members of Azerbaijani diversionary team in Karvachar Region.

The local tensions on the Armenian-Azeri border and the Nagorno-Karabakh- Azeri contact line will hardly cause a new war, hero of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, the commander of the Shushi liberation operation Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan told ArmInfo on Monday. 

The OSCE Minsk Group must take urgent steps to pacify Azerbaijan, Armenian delegate to PACE Naira Zohrabyan said in an interview to ArmInfo.

The incidents that are taking place on the Azeri-Nagorno-Karabakh contact line are too local for becoming a cause of a new war, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute Sergey Minasyan said in an interview to ArmInfo.

The search for the missing 17-year-old boy Smbat Tsakanyan is still going on in Karvachar. Ara Hovhannisyan, Head of Nor Erkej rural administration, has told Radio Azatutyun that the boy disappeared on July 7.    

 An outbreak of war in our region is low probable to the situation in Ukraine and Syria, Armenian political expert Alexander Manasyan said at today's press conference.

Orange has introduced a new "Unlimited 3 in 1" option, allowing its prepaid subscribers to simultaneously enjoy unlimited on-net calls, SMS, as well as unlimited mobile data, the press service of Orange Armenia has told ArmInfo. 

The Gyumri Branch of Areximbank- Gazprombank Group intends to lend nearly 600 mln AMD to SMEs and increase its total loan book to 1.270 bln AMD by late 2014. For comparison, Head of the Bank's Gyumri Branch Mnatsakan Dokhoyan pointed out that in 2013 the SME lending portfolio of the Branch was 470 million AMD. Small and medium enterprises are the focus of attention of not only the Gyumri Branch but also Areximbank-Gazprombank Group in general. 

 There is not a single guarantee that Turkey will not close the Turkish-Armenian border after opening it on the threshold of the 100th mourning anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian-Turkish relations will remain unchanged until Turks quit their anti- Armenian policy, turcologist Hakob Chakryan said at today's press conference when commenting on the recent publication in Taraf newspaper.     

VTB Bank (Armenia) has launched a "Super-rate", a special offer for its conscientious customers. Following the full redemption of the loan, the borrowers regain 10% of the total amount of the interest paid.   

 Armenia has not yet ratified the full package of documents to join the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Oleg Noginsky, President of the Customs Union Suppliers Association, said during a Moscow-Yerevan video conference. 

 To enhance Armenia's sovereignty and security and to develop the state comprehensively, the authorities of Armenia should strengthen the relations with the European Union and return the issue of signing of the Association Agreement/Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area to the agenda. The statement comes from the European Choice initiative, which includes a number of Armenian NGOs.     

The public should be aware of all the problems and difficulties in the process of Armenia's integration into the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), because the delay in Armenia's accession to the EAEU may destabilize the situation, Aram Sargsyan, Leader of the Democratic Party of Armenia, said at today's Moscow-Yerevan video conference.    

President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Richard M.  Mills, Jr. as his pick to become the US Ambassador to Armenia, the White House announced, as Asbarez reported.

 The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs are working on the settlement of Karabakh conflict, American Co-Chair James Warlick tweeted about the diplomats' meeting in Warsaw.