Ninety-nine years after the Genocide of Armenians, super powers continue to use it in their arsenal against Turkey, Raffi Hovannisian, Leader of Heritage Party, said at a seminar- discussion at the Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS), Tuesday.

By the secret ballot procedure, the head of the RPA parliamentary faction, Galust Sahakyan, was elected a new speaker of the parliament by 101 votes "for". 

 A member of the parliament from the Armenian National Congress faction, Nikol Pashinyan, told journalists today that he had supported Hrant Bagratyan's candidacy for the position of the speaker of the Armenian parliament.

 If there was a genocide in Turkey, Armenians would not live in the country now, Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan told PBS TV channel during his visit to the USA, when replying to the question if the recognition of the Armenian genocide by Turkey is possible in future taking into account Erdogan's recent statement on the genocide.

The opposition parliamentary factions have lost their chance to come forward with a joint candidate for the position of the speaker, director of the Armenian office of the CIS Countries Institute, political expert Aleksandr Markarov said at today's press-conference. 

The new speaker of the Armenian parliament will be elected today at 1:30 PM by the National Assembly of Armenia, by the closed ballot. 

The continuous talks on Karabakh will work properly only after an absolute ruling out of the battle actions, the former co-chair of the OSCE MG, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Diplomats' Association, Vladimir Kazimirov, wrote in the article published in Nezavisimaya gazeta on 28 April. 

 As a result of lawless actions by employees of the Yerevan Mayor's Office, human  rights of many citizens go on being broken, the statement by Armenian Ombudsman's office says. 

On the threshold of the 100^th mourning anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the process of international recognition of the Genocide seems to be losing momentum. Do you agree with such an assessment?

Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan believes that any parallels between the situations in Crimea and Karabakh are irrelevant, Azeri media outlets report.  

 GPM Gold, member of GeoProMining Group, will be able to increase the gold output to 120-130 thsd oz in 2015 (versus 50 thsd oz in 2013), President of GeoProMining Roman Khudoliy told journalists at the official ceremony of commissioning of the new technological block "Albion" at the Ararat gold recovery plant. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan also attended the ceremony. Khudoliy said that the gold output will be increased due to the "Albion" technology.  

The General Meeting of Shareholders of "ARDSHININVESTBANK" CJSC approved financial results for the year 2013.

 Baku does not see any changes in the situation over the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told media on April 28.

Today Orange has introduced a new "Mekic mek" offer for the benefit of mobile internet users. 

The ruling Republican Party of Armenia has suggested amending the procedure for forming the Counting Board of the Armenian Parliament.

 GeoProMining has involved the leading environmental experts in the mining industry to minimize the effects of production on the environment, Siman Povarenkin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GeoProMining group of companies, said during the ceremony of commissioning of the new technological block "Albion" at Ararat gold recovery plant.     

The commissioning of the new technological block "Albion" at the Ararat gold recovery plant best of all demonstrates the dynamics of the Armenian-Russian cooperation in both the investment field and trade and economic cooperation, Maxim Sokolov, Russian Minister of Transport, Russian Co-chair of the Armenian- Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, told journalists on Monday. 

On April 28, Yerevan-GeoProMining, a diversified international group of mining companies (GPM) informed about commissioning of the new technological block "Albion" at Ararat gold recovery plant. An official ceremony was presented by President of RA, Serzh Sarksyan, officials of RA and delegation from Russian Federation headed by Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, the head of the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission Maxim Sokolov.   

 Germany's market should be of special importance to Armenia, because the SMEs are the key driver of the country's economy, German Ambassador to Armenia Reiner Morell said at a workshop on trade financing on Monday. The workshop was organized by HSBC Bank Armenia. 

In 2013 HSBC Bank Armenia increased its trade financing portfolio by 14% to 18bln AMD or $44.4mln, Head of the Bank's Trade Finance Department Kamo Margaryan said at a trade financing workshop on Monday.