Armenia's accession to the Customs Union poses no serious risk to the CU member-countries, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's (EEC) Board, told The Expert Magazine

Citizen of Turkey Osman Ugurlu has been detained in Armenia for an attempt to export drugs from Iran to Turkey via the territories of Armenia and Georgia, the National Security Service of Armenia told ArmInfo. 

 Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian has widened his lead at Wijk aan Zee after scoring two wins and ending one game in a draw in the last three rounds of the prestigious annual tournament played in the Netherlands. 

What fundamental changes do you see in the security system of the South Caucasus over the last five years?

The key piece of news of the rally held at the Liberty Square on 18 January against the obligatory introduction of the accumulative pension system, is the fact that civic activists were in its vanguard, and the politicians had nothing else to do than to be just its wake, Director of Armenian Centre for National and International Studies, Manvel Sargsyan, told Arminfo correspondent. 

 On 20 January 1975 the Beirut-based office of the World Congress of Churches was bombed by ASALA, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia.  That was the first action of ASALA. Hence, Jan 20 is considered ASALA's foundation day. The major goal of ASALA is to make Turks admit the responsibility for the Genocide of Armenians by Young Turks who massacred 1,5 million of Armenians in 1915-1923. 

 The masterminds behind the murder of prominent journalist Hrant Dink must be brought to justice, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, said today, on the seventh anniversary of the journalist's shooting in Istanbul.

 The compulsory accumulative pension system imposed in Armenia on Jan 1 2014 is a state-level racket, member of Prosperous Armenia Party Naira Zohrabyan said during a rally of opposition parties and NGOs on Saturday.

 The people that gathered in Liberty Square earlier today to express their protest against the Government's decision to make the accumulative pension system compulsory in Armenia are now marching towards the Constitutional Court. 

 If we want drastic changes, we must consolidate, member of Heritage Party Ruben Hakobyan said at a rally against the compulsory accumulative pension system on Saturday.

Russia's plans to deepen relations with Iran fit well into Armenia's political-economic North- South project, Head of Alternative Research Center Tatul Manaseryan told ArmInfo on Friday.

 In late 2013, EY issued its 2013 Compensation & Benefits Survey reports for the Armenian market.  In 2013, around 50 Armenian and international companies from banking and financial, trade, chemical and pharmaceutical, telecom, professional services, FMCG, mass media, advertising, non-profit and other sectors participated in the Compensation and Benefits Survey conducted by EY in Armenia. Along with general industry, a special industry report was also issued for the financial services and banking sector of Armenia.  The reports include detailed information about monthly and annual fixed pay and annual variable compensation for up to 200 cross-industry jobs as well as more than 250 positions for the financial and banking sector.  

The forthcoming large gathering-march os the non-power parties, Armenian National congress, Heritage, Prosperous Armenia Party and ARF Dashnaktiutyun at Yerevan's Liberty Square, on 18 January against the new cumulative pension system, may result in cancel of the given "reform", economist, Vardan Bostanjan, said at today's press-conference. 

Ambassador of France to Armenia Henri Reynaud has been awarded commemorative medal of the International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in connection with the 10th anniversary of the festival. 

 Here is a statement disseminated by the Pre-Parliament:

The meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers is planned for next week in Paris, Trend reported referring to its own diplomatic source.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement that the world must be ready to learn the truth about the events of 1915 is the result of the activities of the commission set up by Ankara as early as in 2001 "to combat the statements on the so-called Armenian-Genocide", Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, says in his interview to ArmInfo.   

The world must be ready to learn the truth about the events of 1915, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said during a conference of diplomats.

There are no prerequisites for Robert Kocharyan's political comeback, Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan said on Wednesday.

 When Tigran Sargsyan was the head of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), he was trying to stimulate construction, but failed to, ex-Prime Minister of Armenia, opposition MP Hrant Bagratyan says on his Facebook page, when responding to the incumbent Prime Minister's opinion that during the pre-crisis period Armenia's economy was poorly diversified and grew due to the construction bubble only. To note, Tigran Sargsyan expressed his opinion in his indirect debates with the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan.