The World Bank Group provided $11.9 billion to Europe and Central Asia (ECA) during fiscal year 2014, aimed at reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity in the region, the WB press release says. 

  By October 2014 Armenia will consider and approve a new indicative balance for duty-free supplies of Russian petroleum derivatives in 2015, Armenian Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Iosif Isayan says in an interview to ArmInfo. 

Armenia has fulfilled all the energy-related requirements for joining the Customs Union, Armenia's Deputy Energy and Natural Resources Minister Iosif Isayan said in an interview to ArmInfo.

 Vice Speaker of Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov and Latvia's Ambassador to Armenia Elita Gavele discussed issues related the Armenian- Latvian partnership, as well as the two countries' cooperation within international structures.  

 The judgment of the Court of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan, which makes iLur.am and Hraparak expose their sources, is a tough attempt to restrict freedom of speech in Armenia, Larisa Alaverdyan, the first Ombudsperson of Armenia, has told ArmInfo's correspondent.    

The Russian special services have detained one of the richest Armenian businessmen in the world Levon Hayrapetyan on suspicion of being privy to the notorious "Kingisep" criminal group.

 The civic initiative "Keep Away From Our Pockets" urges Armenia's drivers not to pay fines for violating the traffic rules but to challenge the fines in a judicial procedure, Vardan Hakobyan, one of the organizers of the initiative, said at today's press conference.     

The trial of the Azeri raiders must take place in Nagorno-Karabakh as the crime was committed there. As far as Armenia is concerned, it may just provide support in the matter, former Human Rights Defender of Armenia Larisa Alaverdyan told journalists on Wednesday.

John Bass, candidate for the next US envoy to Turkey, thinks that the instability along Turkey's southern border gives renewed urgency for Ankara to build stronger relations with neighbors, particularly, Israel and Armenia.

The families of Azeri saboteurs have applied to the International Committee of the Red Cross. 

 The Azeri attack on Karvachar and the growing tension on the contact line between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan are the result of the statements by OSCE Minsk Group US co-chair James Warlick that the current status quo in Nagorno- Karabakh cannot be preserved, former Human Rights Defender of Armenia Larisa Alaverdyan told journalists on Wednesday.

 Hopeful of a meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, the residents of Kond community of Yerevan blocked on Tuesday the road leading from the governmental summer cottages to the President's Palace.  

Moscow's Tverskoy Court is considering the suit filed by Azeri lawyers Sadik and Elmira Mamedovs against the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhininovsky.

 Ameriabank has been granted the third Euromoney Award for Excellence – this time as the best bank in Armenia in 2014.

There are Armenians among the victims of the subway accident that took place in Moscow on Tuesday morning, reports Armenia's Foreign Ministry with reference to the Embassy of Armenia in Russia.

The dead body of 17-year-old Smbat Tsakanyan was found in woods between the Karvachar and Manashid communities in Nagorno-Karabakh's Shahumyan district on Tuesday, reports the press service of Nagorno-Karabakh's Police.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has brought criminal charges against the Azeri raiders detained near Karvachar last week.

 Resident of Nagorno- Karabakh's Askeran district David Daniyelyan was killed by an Azeri sniper while driving a tractor in the field on Tuesday. The NKR Prosecutor's Office is investigating the case. 

According to the preliminary information of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia to Russia, there are no Armenians listed among the Moscow Metro derailment casualties. 

The health status of Karine Davtyan, which suffered because of the Azerbaijani sabotage attack, has become better, press-secretary of Armenia's Defense Ministry, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, told journalists today.