Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov and Head of the Cypriot delegation the 131st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva Averof Neophytou discussed issues of the Armenian-Cyprian cooperation on sidelines of the event.  

Chinari village of Tavush region, Armenia, came under shelling by the Azerbaijani armed forces earlier this morning, Armenia's Defense Ministry Spokerson Artsrun Hovhannisyan told ArmInfo. No casualties are reported. 
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The defense spending of Azerbaijan for 2015 will make 17.9 percent of the state budget expenditures, APA reports.

 The negative balance of Lake Sevan will lead to sharp worsening of the water quality, the head of the Association "For stable development", Karine Danielyan, told Arminfo correspondent. 

The signing of the treaty on Armenia's joining EEU by Serzh Sargsyan in Minsk, messed up the cards of the Armenian opposition, which could not decide what to offer the people during the rally at the Liberty Square, secretary of the ruling RPA parliamentary faction, Gagik Melikyan, said at today's press-conference.  

  "As compared to other consumer loans, the student loan is less risky," says Eduard Karapetyan, Senior Specialist at retail Lending Division, Areximbank- Gazprombank Group (GPB). According to him, "the most important investment is the investment in our children, their education and development. These investments will be regained in future." 

International group of diversified mining companies GeoProMining ("GPM" or "Company") participated in the official opening ceremony of UWC International school in Dilijan and presented the school with a number of Armenian books in the English language.

The parliamentary "opposition three" that comprises the Prosperous Armenia, Armenian National Congress and Heritage parties seems to be splitting after their rally in the Liberty Square on 10 October, a local newspaper Iravunk writes. 

On 12 October, the  world famous Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe arrived in Karabakh. 

 Levon Hayrapetyan's case is the result of a conflict between two big businessmen, President of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan told journalists in Yerevan on Monday.

ArmInfo-BLACK SEA PRESS. Kazbegi-Upper Lars border checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border is shifting from the round-a-clock to the day operation mode beginning from October 12 - North-Ossetian News Portal reported with reference to Alexander Solod, the Head of Press Service of the Border Department of  the RF Federal Security Service.

Three parliamentary opposition parties, actually, offered the authorities to share the "power pie," parliamentarian Nikol Pashinyan said reading out the statement by the public and political bloc "Civil Treaty" he is a member of. According to the statement, at the 10 October rally by the Armenian National Congress, Prosperous Armenia and Heritage parties it was observed that the citizens who joined the rally are given a secondary role and their influence on the political processes is restricted. 

President of the Union of Russian Armenians, Ara Abrahamyan, said at today's press-conference in Yerevan that he does not trust in the commitments of the Armenian opposition, when commenting on the domestic political situation in Armenia. 

Vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament, Eduard Sharmazanov, who is in Geneva, Switzerland, on a working visit, on Sunday met with Norbert Lammert, President of the Bundestag (Parliament) of Germany.

 The Armenian opposition has no single agenda, it does not have an agenda at all, director of the Caucasus Institute, political expert Aleksandr Iskandaryan, said at today's press-conference when commenting on the rally of the opposition "three" held in Yerevan on 10 October.

There will be no true customs point between Armenia and Nagornyy Karabakh after Armenia's joining Eurasian Economic Union, director of the Caucasus Institute, political expert. Aleksandr Iskandaryan, said at today's press-conference. 

In the frames of the official visit to the Republic of Armenia the President of the Republic of Serbia

Armenia has joined the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) for economic reasons, President Serzh Sargsyan said in a briefing with his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in Yerevan, on 12 October.

 Well-known Russian businessman of Armenian origin, member of the Board of Directors of Ameriabank Ruben Vardanyan is sure that UWC Dilijan will be a success.

 The Oct 10 opposition rally has shown that Prosperous Armenia is the leader of the "magnificent four," Director of Director of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs Stepan Safaryan told journalists on Saturday.