ArmInfo. To abolish the Ministry of Culture in the conditions of state vandalism in  Azerbaijan and Turkey is tantamount to a crime. A specialist on monuments Samvel Karapetyan expressed such an opinion at a press conference.

ArmInfo. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, referring to the possibility of  establishing relations with Armenia and the previously voiced Acting  RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's readiness to improve relations  with Ankara without preconditions, in particular, said: "Will we do  something without considering issues sensitive for Azerbaijan?"

ArmInfo. Press Secretary Acting Armenian Prime Minister Arman Yeghoyan again denied the statements of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, this time he  refuted a statement that Pashinyan did not raise the issue of arms  sales to Azerbaijan before Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

ArmInfo.Head of the Department of Multilateral and Bilateral Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ashot Kocharyan will present Armenia at  the meeting of the BSEC Foreign Ministers Council.

ArmInfo. Armenia fully complied with its obligations under the Armenian-Turkish protocols to normalize relations, and expected the same from Turkey, said Acting  Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, at a meeting with Turkish  journalists who arrived in Armenia to cover the early parliamentary  elections Turkish media reported.

ArmInfo. Armenia is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey but without any preliminary conditions concerning Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia's acting  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday, Tass reports.

ArmInfo. It is unlikely that  fundamental changes will take place in relations between Russia and  Armenia. I think that they will remain at the same level as after the  change of power in Armenia. The President of the Scientific Society  of Caucasus Studies declared this on December 10 at a press  conference, an expert of the Institute for World Economy and  International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences named  after E.M. Primakov Alexander KrIlov.

ArmInfo."I was very concerned about the fact that the acting Prime Minister and the head of the National Security Service of Armenia were wiretapped, because if the  Pashinyan government cannot ensure the security of their telephone  conversations, how do they intend to ensure the security of the  country?" Eduard Sharmazanov, Spokesman of the Republican Party  wondered in an interview with ArmInfo correspondent.

ArmInfo.Armenia is one of the 10 most militarized countries in the world and the most  militarized European country in 2017. This is evidenced by the data of the Global Militarization Index 2018, published by the Bonn International Conversion Institute.

ArmInfo. An observation mission consisting of  40 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 19 countries will  arrive in Yerevan this week. Under the leadership of the OSCE  Short-Range Observer Special Coordinator Peter Osuski (MP, Slovak  Republic) and the head of the OSCE PA delegation, Nakhima Lanjri (MP,  Belgium), observers will take part in meetings and briefings in  anticipation of parliamentary elections on 9 December.

ArmInfo. The fact that Russia supplies armaments and military equipment to Armenia levels Azerbaijan's quantitative superiority. This was stated on December 1  at the meeting of the Lazarev Club in Yerevan by Deputy Director of  the Institute of CIS Countries Vladimir Evseev.

ArmInfo.Armenia ranked 88th  among 149 countries in the world prosperity index 2018 "Legagum  Prosperity Index", up 8 points from last year.

ArmInfo. Today, when Azerbaijan and Turkey are hostile against Armenia, Iran is an  important link for us. About this in an interview with the Israeli  maariv said Armenian Acting Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan.

ArmInfo. On the margins of the 52nd meeting of the PABSEC General Assembly, held in Yerevan from November 27 to 28, ArmInfo correspondent talked with the Secretary General of the organization representing Azerbaijan, Asaf Hajiyev,  about the Karabakh conflict, regional problems and the work of the  organization.

ArmInfo.Russian entrepreneur of Armenian descent, President of the ''Tashir Group''  company Samvel Karapetyan has nothing in common with the ''Ace''  yacht. This is stated in the message of the press service of the  Civil Code, commenting on the ''Haberturk'' edition published in the  Turkish edition, and then the information spread by the Armenian  media that the yacht was spotted at the Turkish port of Marmaris.

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ArmInfo. Beginning of the 52nd meeting General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) in Yerevan was marked by a small scandal.

ArmInfo. ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" presented its election program.

ArmInfo.Armenia ranked 84 in the ranking of the most powerful armies in the world according to the ''Global Firepowe''r analytical center.  The first three lines of  the rating were taken by the USA, Russia and China. Also in the top  ten included India, France, UK, South Korea, Japan, Turkey and  Germany.

ArmInfo. In relation to Armenia, Ankara has no prejudices.  The Spokesman of the Turkish  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin stated this at the press conference "Relations between Russia and Turkey: to shape the future".