ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is trying to shift all responsibility for losing the war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh onto Russia. Thus, the first  deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian  Integration and Relations with Compatriots, Konstantin Zatulin,  commented on Pashinyan's accusations against two CSTO member  countries of providing assistance to Baku in 2020.

ArmInfo.  "What the President of Belarus said to his Azerbaijani counterpart, I have been trying to  convey to the Armenian people over the past four years," Nikol Pashinyan said on May 22 from the rostrum of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.

ArmInfo.Armenia is going through an interesting period in its history, when the authorities  are making attempts to strengthen the borders and strengthen the capabilities of the state, but a certain part of the citizens and political forces of the country are preventing this, MP of the dominant Civil Contract faction Khachatur Sukiasyan stated this on May 22.

ArmInfo.The former commander of the Armed Forces of Artsakh, Samvel Babayan, proposed  to tear off  the  shoulder straps of the general, who, due to his incompetence, incorrectly reported to the prime minister about the situation with Iskander, and the latter, being unaware of military service, interpreted it incorrectly.

ArmInfo.On May 20, the RA NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan received the members of the  Social-Democratic Faction of the German Bundestag.

ArmInfo. Russian peacekeepers did the main thing that should not be forgotten: they brought peace  and stability to the conflict region, Russian Deputy FM Mikhail Galuzin said this in an interview with NEWS.ru regarding the role of the RMK in Artsakh.

ArmInfo. We welcome the holding of negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and  Armenia on a peace treaty on May 10 and 11 in Almaty. Another step has been taken towards achieving reliable and long-term peace and stability in the South Caucasus, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Galuzin stated in an interview with NEWS.ru in response to a request to assess the prospects of Astana  becoming a new negotiating platform for the Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement.

ArmInfo.The head of the national anti-government movement, Archbishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bagrat Sprazan, called on the participants of today's rally on Republic Square to hold actions of disobedience tomorrow throughout the country, in Yerevan and 10 regions of the country.

ArmInfo.The Armenian people have only one option: either impeachment or the sacred right of the  people for self-defense. This is how Russian politician, expert on the problems of the Middle East and Central Asia, Semyon Baghdasarov, commented on the processes within Armenia.

ArmInfo. The current authorities of Armenia should have realized long ago that the time has come for them to leave,  Deputy Chairman of the Armenian National Congress party Levon Zurabyan told reporters on May 9.

ArmInfo.The Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia initiated two criminal proceedings  on the fact of Azerbaijan's aggression against the Republic of Armenia during the 44-day war of 2020. Another case was opened by the Investigative Committee of the Republic in connection with the forced  deportation of Artsakh residents. Head of the supervisory authority Anna Vardapetyan stated on May 3, speaking in parliament.

ArmInfo. Despite a pluralistic environment, the media remain polarised. The country is facing an unprecedented level of disinformation and hate speech, especially over the Nagorno-Karabakh territorial dispute and the ongoing threat of war with Azerbaijan, according to the 2024 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders today.

ArmInfo.The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) joined In Defense of Christians (IDC) and  Save Armenia in calling on the State Department to follow U.S.  Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommendations to place Azerbaijan on its Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) list, along with North Korea and Pakistan.  

ArmInfo.Sixty-five Members of Congress signed a letter to the House Appropriations Committee urging  a $250 million aid package for the Armenian people. 

ArmInfo. During the official visit to the State of Qatar on April 28-29, Minister of Foreign  Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan gave an interview to the leading news channel Al-Jazeera with around half a million audience.  As the press sevice of the RA MFA reports , the interview was published in  Arabic and English versions.

ArmInfo.A seismic shift in Armenia's foreign policy that has seen it forge closer relations with  the European Union is not a threat to Moscow, the country's ambassador in Brussels insisted amid increasingly tense relations with the Kremlin.

ArmInfo. Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced bipartisan  legislation that seeks to enforce sanctions against Azerbaijani officials responsible for war crimes and human rights abuses, including the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, the arbitrary detention of  Armenian POWs and civilian captives, the torture and abuse of  detainees, and extrajudicial killings, reported the Armenian National  Committee of America (ANCA).

ArmInfo. The eldest son of the former Prime Minister of the Republic of Artsakh, world-famous  philanthropist and businessman Ruben Vardanyan, illegally detained in Azerbaijan, gave an interview to France 24 TV channel regarding the situation with his father.

ArmInfo.The closing ceremony of the Russian-Turkish monitoring center has taken place in Aghdam. 

ArmInfo. Former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, was allowed to  talk to his family after 21 days in isolation.