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ArmInfo.According to the preliminary data of Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia, on  the territory of state reserve Khosrov Forest as a whole, vegetation perimeter was 16 km thick, of which 360 hectares of forest. The forest fire in Vayots Dzor destroyed grass coverings with a perimeter of about 15 km, 320 hectares of which were forests. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Emergency Elections of Armenia David Karapetyan, presenting August 17 at a government meeting on the territory of the reserve.

ArmInfo. As of 09:00 local time experts of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia  together with the air forces of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia are carrying out reconnaissance of the terrain over the territory of the Khosrov Reserve.

ArmInfo. The fire near the village of Artavan in the Vayots Dzor region was extinguished on  August 16 at 09:24, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia reported.

ArmInfo. The fire in the territories near the Artavan village of the Vayots Dzor region of  Armenia is isolated.As the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports, as of August 1509.21 fire fighting continues. In fire extinguishing works on 09.51 Tuesday, 2 combat calculations, 5 firefighter-rescuers, 100 servicemen of the Armed  Forces of Armenia, 18 forestry officers are involved. One water carrier (KamAZ) of "Lidian Armenia" company is on duty.

ArmInfo.The fire in the area of Artavan village of Vayots Dzor region of Armenia can not be extinguished for four days. As reported by the press service of the  Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia, on August 14 fire works are still ongoing.

ArmInfo. Law enforcement bodies of Armenia revealed guilty of unintentional arson of forest in Vayots Dzor region of Armenia - it was 43-year-old employee of the  ENA Karen Hakobyan.

ArmInfo.The work on extinguishing the fire in Vayots Dzor district of Armenia is  continuing. For the first time water reserves of the local reservoir are used and, in addition to state structures, the private company Lydian Armenia.

ArmInfo.The information spread by the Azerbaijani media about the wounding of a 13-year-old Azerbaijani child from the village of Garalar in Tovuz district by  Armenian servicemen is another misinformation, "Artsrun Hovhannisyan,  press secretary of Armenian Defense Minister, writes on his Facebook  page.

ArmInfo.Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan on August 5 met with the participants of youth-student meeting The Power of Unity-2017 organized by Youth Fund of Armenia and Student Council of National Polytechnic University of  Armenia in Hanqavan. More than 200 students and young people from  Armenia and Artsakh (NKR).

ArmInfo. A soldier was wounded from the enemy bullet on the Armenian- Azerbaijani border in the direction of the Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia.As the  press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry told ArmInfo, the  wounded was taken to Ijevan Medical Center.On July 28, a serviceman  Arkady L.  Garibyan from 1984 died from an enemy bullet on the same  section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

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ArmInfo.Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan denies having a so-called "blacklist of unsavory media" in the department he represents, not only using  special sanctions in the form of blocking access to information, but  also developing some conspiracies from the Foreign Ministry  spokesman.

ArmInfo. The indicator of the effectiveness of the meeting of the Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan will be the development of the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and the problems of the Transcaucasian regional security. Such an opinion was expressed by ArmInfo Russian analyst Sergey Markedonov, commenting on the meeting of Vladimir Putin with Ilham Aliyev held in Sochi on July 21.

ArmInfo. The Investigative Committee of Armenia revealed a case of abuse of power and bribe taking by an official of one of the military units of the Ministry of  Defense of Armenia.

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan has a system of counteraction to Iskander missile complexes purchased by Armenia. Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov stated this in an  interview with RIA Novosti.

ArmInfo.Armenia has repeatedly expressed its position regarding the sale of arms to  Russia to Azerbaijan, including during bilateral meetings with Russian counterparts.  Vice-Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said this at a press conference in Yerevan on July 12, referring to reports of Russia's new arms supplies to Azerbaijan.  Azerbaijan is not a state that can sell arms, it is necessary to sell weapons to those countries that intend to use it for defense purposes," Sharmazanov said. At the same time, he added that his position on this issue has not changed.

ArmInfo. At around 17:40 hours local time on July 10, military officer Vazgen Poghosyan (born in 1997) died at one of the combat positions of the NKR Defense Army, located in the eastern direction of the contact line from the enemy bullet.