ArmInfo.As a result of cooperation between the Prosecutor's Offices of Armenia and Georgia, Robert Aghvanyan was extradited from Georgia to Armenia, who is  wanted for smuggling anti-aircraft missile complex MANPADS from  Georgia to Armenia.

ArmInfo.In Armenia, there is a decrease in interest in alternative service. This was stated by Artak Zakaryan, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of  Armenia, who presented in the National Assembly of Armenia in the  second and final reading the draft amendments to the Law on  Alternative Service, passed by the country's parliament on December  20 in the second and final reading.

ArmInfo.The youth movement "For the Development of Science", protesting against the law on "Military Commitment and the Status of a Serviceman" demands an apology from the leadership of YSU for unreasonable slander.

ArmInfo. Students who oppose the law "On Military Duty and Status of Servicemen" resumed their hunger strike.

ArmInfo.Deputy General Secretary of NATO Rose Gottemoeller on December 18 will visit Armenia, on December 13 at a press conference in Yerevan dedicated to NATO week in Armenia, stated deputy head of the office on relations with NATO in Southern Caucasus Rosaria Puglisi. According to her, this visit is a clear example of the existence of  high-level cooperation between Armenia and NATO.

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ArmInfo. NATO will assist Armenia in the dismantlement of obsolete military equipment. The agreement with the Alliance, signed on July 14, 2017 in Luxembourg  and Brussels, was ratified at a meeting of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on December 6.

ArmInfo.Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia Artak Zakaryan commented on the information massed in the media about the dismissal of the Deputy Chief of the  General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Haykaz  Baghmanyan from his post.

ArmInfo.Artsakh ex Defense Minister Samvel Babayan according to the decision of the administrative court of Armenia was sentenced to six years of  imprisonment for an illegal import attempt of  Igla into the RA.

ArmInfo. As a result of the Round Table, an agreement was reached between students protesting against the cancellation of the deferment from military service for  students of universities, the Armenian government deputies and Cabinet members on the creation of a working group to discuss student proposals.

ArmInfo.In the Republic of Artsakh, as a result of an explosion of a mine, three servicemen were killed and another wounded. This was reported by the press service of  the Artsakh Defense Army.

ArmInfo.Dodgers from military service in Armenia will be able to pay up to December 1, 2017 200 times the minimum monthly wage (200 thousand drams) for each  appeal and be released from criminal prosecution. Corresponding  amendments to the law "On citizens who did not pass military service  in violation of the established order" were made at the November 17  sitting of the National Assembly on first reading.

ArmInfo.The Armenian parliament adopted the draft law "On Defense" at its meeting on November 15 in the second and final reading.

ArmInfo.The head of the opposition faction "Elk" Nikol Pashinyan today from the rostrum of the parliament during the discussion of the draft law "On military  service and the status of serviceman", which assumes the complete abolition of the deferment from compulsory military service for all young people who have reached the age of 18 and do not get out of health problems, incompatible with the service in the army, sharply criticized the defense minister Vigen Sargsyan.

ArmInfo. Soros Foundation provided the organization Public Agenda with $ 20,000 to launch a struggle against the concept of the "Nation-Army" in Armenia. The deputy from the ruling Republican Party Hayk Babukhanyan stated this from the rostrum of the Armenian parliament.

ArmInfo.Five Armenian students went on a hunger strike in protest against the bill to  cancel the deferment of compulsory military service. They are on hunger strike in one of the auditoriums of Yerevan State University.

ArmInfo.There were no changes related to the right to postpone military service in the  draft law "On military service and the status of a serviceman". Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan stated about this to Radio Azatutyun.

ArmInfo. Another brawl occurred in the Armenian parliament - this time the Republican Party Deputy, the 70-year-old Artashes Geghamyan and the head of the  opposition bloc faction "Elk" Nikol Pashinyan agreed in hand-to-hand fight.