In response to the statement of the United States Embassy in the Republic of Armenia, Russian Federation's Embassy in Armenia has expressed its official stance: "It does not become a diplomatic mission to dictate the host country's authorities with whom and how they should maintain ties, especially using suggestive threats against the sovereign state. We suppose that the business community of Armenia is also able to independently see into the matter of business conduct and does not need any prompts", says the Russian Embassy's statement sent to ArmInfo.    

 Three participants in Beeline's Fortune drawing campaign have been awarded prizes. 

The Yerevan-Sevan-Ijevan-Azeri border highway, which was closed on July 16, will be opened in late August in case of favorable weather conditions, the Armenian Ministry of Transport and Communication reports.   

 On July 30 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Edward Nalbandian received Herbert Salber, the newly appointed EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.

 43.3% of Armenian citizens are potential emigrants, the head of the "Sociometer" sociological centre, Aharon Adibekyanm said at today's press-conference, The public opinion poll held among 4400 adults in 100 settlements of Armenia are evidence of it. 

The Embassy of the United States in Armenia has sent Armenian businessmen messages urging them to refrain from contacts with Russian companies as this implies additional reputational risks, President of the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia Arsen Kazaryan told journalists on Thursday.

 A leopard family in the Arevik National Park in the south of Armenia has given birth to two cubs, Head of WWF Armenia Karen Manvelyan told journalists on Thursday.

 Azerbaijan again initiated an attack in the north direction of the line of contact between the armed forces of Karabakh and Azerbaijan, on 31 July. 

 Human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus are accused of secret collaboration with some citizens to coordinate with representatives of Armenian special services, according to the joint information disseminated by the Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of National Security, Trend reported.

 Member-churches of World Council of Churches going to recognize the Armenian Genocide in 2015, according to the chairman of the International Association to Fight Unfounded Armenian Allegations (ASIM-DER) Goksel Gulbey.

Our current main goal is to achieve the settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh. The restoration of a full-fledged negotiation format with immediate and direct participation of the NKR in all its phases is very important: the absence of one of the main parties to the conflict at the negotiation table makes it difficult to achieve any real progress, the NKR Foreign Minister, Karen Mirzoyan, said in an interview with The European Times.

 On Aug 2, the Day of Railroader, the South Caucasus Railway's commuter trains will be free of charge all over Armenia

 A worker has been killed as a result a rock fall at a perlite deposit in Aragatsavan, Aragatsotn region, Armenia.

 The Azeris continue firing at Armenia's borderline villages.

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the newly appointed EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Herbert Salber discussed Armenia-EU ties during a meeting on Wednesday.

Armenia and Ukraine have got a common "frenemy" in the person of Russia, the head of the National Self-Determination Union, Paruyr Hayrikyan, said at today's press-conference.  

 The Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia ruled on Wednesday that the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) should pay a fine of 15mln AMD for having broken some of the Commission's rules, particularly, for having failed to meet its contractual obligations to Mikmetal, a company building a multifunction complex in the center of Yerevan.  

One of the goals of the West's sanctions against Russia is to curb the Eurasian Economic Union project, well-known Armenian economist, professor Tatul Manaseryan told ArmInfo on Wednesday.

The West's sanctions against Russia concern the fields of energy, technologies and finances and cannot but affect the Armenian economy, well-known Armenian economist, professor Tatul Manaseryan told ArmInfo on Wednesday.