The Armenian Parliament's extraordinary sitting on the law on amending the Law on Turnover Tax has not taken place due to the boycott of the Republican Party of Armenia.  

"Take a selfie and help a child to fight blindness" online campaign, a new joint initiative of the Orange Foundation and the Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP), has been launched today. 

 Reporters Without Borders has published the World Press Freedom Index 2014. 

 Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO) has lent Araratbank $15mln for financing business projects by export-oriented companies.

An Open Day to be held at UWC Dilijan on October 5, from 12.00 till 15.00. 

Ameriabank continues to successfully develop its retail banking business. This year the bank has appeared with new even more attractive retail services. As a result, in Jan-Aug 2014 it exceeded a number of targets, Ameriabank's Retail Banking Director Arman Barseghyan told journalists on Tuesday.

 A single cultural portal www.cult.am has been launched in Armenia with the support of Beeline and Dinamica Testing Centre. General Manager of Beeline Armenia Andrey Pyatakhin and CEO of Dinamica Testing Centre Vladimir Khoetsyan told journalists at today's press conference that the resource contains information about the ongoing cultural events in the republic and provides a unique opportunity to acquire e-tickets by means of online payment.    

'Ozturkler Holding' becomes the first Turkish company to launch activity in Armenia. 'Ozturkler Holding' is engaged in housing construction.

 Journalists of the Turkey-based Taraf  and Cumhuriyet newspapers Ayd?n Engin and Murat Belge have received letters of threats after they initiated revision of the Turkish history textbooks to remove the statements and formula insulting the honor and dignity  of the Armenian people. 

Air Armenia is appointed as regular air carrier from Novosibirsk-Yerevan, RBC reported. 

 Sellers in Gyumri have joined their colleagues from Yerevan in protest against the new turnover tax.
Since this morning a group of sellers have blocked central streets and demand that Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan visit the city. "Unless he comes, we will go to Yerevan and join the local protesters," they said.

VivaCell-MTS continues the draw for its "Personal" and the "City Talks" tariff plans subscribers, who are users of the “Special” package in active status. To remind, the "365" draw is based on a-smartphone-a-day-within-a-year principle.

 PACE seeks to establish contacts between Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations within the framework of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which is important for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, PACE President Anne Brasseur said at a press conference on the opening day of the PACE fall session in Strasbourg.

 Protocol of the PACE Bureau's meeting held on September 2 in Paris was approved at the PACE plenary meeting.

ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank has created ACBA Business Partner sub-brand with a view to bring all of its corporate products together.

 Artifacts from the Armenian Highlands have caused a sensation in the world of science.

 On September 29 the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov met with Mikhail Krotov, the Adviser to the Speaker of the State Duma of the RF Federal Assembly, and Oleg Lebedev, the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the CIS Countries, Eurasian Integration and Links with Compatriots of the State Duma of the RF Federal Assembly.

Vegamediapress has published Argentinean writer Mariano Saravia's article "Aleppo: 100 Years After."

Armenia is ranked 4th in the Eastern Partnership Media Freedom Index for the first half of 2014.  

The South Caucasus Railway plays an important role in the field of communications, Nikoghayos Ter-Karapetyan, the guide of the Railway Museum of Armenia, has told ArmInfo's correspondent during the Yerevan-Gyumri excursion.