The trial on the Shant Harutyunyan case starts with a scuffle between the defendant and the police. 

 The PACE Bureau has declined the Azerbaijani delegation's draft resolution to suspend the Armenian delegation's voting rights at the Assembly, reports a source from the Armenian delegation.

 The civil initiative "I'm Against" has responded to Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan's June 26 statement that throwing coins at ministers as a mark of protest is all-permissiveness and anarchy. 

 An Armenian parliamentary delegation led by MP Artashes Geghamyan will attend the PA OSCE meeting to take place in Baku June 28-July 2.

The information that the Armenian Civil Court of Appeal has declared the auction on the sale of property of the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex as illegal has nothing to do with the reality, the Judicial Acts Compulsory Enforcement Service of Armenia has told ArmInfo. To recall, earlier Armine Hakobyan, lawyer of the Complex, informed ArmInfo of the Court's decision.  

 On Friday Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan ratified draft amendments to the law on accumulate pensions, reports the press service of the Armenian President.

The European Choice action group has adopted a statement on the occasion of the singing of association agreements between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

 Citi and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation ("OPIC") have announced a $10 million lending facility, using their existing framework partnership, to support the growth of ACBA CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK's agribusiness microfinance portfolio in the Republic of Armenia. 

 The Special Investigation Service of Armenia has instituted a criminal case against Deputy Head of Yerevan Police Valery Osipyan, Spokesperson for the Special Investigation Service Mikayel Aharonyan has told ArmInfo's correspondent. 

 The residents of 23 and 25, Teryan St. and 37, Lalayants St. in Yerevan have held another protest action against alienation of their flats in businessman Samvel Mayrapetyan's favor. 

 At the current stage of the Karabakh peace process the priority is to involve Stepanakert in the peace process. It is for this reason that the Parliaments of Armenia and Artsakh have addressed a joint statement to the OSCE Minsk Group, Karine Achemyan, MP from the Republican Party of Armenia, member of the Interparliamentary Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, told ArmInfo.       

The Armenian Civil Court of Appeal has declared the auction on the sale of property of the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex as illegal, Armine Hakobyan, lawyer of the Complex, has told ArmInfo's correspondent. 

The Afrikyan building was robbed, architect Levon Vardanyan, author of the Old Yerevan project, said at a press conference on Friday. 

 Armenia should not be compared with Azerbaijan as far as freedom of speech and human rights are concerned, former Human Rights Defender of Armenia Larisa Alaverdyan told ArmInfo on Friday.

 The joint statement of the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh parliaments on the need to involve Nagorno-Karabakh in the peace talks is a response to growing tensions on the Armenian-Azeri border and the Nagorno-Karabakh-Azeri contact line, MP from Heritage Party, member of the Interparliamentary Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the National Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Tevan Poghosyan told ArmInfo on Friday.

Unfortunately, Armen Movsisyan, who held the position of Armenian minister of energy and natural resources for over 10 years, has failed to understand that (or pretends that he does not understand) the difference between privatization of a property complex and the Government's consent to the sale of an enterprise. In the former case, the matter concerns legal privatization, when the funds are transferred to the state budget and use of these funds is controlled by the National Assembly. In the latter case, the matter concerns concealed (illegal and unclear) privatization, when the funds are transferred to the personal account of en enterprise and, as a rule, can be used without knowledge of the National Assembly. These are the comments made by the Office of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan on the ex-minister of energy and natural resources and currently Armenian President's Advisor Armen Movsisyan to Tert.am.
To recall, Movsisyan told Tert.am that in the Vorotan Hydro Cascade deal the property complex was being privatized and it was not the first case in the country when the property complex, not the company, was privatized. He added that the complex was being privatized in accordance with the relevant decisions of the Government. In 2003 the Armenian authorities privatized the property complexes of Sevan-Hrazdan Hydro Cascade and Hrazdan HPP CJSC. In the specified cases the processes were carried out without the Parliament and without any decision of the Government and were ratified by the incumbent president according to the-then Constitution. Those deals are not criticized today, Movsisyan says. 

zerbaijan politicizes the issue of captives and missing persons. Moreover, it hinders the efforts being exerted to find them, Larisa Alaverdyan, the first Ombudsperson of Armenia, CEO of "Against Legal Arbitrariness" NGO, said at a press conference in Yerevan on Friday. 

In June-May 2014 ARARATBANK obtained record- breaking net profit - 1.8 bln AMD. Ashot Osipyan, Chairman of the Board of ARARATBANK OJSC, said at the annual meeting of the Bank's shareholders that the net profit exceeded the net profit of the previous two years.     

 A pilot training center will be opened in Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of Nagorno-Karabakh's Chief Civil Aviation Department Dmitry Adbashyan told ArmInfo on Friday.

Armenian and Artsakh Parliaments have made a joint statement on Stepanakaert's involvement into the peace process, as geopolitical situation has changed in the world, Manvel Sargsyan, Director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) told ArmInfo, without specifying what political processes he means.