The USA will inflict several blows upon Syria, but Israel will be forced to clear up consequences, the known Israeli political expert, Avigdor Eskin told ArmInfo correspondent. 

The authorities of Armenia have started discussions of the possibility of the Constitution changing. It is not ruled out that as a result of these discussions, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia will offer transition to the parliamentary system of government, chairman of the parliamentary commission for state and legal issues, a member of the RPA executive body, David Harutyunyan, told Radio Liberty.

 Armenian Prosecutor General has instructed to send the criminal case over the incident involving "Armenia Today" coordinator Argishti Kiviryan to the Special Investigation Service of Armenia, Adviser to the Prosecutor General Sona Truzyan said.

 The candidate for the position of the head of the Lawyers' Chamber, Ara Zohrabyan, said at today's press-conference that he condemns an incident with a journalist, lawyer and civil activist, Argishti Kiviryan. 

 Civic activists have gathered in front of the Armenian Police protesting against tough actions of police officers during the latest protest actions in Komitas Street. Activists hold banners chanting "Read laws instead of prayers," "Stop licking boots of oligarchs."

 Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan has again grown hot over the visit of foreign citizens to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. This time, they have targeted a group of Russian journalists, including Anna Chapman, ex-agent of the Russian intelligence, author and host of the program "World's Secrets" on RenTV.

 Unibank goes on successfully fulfilling the strategy on increasing  the share of credits to small amd medium-sized business in the total credit portfolio. As press-service of the bank reported, as of 31 July 2013, the total credit portfolio of the bank exceeded 102 billion drams, 59 bln drams of which are business-credits.

 The Government often tries to interfere in the activity of the Chamber of Lawyers of Armenia, Ara Zohrabyan, a candidate for the position of the head of the Chamber, told media, Tuesday. The new head of the Chamber will have to neutralize the government's interference in the work of the Chamber for independent activity of lawyers. 

The actions by the Armenian Police regarding civil activists are illegal and equal to trafficking, the head of the Helsinki Association Vanadzor Office, Artur Sakunts, said at today's press-conference. He also added that policemen confound a victim with a criminal. Moreover, in fact they cover lawbreakers, he said. 

Civic Movement "Let's save the monument from the oligarch" has been set up in defense of the city indoor market.  The owner of the indoor market is oligarch-parliamentarian Samvel Aleksanyan.

 A total of 499 children spent their summer holidays in "Gugarq" camp, which is under the patronage of South Caucasus Railway. Last year 374 children had a rest in the camp, the South Caucasus Railway CJSC said.

Tbilisi. Russian President, Vladimir Putin has congratulated the leaders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Leonid Tibilov and Alexander Ankvab (respectively) on the fifth anniversary of recognition of those independence of these republics - the Kremlin press office reported on Monday.

Tbilisi. Georgia has passed a protest note to Russia via the Swiss Embassy in connection with RF President Vladimir Putin's visit to Abkhazia - Georgian Foreign Minister, Maia Panjikidze, briefed journalists in Tbilisi, on Monday, August 26.

Tbilisi. Russia welcomes Georgian leadership's statement about possible restoration of ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia and readiness to engage in direct dialogue with them - Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, stated in an interview with Abkhazian state TV and radio company.

Tbilisi. If elected the President of Georgia, I will do my best to restore normal, good neighborly relations between Russia and Georgia - Nino Burjanadze, ex-Speaker of Georgian Parliament and currently the leader of the Democratic Movement-United Georgia (DMUG), told the Voice of Russia radio station.

Tbilisi. The world recognizes Georgia's  territorial integrity and statements of de-factor authorities of Tskhinvali region are not interesting, Foreign Minister of Georgia Maia Panjikidze stated on Friday, August 23.

Tbilisi. The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) continues promoting a dialogue between the sides to prevent facts of ungrounded detainment of individuals on the administrative boundary line of Tskhinvali region with the rest part of Georgia.    

Provision of the status of a European Union associate member to Armenia may considerably complicate the relations between Azerbaijan and Europe.  However, the process of Armenia's European integration gives a common ground to Baku and Moscow and contributes to qualitative improvement of the Azerbaijani-Russian relations, Simon Manukian, a political expert from London, says in his interview with ArmInfo.   

At least, one third of big companies in Armenia do not pass obligatory external audit, as their owners are oligarchs and high-rank functionaries.