The National Assembly of Armenia on Wednesday rejected the opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun MPs' bill on foregoing the majority election system in the country. 

 Military serviceman Artur Ohanjanyan (born in 1994) on 20 May sustained a fatal firearm wound from a bullet fired by the adversary. 

 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has presented a Trade Facilitation Programme Academic Excellence Award in cooperation with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to ArmSwissBank CJSC in recognition of the outstanding academic achievements in the Trade Finance e-Learning Programme in 2013.

 To recruit and retrain personnel, Converse Bank has launched a Team of the Future project for 2014. The press service of the Bank has told ArmInfo that under the project 25 active young people, who have passed the preliminary stages of the project, have an opportunity to attend the courses developed by the leading specialists of the Bank.     

 Imperious Group, a Russian venture fund from Russia, is ready to invest almost $500,000 in Armenian start-ups, Director of mLab ECA Mariam Davtyan told journalists on Tuesday.

 Potential annual gold exports from the Amulsar field in the southeast of Armenia are estimated at $200mln-250mln, Armenia's Economy Minister Karen Tchshmarityan told journalists on Tuesday.

In the current electoral system, it is impossible to change the power in Armenia by means of elections, Head of ARF Dashnaktsutyun Faction Armen Rustamyan said in Parliament on Tuesday.   

 The erection of the monument to Anastas Mikoyan in Yerevan is another attempt to draw the mind of the society from the pressing problems, a member of the Armenian National Congress board, the known physician, Vahan Vardapetyan, told ArmInfo correspondent  when commenting on an initiative to erect a monument to the known Soviet politician.  

 Artur Javadyan reelected Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia for six years.

The Yerevan Karen Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex has been pawned and put up for auction for 19.350bln AMD or $46.8mln. The auction will last till May 29.

 Poaching and growing commercial fishery is causing a serious damage to Sevan fish reserves, Bardukh Gabrielyan, Director of the National Center for Zoology and Hydroecology, National Academy of Science of Armenia, told ArmInfo.

 I have got no information about  the business activity of  the Cabinet members, Prime  Minister Hovik Abrahamyan  said in the parliament today when submitting  the government's programme for 2014-2017. 

 Committee for Constitutional Reform will submit additional package of reform to President Serzh Sargsyan on 1 July, Head of the Constitutional Court of Armenia Gagik Haroutiunyan said at public hearings on the draft concept of the constitutional reform, on 20 May.

According to the WB, 6 bln AMD has illegally been taken out of the country over the past 6 years, Head of Armenian National Congress Faction Levon Zurabyan said in Parliament when asking a question to Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) Artur Javadyan on the occasion of his re-election for the second term.   

Setting the Sports and Concert Facility after K. Demirchyan to auction involves no risk, Mkrtich Minasyan, Head of the Union of Architects of Armenia, told ArmInfo.

 Armenia failed to raise a Russian loan for the Armenian NPP life extension on time.

 Presidential elections conducted in democratic and transparent way are key elements for the normalization of the situation in Ukraine. Support of our international partners is crucial. In spite of unprecedented number of security challenges to our country, there are practically all organizational and legal grounds for holding elections. Citizens of Ukraine who live in the occupied peninsula have an opportunity to vote in other parts of Ukraine. Russia undertakes all actions to disrupt elections and thus continue escalation. Current legislation foresees enough preconditions when results of the elections are set and President is elected.

 Armenia will continue exerting efforts for international recognition of the Genocide of Armenians, Pontic Greek, and Assyrians. Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Spokesperson of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, Eduard Sharmazanov told reporters on 19 May. Sharmazanov attended the Armenian Genocide Memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the Genocide of the Pontic Greek.

 Six elements of the Madrid Principles are not a binding resolution of the Karabakh conflict. OSCE MG Co-Chair James Warlick of USA made such statement talking to reporters following the meeting with the NKR leadership, according to RFE/RL Armenian Service.

 "The Armenian-Turkish protocols signed in 2009 seem dead, and propaganda warfare is intensified in expectation of 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide," Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Italian Alaytical Center writes in an article "Armenia: New Hopes and New Fears."