ArmInfo.Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Jackie Speier secured strong bipartisan support today for the adoption, by the full U.S. House, of her amendment appropriating $40 million in democracy aid to Armenia, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
ArmInfo. On June 17, Deputy Minister of Justice Vigen Kocharyan received a delegation led by Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General Gabriella Battaini- Dragoni.
ArmInfo. After the meeting with the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, accused of overthrowing the constitutional order, the Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. About this on his Facebook page wrote the head of the parliamentary commission on external issues Ruben Rubinyan.
ArmInfo. The RA General Prosecutor's Office made the subject of study the process of allocating special purpose lands in the "Arevik" National Park of the Syunik Region of Armenia with the aim of exploiting the Meghrasar gold opencast mining, as well as information about the destruction of forests under the guise of changing forest categories.
ArmInfo. Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan signed a decree on the release of Major General Vardan Balayan from the post of Deputy Commander of the Artsakh Republic Defense and dismissal from military service in connection with his retirement. This is reported by the press service of the President of Artsakh. - l-
ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an order appointing Zare Sinanian Chief Commander for Diaspora Affairs.Zare Sinanian was born in 1973 in Yerevan. He studied at the Yerevan school number 172. In 1988, the family moved to the United States and settled in the city of Burbank, where he graduated from high school.In 1997, Sinanian graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in political science. He worked in the body that controls the market of expensive bonds of Washington, was involved in one of the Armenian lobbyist companies.Sinan in 1998 settled in Glendale, was involved in the work of I-Dat. In April 2014, he was appointed mayor of Glendale.
ArmInfo. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and his wife Nune Sarkissian today visited the Russian Embassy in Armenia on the occasion of the state holiday of the Russian Federation - the Day of Russia.
ArmInfo. Today, a number of Azerbaijani media, based on the message provided by the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, spread information that, allegedly, the Armenian units, violating the cease-fire in different directions of the Line of Contact, besides various small arms, also used 60-mm mortars ( 8 shells). The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Artsakh not only refutes this misinformation, but also informs that during the day and on the night of June 12 the Azerbaijani side put into operation both distant and sniper weapons of various caliber and AGS-17 type grenade launchers ( 5 grenades). If necessary, the Defense Army can provide relevant videos.
ArmInfo. In Yerevan, the Court of Appeal began a meeting on the suit of the General Prosecutor's Office to revise the decision of the court of general jurisdiction to change the measure of restraint against the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan from arrest to release on personal bail.