ArmInfo. Armenian National Assembly member Lilit Stepanyan, a member of the ruling Civil Contract faction, will resign her mandate and be appointed governor of the Kotayk region. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this on his Telegram channel.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will not reconsider his decisions until their consequences directly impact him and his political future.

ArmInfo. The hearing on the motion to extend the pretrial detention of Armenia's second president, Robert Kocharyan, and his son, Sedrak Kocharyan, has been postponed. Lawyer Hayk Alumyan told the media this.

ArmInfo.References to the status of Armenian American church attendance are highlighted in the two full-page open letters in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal discussing Pope Leo XIV new world-class benchmark statute on religious institutional good governance.

ArmInfo. The second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, has demonstrated appropriate procedural conduct since his release from previous arrests, calling into question the need to extend his current one. This was stated in a statement by the office of the second president of Armenia on Facebook.

ArmInfo. On October 20, Maxim Seleznev, Minister-Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Armenia, took part in the opening of the Russian Federation pavilion at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) in Yerevan.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who has been portraying himself as a "defender of the oppressed" facing pressure during local government elections since yesterday evening, after several lengthy posts on his social media accounts on this topic, dropped his mask of virtue and began threatening a family member of an opposition candidate with dismissal.

ArmInfo. Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II received clergy from the Diocese of Trieste of the Catholic Church in Italy, led by Diocesan Bishop Enrico Trevisi, who arrived in Armenia and the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin on a pilgrimage.

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports (MESC) of Armenia and Ghent University signed a memorandum of understanding online.

ArmInfo. At the initiative and with the personal participation of Kajaran Mayor Manvel Paramazyan, a khachkar commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide was erected in the courtyard of the Armenian Catholic Church of St. Gregory of Narek in the French town of Saint-Chamond.

ArmInfo. Rain and thunderstorms are expected in Armenia from October 20th to 25th.

ArmInfo. Against the backdrop of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) being held in Yerevan, Artsakh residents handed over letters to the embassies of three European countries, calling for the issue of forced displacement of the Artsakh population, the preservation of its cultural heritage, and the protection of the natural environment to be raised. The letters were handed over to the Swiss, Italian, and British embassies in the country.

ArmInfo. The Armenian Ministry of Labor and Welfare proposes extending the 20% cashback program on non-cash purchases made using bank cards to which pensions and benefits are transferred until the end of 2029.

ArmInfo. An international discussion on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on biodiversity was held in Yerevan. The discussion was initiated by the Russian foundation "Nature and People" as part of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17).

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on all candidates and voters participating in local government elections who claim they have been subjected to illegal pressure to report such cases to him personally.

ArmInfo. A delegation led by Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has departed for the Czech Republic on an official visit.

ArmInfo. The Office of the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Magdalena Grono, responded to an appeal from the organization "Hayakve" regarding the official's visit to occupied Artsakh as part of a tour organized by Azerbaijan on September 11-12.

ArmInfo. More than four dozen Armenian non-governmental organizations issued a joint statement against the backdrop of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) taking place in Yerevan, condemning the start of development of the Amulsar mine.

ArmInfo. On October 19, 2026, a meeting was held in Samarkand between Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, and Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of the United States of America.

ArmInfo. The opening of the “Forest Biodiversity: An Immersive Experience” exhibition by the “My Forest Armenia” NGO took place in the Green Zone of COP17, with representatives of IDBank and Idram in attendance.