ArmInfo. Armenia made a decision to apply to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated on May 13 at the meeting of the  RA Security Council.

ArmInfo.A conscript soldier of the Armenian Armed Forces died in one of the combat positions located in the southern direction of the state border.

ArmInfo.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a working visit to Armenia on May 5-6, within which meetings with acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and talks  with Acting Foreign Minister Ara Aivazian are planned.

ArmInfo. Lieutenant General Karen Abrahamyan resigned from the post of Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces -  Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces. The  corresponding decree was signed today by the President of Armenia  Armen Sarkissian.

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Defense of Armenia does not plan the participation of the Armenian Armed Forces units in the NATO exercise Defender Europe 21. This is  stated in the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of  Armenia.

ArmInfo.The Armenian Defense Ministry reacted to Azerbaijan's accusations of committing a provocation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border.  Thus, in the  statement of the RA Ministry of Defense, in particular, it is noted:  "One needs to have an extremely vivid imagination to ascribe"  accusations "of shelling the positions of the Russian peacekeeping  contingent, a strategic ally of the Armenian Armed Forces.

ArmInfo. As a result of last year's war over Karabakh, Russia not only remained, but also  strengthened its own military presence in the South Caucasus. At the  same time, the West's attempts to expel Russia from the region will  continue.

ArmInfo. The Security Council Office published declassified documents in response to some statements by the former Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian  Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan.

ArmInfo.Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov held talks with his Armenian counterpart Artak Davtyan.   This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of  the Russian Federation.

ArmInfo. The defense of the state borders of Armenia will be handled not by the army, but by the border troops, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today in parliament.

ArmInfo. Official Yerevan issued a statement in connection with the opening of a trophy “park” in Baku dedicated to the war in Artsakh in 2020.

ArmInfo. Head of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Artak Davtyan assured that maximum efforts are being made to return the prisoners of war home, to  clarify as soon as possible the fate of the missing, as well as to  search and identify the remains of the bodies.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with RIA Novosti that he plans to discuss military-technical cooperation in talks with Russian  President Vladimir Putin.

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with RIA Novosti that his relations with the Armenian military have normalized, the army,  together with the Cabinet of Ministers, is working to strengthen the  country's security.

ArmInfo. The Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Artak Davtyan, refused to answer the question of whether the Iskander missile defense system  was used during the fighting in the Karabakh conflict zone.

ArmInfo.During a telephone conversation, the heads of the defense departments of Armenia and Russia Vagharshak Harutyunyan and Sergei Shoigu discussed the main  directions of large-scale reforms carried out in the Armed Forces of  Armenia.

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  met today with the command staff of the Armenian Armed Forces. The  meeting was attended by Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan,  candidate for the post of Chief of the General Staff Artak Davtyan,  other generals and officers.

ArmInfo. The involvement of Armenian Armed Forces into political processes is unacceptable. About this on March 10, journalists announced the head of the ruling  parliamentary faction "My step" of Lilit Macunts.

ArmInfo. "I fully understand the outrage of the highest command of the Armed Forces, the position of the army on interference in political processes, which go beyond  its competence, the reason for which it was nothing but a careless  attempt to the Prime Minister to dump responsibility for the  humiliating defeat on the army, "the first president of Armenia Levon  Ter-Petrosyan wrote on the website of Ilur.am.

ArmInfo.The current internal political crisis in Armenia can be viewed from two angles. This is an internal political, emotional, personal and, of course, a  geopolitical angle of view of the situation. A similar opinion was  expressed to ArmInfo by Sergei Markedonov, a leading researcher at  the Institute of International Studies of the Moscow State Institute  of International Relations, the editor-in-chief of the journal  "International Analytics".