ArmInfo.  RA Ambassador to the United State Narek Mkrtchyan visited the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., where he met with  Max Bergmann, Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, as  well as other representatives of the center.

ArmInfo. Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico congratulated Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on his election victory.

ArmInfo. Armenia faces an obvious legitimacy deficit following the parliamentary elections held on June 7, as at least 60,000 votes of Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) were stolen by the ruling authorities. This was stated by the second president of Armenia and leader of the opposition "Armenia" alliance, Robert Kocharyan.

ArmInfo. Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan received the newly appointed Head of the European Union Partnership Mission to Armenia, Cosmin Gheorghe Dinescu.

ArmInfo.Vera Safaryan, a model from Hadrut who represented Armenia in the "Mrs. Europe 2022" beauty pageant for married women and mothers, has died in a traffic accident.

ArmInfo.  Moscow must take a "principled position" regarding the political situation in Armenia after the parliamentary elections, while continuing to engage with  the current government at the de facto level. This was stated by  Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee  on CIS Affairs, in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets.

ArmInfo.Europe and the United States benefit from maintaining a weak and illegitimate leader in Armenia, as they want the country to become a new anti-Russian stronghold.

ArmInfo. At NATO exercises in Armenia, Armenian military personnel will be trained to fight against Russia. This was stated on June 18 during a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

ArmInfo.Today, the European Court of Human Rights published its first decision on cases related to the four-day April 2016 war. This was written on his Facebook page by Liparit Drmeyan, former head of the Office of the Representative  for International Legal Affairs.

ArmInfo."Strong Armenia" bloc leader Samvel Karapetyan announced the opposition will hold a rally of "strength and trust," the goal of which is to gain genuine public support.  He made this announcement at a meeting with editors of several media outlets, during which he outlined the steps he believes  the collective opposition should take to overcome the crisis that has  arisen in Armenia following the parliamentary elections.

ArmInfo. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his victory in the Armenian elections.

ArmInfo.Russia sent a note of protest to Armenia over the act of vandalism at the "Mother Armenia" memorial to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War in Gyumri. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova during a briefing on June 18.

ArmInfo. On June 17, in Vienna, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Robert Abisoghomonyan participated and delivered remarks at the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference. Remarks by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Robert  Abisoghomonyan follows below: 

ArmInfo. In preparation for participation in international peacekeeping missions, the Eagle Partner 2026 military exercises began on June 17 at the Zar training  center, as reported by the press service of the Armenian Ministry of  Defense.

ArmInfo.To say the elections in Armenia were "falsified" is an understatement. This is the opinion expressed by Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights activist and Canadian lawyer at the law firm Amsterdam & Partners.

ArmInfo.Armenian authorities have decided to legislatively restrict the voting rights of Armenian citizens abroad, planning to introduce a requirement that they must reside in the country for the past six months to qualify for  participation in elections. This was written on his Facebook page by  Mesrop Arakelyan, a member of the "Country for Life" party.

ArmInfo.  The Anti-Corruption Council of Europe (GRECO) has commended Armenia for  its implementation of anti-corruption recommendations within the  Ministry of Internal Affairs. This  announcement was made during the  103rd plenary meeting of the GRECO Group of States in Strasbourg.

ArmInfo.  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni congratulated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his victory in the Armenian elections.  The message, distributed by the government press service, reads as follows: " I would like to  extend to you the warmest congratulations of the Government of the  Italian Republic and myself on your re-election as leader of the  Republic of Armenia. The vote of the Armenian people, for the third  time, values your leadership and recognizes the courage with which  you have faced challenges of exceptional complexity.

ArmInfo. Armenian Ambassador to Greece Tigran Mkrtchyan discussed steps to develop bilateral parliamentary relations with Greek MP Theodore Roussopoulos, a representative of the New Democracy party.

ArmInfo. Armenia is entering not an era of peace, but an era of competing logistics regimes. This was stated by political scientist Vahe Davtyan.