ArmInfo.The President and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, as well as the head of Uzbekistan, sent congratulatory messages to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the occasion of his birthday.

ArmInfo.Moscow finally issued an agreement to appoint Gurgen Arsenyan, a member of the ruling Civil  Contract faction, as the new Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the Russian Federation. The newspaper "Graparak" writes about this with reference to Russian sources.

ArmInfo. President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan on his birthday, sb.by reports with reference to the Belarusian leader's press service

ArmInfo. Any step that can distance the CSTO member states from each other is deeply mistaken.  This was stated by Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov when  asked to assess the future activities of the CSTO, considering  Armenia's "freezing" of its membership in Organization

ArmInfo. The court acquitted third president of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan in the  so-called "diesel case". The corresponding verdict was issued on May 31.

ArmInfo. Third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan called for not predicting what the outcome of  the "For the Motherland" movement headed by Archbishop Bagrat  Galstanyan will be.

ArmInfo. Clashes between law enforcement officers and activists took place near the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs, where the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement held  a protest for several hours in a row. Additional forces have been  deployed near the Ministry, including special forces. As a result,  about 16 people were detained.

ArmInfo. Leading national organizations representing Hellenic, Armenian, and Christian Americans today called upon Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) of the U.S.  House Foreign Affairs Committee to allow his panel to consider two pending bipartisan bills - H.R.7288, the Armenian Protection Act, and H.R.8141, the Azerbaijan Sanctions Review Act, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), the Hellenic American  Leadership Council (HALC), and In Defense of Christians (IDC).

ArmInfo.On June 1, to mark the International Day for Protection of Children, AraratBank is implementing another program within its social responsibility framework. The Bank will donate children's prayer books to beneficiary children of the City of Smile Foundation.

ArmInfo. The current opportunity for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia should not be missed.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated at the "High Level  Observer Day" of EFES - 2024 exercise in Izmir.

ArmInfo. The initiator of the massacre of Azerbaijanis in Ivanyan (Khojaly - Az.) was the Popular  Front of Azerbaijan, stated political scientist Stepan Hasan-Jalalyan.

ArmInfo. The version that the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed due to an  explosion caused by sabotage has ruled out. As Rosbalt reports, this is stated in the report of the Supreme Committee to Investigate the Dimensions and Causes of the Disaster, published on the website of  the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

ArmInfo. On May 28, Euronews published an exclusive article by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev - “Middle powers: promoting the principles of multilateralism”

ArmInfo.The Catholicos of All Armenians is free to make his own decision regarding participation in  any state event and does not need permission for this. This is how lawyer Arsen Babayan commented on today's words of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about the actions of the police in Sardarapat against the Catholicos of All Armenians.

ArmInfo. What Armenia is doing today will in any case lead to success. Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to  the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, told AnalitikaUA. "It means that it was not in vain that it chose to be itself in its own time," he emphasized.

ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, together with President Vahagn Khachaturyan, President of  the National Assembly Alen Simonyan and the top leadership of the Republic of Armenia, visited the Sardarapat heroic battle memorial on the occasion of the Republic Day.

ArmInfo. The head of the "Center for Law and Justice "Tatoyan" Foundation, ex-Ombudsman of Armenia Arman  Tatoyan reported that the day before, at the Sardarapat memorial, "black" and "red" berets tore off the panagia (bishop's breast medallion with the image of the Mother of God) from the Primate of the Artsakh Diocese, Bishop Vrtanes Abrahamyan, pushed the clergy, demonstrated a disrespectful attitude towards the Catholicos of All  Armenians Karekin II and the spiritual fathers.

ArmInfo. Georgia's MPs have voted to overturn a presidential veto on a contentious "transparency  on foreign influence" bill - often dubbed the "foreign agents law" - which has sparked several weeks of protests in the capital Tbilisi, the BBC reports. 

ArmInfo.On May 27, 2024, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev greeted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, who is currently on a visit to Astana.

ArmInfo.The protest movement in Armenia has two components: objective and artificial, external, associated with Russia. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the opposition Russian TV channel Dozhd by Stepan Grigoryan, director of the Armenian Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation.