ArmInfo. Armenian politician and member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Arman Abovyan has assumed the position of public relations officer and official spokesman for the political party, while its leader, Gagik Tsarukyan, is under arrest. The politician announced this on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo. Eleven people sought medical attention following a bus accident on Acharyan Street.

ArmInfo. Defense and national security spending in Azerbaijan in 2027 is projected to be 8 billion 816 million 401 thousand 550 manats, an increase of 98 million 819 thousand 690 manats, or 1.1%, compared to the approved 2026 budget of 8 billion 717 million 581 thousand 860 manats.

ArmInfo. A group of deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh issued a statement in which they drew attention to the serious political, social, economic, and legal problems that the people of Artsakh continue to face three years after their forced exodus.

ArmInfo. Eleven people were injured in a traffic accident involving a Hyundai bus in Yerevan, the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

ArmInfo. A Frenchman of Armenian descent was killed in the crash of a Mirage 2000D fighter jet in France. This is confirmed by a statement from the French Air and Space Force.

ArmInfo. The Anti-Corruption Court rejected 5 of the 7 charges brought against the son of Armenia's second president, Sedrak Kocharyan. Lawyer Alexander Kochubaev informed journalists of this.

ArmInfo. The story "Saved Melody" by Artsakh writer and journalist Ashot Beglaryan, based on real events from the 2016 Four-Day War in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has been included in the Russian language textbook for 11th-grade students in Armenia's high schools.

ArmInfo. The government will allocate 148.5 billion drams from the reserve fund for the acquisition of two manuscripts that will expand the collection of the Matenadaran Museum-Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. The manuscripts are of exceptional historical, cultural, and scientific value. This decision was made at a cabinet meeting on October 22.

ArmInfo.  Snap elections to the National Assembly of Armenia are inevitable, believes Gevorg Stepanyan, a member of the Mother Armenia faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders.

ArmInfo. Employment incentive programs for able-bodied individuals from low-income families, those internally displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, and demobilized service members who participated in the 2020 hostilities will be combined into one program starting January 1, 2027, to improve its effectiveness. A similar decision was made at a government meeting on October 22.

ArmInfo. The second phase of the renovation of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to the Victims of the Armenian Genocide will be completed by the end of the year. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports (MECS) of Armenia following the visit of the head of the ministry, Zhanna Andreasyan, to Tsitsernakaberd.

ArmInfo. Property worth 1.2 billion drams will be confiscated from the heirs and affiliates of the late General Manvel Grigoryan. The court decision on the confiscation of property of illegal origin has entered into force, the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia reports.

ArmInfo.Khachkar Studios published today week N6 of its weekly T•A•P press releases for the 26 pilots participating in its program to revitalize their communities worldwide.

ArmInfo. The political message of the report "on the consequences of suspending Armenia's membership in the EAEU" is quite harsh: economic pressure on Armenia could prove virtually painless for other members of the Eurasian Economic Union, while it would be a severe blow to Armenia itself. This is how political scientist Vahe Davtyan commented on the report on the consequences of suspending Armenia's membership in the EAEU, published on the Russian government website on October 20.

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. 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. The Strong Armenia faction has initiated amendments to the law "On Medicines," providing for simplified registration of European drugs and a 20% reduction in their prices. This was announced by Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of the Strong Armenia faction, in a video published on his Facebook page.