ArmInfo.  Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan does not rule out the possibility that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan may change his mind about attending the 80th anniversary of the Victory on Red Square in  Moscow.

ArmInfo.  Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan called the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan a person with "the status of a Russian spy". "I don't have the facts, this is just my opinion, if I had the facts, I would have taken appropriate action," he said at a briefing in  parliament on May 5.

ArmInfo. Big money is being spent from outside, money is coming from outside, particularly from the northern neighbor - from Russia. A hybrid war is being waged against Armenia. Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan made this remark in a conversation with journalists on May 2,   touching upon the current domestic political situation and concerns  about the government losing trust among the Armenian people.

ArmInfo. The announcement of a tender for the feasibility study of the Surmalu metro station construction project has been delayed, since the project will include reconstruction work on the Christopher Bridge. This was reported by Yerevan Mayor's Advisor Anneta Babayan during a working meeting of the City Hall.

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ArmInfo.  On May 5, Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan received the Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin.

ArmInfo.  Criminal liability measures for drug trafficking will be seriously tightened in Armenia. The amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia submitted by the NA deputy from the ruling Civil Contract faction  Hayk Sargsyan are being discussed at the meeting of the RA National  Assembly Committee on State and Legal Affairs on May 5.

ArmInfo.  The National Assembly Committee on Defense and Security held discussions related to the situation in the country's armed forces. This was announced at a meeting of the committee on May 5 by its head Andranik Kocharyan.

ArmInfo. Armenian music lovers are in for an extraordinary cultural experience sponsored by AraratBank, as the internationally acclaimed Belgian band Hooverphonic takes the stage at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall on May 7th to celebrate the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra's 100th anniversary.

ArmInfo.  Any manifestation of violence, both physical and verbal in the form of insults, provocations - is unacceptable for us. This was stated by Mayor  Tigran Avinyan during a working meeting of the mayor's office on May  5, commenting on the recent incident in the Nor Nork administration  involving its head Tigran Ter-Margaryan and activist Artur Chakhoyan. 

ArmInfo.  The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia demands confiscation of 4 real estate objects, 330 million drams from the former legal successor of the director of the Yerevan Jewelry Factory-1 Gnomon OJSC and his wife.

ArmInfo.  Grigor Ghazaryan, a member of the Armenian youth weightlifting team, won a gold medal at the World Junior Championships held in the capital of Peru, Lima.

ArmInfo.  Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, who headed the French delegation, at a meeting with Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, stated France's readiness to make every effort to help overcome the challenges facing the Armenian people.

ArmInfo.  The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has launched an angry tirade against Russia after Azerbaijani MP Azer Badamov was banned from entering the Russian Federation.

ArmInfo.  What happened yesterday in the conference room of the Academic Council of Yerevan State University is not a mistake, not a misunderstanding, but an outright disgrace. This is what Armen Avetisyan, a lecturer at the university, wrote on his Facebook page.

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ArmInfo.  After the defeat and, in essence, the establishment of political control over Armenia, the defeat of Syria and the establishment of full control over it, Turkey has specifically taken on Cyprus. Caucasian studies expert Karen Igityan holds a similar opinion.

ArmInfo.  A delegation headed by Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan left for a working visit to Greece on May 5. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry. No other details from the agenda of the visit were provided.  

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ArmInfo.  "We will continue efforts towards countering disinformation and dealing with challenges prompted by rapid technological progress,"  RA MFA Press Secretary Ani Badalyan wrote in her microblog on X. "On World Press Freedom Day, we reaffirm the strong commitment to media freedom as an  important component for upholding the rights of our citizens.