The NSS said they will provide additional information in an official statement later. According to unconfirmed media reports Vermishyan is currently under criminal investigation into alleged corruption-related activities.
The Armenian Healthcare ministry says all suspected cases of the novel coronavirus so far have turned out to be the simple flu, and all coronavirus tests were negative.
Late last night, the Court of Appeals, presided over by Judge Sergey Marabyan, examined the lawyers’ appeal against the detention of former Minister of Finance and SRC Chairman Gagik Khachatryan. After the session, Yerem Sargsyan, member of the Khachatryans’ legal team, told the reporters that state law enforcement bodies violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in Khachatryan’s case.
Armenian chemist Robert Bakhtchadjian’s Bimodial Oxidation: Coupling of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Reactions study has been included in the curriculum of Belgium’s Ghent University at the recommendation of Joris W. Thybaut, a Professor of Chemical Technology of the university.
The second Armenian citizen to be evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak has been airlifted to Russia as a result of cooperation with Russian colleagues, the Armenian foreign ministry said.
An Armenian national will be evacuated from China on board a Russian military plane, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said, according to TASS.
An OSCE mission will conduct a planned ceasefire monitoring on February 6 at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, the Foreign Ministry of Artsakh said.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan reminded the 6 pan-national consensuses proposed by him in Stepanakert on August 5, 2019, as a pillar and formula for the pan-Armenianism and the national unity.
