In the aftermath of the incident, the RoA police issued a statement according to which 34 police officers and 16 civilians were taken to various healthcare facilities. 11 protesters were forcibly taken to police departments and one criminal case was instituted .
Moscow, Baku and Yerevan discussed and brought closer their positions on issues of border, customs and other types of control following the 10th meeting of the trilateral working group held on Friday under the joint chairmanship of Deputy Prime Ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia Alexei Overchuk, Shahin Mustafayev and Mher Grigoryan.
Dominique Pradalié from France, member of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ), was elected President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on 2 June 2022 at the 31st IFJ Congress in Muscat, Oman. After six years on the IFJ Executive Committee, Dominique Pradalié succeeds Younes Mjahed from Morocco.
On June 10 at 20:00, the Komitas Chamber Music House will host the debut album presentation and concert of 12-year-old pianist and musician Alex Gevorgyan.
There are 5 state orphanages in Armenia, where 591 children deprived from parental care live. On June 1st, on the occasion of the International Day for Protection of Children, to turn children’s day into a celebration, and to address the needs of special institutions, benefactor Karen Vardanyan donated to orphanages passenger cars, necessary furniture, consumer electronics, special wheelchairs and chairs adapted for children with disabilities.
On the occasion of the Republic Day, on behalf of the Third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, a wreath was laid at the Memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Sardarapat Battle.
“It is too late to talk about international pressure to return the captives today. When the territories were returned after the signing of the November 9 declaration, but the confirmed prisoners were not repatriated, the human rights organizations, including local NGOs, began to make a fuss. Instead of supporting these efforts, the Armenian authorities criticized or spread false information to the families of the prisoners that the international publicization of the issue would harm the process, the interests of the captive men,” said the representative of the Armenian prisoners at the ECHR, adding that only two years later that there were no threats, moreover, the opposite actions of the Armenian authorities contributed to the longer delay of their repatriation process.
European Council President Charles Michel released a statement after hosting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for trilateral talks in Brussels.
The third president of Armenia, RPA leader Serzh Sargsyan has already created an account on Instagram.
Police are using unprecedented brute force against violent protesters who resumed early this morning, using violence – bodily serious injuries to the participants of the peaceful actions. The Red Berets (the special forces of the RA Police) beat one of the protesters thus the citizen fainted because of the blow.
