729 Armenian citizens living abroad will cast their ballots electronically in the upcoming general election, Central Electoral Commission Chairman Tigran Mukuchyan said at a session today.

resident Armen Sarkissian has relieved Armenia’s Ambassador to Lebanon Samvel Mkrtchyan from duties, Sarkissian’s office said.

President Armen Sarkissian has sacked Ambassador to Poland Edgar Ghazaryan, Sarkissian’s office said.

According to Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia representing the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) Eduard Sharmzanov, it’s the Republican party that in the future parliament can be a real opposition and indicate the shortcomings and mistakes of the authorities, Sharmazanov told about this in a speech at the National Assembly.

Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan today attended the civilian wake ceremony of Yuri Vardanyan, the retired weightlifter and politician who died November 2 in the U.S. aged 62, the PM’s office said.

The body of legendary retired weightlifter, retired political Yuri Vardanyan lies in repose at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex in Yerevan as the country bids its final farewell to one of its finest.

A 30-year-old man in Yerevan has battered his 20-year-old wife to death on November 11, police said.

Armenia can reaffirm that it has sufficient resource to complete its term in the position of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), foreign ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan told reporters at a press briefing.

Microbusinesses will be exempt from taxes in Armenia. In case of having up to three employees in that business, there will be another, mild regime for income tax, acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during the debate of the 2019 state budget draft in the Parliament on November 13.

Diana Grigoryan, aka Dina Akopovna, the 42-year-old Armenian woman wanted by U.S. law enforcement agencies for visa fraud and money laundering, has been released from jail in Yerevan after turning herself in to local police earlier in November.