Russia commends the positive trends which are noticed around the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at a press briefing, according to TASS.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has confirmed that Deputy Prosecutor General Sahak Karapetyan was on board the helicopter that crashed in Russia’s Kostroma Oblast.

The government approved the dismissal of several governors during today’s Cabinet meeting.

The Cabinet will hold a closed-door session today to debate the bill on declaring amnesty.

The resignation of Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender Ruben Melikyan has been officially accepted and the Ombudsman has been discharged from duty, Speaker of Parliament of Artsakh Ashot Ghulyan said.

Armenia will never agree for a state which is opening gunfire at its settlements to become a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during today’s parliamentary Q&A in response to Republican MP Armen Ashotyan’s question.

A direct communication hasn’t yet been established with the Azerbaijani President, but works in this direction are ongoing, PM Nikol Pashinyan said in response to a question from Republican MP Armen Ashotyan at today’s parliamentary Q&A.

Chairman of the state forestry committee Michael Manukyan has resigned.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has presented details from the October 2 negotiations that took place in the parliament building with representatives of factions.

The co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Armenia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Yuliya Lovochkina (Ukraine, SOC), has today called on all political forces and players in Armenia to fully respect democratic principles and the rule of law, both in word and deed.