President Armen Sarkissian has appointed Sarmen Baghdasaryan as the new Armenian ambassador to Kuwait.

President Armen Sarkissian has dismissed Manvel Badeyan from the position of Armenia’s Ambassador to Kuwait, the president’s office said.

The Eurasian Women’s Forum, attended by PM Nikol Pashinyan’s wife Anna Hakobyan, has ended in St. Petersburg.

An explosion has killed one person in the St. Gregory the Illuminator Medical Center in Yerevan,.

Haykak Arshamyan has been named as the new executive director of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund.

“Armenia’s peaceful transfer of power in May 2018 has been truly remarkable. However, popular expectations are high that there will be tangible improvements to people’s lives, and the government should devote its attention to upholding the long-neglected rights of those who are most vulnerable”, said Dunja Mijatović.

International news media have weighed in on the Yerevan City Council election.

Lt. general Levon Yeranosyan (pictured above), the former commander of Armenia’s Police Troops, or Interior Troops, has been summoned to the Special Investigative Service (SIS).

The Yerevan City Council election was unique, a full opportunity existed for citizen to freely go and vote without any coercion, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a live broadcast on Facebook from New York City.

Police officers of Vagharshapat, aka Etchmiatsin, have discovered two cannabis farms in the nearby village of Hovtamej amid anti-narcotic operations. The farms were located in the backyards of two homes, owned by local men.