The new director of Armenia’s national security service, Arthur Vanetsyan, says that the service has launched active investigations since May 23 to uncover illicit enrichment cases through corruption schemes.

According to the decision of Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Rustam Badasyan has been appointed deputy chairman of the State Revenue Committee.

Movses Hakobyan will be relieved from the position of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes the member states of the European Union will ratify the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) as soon as possible.

According to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, snap parliamentary elections in Armenia should be held in autumn, Pashinyan told the reporters on May 23 that discussions with other political forces on that issue are possible.

Russia has always played an active role in the settlement process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and will continue acting in the same way in the future, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

The “Amulsar Without Mine” initiative, a protest movement against Lydian’s Amulsar gold mine, rallied today in Yerevan. The rally began from the Mashtots Park with demonstrators marching towards the Presidential Residence to hand over a letter to President Sarkissian.

Soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Shamkhal Petrosyan, who was wounded on May 13 in one of the military units, is in stable condition.

In the framework of the criminal case investigated in the Investigative Division of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee 60 year-old G. Matosyan’s murder was revealed. The suspect was arrested.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan issued a statement on Facebook, stating that he cannot understand that some citizens do not properly react to his call to end all acts of civil disobedience.