Former minister of culture Hasmik Poghosyan has been appointed as advisor to the President of Armenia.

A malfunction of electricity meters resulted in a fire in the 29/4 dormitory in Moldovakan Street, Yerevan, the ministry of emergency situations said.

Arsenal veteran midfielder Robert Pires says Alexis Sanchez’s transfer to Manchester United has not negatively affected the Gunners.

Armenia’s ruling coalition will officially nominate Armen Sarkissian’s candidacy as the 4th President of Armenia, secretary of the ARF parliamentary faction Aghvan Vardanyan told reporters after Sarkissian’s meeting with the coalition partners Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and the ARF in the parliament.

Soldier of the Defense Army Grigor Yeghoyan, born in 1998, was fatally wounded by the Azerbaijani fire on February 22, at 09:40, in one of the military units located at the north-eastern direction of the Defense Army, the Artsakh defense ministry reported.

The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has nominated the candidacy of MP Gevorg Kostanyan, a former Prosecutor General, to serve as chairman of the parliamentary committee on state-legal and human rights protection affairs, the parliament’s press service said.

Karen Ghahramanyan, chief of staff of the ministry of energy infrastructures and natural resources, will be relieved from post.

Address by President Serzh Sargsyan on Artsakh Revival Day and Karabakh Movement 30th anniversary.

Deputy minister of transportation, communication and information technologies Boris Demirkhanyan has resigned. The government’s press service said PM Karen Karapetyan has relieved Demirkhanyan from duties in accordance to the resignation.

The absence of an adequate reaction from the international community on Azeri President Ilham Aliyev’s statements uttering territorial claims for Armenia has encouraged Azeri defense minister Zakir Hasanov to reiterate the threat of use of force, Armenian foreign ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said.