ArmInfo.Rafayel Gevorgyan was dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Economy of Armenia. The
decision on this was signed by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
ArmInfo. The head of the commission on financial, credit and budgetary issues of the National Assembly of
Armenia, Tsovinar Vardanyan, believes that currently the police forces ensuring the safety of the country's citizens are under direct attack from the protest movement led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan.
ArmInfo. 2,075 forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh applied for Armenian citizenship, of
which 1,437 received citizenship. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Arpine Sargsyan stated on May 29 at a hearing on budget implementation in parliament.
ArmInfo. Russia is counting on Azerbaijan's support in preparations for the opening of the Russian Consulate General in Stepanakert, which will begin in the near future. This was stated by the head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Grigory Karasin, at a meeting with a delegation of the Azerbaijani Parliament led by Chairman of the Committee on International Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Samad Seyidov.
ArmInfo.The musical performance-show of Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky "FRANK" will come to Armenia.
ArmInfo. In line with its aggressive and expansionist anti-Armenian agenda, Azerbaijan continues to spread false information and propaganda. For years, dedicating considerable effort and resources, Baku has sought to portray the over 2800-year-old city of Yerevan as "Azerbaijani.
ArmInfo. Moscow saw a positive reaction from the Armenian side to the assistance offered by Russia
in connection with the flooding in northern Armenia. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated on May 30 during a weekly briefing in response to a corresponding
question.
ArmInfo.Markus Ritter, the head of the European Union's monitoring mission in Armenia, told CivilNet last week his observers are not currently patrolling sections of the border with Azerbaijan that are under delimitation, but plan to do so in the future. They also intend to go to areas they did not previously have access to, in light of this month's withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia's border with Azerbaijan.
ArmInfo.A meeting of the RA government began on May 30 with an expression of condolences to all
the families of those killed in the severe flood that occurred on May 25- 26 in the Lori and Tavush regions of Armenia.
ArmInfo.As a result of a natural disaster on May 25-26, railway tracks in Lori region were damaged in 8 places with a total length of up to 2 kilometers. In addition, 4 electrical substations and electrical centralization equipment at the stations were flooded, 3 engineering structures, as well as power lines of various voltages were damaged, this is stated in the press service of the South Caucasus Railway CJSC.
ArmInfo.This year, there will hardly be a need to draw additional water from Lake Sevan. RA
Minister of Environment Hakob Semidyan stated on May 22 during government hour in the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
ArmInfo. Alain-Richard Donwahi, the President of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) arrived in Armenia.