The actions of the accused Tigran Khachatryan and Zarzand Nikoghosyan concerning the shooting in the house of the former governor of Syunik region Suren Khachatryan were self-defense. So, it has been decided to terminate the criminal action against the accused and to set them free, says the Investigation Service of Armenia's Defense Ministry.

Earlier you said that Vladimir Putin’s visit to Azerbaijan hinted that Armenia would inevitably join the Customs Union. Can one say after the Putin-Sargsyan meeting in Moscow that Yerevan has taken the hint? What role has Karabakh played in this decision?   

 Artush Margaryan, the father of Gurgen Margaryan, an Armenian officer murdered by Azeri Ramil Safarov in Budapest in 2004, got worse after a surgery.
Margaryan's doctor told 168 Zham newspaper that the crisis is due to problems with blood flow in the man's brain.

Washington's possible military action against Syria without the UN Security Council's approval will roughly violate the basic rules of international law and the UN Charter, says the statement of the Russian Embassy in Armenia. 

The authorities of Abkhazia are surprised at Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan's statement that Abkhazia has allegedly given its consent to opening of the former Transcaucasus railway service, Kristian Bzhania, Spokesman of the President of Abkhazia, said on September 6.  

 "Concerned about attacks vs Arshamyan, Saghatelyan & other activists in Armenia. Effective investigation & accountability must be ensured", Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks says in a tweet. 

 The concern about Russian arms sales to Azerbaijan appeared to have influenced Armenian President Serge Sarkisian more than any other issue, Charles Tannock, Member of the European Parliament, told the BBC. 

The topic of the Karabakh conflict settlement is very sensitive and painful, says Gennady Zyuganov, Head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.  The wounds are healing slowly, therefore, it is necessary to sit down at the negotiation table and look for a solution, he says.    

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visited the Ministry of Justice on September 6. 

ArmInfo-Black Sea Press. The issue of opening of the Abkhaz railway section has been discussed in Georgia, but the Government has made no such a decision, parliamentarian Viktor Dolidze told Imedi TV company on September 6.  

Earlier on Friday Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan said that Georgia, like the de facto authorities of Abkhazia, had given its consent to the opening of the Abkhaz railway section. He said that the issue, which is of strategic importance to Armenia's economy, had been discussed during the Sept 3 meeting of Armenian and Russian Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin.    
 
"I do not know in what context Mr. Baghdasaryan said this. I am aware that they are thinking of economic projects and development of the railway facilities in Abkhazia, but you know that such a decision is out of question. It's one thing to consider and discuss the issue, and it is another thing to make such a decision at the governmental level. There is no such a decision", Dolidze said. 

At the spring session of PACE on April 23, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said that the Abkhaz railway section would open in the long-term outlook but this would happen with due regard for Georgia's interests. 

 Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan will leave for Vilnius on Saturday to meet with his Lithuanian counterpart Linas Linkevicius, reports the press service of Armenia's Foreign Ministry.

"ACRA Credit Reporting" CJSC calls on the citizens of Armenia to track their credit histories. "Whoever applies to a bank or a credit organization for a loan, he/she automatically creates his/her own credit history. Meanwhile, only few of the citizens know how to track their credit histories or check them", says the press release of ACRA Credit Reporting.  

 In 2013 Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) is planning to increase grape procurements by 40% to 35,000 tons - the biggest quantity registered in the last 15 years, reports the YBC press service.

 The EPP Political Assembly adopted a Resolution (5th September 2013, Brussels) on Russian pressure exerted on the Eastern Partnership countries.

 Serzh Sargsyan's foreign political decisions are based on the shadow political trade and stakes, the statement by the opposition Armenian National Congress regarding Armenia's decision to join the Customs Union says. 

"Rostelecom" has opened a sales and services office in Davidashen district of Yerevan, which has become the 11th in the republic and the 3-rd in Yerevan, press-service of the company reported. 

Either Moscow forced Armenia to join the Customs Union or Putin gave serious promises to Sargsyan, for instance, he promised to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh.  David Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights in the US, made the statement in an interview with the Voice of America Armenian service.   
Phillips stated that he was very much surprised by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's announcement on Armenia joining the Customs Union. 

 The countries that have joined Russia's Customs Union are deprived of an opportunity to make independent decisions and join other free trade areas.

Azerbaijan is considering possibility of participation in an informal meeting of the FMs of the Eastern Partnership member countries to be held in Armenia.

 Armenia will initial the Association Agreement with the EU at the Summit in Vilnius in November. There is every reason for that, says Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia Arthur Baghdasaryan.