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Azerbaijan constructing 700km military roads on Armenia border, says Aliyev

July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Jhanna Virabian

News.am, Armenia

12:27, 23.07.2021

Azerbaijan is actively working on the construction of military roads in the Kelbajar (Karvachar) and Lachin (Berdzor) regions of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), according to President Ilham Aliyev.

"The total length of these roads is 700 kilometers. Before, these roads—including in the direction of the border [with Armenia]—did not exist," Aliyev added in an interview with AzTV.

"It is a large-scale work, it is not covered much in the press, and this is understandable. But these roads are of great importance from a strategic point of view and from the point of view of strengthening our borders," he said, Interfax Azerbaijan reported.

Armenpress: Hayk Martirosyan leaves Azerbaijani grandmaster out of Chess World Cup

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Jhanna Virabian

Hayk Martirosyan leaves Azerbaijani grandmaster out of Chess World Cup

18:20,

YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS. Hayk Martirosyan, a member of the Armenian men's chess team, left out the strongest chess player of Azerbaijan, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov from the Chess World Cup.

ARMENPRESS reports in the 3rd round of the World Chess Cup taking place in Sochi Hayk Martirosyan, playing in black, won the Azerbaijan grandmaster in the first game and ended in a draw in the second game. Based on the results of the two games, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov was left out of the World Chess Cup.

The next rival of grandmaster Hayk Martirosyan is Croatian grandmaster Ante Brkić.

Armenpress: Entrepreneur Jevan Cheloyants introduces Pashinyan on new investment projects

July 16, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

Entrepreneur Jevan Cheloyants introduces Pashinyan on new investment projects

16:40,

YEREVAN, JULY 15, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received entrepreneur Jevan Cheloyants, Pashinyan’s Office told Armenpress.

The businessman presented the upcoming investments projects in Yerevan in construction sector and the process of ongoing works on this direction. On the sidelines of these projects, a new stadium in accordance with the international standards is expected to be built for the Urartu football club, which will contribute to the development and the progress of the club.

Pashinyan welcomed the entrepreneur’s initiatives on implementing new investment projects and stated that the Armenian government is ready to support their effective fulfillment within the frames of its tools.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

IDBank joined the fulfillment of children’s dreams

July 9, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

IDBank joined the fulfillment of children’s dreams

18:34, 8 July, 2021

YEREVAN, JULY 8, ARMENPRESS. On June 4-6, within the framework of the “Bigidream” project of “The Armenian exists” public organization, a children’s educational, entertaining, competitive music festival was held, which brought together smart, strong, creative children from Artsakh and Armenia. By filling out the relevant application and sharing it on social networks, children participate in the competition and present their dreams.

As a result, dreams of over 200 children were collected. IDBank joined the initiative and expressed its readiness to fulfill the dreams of children.

In addition, IDBank threw a “challenge of happiness” to three partner organizations: Unibank, Idram and Ernst&Young. They, in their turn, will fulfill the dreams of several children and continue the marathon of happiness.

Join the happiness marathon and make yourself happy by making the kids happy.

IDBank continues its corporate social responsibility programs, the main focus of which is study, and at the same time, highlighting the problems faced by the country in the post-war period, the Bank pays special attention to the defenders of the Motherland and their families. The Military Insurance Fund has been announced as another beneficiary of the “Power of One Dram” initiative in partnership with Idram. In June, 3.334.715 drams have already been gathered. Continue making payments via QR/NFC of the app and become a goodwill ambassador.

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Caucasian Heritage Watch confirms the destruction of another Armenian cemetery in Nagorno-Karabakh

July 4, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

Panorama, Armenia

July 3 2021

Society 17:30 03/07/2021NKR

Caucasian Heritage Watch (CHW) confirms the destruction of another Armenian cemetery in the village of Sghnakh, as first reported by Monument Watch. The Organisation has shared satellite imagery on its Twitter, showing the area was bulldozed in connection with road construction.

Monument Watch reports that the cemetery was founded in the mid-18th c. and remained in use until Armenians evacuated the village following the fall 2020 war. Satellite imagery indicates that the destruction took place between April 12 and June 18.

As the source detailed this is the second historic cemetery destroyed along the new Fizuli-Shushi road, after Mets Tagher. CHW calls on Azerbaijan’s authorities to stop the destruction of cemeteries and act as stewards of all cultural heritage on their territory.

Armenpress: Azerbaijan exerts psychological pressure on Artsakh residents through information terrorism – Ombudsman

July 1, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

Azerbaijan exerts psychological pressure on Artsakh residents through information terrorism – Ombudsman

16:37,

YEREVAN, JUNE 30, ARMENPRESS. Ombudsman of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan has made a statement over the information terrorism made by Azerbaijan against the people of Artsakh.

The statement reads:

“Azerbaijan continues its aggression against the people of Artsakh, exerting psychological pressure on the Artsakh residents through information terrorism. The goal is one: to evict the Armenians from Artsakh by spreading fear, despair and psychological depression among the people of Artsakh.

If before our residents were called and offered to sell shops and apartments, now the “Khankendi / Stepanakert” page has been activated on the Facebook social network, which clearly carries out the orders of the Azerbaijani propaganda. In the last post, the self-proclaimed “deputy elected from Stepakert” presents the contacts of his non-existent office, as if expecting that the residents of Artsakh will apply to him. This is another manipulation of the Azerbaijani authorities and a double game to appear in front of the international community in the guise of a peace-loving country, and to feed its own society inside the country with Armenophobia.

The content of the page clearly shows that it is coordinated by the state bodies of Azerbaijan and aims to put psychological pressure on the people of Artsakh through information terror, and the comments under the page posts are full of Armenophobia and hate speech against Armenians.

The national security bodies must take the necessary technical measures to silence the spread of the page among our population and to ensure the psychological immunity of our population.

I draw the attention of international organizations to this issue: this is a psychological terrorism carried out by Azerbaijan, a component of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing against the Armenians of Artsakh.

Dear compatriots, do not give in to Azerbaijani manipulations, do not like the page, as a result of which you will constantly receive misleading information containing deception spread on that page”.

Secretary General of the Council of Europe sends congratulatory message to Nikol Pashinyan

June 30, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

Secretary General of the Council of Europe sends congratulatory message to Nikol Pashinyan

20:18,

YEREVAN, JUNE 29, ARMENPRESS. Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe sent a congratulatory message to caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on the successful conduct of the parliamentary elections.

As ARMENPRESs was informed from the Office of the Prime Minister, the message runs as follows,

‘’Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

I congratulate you on the successful holding of the June 20 snap parliamentary elections. I welcome the fact that international observers, including the delegation of our Parliamentary Assembly, assessed these elections as competitive and generally well organized.

It is important that the election results showed the unconditional support of the Armenian people to the reform policy under your leadership. Now that the election campaign is over, it is time to focus on a constructive dialogue with political parties and civil society. In this regard, I reaffirm the readiness of the Council of Europe to continue to support Armenia in the reform process, based on the criteria of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. “

Caucasian Knot | Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling on the border

June 29, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

The Caucasian Knot, EU

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In the evening on June 27, Armenian militaries shelled the positions of Azerbaijani soldiers near the village of Garalar in the Tovuz District; there were no victims, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

As of the evening on June 27, the situation stabilized, the MoD has added.

Meanwhile, the Armenian MoD has refuted the reports that Armenian soldiers had shelled the border positions of the Azerbaijani Army. Baku “is spreading disinformation once again,” the MoD asserts.

Let us remind you that Armenia and Azerbaijan are systematically exchanging accusations of shelling. Thus, on June 24, Baku claimed shelling of its positions by Armenian militaries in the direction of the Tovuz District. The Armenian MoD called this message disinformation.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on at 08:02 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

See earlier reports:

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of a shelling attack on border, Azeri political analysts note the need to strengthen borders, Azerbaijan returns lost soldier to Armenia.

Source: CK correspondent

Armenia’s caretaker PM congratulates Georgian counterpart on birthday

June 29, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

13:22,

YEREVAN, JUNE 28, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory message to Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on his birthday, Pashinyan’s Office told Armenpress.

The message reads:

“Excellency,

Please accept my warmest congratulations on your birthday. I wish you good health, much happiness and every success in all your undertakings.

Our peoples are bound by deep-rooted affinities and a dialogue coming from the depths of centuries, which determines the vision of future cooperation between our two friendly nations.

Highly appreciative of our cooperation and mutual understanding, I am convinced that consistent daily work will help us reach new heights in friendship.

Please accept, Excellency, my best wishes and the assurances of my highest consideration.”

Armenian election official rejects claim of invalid results

June 28, 2021March 12, 2026 Jhanna Virabian

Los Angeles Times

Nikol Pashinyan stepped down as prime minister for the snap election but appears certain to become Armenia’s prime minister again.

(Tigran Mehrabyan / PAN Photo)

Associated Press

10:17 AM PT

YEREVAN, Armenia —

Armenia’s national elections commission on Sunday denied a claim by major opposition groups that the parliamentary election results that gave an overwhelming victory to the acting prime minister’s party were invalid.

The June 20 election gave 71 seats in parliament to the party of the acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan; 29 to a bloc headed by former President Robert Kocharyan; and seven to a bloc headed by another former president, Serzh Sargsyan.

Those blocs and a smaller party that didn’t win seats issued a statement saying the results should be declared invalid because of voting violations.

The snap election followed months of protests against Pashinyan after he signed a peace deal ending last year’s six-week war with Azerbaijan. The deal ceded large swaths of territory in Azerbaijan that had been controlled by Armenian forces since 1994 and was a severe blow to Armenian nationalists’ pride.

Pashinyan stepped down as prime minister, as required by law to hold the election, but remained the country’s leader, and appears certain to become prime minister again when the new parliament convenes.