This government cannot manage, and if the government cannot manage, then it must go. Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the “Prosperous Armenia” party, announced this during the pre-election campaign in the communities of Tavush region.

According to him, an entire nation should not suffer and be discredited because of the government. He pointed out all the problems that these authorities have brought upon RA. Foreign debt reaching 15 billion dollars, a difficult social situation, and with those 15 billion dollars, no serious economic program was implemented, no factory was built.

“I didn’t graduate from Harvard, but I graduated from the school of life. Nothing is impossible, everything is solvable, you just need the right specialists, party affiliation should not matter, but a person’s knowledge, work, and respect. Today they say: you elected Tsarukyan, you will vote for Lukashenko, and I say: whoever voted for CP, will vote for Aliyev and Erdogan,” stated Gagik Tsarukyan.

The PAP leader urged the participants of the meeting to definitely participate in the elections, voting according to their conscience.

Details in the video

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In Armenia, an alarm of a fake batch of medicine has been received again. This is reported by the RA health and labor inspection body.

“According to the letter received by the “Drugs and Medical Technology Expert Center” SNOC on May 11, the Hoffman-La Roche company provided information regarding the counterfeiting of Perjeta (pertuzumab) concentrate solution for drip injection 30 mg/ml, glass vial 14 ml of drug N7796 series,” the message said.

AATM is requested to be careful and avoid the use of drug with series N7796.

It should be noted that the drug “Perjeta” is a means of fighting cancer and costs 999 thousand drams. Unfortunately, this is not the first time that fraudsters have counterfeited life-saving medication.

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The anti-corruption court accepted another lawsuit filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office regarding confiscation of property of illegal origin.

The department of confiscation of property of illegal origin of the General Prosecutor’s Office submitted a request to the court to confiscate in favor of the Republic of Armenia from Ruben Garniki Hovsepyan, former head of the Ajapnyak administrative district of Yerevan, former deputy of the RA National Assembly, and his related persons:

3 real estates, 2 of them in Yerevan city, 1 in Artashavan settlement of Ashtarak community.
1 vehicle.
Participation in 1 legal entity.
236 million 827 thousand drams as the balance of illegal funds.

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Davit Babayan, former foreign minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, who is in Azerbaijani captivity, appealed to all human rights defenders and people of good will. The audio message was transmitted to NEWS.am through Davit Babayan’s family, which we present below.

“Dear compatriots, Armenians around the world, people of goodwill around the world, human rights defenders, journalists,

I have to appeal to you, because I simply have no other alternative. You know that we have been here for three years now, legal proceedings are going on and, of course, with major violations, but recently another one has been added to these violations, my letter complaints addressed to the appeals court have disappeared, so that this case will also be reviewed in the appeals court, and we want to appeal to the international court.

My lawyer informed me about it on May 7, saying that it was the last day for submission of applications. It was, of course, a surprise, because the last day was supposed to be February 25, and on February 23, I sent two applications from the detention center, and one letter through the head of the detention center, requesting that this be sent. And all that has disappeared, is gone. I was forced to write another letter, but I don’t know the answer, so it is not excluded that they will try to prevent me from submitting my applications to the Court of Appeal.

Apart from that, my last appearance in the court of first instance on December 19, 2025 was also taken from the April 21 solitary confinement. This is also nothing but a move to destroy all critical speeches. Therefore, please all of you take this as information, to the international court as a proceeding, and to the international community for information, because we really want to go to the international court.

Therefore, I call on all Armenians and people of good will to help us in this matter. I am doing this for the sake of justice, democracy, protection of human rights, for true peace, and I think this is the only way in this direction. Therefore, I would also ask you to demand, to request that our last speeches be provided to you also on video, if they have not already been destroyed.

And now I would like to briefly present the court process, who knows what will happen to me tomorrow, so that you will be aware of what is happening in general. This ongoing trial is, of course, fake, all norms of humanity, justice, fairness, international law, their own legislation are grossly violated. I call for our patriotic Armenians to unite and defend our rights, because we will appeal to the international court. All their arguments are fabricated, empty, very weak. This trial is not a trial, it is an ethno-political vendetta, an ethno-political lynching aimed at the past, present and future of our people.

There were so many abuses and violations that even some lawyers mentioned it, saying that the time will come when they will be ashamed of all those violations. I would also say it will be painful, because there are certain ideas, certain unwritten laws, written laws, related to faith, the violation of which, even more so knowingly, voluntarily and daringly, is never forgiven. I have also quoted a saying from their Qur’an, which says that God does not like arrogant and self-righteous, self-satisfied people, and this is very important. I think it had an effect.

There are so many such violations that sometimes it even reaches a tragicomedy. For example, the first thing that catches the eye is that they wrote in the indictment that during the search they found two metal objects, white and yellow in color, they are my gold necklace with a cross and a silver tzbeh, both of them are handmade. Now it is mentioned as some kind of metal things of white and yellow color.

Then, the so-called explanations of the witnesses are very interesting. a witness who “recognized” me first told me: you are Vitaly Balasanyan, I remember you well, you beat me, tortured me. Then everyone said that he was a different person, but this one did not rest. My defense attorney said, he is not himself, this disrespected the defense attorney, he considered him an Armenian, then he saw that the situation was complicated, he started to do some kind of simulation.

The other one who “recognized” me was a man who said that I tortured him in the winter of 1994 and said that you have not changed at all, you are the same two meters tall, with a golden beard, mustache and hair, you have not changed in any way. Pointing to that, he said that in 1993 or 1992, we were beaten in a cruel way, we were hung with our heads down, we were kept in that situation for seven days, we were beaten with iron rods and some kind of sticks.

I say even bats that have evolved for millions of years can’t hang for seven days straight, how did you hang? Do you understand, in a normal court, at least three answers should be given to them, or these people should apologize, or they should be medically examined, maybe they have some problems, or they should be considered as defamation and sued.

Nothing happened, on the contrary, they came to all the trials, many, many other sessions, and they were shown the foreground, on their television.

It was also interesting that during a preliminary investigation they brought and showed the picture of the deputy of the NKR National Assembly Davit Galstyan, they said that this is a well-known mafioso, he sold weapons. I said, that person has nothing to do with it, then it turned out that this is another Davit Galstyan, the person called “Boss Davo”. But the problem is that 73 people have already testified against that deputy and personally, as if they saw him. When I told them, they got mixed up, left, came back after about two hours, said we changed, you will say that you saved Davit Galstyan’s life.

When we were accused of illegal economic activities, they said that the unrecognized states are illegal entities and to have economic ties with them is already a crime in itself. But what happened, during the trial, the simultaneous translation device was made in Taiwan. In other words, they judge separatists using the techniques of a separatist country, but they say that it is impossible to maintain contact with those states. This is despite the fact that their leadership visited China twice only in 2025 and announced there that they recognize Taiwan as part of China.

I am telling this based on the facts, this is the situation. I think there is state and geopolitical hatred, I have also pointed it out in my speeches.

Ordinary people don’t matter, people are normal everywhere, and we really saw a lot of people here, also very normal people who treated us well. In general, there is no bad nation, for that I am grateful to all normal people. Therefore, we must tell the truth as it is. We want justice, that’s why we present all this to the international community.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends who were by our side during these years, both in the homeland and in the diaspora, and our friends in different countries around the world, who even have serious problems with each other. Europe and America are especially active, and that is very good.

Don’t worry, everything is still normal with us in prison and so on. Thank you very much, because that struggle is not only for us, it is for justice, human rights, democracy”, stated Davit Babayan.

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Russian citizens should consider the risk of detention by third countries and extradition to the United States when traveling abroad. Grigory Lukyantsev, Director of the Multilateral Human Rights Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, told RIA Novosti about this.

“Many states, not only in the EU but also more broadly, have certain obligations regarding extradition and extradition. All this should be taken into account when assessing the risks that people may face when traveling abroad,” Lukyantsev said.

The diplomat emphasized that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not decide where Russians can and cannot travel. It can only advise not to visit certain countries if the citizens think that they may have problems with the American or European authorities.

According to the information published by the Russian Foreign Ministry, countries with a high risk of arrest of Russian citizens at the request of the United States include most of Europe and Latin America, as well as Australia, Canada, Armenia, Israel, Maldives, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Liberia and Morocco. However, the ministry notes that this list does not include all countries that have extradition treaties with the United States.

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The government of Armenia is expanding the state program for the development of sheep breeding and goat breeding, responding to the demand of the private sector.

From now on, farmers will have the opportunity to purchase up to a thousand pedigree animals with state subsidies, which will stimulate the increase in the production and processing of not only meat, but also milk.

Changes and additions to the 2024-2028 program were approved at the May 14 executive meeting. According to Deputy Minister of Economy Arman Khojoyan, in the past, each beneficiary was compensated for the purchase of a maximum of 300 heads. However, the responses of business representatives indicate that a larger number of animals will allow to create large and efficient farms.

According to the new regulations, legal entities and individual entrepreneurs can get back 50 percent of the cost of purchased pedigree cattle. In case of importation from abroad, the maximum amount of compensation is set at 450,000 AMD per head, and 300,000 AMD when purchasing from the domestic market with a pedigree card.

One of the important innovations of the program is the requirement for mandatory registration of animals in the information system of registration of agricultural animals, which will ensure clear traceability of the number of animals. According to official data, around 2,350 animals have already been purchased within the framework of previous programs, and for the current year, an application for the purchase of another 1,300 animals has been approved.

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“You will not scare us with searches and arrests. The actions taking place in our Spitak office and the targeting of our teammates are not a surprise. Such a way of working of the law enforcement system has long been the signature of the current administration.” The “Armenia” alliance issued a statement about this.

“These actions prove once again.

the government does not have public support and confidence in its own forces and resorts to such steps to ensure its reproduction.

What is happening is not a legal process, but another cheap attempt to obstruct the normal work of our structures.

With similar methods, the government tries to spread an atmosphere of fear, but this only strengthens our belief that the chosen path is the right one.

No search or arrest can change our political agenda. our team knows what it is fighting for.

We call on our citizens to respond to all illegal steps taken by the government on June 7, rejecting the authoritarian regime established in Armenia,” the statement said.

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On May 14, the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church will celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. On this occasion, a Holy and Immortal Liturgy will be served in the Mother Church of Miatsnaej.

The holiday also commemorates the historic day of the transfer of the Catholicosate of All Armenians from the city of Sis to the Mother See of Saint Etchmiadzin in 1441. At the end of the Holy Liturgy, a Patriarchal blessing will be performed in the Miatznaej Cathedral.

The beginning of the Holy Liturgy at 10:30.

A cultural event will be organized on the occasion of the holiday, performed by the students of Hayordats houses, around the Holy See of Havart.

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The RA government revised the medical eligibility criteria, enabling citizens using mobility aids to enter the service.

With the amendments approved at the May 14 government session, the legal obstacles that previously did not allow people who have overcome serious health problems to join the armed forces are removed.

According to the previous regulations, persons with significant functional impairments were prohibited from entering contract service. According to the new ruling, if a citizen is able to move around with the help of prostheses, crutches or even a wheelchair after recovery and some restoration of functionality, he is legally eligible to reapply and enlist in the military.

This initiative aims to create a level playing field and ensure inclusiveness in the defense system, valuing the potential of every citizen willing to serve.

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