“Hraparak” newspaper writes:

“Yesterday, the CP Department from 3 candidates Alen Simonyan, Ruben Rubinyan, Hayk Konjoryan, elected the Speaker of the National Assembly. But there is no less hot competition for the position of the head of the CP faction. There is still no final decision in the CP, but behind the scenes, various candidacies are being discussed.

They say that many people have ambitions. From Alkhas Ghazaryan until Vahagn Alexanyan. However, everyone knows that even if a formal vote is held, the decision-maker is one person, Nikol Pashinyan. There is an opinion that Pashinyan, like after 18, this time the faction will trust the former US ambassador Lilit Makuntsi, whom he trusts.”

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Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has announced that he will submit a draft resolution on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide to the government for approval.

According to the reports of the Israeli media, in the background of the continuous deterioration of relations between Israel and Turkey, official Jerusalem may recognize the Armenian Genocide in the near future.

If such a resolution is indeed presented and approved by the government and the Knesset, it may signal significant changes in Israel’s regional policy.

The experience of my parliamentary work and numerous contacts proves that for decades the issue of official recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Israel remained a subject of discussion and was mostly postponed due to political, economic and diplomatic relations with Turkey. The current crisis in that relationship may be a cause for recognition.

However, it is important to consider that there are several stages between the statement of the Israeli Foreign Minister and the actual recognition by the State of Israel.

1. Presentation of the draft resolution.
2. Its discussion and approval by the Government and the Knesset.
3. Further possible decisions of other state structures.

Therefore, the statement made at this moment is not about an already established recognition, but about an initiative that may later lead to the official recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

This is a long overdue and very welcome process.

Former RA Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan

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Imagine for a moment that you are a Foreign Ministry official sitting in some X capital, dealing with the South Caucasus, specifically Armenia-Azerbaijan topics, studying and seeing that Azerbaijan has started a new campaign of territorial claims against Armenia at the state level. You say, see what the RA authorities evaluate this, let me know so that I can report to the ministers and deputy ministers. You open yesterday’s press conference of the RA leader and hear how he literally justifies the aggressive plans being promoted by Azerbaijan, accusing the RA opposition of it. You write and report that Armenia actually considers the promotion of this program “logical” in the presence of such opposition. Then, when an Azerbaijani official with that agenda comes to the Foreign Ministry of X country, they will say that there is no actual objection from Armenia, let’s come and talk.

This is how Pashinyan makes a very direct and obvious advocacy in favor of Azerbaijan, such dangerous parallels help Azerbaijan advance the invasion plan invented from zero in the capitals of different countries.

No diplomat from X country will stand up for our interests more than us, they will not go and investigate and say: you know, the Prime Minister of RA is making some kind of illogical claim. After all, that Artsakh is an age-old name, fixed in the writings and maps of various historians, not to mention that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is an internationally recognized conflict. No one will say, but you know, the right of return of Artsakh Armenians has been established by international courts, it is not enough, the RA leadership is fighting against it today. They will not say that you know that there is no real map on the planet where the name “West Azerbaijan” applies to the territory of Armenia, and international courts have rejected the applications of the Azerbaijani side regarding the right in this matter. No one will do what we have to do for us, instead they will look at the speeches of Aliyev’s henchmen of the RA authorities and very calmly accept the Azerbaijani officials who have held any event on “rights” topics, because Pashinyan is “normalizing” all that.

That is why I say that the consolidation of the public sphere is very important in this matter, because this is a matter of national security. If the public sphere is united in calling this an invasive concept that threatens regional stability, then maybe a diplomat from country X will include that in the report as well. After all, the majority of voters in this country did not accept Aliyev’s henchman Pashinyan as the prime minister. Therefore, diplomat X can take this into account in his report. Today, the main task in restraining Azerbaijan is in the hands of the public sphere.

Azerbaijanologist Tatev Hayrapetyan

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Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan met Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Konstantin Chuichenko in the framework of the 14th Petersburg International Legal Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. We learn about this from the ministry’s Facebook page.

The minister highly appreciated the holding of the bilateral meeting as an important opportunity to discuss the current directions of cooperation between the ministries of justice and outline the perspectives of further development of cooperation.

Konstantin Chuichenko emphasized the importance of cooperation with the RA Ministry of Justice and suggested expanding the bilateral contractual base.

During the meeting, the parties also emphasized the development of cooperation in the field of legal assistance, emphasizing that it is one of the key directions of strengthening bilateral relations and ensuring effective interaction between competent authorities.

Srbuhi Galyan also referred to the need for further improvement of mechanisms for the execution of requests for legal mutual assistance, stressing the importance of continuous development of practical cooperation in the field.

The parties also discussed the possibilities of expanding cooperation in the field of probation, emphasizing the exchange of experience and the introduction of effective solutions in the field.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Srbuhi Galyan invited the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation to participate in the 20th session of the Council of Ministers of Justice of the CIS member states, which will be held in Yerevan in November of this year.

The mentioned event is an important platform for discussion of current issues of legal cooperation, exchange of professional experience and development of joint approaches in the priority directions of interaction.

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As I mentioned after the election, the opposition forces have a huge amount of work to do, and the epitaphic and emotional noise regarding this work will only be distracting and disruptive. And there will be a lot of noisy people, and although there will also be those who raise their voices with a completely sincere motive, it will be mainly an organized noise in order to “reset” everything in the opposition field in the post-election environment and “start from scratch”.

“Starting from scratch” clearly turns it into a collective technology used against Armenia. The so-called philosophy of “starting from scratch” destroys the perspectives of public thought, in general, makes thought redundant. Because in order to “start from zero” the key, the primary thing is to destroy what existed before, to reset it to zero.

And it was this “philosophy” that simply unforgivably squandered the public positive energy and anticipation accumulated in 2018, did not allow it to be filtered out and remain just that, but that positive energy and expectation itself was filtered out and left, leaving only the deepening mutual bile and intolerance. It was the ‘conceptual’ effect of ‘starting from scratch’.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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Tomorrow, June 27, another cyclone will enter Armenia from the Black Sea region, tomorrow the cyclone will rotate in the territory of Armenia throughout the day. Gagik Surenyan, deputy director of the hydrometeorology and monitoring center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, announced this on his Facebook page.

“On June 27, short thundery rains are expected from time to time in most of the regions, in some areas they will be heavy and there will be hail in some places.

The air temperature will decrease by 4-5 degrees in the whole territory of the country tomorrow during the day.

Starting from June 28, there will be weather without precipitation in the whole area for 5 days, the air temperature will rise as much as it decreased,” he said.

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The volume of Armenia’s foreign trade turnover in January-May 2026 amounted to 7,864.7 million dollars, decreasing by 0.1% compared to the same period in 2025, the Statistical Committee reports.

In May of the current year, compared to May of last year, the indicator decreased by 5.3%, and compared to April of the same year, by 5.6%. In January-May 2026, the volume of foreign trade in terms of drams was 2,953.8 billion drams.

Exports from Armenia in January-May 2026, compared to the same period of 2025, decreased by 3.7%, amounting to 2,864.9 million dollars.

In May, compared to May of last year, an 11.5% decrease was recorded, and compared to April of this year, 4.7%. In monetary terms, exports in January-April 2026 amounted to 1,076.3 billion drams.

Imports amounted to 4,999.8 million dollars in five months, increasing by 2.2% compared to the same period in 2025. In May, imports decreased by 1.6% on an annual basis, and by 6.1% on a monthly basis. In terms of money, the import in January-May amounted to 1,877.5 billion drams.

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