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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According to preliminary data, consumer prices in Armenia in January-May 2026 increased by 4.5% compared to January-May 2025, the Statistical Committee reports.

Moreover, in May of the current year, compared to May of last year, the increase was 4.2%, and compared to April of the same year, a decrease of 0.8% was recorded.

The prices of industrial products increased by 8.9% in the five months of 2026, compared to the same period last year. In May, on an annual basis, the increase was 9%, and compared to April, the prices increased by 1.6%.

According to preliminary data, Armenia’s economic activity index increased by 8% in January-May 2026 compared to the same period in 2025.

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The government has approved a project to introduce a unified database of IMEI codes. At first glance, it sounds technical and innocent: “fighting against the shadows”, “preventing phone theft”. 

1. A huge database will be created where your passport and personal data, your phone code (IMEI) and all your SIM/eSIM cards will be linked. This is not just a tax instrument. this enables the state to see at any time who is active on the network, with which device and when.

2. If that database containing data of 2.5 million users crashes every minute, the operators will have to disconnect your connection. And we know how state databases work, for example, the registration database for first graders, which was supposed to serve only 20,000 parents at the same time this week, but it simply did not work.

3. There is a dangerous point in the design: the Administrator can provide “other digital services” to state and local bodies or even private companies with the data of this database. In other words, the data collected allegedly for the purpose of “combating smuggling” may be used tomorrow for completely different purposes unknown to us.

4. Centralization of telephones and citizens’ data of the entire country in one place is a dream for any cyber criminal. If this base is breached (and there are no invulnerable systems), everyone’s security will be at stake.

And now the most important thing. the authors of the project claim that this will help against theft. Let’s be honest.

How many of you or your friends have had this happen to you? the phone was stolen, you contacted the police with the box and IMEI code, but you did not receive any help. Meanwhile, my heart tells me that if we are talking about protesters or critical journalists, they will find out the place by IMEI in five minutes and make a mask show.

Information security expert Arthur Papyan

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The Turkish Ministry of National Defense (MoD) congratulated Azerbaijan on Armed Forces Day. The relevant publication was posted on social networks, on the pages of the Ministry.

“Congratulations on the 108th anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. We salute the heroic Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, who perform day and night service for the stability and security of the country. We will always be united with Azerbaijan”, the congratulatory message stated.

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The Supreme Court of the Republic of Armenia rejected the request of 7 parties to declare the results of the elections invalid.

Earlier, the representative of the “Prosperous Armenia” party, lawyer Aram Orbelyan, mediated the session of the CC with the full composition, taking into account the relevant constitutional requirement. The lawyer reminded that holding the session with a reduced composition, without judges Vladimir Vardanyan and Artak Zeynalyan (taking into account their previous party affiliation), may cause problems related to legitimacy in the future.

Today, the question of the participation of Judge Seda Safaryan was raised again at the session of the CC, as well as the participation of Judge Davit Khachaturyan. However, due to the lack of objections among the judges of the CC, the president of the CC Arman Dilanyan considered the matter exhausted. they will participate.

Earlier, the “Armenia” bloc led by the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharian, applied to exclude the participation of judge Seda Safaryan in the investigation of the electoral dispute in the CC. This political force believes that Safaryan is “biased, has a negative attitude towards Kocharyan and participated in the 2021 elections with Arman Babajanyan on the same list.” Babajanyan’s “For the Republic” party is one of the 7 forces contesting the results of the current elections.

Summarizing the discussions, Arman Dilanyan noted that when deciding on the non-participation of Vardanyan and Zeynalyan, the choice was between a reduced team and legitimacy. At the same time, he reminded that in such cases the court can make decisions with a composition of up to 5 judges.

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