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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It is obvious to me that the June 7 parliamentary elections did not reflect the true will of the people. I do not believe that the current government actually won these elections. I am convinced that the elections were rigged and the results were falsified. Former RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan wrote about this.

“I often hear that they say that neither the government nor the opposition won. I do not agree with that assessment. The total number of votes in the elections is 100%. If the current government did not get a legal majority, then those votes belong to the opposition as a whole. In my opinion, their victory was simply taken away. Election violations and election fraud worked in both directions, like a saw. On the one hand, they contributed to the reduction of the votes of the opposition, on the other hand, to the increase of the votes of the government.

Before the election day, almost all local and international polls showed that Nikol Pashinyan’s support is around 35-40%. I believe that this indicator is the closest to reality. The rest of the results, in my opinion, do not reflect the free will of the citizens. The government continues to rely on power structures in hopes of maintaining power, creating a serious legitimacy problem.

However, the problem is not only in internal legitimacy. There is also another, no less dangerous consequence. The international community, friends and strangers of the Armenian people can conclude that the people of Armenia have chosen this government again with their free will, despite the heavy losses the country suffered in recent years and the humiliation of the national dignity. Such a perception can seriously damage the reputation of Armenia and the Armenian people and distort the perception of the real sentiments of the people. In many ways, this is as dangerous as the existence of an illegitimate government.

I hope that this situation will be corrected in a legal and democratic way in the near future,” he wrote.

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Alkhas Ghazaryan, deputy of the “Civil Agreement” faction of the National Assembly, is running for the post of NA vice-president and has already been nominated. 

Earlier it became known that Vahagn Aleksanyan from the CP faction was nominated for the position of NA deputy speaker.

Let’s remind that yesterday CP decided in a closed secret vote that Ruben Rubinyan will be nominated for the post of Speaker of the National Assembly in the new parliament.

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It is necessary for Yerevan to answer the question about the strategic choice between EAEU and the EU as soon as possible. This was announced by Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

According to him, Armenia’s behavior cannot be called bona fide membership of EAEU. The diplomat added that, judging by the statements of the Armenian authorities, it turns out that participation in the EAEU is now only a temporary measure for Yerevan to prepare for EU membership.

“Pashinyan’s recent statements regarding the EAEU divert the conversation to the field of demagoguery, as it already happened in the case of the freezing of Armenia’s participation in the CSTO,” said Zakharova.

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In his speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Hayk Mamijanyan, deputy of the “I have honor” faction of the National Assembly, stated that democracy in Armenia is under serious threat, calling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan a “dictator” several times.

In particular, he noted: “Today I want to talk about democracy and even play a little quiz with you.

What would you call a politician who deprives citizens of their fundamental right, the right to vote? The answer: a dictator.

And what would you call a politician who arrests his political opponents every day? I mean literally, every day some dissident is arrested for expressing his opinion. I think the answer to this question is also obvious. dictator.

Or what would you call an official who behaves as if he is the Prime Minister, the Chief of Police, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice and even has ambitions to lead the church at the same time? Here, too, there is only one answer: a dictator.

Harassment of public sector employees, selective application of the law, excessive use of pretrial detention, insufficient investigation of politically motivated police abuses, and weakening of the independence of the judiciary. These are the wordings of the preliminary report of the OSCE observation mission on the Armenian parliamentary elections.

However, I will not touch on all the violations, because one of them is special. Thousands of voters were disenfranchised in this month’s 2026 elections, as election results in three polling stations were simply declared invalid. A second vote was not scheduled, although the law directly required it.

Pashinyan’s government simply ignored the clear requirement of the law. And it is important, because as a result, one of the opposition parties did not overcome the passing threshold by only a few hundred votes. Those voices were simply taken away from them.

All these violations were committed in order for the ruling party to secure a 3/5 majority in the parliament. The votes of the people of Armenia were stolen.

During the last five years, I have spoken from this podium about the rights of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, the aggression and crimes committed by the Aliyev regime, the fate of my compatriots held in Azerbaijani prisons, the fate of the missing, the occupied territories of Armenia and many other issues.

Today, there are no more Armenians left in Artsakh. And today I am again talking about gross violations of human rights in my country. I hope that this time the international organizations will react faster than before, until those who speak out against these violations are in jail.

Even if Europe tolerates another post-Soviet dictator, we, the people of Armenia, will not tolerate it. Thank you.”

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