ArmInfo.Armenian Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan received the Ambassador of Iran to Armenia, Seyyed Kazem Sajjadi, the press service of the Prosecutor General's  Office informs.

ArmInfo.A number of intellectuals and experts decided to form a working group that will develop approaches to resolve the Karabakh conflict and present them  to the Prime Minister, the head of the foreign ministry and the OSCE  Minsk Group co-chairs.

ArmInfo. Never before have the media been so free in Armenia's recent history, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan made such a statement at the New Year's  reception for the media.

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ArmInfo.The Vine and Wine Foundation of Armenia should not be closed. This is stated in the open letter of about thirty winemakers of Armenia addressed to acting  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding the decision to close the  structure in the framework of the optimization program.

ArmInfo.At the meeting of the Council of Elders on December 25, the development program of Yerevan for 2019-2023 was approved.

ArmInfo. On December 22-23, the ArArAt Yerevan Brandy Factory held open door days dedicated to the great French chanson of Armenian origin - Maestro Charl Aznavour. 

ArmInfo. In Yerevan, a protest is being held against the decision of the court on changing the preventive measure of former MP Manvel Grigoryan, accused of  illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, as well as embezzlement  on a particularly large scale, from arrest to bail in the amount of  25 million drams.

ArmInfo. Within the framework of the StartHub Armenia project, implemented by Beeline and the Center for Technological Development Foundation, a regular  meeting-discussion of Starthub Offline was held, during which  start-ups had the opportunity to communicate with leading  representatives of the IT field.

ArmInfo. President of the  European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission  Jean-Claude Juncker have addressed jointly congratulated Acting Prime  Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on the victory of the "My Step"  bloc headed by him in the parliamentary elections.

ArmInfo. The Prosecutor  General's Office of Armenia made an explanation regarding the  initiation of a criminal case on the death of a 57-year-old resident  of Gyumri.

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ArmInfo. The Armenian Foreign Ministry commented on the statement of the head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister regarding the fact that during the last meeting in  Milan, for the first time in a long time, he reached an understanding with Zohrab Mnatsakanyan.

ArmInfo.Armenian Ambassador to Belarus Armen Ghevondyan met December 17 with Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Oleg Kravchenko, the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia reports.

ArmInfo. Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations Felix Tsolakyan met with his Russian counterpart Yevgeny Zinichev in Moscow yesterday.

ArmInfo.The Sasna Tsrer party  has responded to the statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei  Lavrov, published by Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, that Moscow and  Yerevan are currently preparing a document that should guarantee the  absence of foreign military in biological laboratories in Armenia.In  particular, the party's statement says that such a treaty is strange,  since Russia in this case forces Armenia to actions related to its  relations with third countries.

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ArmInfo.From December 13-16, 2018, leading scholars of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences visited Yerevan at the special invitation of the "Council of  Political and Strategic Studies of China and Eurasia"Foundation. 

ArmInfo.Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Holy Echmiadzin, where he met with the Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.

ArmInfo. VTB Bank (Armenia)  announces the launch of a new service - Savings Account, which will  bring the owner income up to 9.92% per annum at a rate of 9.5%.As the  press service of the bank reports, the rates on the Cumulative  Account in drams range from 1.5% to 9.5% per annum, depending on the  period and amount."Unlike a term deposit, by opening a savings  account at VTB Bank (Armenia), a client can withdraw funds or  replenish a savings account at a convenient time, an unlimited number  of times, without losing the interest already accrued," the source  noted.