ArmInfo.On the part of the Investigation Committee of Armenia, there are constant injections of unfinished information regarding the inspection process at South  Caucasus Railway CJSC. This is stated in the statement of the SCR,  received by ArmInfo.

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.The opening ceremony of the Argentine Center was held at Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences after Valery Brusov.The Argentine Center was opened at the initiative of the Embassy of Argentina in Armenia. The project was supported by Converse Bank, which funded renovation, equipping and furnishing of the classroom intended for establishment of the Center.

ArmInfo.On December 18, Armenian First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan took part in the meeting of the steering committee of the electoral assistance program  in Armenia, the press service of the government of Armenia reports.

ArmInfo.Renowned Spanish coach Gines Melendez has been appointed Technical Director of the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) and will take up his duties on January 1, 2019, the official site of the FFA informed.  Melendez will  coordinate the work of various age teams of Armenia, as well as  develop a program for the development of youth football, women's  football and football hall.

ArmInfo.Upon abuse of authority former deputy  minister of transport, communications and information technology,  framework of the case of the South Caucasian Railway (SCR), the  Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia opened a criminal  case. As noted in the official report of the Department of the  Investigative Committee, in the course of a comprehensive  investigation into the case of abuses committed during the operation  of the South Caucasian Railway CJSC, factual data on alleged abuses  by the RA Ministry of Transport, Communications were revealed. 

ArmInfo. On December 14,  Armenian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Tigran Seyranyan met with  Speaker of the Czech parliament (lower house) Radek Vondrachek, the  press service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia reports.

ArmInfo."In the field of probation, there are systemic problems that are caused by the ineffectiveness of institutional cooperation between various government agencies," said  Armenian ombudsman Arman Tatoyan in connection with the publication  of the report of the Office of the Human Rights Advocate, prepared  according to a special methodology that reflects the results of  visits all departments of the State Probation Service. The report  contains a comprehensive overview of the current state of the  probation service.

ArmInfo. The group specially created by the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia received and considered 442 signals of offenses during the parliamentary elections held on December 9 in Armenia.According to the press service of the  Prosecutor General's Office, information on 190 cases was obtained as  a result of monitoring media publications and records of citizens in  social networks.

ArmInfo.The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia continues to reveal new cases of  non-fulfillment of contractual obligations to the RA Ministry of  Defense by supplying companies.Thus, according to the materials of  the case, in the period from 2013-2015 with the same company for the  repair of various parts of the same technical means 3 agreements with  the Ministry of Defense were signed. 

ArmInfo.According to preliminary data, no Armenian citizens or Armenians were injured in the train crash in Ankara, this is reported by the Armenian Foreign  Ministry in Twitter.

ArmInfo. Armenian Acting Defense Minister David Tonoyan received the extraordinary and  full  representation of the Russian Federation Sergei Kopyrkin in  connection with the completion of the mission of the military attache  and the appointment of a new attache.

ArmInfo. The mission of the CIS observers assesses the December 9 extraordinary elections to the National Assembly of Armenia open and transparent. They reported this on December 10th at a press conference.

ArmInfo.Early elections to the National Assembly of Armenia are being held normally. This was announced on December 9 at a briefing at the Central Election  Commission (CEC) by the head of the department Tigran Mukuchyan.

ArmInfo. The Investigative Committee of Armenia pressed charges against the head of the French group of the joint program "Safech Es. A. and Eptis", which was to  carry out technical supervision during the construction of the  "North-South Road Corridor investment project.

ArmInfo. In 2018, 774.4 million drams were sent to solve the priority tasks of the Shirak and Lori regions of Armenia, which were the most affected by the  catastrophic earthquake of 1988. This was announced on December 7 at  an extraordinary retreat of the government of the Republic of Armenia  in the city of Gyumri by Acting Minister of Territorial  Administration and Development of the Republic of Armenia Suren  Papikyan.

ArmInfo.Investigative Committee of Armenia continues investigative actions on criminal cases initiated against companies involved in Automobile Inspection .

ArmInfo.From January 1, 2020, Armenia will switch to a new taxation system for organizing and conducting gambling (including games on the Internet) and sweepstakes  (Internet sweepstakes).

ArmInfo. Acting  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan proposed to develop a roadmap that will allow resolving the  main problems that people with disabilities face in steps. Pashinyan  invited representatives of non-governmental organizations dealing  with the rights of persons with disabilities to consider this  issue.

ArmInfo.General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia provided details of the criminal case on the fact inefficient use of financial resources and abuse of official position  in the construction of the North-South highway.