From December 10 of this year, the electronic fare collection system in the Yerevan Metro will not work. This is stated in a message distributed by Yerevan Metro CJSC named after Karen Demirchyan. “The problem is the focus of daily attention of specialists from the relevant division of the company. At the same time, we inform you that you can use the trips available on payment cards until they are completely exhausted. We apologize for the inconvenience caused,” the message says.

We have the fact that our comrades have been under arrest for so many months. Deputy of the “Armenia” faction Aram Vardanyan stated this in a conversation with journalists, commenting on the decision of the Constitutional Court on the issue of parliamentary immunity. “At the meeting on August 2, I literally read out Article 96 of the Constitution three times. I am sorry that in the National Assembly there was not a single deputy from the ruling faction who would say: I read Article 96 and why these people are being kept under arrest. We have a crisis of democracy and the rule of law, since the Constitutional Court is one of the last resorts. In addition to the legal shame, all this has a component of great moral shame. The decision of the Constitutional Court is not binding for me or for you, but first of all for civil servants,” he said. Aram Vardanyan noted that the same penitentiary service cannot support deputies. “Let it contain - but what to call it?” - he said. He emphasized that if an arrest is cancelled, then there must be new grounds for re-detaining a person, and assured that this will never happen. When asked whether he saw a political motive in the decision of the Constitutional Court, the deputy answered no. “There are several simple truths: no matter how much pressure is put on the Constitutional Court, it is impossible to say the opposite - if something is black, they will say that it is black, if it is white, they will say that it is white, and if there are several colors, then the pressure is effective,” he noted, adding that although the Constitutional Court could have made a decision earlier, it could have made it later.

The Veolia Jur company informs its clients and consumers that in connection with the work to eliminate the accident, from 16:00 on December 10 of this year until 16:00 on December 11, water supply to the following territories will be suspended: in Gegharkunik region - the city of Sevan, Gagarinavan microdistrict, Varser village, in Kotayk region - the village of Jrarat. The company apologizes to consumers for any inconvenience caused and thanks in advance for their understanding.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the State Control Service and introduced the newly appointed head of the service, Romanos Petrosyan, to the team. The Prime Minister first of all thanked Tigran Ulikhanyan for the work done as head of the State Control Service. This was reported by the Prime Minister's Office. Nikol Pashinyan congratulated Romanos Petrosyan and wished him success, noting that the SGC is one of the important links and tools of the management system that ensures the effective operation of public administration. “The service as such has existed in the public administration system for the last three years and it still has a long way to go in its development. But it is also necessary to record that during this time the structure has gone through a fairly good path of development. Of course, certain problems have emerged in the work, and taking all this into account, we must continue to move forward,” the Prime Minister noted. Tigran Ulikhanyan thanked the head of government for the trust shown during his term of office, as well as the team for their joint work. “I wish you success under the leadership of Mr. Petrosyan in the best performance of the service as one of the most important bodies subordinate to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia.”

On December 10, while repelling the offensive actions of units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the eastern direction of the Republic of Armenia (Gegharkunik region), a conscript soldier of military unit No. N of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, private Vae Vagharshakovich Manaseryan (born in 2002), was killed. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia shares the severe pain of loss and expresses support to the family of the deceased serviceman, his relatives and colleagues. The RA Ministry of Defense reported this. Eight more soldiers were injured. The condition of six of them is assessed as serious, the condition of the remaining two is moderate and mild, respectively.

The meeting of the Executive Body of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), chaired by the Chairman of the RPA, the third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, recently ended. This was reported from the office of the Republican Party. The progress of the election of delegates to the next, 17th party congress, draft documents submitted to the congress, the expansion of international cooperation of the party, as well as current issues were discussed. The executive body of the RPA calls on the delegates of the congress, in the context of the ongoing pandemic, to show maximum responsibility both in relation to their own health and the health of others. At the venue of the congress, all anti-epidemic rules will be observed, including the provision of personal protective equipment and hygiene. An invitation to cover the congress and conditions for accreditation of journalists will be published on December 13.

In Azerbaijan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey Cahit Bagci, as well as the military attaché of the embassy, ​​Brigadier General Zakaria Yalcin, visited the Russian-Turkish joint monitoring center located on the territory of Artsakh, which came under the control of Baku as a result of the 44-day war. The ambassador wrote about this on Twitter. The activities of the Center were presented to Turkish officials. The activities of the Russian-Turkish joint center on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was transferred to the Azerbaijani side, began on January 30, 2021։

Members of the Commission for the Protection of Competition Tigran Markosyan and Shushan Sargsyan today received the Counselor for Intellectual Property Issues of the French Embassy in the Russian Federation, Nelson Emery, and the economic attaché of the French Embassies in Georgia and Armenia, Francois-Henri Cloarec, the Commission for the Protection of Competition reports. During the meeting, issues related to the protection of intellectual property, in particular trademarks, were discussed. Representatives of the MPH presented the legislative regulation of manifestations of unfair competition associated with the use of trademarks by business entities and the creation of confusion regarding their activities. The interlocutors also exchanged views on the challenges of protecting economic competition in Armenia and the opportunities for developing cooperation in this direction.