The President of Armenia and Ambassador of France spoke about the state visit of the President of France Emmanuel Macron to Armenia which is scheduled to take place come October.

Those who claim that anti-Russian political forces have come to power in Armenia are wrong, newly-elected Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan told RT, adding that relations with the West won’t come at the expense of Moscow-Yerevan ties.

In my last week’s article on secret funding for Azerbaijan’s lobbying in the United States, I referred to the payment made to “an influential oil and gas consultant with close ties to President Aliyev who presents himself as an immigration success story and lives in Dayton Ohio—even as he also lobbies the U.S. government on his homeland’s behalf.”

Last week, OCCRP revealed that two shell companies established by Azerbaijan “funneled over a million and a half dollars to a mysterious Baku-based organization called Renaissance Associates” which in turn hired “a US lobbying firm to orchestrate praise for Azerbaijan and had its representatives make thousands of dollars in campaign donations, including to Senators and Representatives who sat on committees that determine foreign aid budgets.”

Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, said they get the feeling that Armenia is going through a “tsunami of change,” that it is “emerging as a country,” and that it felt good to both be part of the change and to help it. 

The new Diaspora Minister Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, appointed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on May 11, announced that a second legislative body would be created in Armenia to represent Diaspora Armenians.

Located in the heart of downtown Yerevan at Arami 42/1,  the Jean Paul Existenial Café and at the Navarar Club  have been dubbed by writer Aram Pachyan  as the place where traditions are fashioned and rituals are passed on.