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Alen Simonian, the secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said on Wednesday that he spoke with a senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev who denied the Armenian origin of Nagorno-Karabakh’s most famous medieval church.

Armenia’s Constitutional Court has agreed to look into a government-backed law that will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenians living abroad and Russia in particular.

Armenia’s top appeals court has rejected prosecutors’ demand to imprison the formerly opposition mayor of the southeastern town of Goris following his decision to team up with the ruling Civil Contract party for an upcoming local election.

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a proposal to waive the European Union’s tariffs on imports of Armenian agricultural products and beverages that were effectively banned by Russia earlier this year.

Two weeks after President Vladimir Putin expressed readiness to withdraw Russian troops from Armenia, a senior Russian diplomat has said that their continued presence is indispensable for the South Caucasus country’s security.