The last house of Georgian Ergneti village is located at a 50 meter distance from the border of South Ossetia. Georgian and Russian border guards are very close from here.

The settlements full of one-storey look-alike buildings on the right and left sides of the road leading from Tbilisi to Gori are resulted by the war between Russia and Georgia. About Georgian refugees from South Ossetia have inhabited in these newly-built settlements.

The preliminary investigation of the criminal action prosecuted against Nikol Pashinyan, the editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily, has been ended. The general prosecutor’s office has disseminated a statement, according to which he has been charged in the framework of the 1st part of the 316th article and the 1st part of the 225th article of the RA criminal code.

On August 5, the delegation of the Armenian National Congress, headed by Levon Ter-Petrossian, started visiting the regions. The first region was Kotayk.

Zhamanak Yerevan newspaper editor Arman Babajanyan was released from the Convicts’ Hospital on August 4, at 16:30. The doctors have found a tumor in his brain and claim that his state is gradually deteriorating.

Recently, new graffiti has appeared in the Yerevan underground crossings, with political and civil content. Oppositional youth groups state that it is private initiative, and they have not organized such a campaign.

Khachatur Sukiasyan, a deputy of the National Assembly and entrepreneur, that has been in retrieval in relation with the March 1-2 events, will not take advantage of amnesty and will not appear before the RA law-enforcement bodies by July 31, as informed by Ara Zakaryan and Arthur Grigoryan, the attorneys of Khachatur Sukiasyan.

Today Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, during the joint brief press conference with Boris Tadic, the Serbian president, has responded to the question on the possibility of visiting Turkey for watching the football match between Turkey and Armenia in October.

According to the results of the survey conducted by Armenian Center for National and International Studies, 49% of the population trusts the Armenian president. 25% of the surveyed trust the RA legislative body – the National Assembly.

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs met in Krakow on July 25-26, in order to discuss the issues related to the preparation of the renovated version of the Madrid suggestions on regulating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.