Armenian News - NEWS.am presents a daily digest of Armenia-related top news as of 29.07.2020:
- As of 11 am Wednesday, 308 COVID-19 new cases have been reported in Armenia.
A total of 37,937 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed as of Wednesday morning.
The total number of tests conducted so far is 160,380, and 1,853 of them were performed in the past one day.
In total, 723 patients—an increase by 4 in the past day—have died so far of this disease.
According to the latest data, 27,824 people—with 467 people in the last day—have recovered thus far.
- The relative calm was maintained on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border on the night of July 28-29 and this morning, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan wrote on her Facebook.
"The Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime 22 times with firearms, firing 497 shots toward Armenian positions," she added.
- In an interview with CNN Turk, Ibrahim Kalin, spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also spoke about Armenia-Azerbaijan issues.
Kalin stressed that Erdogan, in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, noted that Armenia was the "invading" party in the conflict.
“In a conversation with Putin, Erdogan asked Putin to use his ties with Armenia to ease the Armenian-Azerbaijani border tension.
"Yes, Turkey will be by Azerbaijan's side until the end, wherever the danger comes from, but that does not mean closing the diplomatic channels," he noted.
- Liana Hovsepyan, one of the former employees of Lydian Armenia company, told reporters that they have not been working for a long time because of a group of activists; the mine has not been operating since 2018.
According to her, several inspections have already been conducted at Amulsar gold mine and no violations have been found there.
And Armen Melkumyan, the lawyer of Lydian Armenia's former employees, informed that the lawsuit of 36 ex-employees had already been submitted to the administrative court, and the first court session will be on August 6. "Another 86 people have joined this lawsuit. Our demand is to recognize the inactivity of the mine as illegal. (…). If there will be no judicial act in our favor, we have the opportunity to submit this lawsuit to the ECHR."
- The famous Turkish actress Songul Oden married an Armenian businessman from Turkey Arman Bicakci, Arevelk reported referring to the Turkish press.
The couple met for four years and finally decided to legalize their relationship. A modest wedding ceremony took place at the city hall of Besiktas.



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