Armenia’s acting PM Nikol Pashinyan will leave for a working visit to Russia on December 27.

Pashinyan will meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss cooperation in bilateral and multilateral formats.

Armenia's retired General Manvel Grigoryan who is charged with unlawfully keeping weapons and ammunition, and committing large-scale embezzlement, was released from jail on bail amounting to 25 million drams.

His release provoked a wave of protest actions in his native Etchmiadzin where people are demanding that he is sent back to jail. On Monday demonstrators staged a protest outside the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia.

Legal representatives of the successor of 57-year-old Julieta Ghukasyan, who had died after being brutally beaten in Gyumri on December 2, have filed a petition with the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia.

They demand that the Russian soldier who is charged with beating this woman be relocated to a penitentiary under Armenian jurisdiction. At present, this 23-year-old Russian military serviceman is kept at the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri.

An elderly woman and her son have died as a result of a brutal murder in the town of Berd, Armenia’s Tavush Province.

Police said their throats were cut with a sharp cutting-tool, between Sunday 9:30pm and Monday 10:30am. According to preliminary information, the murdered woman was 87 years old, and her son—57 years old.

An Iranian man entered the Mellat Bank branch in downtown Yerevan, made some demands in Persian, threatened with a knife and a taser, and then started using the taser.

The police officers on duty at this Iranian bank, however, rendered him ineffective and handed him over to the Central Police Department.

Police have found out that this person is Iranian citizen Morteza Ghorban Joshoar.