During the Mobile App Expo 2014, launched today, Orange has presented its "My Orange" application, which being launched in November 2013, was the first one in the Armenian telecommunication industry, the press service of Orange Armenia has told ArmInfo.  Orange has as well announced a call for pitches from young developers to explore further partnership opportunities. 

 Azerbaijan will put difficulties in the way of Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union because it is outside these processes, Head of ARF Dashnaktsutyun Faction Armen Rustamyan told journalists on Friday when commenting on Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's statement on the need to establish a customs point on the Armenian- Artsakh border. 

VTB Bank (Armenia) has joined Tandem Transfers, the first national money transfer system. 
>From now on the bank's customers will be able to receive and send money in Armenia and worldwide in AMD, USD, EUR and RUR with no need to open an account.
The press service of ArmInfo reports that for transfers inside Armenia the system will charge jus 0.8%, for transfers abroad 1.3%.

 The Armenian Government gives high priority to increasing the IT product output in the local market, growth in services consumption, and increasing the innovative IT solutions in various sectors of economy, Armenian Deputy Minister of Economy Garegin Melkonyan said at today's press conference timed to the 7th annual DigiTec Business forum. In this context, he stressed the significance of the DigiTec forum, which contributes to consolidation of the technological field and strengthening of the business ties. Melkonyan also called on the local entrepreneurs to take an active part in the forum.  

 Over the past 8 years (from 2006 through Q1 2014), VimpelCom invested over $350 million in Armenia, Mr. Bobby Leach, Director for Group Communications at Vimpelcom, has told ArmInfo. Mr. Leach says that VimpelCom will keep on investing in the market but he does not specify the amount. 

The ArArAt Visitors' Center of Yerevan Brandy Company has extended its opening hours for tourist visits. 

 Armenia's accession to the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union has nothing to do with the problems of borders, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov told ArmInfo, when asked to comment on the last statement by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev that Armenia must join the Eurasian Economic Union within the borders it had when joining the WTO.

Armenia must not allow Artsakh's interests to be ignored by the Eurasian Economic Union, Ruben Hakobyan, Head of the Heritage Party Faction, told reporters, Friday. 

 ArmenTel and Rostelecom telecommunication companies in Armenia have agreed to cooperate after the regulator interfered into their dispute.

The incidents and strict data hiding is a working style of the Azerbaijani party, which has been trying to avoid the anger of the community in such a way, the statement of the NKR Defence Ministry says. On 20 May, several mass media of Azerbaijan reported that the Armenian party allegedly hides the number of losses in its Armed Forces. "We have been always upholding a principle of transparency and informing about the incidents in the army. The incidents and data hiding is a working style of the Azerbaijani party", - the statement says. 

 Shen Holding, a major manufacturer of construction materials in Armenia, has expanded its product range with inexpensive water-dispersible paints (W1 series) and latex paints (L1 series), Edgar Arakelyan, Head of Marketing at Shen Holding, has told ArmInfo. He says that all the paints manufactured by the company, both expensive and affordable, are similarly high-quality and eco- friendly paints and that their key difference is the coverage rate.       

 No politician or statesman in Armenia will agree with such an absurd idea of opening a customs point between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Armen Ashotyan, Vice Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia, Minister of Education and Science, told reporters when asked about the fate of Artsakh if Armenia accesses the Eurasian Economic Union (EAU).

 The banking system of Armenia has led the Armenian villagers to ruin, Head of the Agrarian-Peasant Union of Armenia Hrachya Berberyan said at a press conference in Yerevan. 

 Those, who are blamed for Avetik Budaghyan's death, and those, who promised to get them off, will fail, as we are not going to be satisfied with the results of a performance  demonstrated to all of us as an investigation, Artak Budaghyan's lawyer, Hayk Alumyan, told Arminfo correspondent. 

 President Nazarbayev's statement that Armenia should be admitted into the Eurasian Economic Union within the border recognized by the UN is beneath any criticism, Giro Manoyan the head of the ARFD's Hay Dat Office in Yerevan said in an interview to ArmInfo.

 "I strongly agree with the statement by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazabayev saying that Armenia must join the Eurasian Economic Union (EAU) within the borders it joined WTO," Spokesperson of NKR Foreign Ministry David Babayan told ArmInfo.  According to Babayan, Armenia is a sovereign state participating in political and economic projects and it must integrate into projects within its borders. He does not understand why should Nazarbayev's statement arouse such hot debates in the Armenian public.

Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE) urges the authorities of Artsakh to come out with an initiative of joining Armenia, FAAE says in a statement.

 Bronze monument to Anastas Mikoyan has disappeared from a molding plant in Yerevan, a local Haykakan Zhamanak Daily writes. 
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A magnitude 2.5 earthquake hit the Armenian-Azerbaijani border at 7:15am on 30 May, the Emergency Situations Ministry told ArmInfo. The epicenter was 29km from the town of Vardenis, Armenia. The shakes measured 3 points in the epicenter (focal dept 10 km). 

Police have launched criminal prosecution against activist Gevorg Safaryan, who campaigned against renaming Mashtots Park into Misak Manushyan Park, the Pre- Parliament public interest group told ArmInfo.