Armenia has become a popular affordable vacation destination for adventure travelers and for those who like riding horses. Welcomearmenia.com offers new tour package for summer holiday 2008 with horseback riding as an adventure travel in Armenian villages and country-side. Anybody can take the riding tour both beginners and professionals with experienced guides.

Armenia is the best country for business in CIS, according to Forbes data, "Azatutyun" radio-station reported.

Imagine you walking in the street in summer heat and suddenly a group of children or teenagers come up to you running and pour pails of water over you. You are astonished, confused and do not know what to do, if you are in Germany, France, Russia or elsewhere. Nevertheless if you are in Armenia, the only thing to do is just smile and laugh from the heart. IT’S VARDAVAR!

This year "Golden Apricot" film festival dedicates one of its anniversary programs to Armenian American writer William Saroyan’s 100 anniversary. Golden Apricot international movie festival will take place in Yerevan, Armenia July 13-20.

Since 2005 “Golden Apricot” Film Festival has been functioning under the aegis of the European Cultural Parliament. The Council of Europe, in cooperation with Ministry of Culture of Armenia, has initiated “The film as a means for intercultural dialog” conference within the “Golden Apricot” 5-th International Film Festival July 13-20.

The head of Tourism Department of Armenia in the Economy Ministry told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday that his department is expecting about 600,000 foreign tourists to visit Armenia this year.

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)--Azeri border guards opened fire on a village in Tavoush province Wednesday afternoon resulting in the death of an Armenian farmer, reported the Armenian Defense Ministry on Wednesday.

TAVOUSH, Armenia (ArmRadio)--Azerbaijani border guards Wednesday evening shot dead another resident of the Armenian border village of Chinar, reported the Armenian Defense Ministry on Thursday.

There is no evidence that the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh committed "genocide” against Meskhetian Turks of Khojaly, Canadian military historian Patrick Wilson Gore said during the launch of his latest book "Tis Some Poor Fellow’s Skull: Post-Soviet Warfare in the Southern Caucasus" at the embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Ottawa, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.

All of the banks from Armenia are included in the list of top 1000 CIS banks, according to the volume of assets: a successful step by Armenia that aims to make the country top financial center in the near future bridging between Middle Eastern and European financial centers.

The president of Nagorno Karaback Bako Sahakyan says enlargement of the security zone will be the only means for peace in case of aggression from Azerbaijan.

The Iranian authorities announced yesterday their decision to join the Nabucco pipeline project.
The project is intended to pump 20-30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from Central Asia under the Caspian Sea, then through Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria.