Karashamb burial ground located in Kotayk region goes on surprising archaeologists which have been digging burials of the middle Bronze Age, during which they found, in particular, a silver cup with figures of people and animals.  

European parliamentarians refused to travel to Yerevan following Armenia's decision to access the Customs Union, a Yerevan-based Haykakan Zhamanak Daily writes. 

Turkish Vice-Premier Ali Babacan has linked ratification of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols with settlement of the Karabakh conflict. As Asbarez daily says. on 21 October, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan addressed the Los Angeles World Affairs Council (LAWAC). 

 On 23 October, a delegation of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia will leave for Brussels to attend the European People's Party Summit, a Yerevan-based Hraparak newspaper writes.

Tbilisi. While commenting information on resignation of Gennadi Onischenko from the post of Rospotrebnadzor's chief,    Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative for normalization of relations with RF Zurab Abashidze stated that he hoped for continuation  of the process of trade ties restoration between two countries and its  completion by the end of the year.

Tbilisi. Georgia will not become NATO member in 2014, as for Ukraine, it has chosen out of block status, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated in Brussels on Tuesday, October 22.  

Tbilisi. Head of the Caucasus Institute of Peace, Democracy and Development, political expert Giya Nodia does not exclude criminal prosecution of Mikheil Saakashvili after his presidential powers expire.

 Presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazkahstan, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, and Nursultan Nazarbayev will meet at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Minsk on 24 October to discuss development of the Customs Union, establishment of the Single Trade Area and Eurasian Economic Union.  

 On October 29, ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party will hold a procession from the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater to the residence of the Armenian President.  They demand disclosing the murder of Proshyan community head Hrach Muradyan.     

"Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have different interests in expansion of the Customs Union. I mean not only Armenia's accession to it," Harutyun Mesrobyan, economist, expert in management, told ArmInfo. 

 People in countries worldwide perceive government corruption as a widespread problem, Gallup says. This includes countries with a free press -- an indicator of good governance and development -- and those where media freedom is limited. Among countries with a free press, the percentage of adults who say corruption is widespread in their government reaches as high as 94% in the Czech Republic and as low as 14% in Sweden.

 VivaCell-MTS continues the Education Fund project for the 1st and 2nd year students who are in special needs, orphans and who live in dire economic conditions, the press service of VivaCell-MTS reports. Since 2010 the company has been covering the tuition fees of 200 students from the higher institutions of Yerevan and the regions. This year VivaCell-MTS has added 100 more students.

On October 22, Director General of CJSC South Caucasus Railway (SCR) Viktor Rebets summed up the results of the autumn inspection.  

 President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan paid a working visit to the Kotayk region of Armenia, 22 October. 

 Armenian Copper Programme  (ACP) raised production of unrefined copper 9.9% for the nine months of 2013 to 8,102 tons versus 7,369 tons for the same period of 2012, the ACP press-service told ArmInfo.

Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at the rank of Under-Secretary-General visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Armenian Genocide Museum Institute in Yerevan, Monday. 

 Armenia's decision to access the Customs Union threatens its stability, Richard Giragosian, Head of the Center for Regional Studies, told media, Tuesday.  

Unlike Azerbaijan, Karabakh highly appreciates the respective activities by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, the NKR President Bako Sahakyan told Russian journalists, Radio Liberty reported.

 "I think that both Armenia and Russia will benefit from the signing of the document on joining the Customs Union; we hail it", - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) President Bako Sahakyan said on October 20 to Russian journalists that were visiting NKR capital city Stepanakert, RFE/RL Armenian service reported.

 Popular Armenian actor of theater and movie Yervand Yengibaryan was killed in a road accident on Myasnikyan Ave in Yerevan approximately at 5:00am on 22 October.