15:00 News in Brief: The Fate of Gas and Wheat, Russia's Covert Campaign Against Armenia

News from the past hour summarized and to the point:

· Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan assured that there will be no difficulties in economic relations with Russia, particularly regarding the importation of wheat or gas, as the government has developed all mechanisms and is taking steps towards market diversification.

· The Ministry of Defense of Armenia officially denied the reports circulating online that a military position in the Jermuk area had been surrendered and urged law enforcement agencies to provide a legal assessment of the authors of the false video.

· Aram Vardevanyan, a candidate from the "Strong Armenia" party, has filed a criminal report with the law enforcement agencies, demanding an investigation into alleged threats directed at opponents made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the campaign, under several articles of the criminal code.

· Citizen Narek Karapetyan has filed a lawsuit against the Investigative Committee, demanding symbolic compensation of 1 dram, describing the committee's statement as defamatory, which tarnishes his good reputation for allegedly concealing the fact of holding citizenship of another country.

· Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, during a meeting with residents of Ararat Province, stated that anyone who steals even a single dime from the state budget is his personal enemy and emphasized that it is only the people who should decide who will be the next leader of the country.

· According to Euronews, international researchers have discovered that Russia has launched a large-scale disinformation campaign ahead of Armenia's parliamentary elections, using artificial intelligence and bot networks to spread hundreds of fake videos aimed at undermining Pashinyan's position.

· Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated that Prime Minister Pashinyan's absence from the EAEU summits is becoming a norm, adding that the sanctions and economic blows from the West have turned into a hybrid war affecting all member states of the union.

· Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili assured in an interview with a Georgian television station that all artificial attempts by external forces and certain local circles to oppose the two neighboring countries and disrupt Armenian-Georgian relations have completely failed.