📍 Armenia’s government expects little to no increase in defense spending in the 2026 state budget, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced. Last year, parliament approved a budget with defense allocations surging by 20%. 📍 Armenia has approved more than $3.2 million in legal fees to defend itself in Stockholm arbitration proceedings over the takeover of the country’s main electricity distributor. 📍 A new Armenian Creative Technologies College was inaugurated in Parakar, Armavir province. The