Deputy prime ministers of Russia and Armenia hailed on Friday a continuing rapid growth of Russian-Armenian trade contrasting with heightened tensions between the two longtime allies.
The Armenian government has indicated plans to introduce drug tests in the country’s schools in response to a sharp rise in drug trafficking and abuse recorded during its nearly seven-year tenure.
The administration of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden will keep trying to help Armenia and Azerbaijan reach a peace deal during its last remaining weeks in office, according to the U.S. State Department.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian has branded Armenian media outlets as a “garbage dump” after one of them effectively accused him and his family of illicit enrichment.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday dismissed Azerbaijan’s continuing demands for Armenia to change its constitution and stop buying weapons and accused Baku of harboring territorial claims against his country.
Five days after reopening its embassy in Damascus, Armenia resumed on Thursday the work of its consulate in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo evacuated late last month during a rebel offensive that overthrew Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
The governor of Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province, Sergei Movsisian, has gone on vacation following the arrest of his close aide charged with illegal drug possession.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev listed multiple preconditions for signing a peace accord with Armenia in an interview with a Russian state broadcaster publicized on Wednesday.
The government has moved to establish a new auxiliary force that would reinforce Armenia’s army in times of war.
An Armenian parliament deputy has been formally expelled from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party after protesting against a crackdown on another pro-government lawmaker who is refusing to resign from the National Assembly.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Tuesday refused to provide further information about what it called last week a “possible attempt” to illegally enter the country from neighboring Turkey which alarmed residents of an Armenian border village.
The chief of the police department of Ashtarak, a small town 22 kilometers northwest of Yerevan, resigned on Tuesday one day after policemen led by him detained a local government official suspected of illegal drug possession.
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