An Armenian presidential candidate announced his withdrawal from the race and another one threatened to follow suit on Tuesday, expressing serious concern over the freedom and fairness of the February 18 election.
Armenia’s leading broadcasters have so far provided a largely unbiased news coverage of the intensifying presidential race, a local media watchdog said on Wednesday.
The Armenian government still hopes to prevent an increase in the price of natural gas imported from Russia, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian said on Thursday.
Most Armenians continue to believe that elections held in their country are not democratic, the state human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, said on Monday.
President Serzh Sarkisian reassured the European Union over the weekend that Armenia’s forthcoming presidential election, in which he will be seeking a second five-year term, will be free and fair.
Widespread poverty in Armenia has declined slightly in the last two years thanks to renewed economic growth, according to the government.
Hundreds of employees of Armenia’s largest chemical enterprise again took to the streets of Yerevan on Monday to demand payment of their back wages and a reactivation of their troubled plant.
A major Armenian opposition party is considering nominating the first-ever female presidential candidate in the country’s history, it was confirmed on Monday.
The two largest minority groups in Armenia may field a single candidate at next year’s presidential election, it emerged following what was described as their “political consultations” on Monday.
Italy’s flagship airline, Alitalia, announced the impending launch of regular flights to Armenia on Friday, saying that they will “strengthen its positions” in the South Caucasus.
A state-owned Armenian company providing meteorological services to airlines said on Tuesday that it will take legal action to force Armavia, the struggling national carrier, to pay 142 million drams ($350,000) in outstanding debts.
Four Armenian soldiers were killed and 15 others seriously injured in a car accident reported by military authorities on Friday.
A presently unemployed man was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday in connection with last May’s explosion of thousands of balloons during an election campaign gathering held in Yerevan by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
Prominent members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) announced on Tuesday the launch of a campaign to raise funds for relief aid to ethnic Armenian and other civilians in Syria increasingly suffering from the country’s civil war.
A Spanish construction company launched on Thursday the first phase of a multimillion-dollar government project to upgrade Armenia’s main highways stretching more than 550 kilometers to neighboring Georgia and Iran.
The Armenian authorities are still not doing enough to combat widespread software piracy despite growing use of licensed computer programs in the country, according to local representatives of an international information technology (IT) association.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) of Gagik Tsarukian has underlined its apparent support for a “Eurasian Union” of former Soviet republics by sponsoring an international youth conference on the controversial idea promoted by Russia.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenia-backed armed forces wrapped up on Thursday three-day military exercises which they said demonstrated their “adequate preparedness” for a possible war with Azerbaijan.
Armenia has temporarily moved its consulate-general in Aleppo to a safer location in Syria’s largest city after more than a week of fierce fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, official Yerevan announced over the weekend.
A court in Yerevan sentenced two former executives of Armenia’s state pension fund to seven and three years in prison on Monday in the first trial stemming from large-scale fraud in the payment of social benefits alleged by law-enforcement authorities.
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