The Armenian government has amended a controversial plan to help tens of thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh obtain permanent housing in Armenia after failing to attract strong interest from them.
In what local anti-graft activists view as an alarming sign, Transparency International has not changed Armenia’s position in its annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world.
The two Turkish nationals handed over by Armenian law-enforcement authorities last month to Turkey completed 11-month prison sentences in Armenia before their extradition, court records show.
The Armenian government remained on Thursday in no rush to try to end a continuing general strike that has paralyzed the country’s largest metallurgical enterprise and number one corporate taxpayer.
One man was killed and another wounded in a major rural community near Yerevan early on Wednesday less than two months before a snap local election triggered by another deadly shooting.
A former mayor of Vanadzor, who was arrested in December 2021 after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a municipal election, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Wednesday at the end of his corruption trial.
Interior Minister Arpine Sargsian downplayed on Thursday a 16 percent increase in armed robberies, shootouts and other firearm-related crimes registered by the Armenian police last year.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday that he sees no “grounds” for the outbreak of another war with Azerbaijan when he commented on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest threats of military action against Armenia.
Russia has warned that Armenia will pay a huge economic price if it strives to join the European Union.
In a move that prompted fresh warnings from Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government officially announced on Thursday plans to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
The Armenian government said on Wednesday that it has told a private entertainment company to return almost $6 million in government funding it received in 2023 to organize U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg’s concert in Yerevan that never took place.
A senior executive of a Canadian-based company said on Friday that it is close to securing $150 million in additional funding needed for starting much-delayed mining operations at Armenia’s massive Amulsar gold deposit by the end of next year.
An Armenian court has refused to consider Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian’s libel suit against a media outlet that effectively accused him and his extended family of illicit enrichment.
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.
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.
Armenia evacuated its embassy from Damascus as Islamist-led rebels entered the Syrian capital and overthrew the country’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad at the weekend.
Azerbaijan has reportedly turned down U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s proposal to organize more peace talks between his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts.
Armenia’s government is not in a position to help ethnic Armenian residents of Aleppo flee the northern Syrian city following its unexpected capture by Islamist rebels, an official in Yerevan acknowledged on Monday.
Armenia’s government is not doing enough to get Azerbaijan to free eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and other Armenian captives, Karabakh’s exiled human rights ombudsman said on Friday.
A local human rights group is making last-ditch attempts to stop Armenian authorities from extraditing to Belarus a man who was arrested right after entering Armenia from neighboring Georgia in March.
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