Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is planning to visit Armenia next week amid the South Caucasus country’s mounting tensions with Russia, a diplomatic source told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
The National Security Service (NSS) denied on Friday claims that Russian border guards prevent European Union monitors from inspecting a section of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan where four Armenian soldiers were killed last week.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian announced his resignation on Wednesday two weeks after one of his deputies and several other subordinates were arrested on corruption charges strongly denied by him.
Four Armenian soldiers were killed and another wounded when their positions on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan came under cross-border fire early on Tuesday.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian complained on Thursday about last week’s arrests of several of his subordinates, saying that corruption charges brought against them are baseless and disrupt the work of his ministry and other government agencies.
Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested at the weekend a citizen of the Czech Republic who they claimed illegally entered the country from Armenia.
A former Armenian deputy minister of economy was moved to house arrest on Friday two days after being detained and charged with abuse of power.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian on Thursday effectively denied corruption accusations brought against one of his deputies and other subordinates arrested on Wednesday.
Senior Armenian and Azerbaijani officials held on Wednesday another round of direct negotiations on the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a key hurdle to a comprehensive peace deal between the two nations.
A court in Yerevan has overturned entry bans imposed by Armenia’s government on two Armenian Diaspora leaders from Europe highly critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian predicted a further boost to economic growth in Armenia on Thursday as his government was granted a minority stake in a multimillion-dollar gold mining project which it helped to freeze in 2018.
The number of officially registered traffic deaths in Armenia rose by about 17 percent to 362 in January-November 2023 amid a continued expansion of the country’s new, Western-funded road police.
The Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Armenian Apostolic Church claimed to be facing an “existential threat” following a violent incident on Thursday which it attributed to an Israeli-Australian businessman’s efforts to take over one of its largest properties in the city.
At least 218 people died in the September 25 explosion and fire at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the latest official figures released by Armenian investigators on Friday.
The Armenian government has failed to adequately reform the national police, the leaders of two Western-funded civic groups claimed on Monday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan exchanged over three dozen prisoners on Wednesday one week after reaching an agreement to that effect welcomed by the international community.
Armenia’s parliament approved on Tuesday a bill allowing men who illegally evaded compulsory military service to buy an amnesty.
The European Union is considering providing “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia, the head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, Vassilis Maragos, confirmed on Tuesday.
Armenia is seeking to start visa liberalization negotiations with the European Union in the near future, a senior official in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu underlined France’s commitment to helping Armenia “defend itself” on Tuesday one day after holding talks with his visiting Armenian counterpart Suren Papikian followed by the signing of first-ever arms deals between the two countries.
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