Twenty-five Armenian army sergeants have flown to the United States to take part in a training course which is as part of U.S. efforts to help Armenia increase the number of its non-commissioned officers serving on a contractual basis.
The presidents of Armenia and Russia will meet in Moscow next week for talks that are expected to focus on ongoing international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Armenian government has stopped subsidizing the domestic retail prices of electricity just over one year after state utility regulators raised them and triggered dramatic street protests in Yerevan.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday praised Armenian security forces for neutralizing an armed opposition group and said further attempts to effect political change in Armenia by violent means would also fail.
The opposition gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan laid down their arms late on Sunday, ending a two-week standoff with the Armenian authorities, which has left two police officers dead.
The Armenian government’s tax revenue increased but still narrowly fell short of a government target in the first half of this year despite continued economic growth in the country, according to official statistics.
A leader of the armed group that seized a police station in Yerevan accused Nikol Pashinian, a mainstream opposition politician, on Saturday of seeking to highjack their “rebellion” against Armenia’s government.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday urged radical opposition gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan to free their hostages and surrender to Armenian law-enforcement authorities, saying that he will not meet their key demands, including his own resignation.
The European Union and Russia on Thursday joined the United States in condemning the deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian radical opposition group.
Anti-government gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan released three hostages on Monday on the second day of their standoff with Armenian security forces.
U.S. military instructors are holding the first training course for Armenian army sappers that are due to join multinational peacekeeping operations abroad in the next few years.
After recent meetings of their presidents, Armenia and Azerbaijan are now closer to resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict than ever before, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a visit to Baku on Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to step up joint efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict when they spoke by phone late on Wednesday.
Exports of Armenian fresh fruits and vegetables mainly going to Russia nearly doubled in the first five months of this year, according to Armenia’s National Statistical Service (NSS).
French President Francois Hollande and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by phone late on Thursday after it emerged that France has offered to host the next Armenian-Azerbaijani summit.
John Evans, a former U.S. ambassador to Armenia who was controversially recalled by Washington, has visited Nagorno-Karabakh in his capacity as an advisor to an Armenian-American charity helping poor children.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on Wednesday for more measures to strengthen the ceasefire around Nagorno-Karabakh as he visited Armenia on the first leg of his tour of the three South Caucasus states.
President Serzh Sarkisian has briefed a visiting senior U.S. State Department official on his latest meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev held in Saint Petersburg, Russia last week.
Pope Francis hailed the Vatican’s “growing closeness” with the Armenian Apostolic Church and called for an eventual union between the two Christian denominations at the end of a three-day visit to Armenia on Sunday.
Pope Francis saluted Armenia for making Christianity an “essential part of its identity” as he prayed in the main Armenian cathedral at the start of a landmark visit to the country on Friday.
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