Two weeks after a sharp escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian government moved on Friday to accelerate the purchase of new Russian-made weapons for Armenia’s armed forces with a $200 million Russian loan disbursed last year.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Monday urged the Armenian opposition to put aside its differences with President Serzh Sarkisian and strengthen his hand in crunch negotiations with Azerbaijan which he said will be held soon.
Armenia has accused Kazakhstan of damaging the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with its refusal to attend a high-level meeting of the Russian-led bloc’s member states in Yerevan in an apparent show of support for Azerbaijan.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Thursday urged volunteers from Armenia to stop trying to join Nagorno-Karabakh’s army for now, saying that it has already been sufficiently reinforced in recent days.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a “lasting ceasefire” in Nagorno-Karabakh after discussing the sharp escalation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict with Armenia’s visiting President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday.
The Azerbaijani military on Saturday acknowledged that it went on offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and said 12 of its soldiers died and an Azerbaijani attack helicopter was shot down by the Armenians as a result.
Armenia is ready to receive more ethnic Armenian refugees from Syria and hopes that its affluent Diaspora in the West will assist in their resettlement, President Serzh Sarkisian said during a visit to the United States late on Wednesday.
The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) lowered the minimum cost of borrowing in the country for a third time in as many months on Tuesday, citing a further drop in inflation and “weak” consumer demand.
Armenia’s armed forces acquired “qualitatively new weapons” late last year, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Monday as he met with the top military brass in Yerevan.
The leading Armenian-American advocacy groups have praised the U.S. government for declaring that the so-called Islamic State has committed genocide in Syria and Iraq, but said Washington must also use the same term to characterize the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey.
Top energy officials from Georgia, Armenia, Iran and Russia will meet in Tbilisi next month for further negotiations on boosting power supplies among their countries, Armenian Energy Minister Levon Yolian confirmed on Thursday.
At least five more Russian fighter jets and one military transport helicopter have arrived, ahead of schedule, at an airbase in Armenia after undergoing what the Russian military described as “capital repairs.”
Devastating multiple-launch rocket systems, heavy flamethrowers and advanced anti-tank missiles are among new weapons Armenia will buy from Russia soon with a $200 million Russian loan, it emerged on Thursday.
The resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations are not a necessary condition for Armenia’s sustainable development, according to President Serzh Sarkisian.
A continued depreciation of the Russian ruble took a heavy financial toll on Armenia last year, cutting the country’s export revenue and especially multimillion-dollar remittances from Armenian migrant workers in Russia.
Despite skepticism voiced by many civil society figures in Armenia, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated $750,000 to support the implementation of the Armenian government’s latest plan to combat corruption.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Thursday publicly pressed Armenia’s Russian-owned gas distribution network to help his government convince Russia to cut the price of its natural gas delivered to the South Caucasus country.
The Armenian government has refused to extradite a Bahraini activist who was arrested in Armenia last month after fleeing Bahrain to avoid imprisonment on what human rights groups consider politically motivated charges.
President Barack Obama has reportedly hailed a significant increase in U.S. investments in the Armenian economy registered last year and said U.S.-Armenian commercial ties should deepen further in the years ahead.
President Serzh Sarkisian phoned his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani at the weekend to discuss ways of boosting economic relations between their countries following the lifting of international sanctions against Iran.
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