Armenia’s membership in Russian-led military and economic blocs does not prevent it from forging closer links with the United States and the European Union, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Richard Mills, said on Tuesday.
A senior U.S. diplomat on Friday criticized a key committee of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) for backing a draft resolution that demands Armenian withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh and the territory’s return to Azerbaijani rule.
Six months after attending a ceremony in Turkey meant to deflect international attention from the centenary of the Armenian genocide, Britain’s Prince Charles paid tribute to its victims at a special church service held in London late on Wednesday.
A team of U.S., Russian and French mediators reportedly came under fire on Tuesday as it crossed into Azerbaijani-controlled territory from Nagorno-Karabakh through a “line of contact” that has seen growing ceasefire violations in recent years.
Exports of Armenian fruits and vegetables have soared by almost 70 percent in physical terms this year despite an economic recession in Russia, their main market, Armenia’s Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday.
Russia does not object to Armenia’s intention to deepen its relations with the European Union through a new comprehensive political and economic agreement, according to a senior Russian official.
Ending months of speculation, Russia’s state-controlled energy conglomerate Inter RAO announced on Wednesday the widely anticipated sale of Armenia’s debt-ridden power distribution network to another Russian group owned by an Armenian-born billionaire.
President Serzh Sarkisian expressed readiness to expand Armenia’s participation in multinational peacekeeping operations around the world on Monday as he addressed a United Nations summit in New York chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama.
The Armenian military pledged on Saturday to use heavier artillery against Azerbaijani troops after accusing them of firing howitzer shells at Armenian soldiers for the first time since a Russian-brokered truce stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1994.
International mediators on Friday blamed both Armenia and Azerbaijan for the latest upsurge in truce violations on the border between the two warring nations which has left three Armenian civilians dead.
Dozens of small information technology (IT) firms set up in Armenia recently have reportedly been granted tax breaks which the Armenian government hopes will give a further boost to the fastest-growing sector of the domestic economy.
A Swiss asset management company with apparent ties to a Russian-Armenian billionaire looks set buy, through an offshore subsidiary, Armenia’s national power utility from Inter RAO, a state-controlled Russian energy giant.
Armenian called on the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to play a greater “peacekeeping” role as it took over the rotating presidency of the Russian-led military alliance of six former Soviet republics on Tuesday.
The United States has criticized Armenia and Azerbaijan for the latest upsurge of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, saying that they both have used heavier weapons to shell each other’s villages along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
The United States fomented recent street protests against an electricity price hike in Armenia to try to install a pro-Western government in Yerevan, a powerful Russian security official alleged in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern at a sharp fall in Russia’s trade with Armenia registered this year as he met with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian near Moscow late on Monday.
An Armenian-Iranian joint venture has built Armenia’s largest slaughterhouse which is expected to significantly boost exports of halal meat to neighboring Iran, a key market for sheep raised in the South Caucasus country.
The authorities in Baku signaled on Monday that they will not deport or arrest Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenia’s most famous football player, if he arrives in Azerbaijan to play in his German club’s upcoming match against an Azerbaijani team.
In what a senior U.S. diplomat called on Friday a manifestation of “strong American-Armenian partnership,” U.S. military instructors have trained the first group of teaching personnel for the Armenian army’s new paramedic school.
Ruben Hayrapetian, a controversial government-linked businessman heading the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA), will not be prosecuted despite admitting beating up another entrepreneur, law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
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