An Armenian army contingent is taking part in military exercises in northwestern Russia simulating a joint response by Moscow and its ex-Soviet allies to an imaginary armed conflict in “the Eastern European region.”
A Ukrainian-based investment fund holding a sizable stake in Armenia’s leading airline deplored on Wednesday the severe beating of the company’s chief executive and majority shareholder which was reportedly ordered by a feared tycoon close to the Armenian government.
The U.S. government has stressed the economic significance of a new multimillion-dollar gold mining project implemented in Armenia by American and other Western investors, while urging them to minimize the resulting environmental risks.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has acquired a 20 percent stake in Armenia’s largest hydroelectric complex that was sold to a U.S. energy company earlier this year.
Less than a month after reaching a landmark nuclear deal with world powers, Iran has committed itself to financing a new energy project with Armenia that should significantly increase Armenian electricity exports to the Islamic Republic.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Friday brushed aside Azerbaijan’s apparent threats to shell Yerevan from its Nakhichevan exclave and warned Baku against raising tensions on the frontlines in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
The Armenian government officially unveiled on Wednesday a long-term energy security strategy for Armenia that has been drawn up with financial and technical assistance provided by the United States.
Armenia promptly welcomed on Tuesday a historic international agreement to curb neighboring Iran’s controversial nuclear program, expressing hope that it will help to deepen Armenian-Iranian commercial ties.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his visiting Armenian counterpart Hovik Abrahamian discussed on Thursday the fallout from dramatic street protests in Yerevan against an electricity price hike that was initiated by Armenia’s Russian-owned power grids.
A controversial Russian businessman, who had become one of the first Soviet multimillionaires, appears to have settled in Nagorno-Karabakh with his family after reportedly fleeing Russia for reasons that are not entirely clear.
Russia is reportedly holding negotiations with Armenia on supplying it with sophisticated Iskander-M missiles that would significantly boost Armenian defense capabilities in the unresolved conflict with Azerbaijan.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov deplored on Thursday what he described as attempts to exploit the continuing street protests in Armenia against an electricity price hike for political purposes.
Thousands of people continued to hold a nonstop demonstration in Yerevan on Sunday night, rejecting its organizers’ calls to unblock a key street in the city center voiced after concessions made to the protesters by President Serzh Sarkisian.
President Serzh Sarkisian and Prime Minister Abrahamian discussed on Friday with a visiting Russian government member the increased cost of power supplies by Armenia’s Russian-owned electric utility, which has sparked angry street protests in Yerevan.
President Serzh Sarkisian flew to Brussels on Wednesday evening to attend a meeting of European politicians, continuing to avoid public statements on nonstop street protests in Yerevan against a rise in electricity prices in Armenia.
Turkey has condemned Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel for publicly recognizing the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide in the wake of similar statements made by Pope Francis and other world leaders.
Kirk Kerkorian, a prominent American billionaire financier of Armenian descent who has poured hundreds of millions of dollars in aid into Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, died at the age of 98 on Monday night.
Armenia’s top military official in charge of arms procurements will fly to Moscow on Tuesday to meet with representatives of Russia’s Defense Ministry and state intermediary agency for Russian arms exports.
Japan’s first resident ambassador to Armenia handed his credentials to President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday more than four months after the opening of the Japanese Embassy in Yerevan meant to facilitate closer relations between the two countries.
President Serzh Sarkisian inaugurated together with Gagik Tsarukian a new entertainment complex in Yerevan on Monday less than four months after branding the ambitious tycoon as “evil” and forcing him out of politics.
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