The United States has reportedly refused to sell military vehicles to Azerbaijan because of the unresolved conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Citing falling inflation and the need to stimulate consumer demand, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) has lowered its benchmark refinancing rate for the fourth time this year.
A senior aide to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday gave a positive assessment of the weekend Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Sochi and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for organizing it.
Armenia will sign an accession treaty with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) this year, President Serzh Sarkisian insisted after weekend talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus has reiterated his apparent misgivings about Armenia’s membership in the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EUU) comprising his country.
The United States welcomed on Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming talks with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts that are meant to defuse increased tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
President Ilham Aliyev visited Azerbaijani troops stationed near “the line of contact” east of Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday amid continuing fighting with Armenian forces that left another Azerbaijani soldier dead.
The commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed armed forces said on Sunday they dealt a heavy blow to Azerbaijani troops during last week’s deadly fighting around the disputed territory and will not hesitate to take more “punitive” actions in the future.
In one of its worst military setbacks since the 1991-1994 war for Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan reported the death of 8 Azerbaijani soldiers on Friday one day after being accused by Karabakh Armenian forces of launching yet another incursion.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian has toured “the line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh as part of what military authorities in Stepanakert described on Tuesday as Armenian efforts to neutralize increased ceasefire violations by Azerbaijani troops.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his visiting Armenian counterpart Hovik Abrahamian announced no dates for Armenia’s membership in the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) after talks held in Sochi on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian has reportedly voiced dismay at continuing deliveries of Russian offensive weapons to Azerbaijan, while insisting that Russia remains committed to its military alliance with Armenia.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has lashed out at European critics of his government’s poor human rights record, saying that they are part of the worldwide “Armenian lobby” acting against his country.
John Heffern, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, has expressed hope that the Armenian government will not annul the planned sale of Armenia's largest hydroelectric complex to a U.S. energy company.
The World Bank has disbursed more than $120 million in three new loans to Armenia that are designed to boost Armenian exports, upgrade the domestic energy infrastructure and support thousands of livestock farmers in impoverished rural communities.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has again denounced the U.S., Russian and French mediators and the broader international community for not helping his country regain control over Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian-controlled territories surrounding it.
The Armenian government gave on Tuesday the strongest indication yet that it could cancel soon the $250 million sale of Armenia’s largest cascade of hydroelectric plants to a U.S. energy firm, which was officially announced in January.
In what appeared to be a response to fresh criticism from his predecessor Robert Kocharian, President Serzh Sarkisian defended on Tuesday his pursuit of Armenia’s speedy accession to a Russian-led union of ex-Soviet states with its internationally recognized borders.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday congratulated his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad on winning another seven-year term in an election condemned as a farce by the West.
A controversial Russian television host blacklisted by the European Union for his aggressively pro-Kremlin stance deplored on Wednesday the declining use of the Russian language in Armenia, calling that a serious threat to Russian-Armenian relations.
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