The United States accused Armenia of re-exporting weapons to neighboring Iran and threatened to impose sanctions on Yerevan two years ago, according to one of the thousands of leaked State Department cables publicized by WikiLeaks on Sunday. (UPDATED)
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Wednesday condemned as “irresponsible” President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision to boycott the NATO summit in Lisbon in protest against the alliance’s support for Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
Armenia’s highest court on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a legal provision allowing law-enforcement bodies to wiretap telephone conversations and monitor other private correspondence without court permissions in some cases.
The leaders of NATO’s 28 member states singled out Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity as the guiding principle of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s resolution in a weekend declaration denounced by Armenia but welcomed in Azerbaijan.
President Serzh Sarkisian announced late on Friday that he will not attend the upcoming NATO summit in Lisbon because of the alliance’s plans to uphold Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Azerbaijan a “brotherly” neighbor but was careful not to publicly take sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Baku late on Wednesday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian armed forces held on Friday what appeared to be large-scale military exercises monitored by Armenia’s visiting President Serzh Sarkisian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.
Consumer prices in Armenia again rose last month, keeping inflation well above the maximum target rate of 5.5 percent that was projected by the Armenian government and Central Bank for this year.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian stepped up his verbal attacks on Western powers and structures on Tuesday, again accusing them of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in Armenia for “geopolitical considerations.”
An Armenian security agency said on Monday that it has closely cooperated with Georgian law-enforcement authorities in their hitherto secret investigation into an alleged smuggling of highly-enriched uranium to Georgia that led to the arrest of two Armenian nationals.
Law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan said on Friday that they have found evidence that the death of an Armenian man in Azerbaijani captivity last month was the result of a “premeditated murder.”
Armenia’s business environment still leaves much to be desired despite being more favorable than in most countries of the world, the World Bank said in an annual survey released on Thursday.
The two leading Armenian-American advocacy group have expressed their overall satisfaction with the results of Tuesday's mid-term congressional elections in the United States that ended in a resounding victory for the Republican Party.
A Republican candidate in the U.S. mid-term elections has condemned President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies controlling Congress for reneging, so far, on their pledges to formally recognize the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian accused Armenia’s leadership of presiding over an “incredibly” corrupt political and economic system at a fresh rally held by his Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday.
In a move that could intensify its arms race with Armenia, Azerbaijan has announced plans for another drastic increase in defense spending, which has already skyrocketed over the past decade.
Armenia has used the first anniversary of its ill-fated agreements with Turkey to again accuse Ankara of reneging on them and urge it to drop “preconditions” for normalizing bilateral relations.
Hundreds of Turkish nationalists performed Muslim prayers in one of the most important Armenian churches of the Middle Ages on Friday, in a high-profile ceremony authorized by Turkey’s government.
Armenia’s government unveiled on Thursday the state budget for next year which calls for a nearly 7 percent increase in its expenditures.
Amalia Kostanian, Armenia’s most prominent anti-corruption campaigner who has also been known for her civil rights advocacy, died unexpectedly on Thursday.
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