Nikol Pashinian, an outspoken newspaper editor who played a major part in last year’s post-election opposition protests in Yerevan, said on Wednesday that he has decided to surrender to Armenian law-enforcement authorities after spending almost 16 months on the run.
The International Monetary Fund announced on Tuesday almost $283 million in additional emergency assistance to Armenia, citing the sharper-than-anticipated impact of the global recession on its economy.
Armenia’s economic recession reached a double-digit rate last month amid an accelerating decline in its once booming construction sector, according to the latest official statistics released on Friday.
A controversial framework agreement on the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations announced in late April is not being implemented, according to Turkey’s ambassador to Azerbaijan.
Citing “significant” steps taken by the Armenian authorities, the U.S. State Department has removed Armenia from a list of countries which it believes are not doing enough to combat human trafficking and aid its victims.
Two government loyalists were sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for rigging the results of the May 31 municipal elections in Yerevan in one of the polling stations.
President Serzh Sarkisian formally asked Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday to declare a general amnesty that would affect at least some of the opposition members arrested following last year’s troubled presidential election.
The United States has effectively axed nearly one third of a $235.6 million aid program for Armenia, citing its government’s deteriorated human rights record and democratic practices.
The new top U.S. diplomat in charge of Europe and the former Soviet Union sounded optimistic about prospects for the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations on Tuesday as he visited Armenia on the first leg of his first regional tour.
Armenian tax authorities have not been barred from raiding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and inspecting their books despite what appeared to be a statement to the contrary made by Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian late last month.
Armenia will receive a $500 million anti-crisis loan from Russia this week and spend it over the next few years on a wide range of programs, Finance Minister Tigran Davtian said on Thursday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Monday that it will permanently boycott Yerevan’s newly elected municipal council and never engage in dialogue with the authorities after what its top leader, Levon Ter-Petrosian, called “the ugliest election in Armenia’s history.”
Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan were largely democratic despite some “serious deficiencies,” observers from the Council of Europe said on Monday in a major boost to the international credibility of their disputed official results. (UPDATED)
President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) swept to a landslide victory in the weekend municipal elections in Yerevan that were denounced as fraudulent by the country’s two main opposition groups. (UPDATED)
Observers from the Council of Europe expressed “deep concern” about the conduct of Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan as campaigning for them officially drew to a close on Friday.
Armenia’s rapprochement with Turkey has not reached an impasse despite Ankara’s renewed linkage between the normalization of bilateral relations and a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
International mediators will open on Friday a new round of regional shuttle diplomacy to prepare for next week’s meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents which they hope will mark a further step towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglarian said he expects the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) to win Sunday’s municipal elections and re-install him in his current position as he campaigned in the capital on Wednesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have made no progress in resolving the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani and Turkish foreign ministers said over the weekend, sharply contradicting optimistic statements made by international mediators.
Armenia’s economic downturn deepened further in April, resulting in a 9.7 percent shrinkage of Gross Domestic Product during the first four months of this year, according to the latest official statistics released on Wednesday.
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