The Armenian government will receive $84 million in assistance from the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) to bring domestic customs legislation and procedures into conformity with EEU standards, Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian revealed on Tuesday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) insisted on Monday that it remains in opposition to President Serzh Sarkisian despite supporting his plans for constitutional reform and refusing to join anti-government protests staged by three other opposition parties.
Armenia’s only air carrier has suspended commercial flights in all directions for about two months, blaming a Russian navigation service for the situation.
Opposition activist Shant Harutiunian and his supporters who were sentenced to prison earlier this month over clashes with riot police during last year’s anti-government protest intend to file appeals against the verdicts, it emerged on Tuesday.
The parliamentary leader of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) sparked a bitter verbal exchange with outspoken opposition lawmakers on Tuesday after accusing them of accepting money from the West and Azerbaijan to betray Armenia.
The Armenian police on Thursday warned the country’s leading opposition parties not to disrupt “public order” at their next anti-government rally in Yerevan scheduled for October 24.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian again met with representatives of market traders in Yerevan on Thursday as hundreds of them continued to demonstrate against recent changes in tax legislation which they say could ruin their businesses.
The Armenian government officially responded to a list of opposition demands on Wednesday ahead of an unprecedented joint rally planned by the country’s leading parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian.
John Heffern, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, met with leaders of Armenia’s Yazidi community on Wednesday to discuss the plight of their displaced co-ethnics in Iraq.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Tuesday that it will train residents of border villages in northeastern Armenia to better guard against Azerbaijani gunfire and avoid accidentally crossing into Azerbaijan.
The U.S. State Department has urged the Azerbaijani authorities to investigate the suspicious death of an Armenian man who was detained by them after crossing into Azerbaijan on August 7.
Responding to appeals from leaders of Armenia’s Yezidi community, the Armenian government has decided to provide humanitarian assistance to their ethnic kin in northern Iraq that have been forced to flee for their lives in the face of advancing Islamist militants.
A resident of an Armenian border village arrested by Azerbaijani security forces was reported dead on Friday one day after crossing into Azerbaijan in disputed circumstances. (UPDATED)
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.
A senior representative of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has ridiculed the statements made by opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian, implying that his recent interviews are damaging to his reputation as the country’s first president.
Armenian lawmakers consider making amendments in the current legislation to penalize banks for fully blocking citizens’ accounts upon requests of bailiffs seeking only a partial freeze on assets.
Armenia’s civil aviation authority said on Friday that it has censured the Czech Republic’s national airline for ordering its passengers flying to Yerevan to fill out Russian immigration forms.
Seven people were detained in Yerevan on Thursday as police stopped dozens of cars from approaching the city center in a fresh demonstration held by their owners against what they see as extremely heavy fines for traffic violations.
Hundreds of employees of a troubled cement plant in central Armenia demonstrated on Monday to demand the payment of their back wages for the past several months.
Aram Harutiunian, Armenia’s environment minister until last month, awarded himself a government medal just days before the formal appointment of his successor, it emerged on Monday.
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