The Council of Europe denied on Friday any political motives behind its failure to invite some of Armenia’s leading civic organizations to a high-level international conference to be held in Yerevan later this month.
Armenia took delivery of nearly 1,000 metric tons of high-quality grain seeds on Friday as it began implementing a government plan to more than double domestic production of wheat in the next few years.
The dramatic dismissal of Yuri Luzhkov will not adversely affect the implementation of a massive redevelopment project in Yerevan that was supported by Moscow’s longtime mayor, a senior Armenian official said on Wednesday.
Armenia has started receiving thousands of tons of grain and cooking oil in humanitarian assistance provided by Russia’s government, a senior government official said on Thursday.
After years of negotiations, Armenia and Iran will start building two major hydro-electric stations on their border in the coming weeks and possibly days, Energy Minister Armen Movsisian announced on Thursday.
Armenia’s largest brandy company said on Tuesday that it will cut back on purchases of grapes from thousands of local farmers by about 10 percent this fall despite its rallying sales in and outside the country.
The government moved on Thursday to ban tens of thousands of Armenians from registering their cars abroad -- and neighboring Georgia in particular -- to pay significantly lower taxes.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Armenia increased by more than 10 percent to 230,000 in the first half of this year, according to government data publicized on Tuesday.
Belarus’s controversial President Aleksandr Lukashenko has arrived in Armenia on what official Yerevan described as a “private” trip that could see him cross paths with Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart and increasingly bitter critic.
An Armenian government agency claimed on Thursday to have rooted out corruption within its ranks.
Artur Baghdasarian, the secretary of Armenia’s National Security Council, tried on Wednesday to allay domestic concerns over the anticipated extension and upgrading of Russian military presence in the country.
Armenia’s Emergencies Ministry put on display Wednesday more than two dozen new fire engines that have been donated by Japan’s government and will significantly modernize its fire-fighting division in Yerevan.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Thursday strongly condemned the latest deadly shootings in Armenia’s Armed Forces and demanded “severe punishment” for those responsible for them.
Armenia is sending a team of heavily equipped firefighters to Russia to help the country cope with its worst wildfires in nearly four decades that have killed at least 48 people, the Armenian government said on Wednesday.
A leading member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed on Monday that the country’s largest opposition force led by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has backed further away from confrontation with the government.
Agriculture Minister Gerasim Alaverdian on Wednesday brushed aside media speculation that his Orinats Yerkir Party plans to replace by him a controversial figure who joined it recently.
In a potentially massive boost to Armenia’s winegrowers, the government decided on Thursday to ban local brandy producers that use imported alcohol from branding it as “Armenian cognac.”
The Armenian government approved on Thursday a list of 24 lucrative companies where it will deploy soon permanent tax “representatives” tasked with monitoring their financial operations and detecting possible tax evasion.
The owner of Armenia’s leading independent television station taken off the air in 2002 said on Friday that he still expects to win a new broadcasting license this year despite the passage of a government-drafted lawl criticized by media groups.
Two young opposition activists and a journalist were formally placed under arrest and faced the possibility of up to five years’ imprisonment on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting riot police in Yerevan. (UPDATED)
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