Authorities in Armenia’s Armavir region reported on Thursday serious damage to local agriculture from violent rain and storm that battered the fruit-growing area south and west of Yerevan earlier this week.
Armenia’s national airline has postponed the long-awaited launch of direct flights to the United States, expected late last year, for reasons that are not yet clear. The Armavia private carrier and the Armenian government blame one another for the delay.
More than a thousand opposition supporters marched to Armenia’s Administrative Court on Friday in support of an opposition lawsuit challenging a recent sharp rise in the price of natural gas.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian downplayed on Thursday a higher-than-expected consumer price inflation in Armenia, saying that is a further indication of the country’s accelerating economic recovery.
The International Monetary Fund has disbursed a fresh $73.6 million installment of a vital loan to Armenia, again praising the Armenian authorities’ response to the global financial crisis and their broader macroeconomic policies.
International mediators said over the weekend that Armenia disagrees with some provisions of their recently modified plan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
A new large-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war is unlikely at this juncture despite Azerbaijan’s continuing threats to take back Nagorno-Karabakh by force, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Thursday.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday more than ten percent increases in pensions and poverty benefits, citing the need to cushion the effects of rising consumer prices in the country.
Orinats Yerkir Party leader Artur Baghdasarian said on Tuesday that he will not contest Armenia’s next presidential election due in 2013, implying that he will instead help President Serzh Sarkisian win reelection.
The Armenian government received on Wednesday 15 million euros ($20.3 million) in external financial assistance designed to modernize Yerevan’s disused underground metro system.
A group of Armenian parliamentarians met with the chairman of a U.S. congressional committee the day after it approved a resolution describing the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, it emerged on Tuesday.
A French-run company managing Yerevan’s water distribution network said on Thursday that it has asked state regulators to allow it to raise the price of drinking water in the Armenian capital by almost 14 percent.
Armenia’s worst recession since the early 1990s has come to an end, a senior government official claimed on Monday, citing official statistics that show the Armenian economy growing last month for the first time in over a year.
The Armenian government has formally asked the National Assembly to approve its plans to move casinos further away from Yerevan, prompting criticism from the parliament’s opposition minority and some pro-government lawmakers.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Tuesday denounced President Serzh Sarkisian’s policy on Turkey, saying that it has given Ankara a say in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and left Armenia under “unprecedented” international pressure to make more concessions to Azerbaijan.
Moscow’s longtime Mayor Yuri Luzhkov expressed on Friday his readiness to attract large-scale Russian investments in a massive redevelopment project in Yerevan unveiled by the Armenian authorities during his visit to Armenia.
In a thinly veiled warning to Azerbaijan, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday that a military assault on Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh would trigger “serious counterattacks” with strong elements of surprise.
A sudden upsurge in exports of Armenian sheep to Iran observed since last spring has drastically pushed up the cost of lamb in Armenia, raising fears of dwindling livestock numbers that could eventually cost local farmers dearly.
Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri welcomed the possible opening of the Turkish-Armenian border and urged Russia reopen its main border gate with Georgia used by Armenia during a working visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
The government gave the final green light on Thursday to a multimillion-dollar project designed to upgrade most of Armenia’s main highways and facilitate its transport communication with neighboring Iran and Georgia.
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