In one of its worst military setbacks since the 1991-1994 war for Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan reported the death of 8 Azerbaijani soldiers on Friday one day after being accused by Karabakh Armenian forces of launching yet another incursion.
Armenia will do everything to avoid the knock-on effects of the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said on Friday.
Armenia has been putting in place ‘engineering facilities’ along with other measures to prevent attempts by Azerbaijani sabotage groups to infiltrate into its territory, according to Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.
The Armenian government is trying to identify and punish the owner of the country’s largest chemical plant driven into bankruptcy, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian told on Thursday hundreds of its workers demanding their back wages.
The Orinats Yerkir party of Artur Baghdasarian will hold a rally in Yerevan next week three months after pulling out of President Serzh Sarkisian’s government.
Tax authorities in Armenia have effectively given small businesses more time to install a new and more expensive type of cash registers which they say will make tax fraud more difficult.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Thursday accused vocal opponents of his government’s controversial pension reform of humiliating state officials and ordered law-enforcement bodies to take “drastic” measures against them.
The Georgian authorities have extradited to Armenia a fugitive Armenian businessman at the center of a high-profile fraud case that sparked last year corruption allegations against then Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
The Armenian government is facing fresh corruption allegations by its critics after granting a significant tax benefit to an agricultural company that was recently set up by President Serzh Sarkisian’s chief adviser.
Russia is to deliver 12 more heavy flamethrowers to Azerbaijan as part of multimillion-dollar arms deals with Baku that have caused outrage in Armenia, its main regional ally.
Mamikon Khojoyan, a 77-year-old resident of an Armenian border village, died on Tuesday more than two months after returning home from captivity in Azerbaijan with what appeared to be serious injuries.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian and his newly formed cabinet offered a less upbeat outlook for economic growth in Armenia than the previous government in their three-year plan of actions adopted on Monday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian warned the newly appointed members of his cabinet on Thursday that he will not hesitate to sack them if they fail to live up to his expectations.
A senior pro-government lawmaker downplayed on Wednesday an apparent delay in Armenia’s membership in the Russian-led Customs Union, saying that the accession process will be completed within the next month.
President Serzh Sarkisian will not attend Tuesday’s summit of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan that was expected to complete Armenia’s accession to their Customs Union, it emerged on Monday.
Armenia’s construction industry, once the engine of robust economic growth, expanded slightly in the first quarter of 2014 after several consecutive years of rapid decline, according to official statistics.
Armenia’s new Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian promised over the weekend that his incoming government will create a level playing field for all businesses and prevent their harassment by tax authorities.
Armenia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian declined to shed light on the composition of his government and its policies on Monday after being formally introduced to outgoing ministers by President Serzh Sarkisian.
The debts of Armenia’s idling chemical giant, Nairit, will be included in the program on the plant’s re-operation, according to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian.
Armenia has extended the term of operation for its Soviet-built nuclear power plant (NPP) for another ten years. Originally, the facility in Metsamor, some 30 kilometers west of capital Yerevan, was due to be decommissioned in 2016.
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