The first group of more than 100 ethnic Armenian children from crisis-hit Syria were flown to Armenia on Thursday for summer holidays organized by the Armenian government.
Economic growth in Armenia appears to have accelerated to at least 6 percent in the first half of this year, approaching an ambitious target rate set by President Serzh Sarkisian, Finance Minister Vache Gabrielian said on Thursday.
The Zharangutyun (Heritage) party, one of the three opposition groups represented in the National Assembly, on Friday called for the formation of an opposition-dominated parliamentary commission tasked with combating corruption.
A group of Armenian athletes have left for London to take part in the 2012 Olympic Games that will officially start there on Friday.
Armenia’s economy can grow this year significantly faster than originally forecast by the government and international lending institutions, Economy Minister Tigran Davtian insisted on Monday.
Citing legal, educational and health factors, the government moved on Thursday to raise from 17 to 18 years the minimum age at which women in Armenia are allowed to marry.
Several dozen bus drivers went on strike on Wednesday, saying that they risk losing their jobs because of controversial free public transportation sponsored by Gagik Tsarukian, a millionaire businessman leading Armenia’s second largest parliamentary party.
President Serzh Sarkisian chaired the first meeting of his new but mostly unchanged government on Monday, telling its members to ensure that economic growth in Armenia is well above earlier government projections this year.
Citing the need to support a key agricultural region, the Armenian government has announced controversial plans to nearly double the use of water from the ecologically vital Lake Sevan for irrigation purposes this year.
The Court of Cassation condemned on Tuesday hundreds of Armenian lawyers for going on a one-day strike to protest against what they say are arbitrary decisions routinely made by the country’s highest body of criminal and civil justice.
Life in Chinari, a village in northeastern Armenia bordering Azerbaijan, has been far from normal for two decades, and the last few days have made it even more challenging and dangerous for more than 1,000 people living there.
More than one hundred lawyers plan to go on an unprecedented one-day strike next Monday in protest against what they see as arbitrary decisions routinely made by Armenia’s Court of Cassation.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and three key ministers have been reappointed to Armenia’s new government being formed as a result of last month’s parliamentary elections.
Armenia should press the United States to reaffirm support for Nagorno-Karabakh people’s right to self-determination in the conflict with Azerbaijan, a senior representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Friday.
Colonel Margar Ohanian, the former chief of the Armenian traffic police arrested last year, was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday on corruption charges which he denied throughout his five-month trial.
Road policing and safety in Armenia has improved further this year thanks to the growing use of surveillance cameras by the traffic police, a pressure group defending drivers’ rights said on Friday.
Armenia’s two main governing parties have agreed in principle to form a new coalition government after winning the overwhelming majority of seats in the new parliament, one of their senior figures said on Monday. (UPDATED)
Tens of thousands of farmers across Armenia have received this spring diesel fuel for tractors and other agricultural machines at prices subsidized by the government, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
A municipal councilor from a small town near Yerevan underwent surgery on Friday after being injured in what some local politicians described as a clash between election campaign activists of Armenia’s two main governing parties.
At least 144 people were hospitalized with burns after mass explosions of campaign balloons during a pre-election concert and rally held in Yerevan’s main square by President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) late on Friday. (UPDATED)
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