Turkey’s new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was formally invited to visit Armenia next April and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire after being sworn in for a five-year term on Thursday.
Armenia’s main political parties at odds with President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday criticized him for sending a high-level Armenian delegation to the inauguration of Turkey’s new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) and Zharangutyun parties renewed their calls for President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation on Tuesday, saying that he has failed to meet a list of their demands also backed by two other parties.
President Serzh Sarkisian has insisted that he is not worried about opposition threats to launch this fall a new campaign of street protests aimed at toppling him.
France has joined the United States in deploring the suspicious death of an Armenian man in Azerbaijani custody and urging Azerbaijan to investigate its cause. (UPDATED)
The government approved on Thursday measures designed to make it easier for Iraqi Armenians to take refuge in Armenia or become its dual citizens following the rise of Islamist insurgency in Iraq.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership on Tuesday expressed readiness to grant asylum to Yazidis who have been forced to flee their homes in parts of northern Iraq controlled by the Islamic State.
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.
A senior aide to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday gave a positive assessment of the weekend Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Sochi and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for organizing it.
An Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani custody on Friday was alone and not armed when he crossed into Azerbaijan the day before, according to residents of a border village who first spotted him.
A resident of an Armenian border village was detained by Azerbaijani authorities on Thursday after crossing into Azerbaijan in disputed circumstances.
Azerbaijan is reportedly poised to buy advanced military aircraft from Russia in addition to billions of dollars worth of other Russian-made weapons acquired in the past several years.
Opposition members and economic experts critical of the Armenian government have discarded as another ‘show’ the recent report suggesting that scores of companies have ‘come clean’ following a warning by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian to stop evading taxes.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday accused Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) of using threats and intimidation to try to recruit as informers two senior members of his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party.
Military investigators have formally charged the first suspects in connection with a recent non-combat death of an Armenian soldier who served near the border with Azerbaijan.
An angry man fired gunshots at police outside a court in Yerevan on Thursday as 14 activists went on trial there more than six months after clashing with security forces in what they called an attempt to topple Armenia’s government.
Armenia threatened Azerbaijan with “severe consequences” on Friday after two of its soldiers were shot dead on its border with the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan.
Kazakhstan’s last-minute precondition for Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union is a serious diplomatic setback suffered by President Serzh Sarkisian, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) claimed on Tuesday.
Law-enforcement authorities have raised concerns about freedom of speech in Armenia with threats to prosecute media outlets and journalists that report details of ongoing criminal investigations.
In a vote of confidence boycotted by its opposition factions, the Armenian government approved on Thursday a three-year plan of actions submitted by the recently appointed Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian and his cabinet.
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