Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk has shed light on remaining differences between Armenia and Azerbaijan that hamper the opening of their border to commercial traffic.
Turkey has closed its airspace for flights operated by Armenian airlines toward third countries because of Armenia’s provocations, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, speaking on Turkish television on Wednesday.
The U.S. administration claims that the mechanism of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is no longer functioning and Washington is engaged in a peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan only through interacting directly with Yerevan and Baku.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded on Friday to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s criticism of Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh which followed Wednesday’s deadly fighting there.
France’s government has denounced Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s angry reaction to a leading French presidential candidate’s recent visit to Nagorno-Karabakh.
An Azerbaijani passenger plane flew over Armenia on Wednesday for the first time in seven years.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has provoked a storm of criticism and defections from his political alliance with what critics see as a call for a violent response to opposition groups demanding his resignation.
Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinian has warned Armenia’s opposition against attempting a coup hours before a group of political parties critical of the government plans to hold a rally in Yerevan to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Fighting Resumes On Armenian-Azeri Border
Tens of thousands more Armenian citizens have been banned from reentering Russia in the last few months for allegedly violating Russian immigration rules, a senior government official in Yerevan said on Friday.
Doctors in Armenia on Tuesday fought to save the life of a 6-month-old infant from Gyumri who was gravely wounded in an armed attack that left his parents, grandparents, aunt and 2-year-old sister dead.
A court in Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday sentenced one Azerbaijani man to life imprisonment and another to 22 years in prison on charges stemming from the murder of an Armenian teenager which led to their high-profile arrests in July.
Dozens of minibus drivers in Yerevan went on strike on Wednesday to protest against a more than 20 percent surge in the price of liquefied natural gas used by their privately owned vehicles.
Three political activists involved in recent Armenian opposition protests have reportedly been assaulted in Yerevan in what they described on Wednesday as a government attempt to intimidate them.
Health authorities in Armenia have installed fever detectors at the national border crossings, trained medical personnel and provided them with protective equipment in an effort to contain a possible spread of Ebola into the country.
Armenian police neutralized but did not arrest an intoxicated and unruly Azerbaijani passenger of a Russian airliner that had to make an emergency landing in Yerevan on its way from Dubai to Moscow early on Tuesday.
Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian on Friday stood by his claims that exports of Armenian agricultural products to Russia should double this year because of the Russian ban on food imports from the West.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian’s government has postponed indefinitely the planned introduction of a nationwide system of mandatory medical insurance that would make healthcare more accessible to Armenians.
Corruption in the administration of state procurements in Armenia has increased in the last three years despite the government’s stated efforts to tackle the problem, the country’s leading anti-graft watchdog claimed on Friday.
The Armenian government is negotiating with the Russian authorities on the facilitation of immigration and employment rules for hundreds of thousands of Armenians working in Russia, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
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