Most of about 250 commuter buses donated by China to Armenia early this year are still standing idle because of what municipal authorities in Yerevan described on Monday as a shortage of qualified drivers.
Health authorities in Armenia on Thursday categorically denied media claims that the first cases of the potentially deadly West Nile virus have been registered in the country.
The number of officially registered injection drug users in Armenia has increased by about 50 percent over the past year, the country’s chief narcologist, Petros Semerjian, said on Tuesday.
More than a thousand pigs have died or been slaughtered in Armenia in recent months because of a fresh outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), a senior government official said on Wednesday.
Medical authorities in Armenia reported on Monday the first two officially confirmed cases of people dying of swine flu.
The government played down on Tuesday the apparent spread of swine flu into Armenia, while urging the population to be more “careful and attentive.” Health Minister Harutiun Kushkian also said the government has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international agencies to bring forward the planned delivery of newly developed vaccines against the H1N1 virus.
Efforts to combat endemic corruption in Armenia will be doomed to failure as long as the country’s top government officials have extensive business interests and are able to strangle entrepreneurs challenging them, a leading anti-graft watchdog said on Thursday.
The possible opening of the Turkish border would significantly benefit the Armenian economy and have little adverse impact on local manufacturers, the chairman of Armenia’s largest business association insisted on Friday.
Several dozen young supporters of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) marched to the Office of the Prosecutor-General in Yerevan on Friday to demand the release of a fellow activist who was arrested after distributing opposition leaflets last month.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian predicted the impending release of his supporters remaining in prison and pledged to continue to fight for leadership change in Armenia as he began a series of visits to the country’s regions on Wednesday.
The rapidly spreading swine flu pandemic may finally reach Armenia in the coming months and its medical authorities are prepared to deal with the disease, a senior official said on Thursday.
National flags in Armenia flew at half-mast on Thursday for the victims, including many Armenians, of a plane crash in Iran the previous day.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian berated Armenia’s travel agencies on Wednesday for lacking interest in Nagorno-Karabakh and sending thousands of holiday-makers to Georgia and Turkey instead.
The main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Tuesday that it will rally supporters in Yerevan on July 2 despite a three-month pause in anti-government protests announced by its top leader, Levon Ter-Petrosian, recently.
Four more opposition members, including former Deputy Prosecutor-General Gagik Jahangirian, were released from prison on Tuesday in accordance with a general amnesty declared by the Armenian authorities.
A medium-magnitude earthquake jolted Yerevan and surrounding areas on Thursday, triggering a brief panic among the population.
A leader of the Orinats Yerkir Party accused on Thursday its two senior partners in Armenia’s governing coalition of resorting to large-scale vote buying to win the recent municipal elections in Yerevan.
A key ally of President Serzh Sarkisian was officially reinstalled as mayor of Yerevan on Monday as the city’s newly elected municipal legislature held its first session boycotted by the Armenian opposition.
Armenia’s largest opposition alliance led by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian urged the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and other “healthy” political forces on Wednesday to join it in fighting against the country’s current leadership.
The Armenian opposition alleged widespread vote buying and other irregularities on Sunday as voting progressed in Yerevan’s mayoral elections marked by a relatively high voter turnout. The polling was also marred by reported attacks on and intimidation of several journalists. (UPDATED)
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