The Armenian military said on Tuesday that one of its soldiers was wounded on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan in a shootout with Azerbaijani forces.
A senior member of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration has effectively confirmed differences between the current ruling party and Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian that opposition media have speculated on for months.
Coronavirus infections in Armenia will likely soar again in the coming weeks after falling this month to the lowest level in a year, a senior public health official warned on Friday.
Campaigning officially began in Armenia on Monday for the June 20 snap parliamentary elections aimed at ending a serious political crisis resulting from last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian government’s efforts to expand the domestic defense industry intensified after the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh and will bear fruit soon, Minister of High-Tech Industry Hayk Chobanian said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Monday allowed a record 22 parties and 4 alliances to run in next month’s parliamentary elections.
Armen Gevorgian, a former senior government official allied to ex-President Robert Kocharian, accused the Armenian authorities of political persecution on Thursday after being charged with money laundering.
Officials in Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday accused Azerbaijan of systematically destroying Karabakh Armenian cemeteries in the disputed territory’s south captured by it during last year’s war.
President Armen Sarkissian has challenged the legality of yet another government bill which has drawn strong criticism from Armenia’s leading university and National Academy of Sciences.
The head of an independent body empowered to nominate, sanction and fire judges on Friday accused Armenia’s political leadership of ordering criminal proceedings against him in a bid to replace him with a government ally.
Armenia strongly condemned Azerbaijan on Tuesday for opening a special park in Baku to display military equipment seized from Armenian troops during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia will start on Tuesday vaccinating a small percentage of its population against COVID-19, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian announced on Monday.
Armenia’s leading university and National Academy of Sciences condemned the government on Monday for pushing through the parliament a bill that could give it direct control over all state universities.
A pro-government lawmaker does not consider the weekend rallies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as an “early start” of an election campaign despite criticism from political opponents.
Armenia is redeploying some of its hospital resources to treat COVID-19 patients as the rate of the coronavirus infection has again been on the rise in the South Caucasus country lately.
Armenia’s Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan believes that a government-drafted bill that would cut the funding for his office is discriminatory.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have endorsed a proposal to make Russian the Armenian-populated territory’s second official language.
Armenian health authorities have reaffirmed plans to start vaccinating next month “high risk” groups of the country’s population against COVID-19.
Pro-government lawmakers questioned on Monday the need for a parliamentary inquiry into the Armenian government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic initiated by the opposition.
The Armenian government on Thursday pledged to provide demobilized soldiers maimed during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh with modern prosthetics and help them find jobs and receive higher education.
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