About 40 civilian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh remain unaccounted for more than one month after a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
Doctors in Yerevan were examining on Tuesday the first group of Armenian soldiers and civilians freed by Azerbaijan in a prisoner swap facilitated by Russia.
Nearly 60 percent of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has been forced to flee homes since the start of the war with Azerbaijan one month ago, an official in Stepanakert said on Monday.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh lifted on Tuesday serious restrictions on people leaving and entering the Armenian-populated region which were imposed following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
The daily number of new coronavirus cases registered in Armenia is continuing to decline steadily after peaking three months ago.
Former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan was allowed by a Yerevan court on Monday to temporarily leave Armenia despite standing trial on charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Parents and education experts in Armenia are questioning the wisdom of the latest decision of the government to reopen schools in September with a number of coronavirus-related safety measures put in place to avoid major outbreaks of the disease.
The Armenian government clarified on Friday that it will send three planeloads of humanitarian aid to Lebanon following a massive explosion in Beirut which killed at least 154 people and injured thousands of others.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Thursday that Armenia will practically overcome its coronavirus crisis by September, citing a “substantial” drop in daily infections recorded by the health authorities over the last two weeks.
Pro-government lawmakers have introduced legislation that would extend and expand wide-ranging economic benefits enjoyed by residents of Armenian towns and villages close to the border with Azerbaijan.
Armenian Government Cautiously Upbeat On Curbing COVID-19
State regulators have allowed the Amsterdam-based telecommunications company VEON to sell Armenia’s oldest fixed-line and mobile phone networks to a recently established Armenian firm.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over a “very significant” increase in coronavirus infections in Armenia and 10 other countries in Europe and the former Soviet Union.
A second group of French medics has arrived in Armenia to help local healthcare workers cope with the continuing coronavirus epidemic.
The new coronavirus is continuing to spread in Armenia despite its government’s intensifying efforts to make people practice social distancing and wear face masks, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday.
The Armenian authorities will double the number of special teams enforcing safety rules meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday.
The governments of Georgia and Lithuania have offered to send medical teams to Armenia to help authorities there deal with the country’s worsening coronavirus crisis.
A law-enforcement body has decided to indict Ruben Hayrapetian, a wealthy businessman linked to Armenia’s former leadership, his lawyer revealed on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation has declared illegal a lower court’s decision to give a law-enforcement agency access to the recordings of phone calls of a newspaper editor facing criminal proceedings.
Citing a coronavirus-related state of emergency, the Armenian government has banned people from visiting a hilltop memorial in Yerevan on Friday to mark the 105th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
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