A debt-ridden Yerevan chemical plant’s bankruptcy recommended by the World Bank is not “suitable” for the Armenian government, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Yervand Zakharian said during discussions in the parliament on Tuesday.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Friday brushed aside Azerbaijan’s apparent threats to shell Yerevan from its Nakhichevan exclave and warned Baku against raising tensions on the frontlines in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Monday pressed charges against four men arrested late last week in connection with what it considers an attempt to assassinate a controversial regional governor.
Leaders of the influential Armenian community in France have reportedly urged the authorities in Yerevan to reverse their controversial decision to ban a Diaspora activist highly critical of them from visiting Armenia.
An Armenian teenage activist briefly disrupted a European football championship qualifier in Yerevan on Saturday to demand the release of his father jailed for organizing a violent anti-government demonstration in 2013.
A 29-year-old son of Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has become the new mayor of an Armenian town widely regarded as their family’s de facto fiefdom, winning an election in which he was the only candidate.
Forensic tests have confirmed that the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri were murdered at home in January by a Russian soldier currently kept under arrest, lawyers representing the victims’ relatives said on Thursday.
With no end in sight to the bloody civil war in Syria, the exodus of thousands of ethnics Armenians remaining there may be only a matter of time, Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian acknowledged on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Thursday expressed concern at the worsening security situation in Aleppo but stopped short of calling for a mass evacuation of thousands of ethnic Armenians remaining in the war-ravaged Syrian city.
A 73-year-old businesswoman affiliated with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has been arrested on suspicion of plotting the contract killing of a wealthy lawmaker who quit the country’s second largest parliamentary force recently.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry deplored on Thursday the reported destruction of yet another Armenian church in Syria beset by a bloody civil war.
Ethnic Armenians remaining in Aleppo are increasingly desperate to leave Syria’s largest city ravaged by continuing fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, according to some former members of their community now based in Armenia.
Some leaders of the beleaguered Armenian community in Syria on Thursday spoke out against a mass evacuation of its members remaining in the war-torn city of Aleppo where the security situation has deteriorated further in recent weeks.
Ethnic Armenians remaining Aleppo are calling on Armenia to help evacuate them from the war-ravaged Syrian city where deadly fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels intensified in recent days.
The European Union has allocated about $500,000 in economic assistance to ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia after the outbreak of the bloody conflict in the Middle Eastern state.
Armenian law-enforcement agencies and courts remain the principal source of serious human rights violations in the country, Ombudsman Karen Andreasian said in his annual report released over the weekend.
A lawyer representing relatives of the seven members of an Armenia family murdered in Gyumri alleged on Tuesday “very serious obstacles” in an ongoing criminal investigation into the massacre blamed on a Russian soldier.
A radical opposition group in Armenia has signaled its intention to seek public approval of its own amendments to the Constitution after rejecting the concept of a constitutional reform endorsed by President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenian law-enforcement agencies have brushed aside opposition claims that their recent actions targeting some political activists are part of a wider crackdown ordered by the government.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Thursday pressed charges against a young man who was briefly arrested last week for his role in a violent protest near the Russian consulate in Gyumri.
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