The Ministry of Agriculture assessed on Wednesday the severe consequences of an unprecedented spring snowstorm for thousands of farmers growing fruits and vegetables in southern Armenia.
Authorities in Azerbaijan freed and sent home on Thursday a resident of an Armenian border village just over a month after he strayed into Azerbaijani territory by accident.
Armenia on Tuesday pointedly declined to react to Russian officials’ apparently unfounded claims that Syrian rebels shot and killed ethnic Armenians when they captured Kessab, a small town close to Syria’s border with Turkey.
Armenia has expressed its ‘deep concern’ over the situation around a Syrian town near the border with Turkey where its mainly ethnic Armenian residents have had to abandon their homes fleeing cross-border attacks by militant groups.
The Armenian government will discuss and likely approve on Thursday a bill curtailing the powers of a financial oversight body that alleged serious misuse of its budgetary funds last year.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian criticized the Armenian government’s economic policies and signaled his readiness to challenge President Serzh Sarkisian more forcefully at the weekend.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has criticized President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision to make Armenia part of the Russian-led Customs Union, saying that it will seriously limit prospects for the country’s economic development.
Opposition deputies blamed the Armenian authorities on Tuesday for last week’s fruitless session of an inter-parliamentary body tasked with fostering closer ties between Armenia and the European Union.
Several dozen people picketed prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Friday to demand that the Armenian police stop holding incommunicado 14 anti-government activists who were arrested in clashes with riot police more than a month ago.
A state-backed association representing Armenia’s judges on Wednesday strongly condemned the human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, for alleging widespread corruption among them.
Corruption within Armenia’s judicial system remains widespread, with judges often accepting bribes to hand down rulings, according to the country’s human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian.
Iran stands ready to significantly increase the presently modest volume of its natural gas supplies to neighboring Armenia, the Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, Mohammad Reisi, said on Tuesday.
Citing the need to get rid of “the tumbledown shacks distorting the appearance of Yerevan” the Armenian government on Thursday assigned additional areas in the city center to private redevelopers for construction needs.
Armenia suffered its apparently worst power outage in nearly two decades at the weekend as a result of what the authorities in Yerevan called a brief disruption in electricity supplies from neighboring Iran.
Armenia’s Sport and Youth Affairs Minister Yuri Vartanian faced opposition calls to step down on Wednesday in connection with the recent arrest of his son on drug trafficking charges.
Human rights groups strongly criticized the Armenian authorities on Wednesday for ensuring that two police officers convicted of torture avoid imprisonment in accordance with a general amnesty.
A retired Armenian army colonel who was arrested late last month after organizing street protests by fellow veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh has rejected as baseless and politically motivated fraud charges leveled against him.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) insisted on Friday that it will remain in opposition to the government even after the widely anticipated appointment of one of its leaders to a senior diplomatic post.
The United States welcomes Armenia’s plans to sign a far-reaching Association Agreement with the European Union, John Heffern, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, said on Monday.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians remaining in Syria braced themselves for a further escalation of the bloody conflict in their country on Wednesday amid growing talk of U.S.-led military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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