About 50 more ethnic Armenians arrived in Yerevan late on Thursday on the first of additional flights to and from Syria’s battleground city of Aleppo that was carried out by the Armavia national airline.
Armenia’s national airline has continued its weekly flights to Aleppo, enabling more Syrians of Armenian descent to flee the epicenter of fierce fighting between Syria’s government troops and rebels. (UPDATED)
A senior diplomat from the Syrian Embassy in Armenia appears to have defected to Dubai, joining several of his colleagues in openly backing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, said on Friday that it intends to continue weekly flights to Aleppo despite heavy fighting in and around Syria’s most populous city which is home to a sizable Armenian community.
Armenia announced on Thursday a major simplification of procedures for granting Armenian citizenship to thousands of ethnic Armenians in Syria increasingly affected by the country’s bloody strife.
Ethnic Armenians continued to flee Syria on Wednesday as heavy fighting intensified in Aleppo, the country’s second largest city and economic and cultural center of its 80,000-strong Armenian community.
Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, promised on Friday to consider increasing the frequency of its flights to Syria in order to help more ethnic Armenians flee the war-torn country.
Armenia’s government discussed a growing influx of ethnic Armenians from Syrian on Thursday as dozens of people protested in Yerevan against what they regard as its failure to properly deal with the “repatriation.”
Nobody has been arrested or charged more than two months after scores of people were injured in near-simultaneous explosions of thousands of balloons during an election campaign gathering organized by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), police said on Friday.
Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, has resumed regular flights to Syria amid a growing influx of Syrian nationals of Armenian descent fleeing the escalating violence in the troubled Middle Eastern state.
Armenians failing to repay loans extended by commercial banks and other lending firms must be legally protected against losing their sole homes, the head of a government agency enforcing court rulings said on Tuesday.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian will likely run for president in an election due in February next year, a senior representative of his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party said on Friday.
An Armenian army officer who reportedly threatened to blow up a restaurant where one of his colleagues was beaten to death was formally charged and remanded in pre-trial custody on Wednesday.
An Armenian chemical company will finally start producing next month mineral fertilizers that will fully meet domestic agricultural demand, senior government officials in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
The mother of an Armenian soldier arrested on charges of trying to evade military service went on hunger strike outside a key government building in Yerevan on Thursday to demand his immediate release from jail.
A court in Yerevan has fined four environmental activists for scuffling with police during recent protests against the controversial construction of kiosks in a small public park in the city center.
Economic growth in Armenia continued unabated in the first quarter of this year, with Gross Domestic Product increasing by 4.7 percent, according to government statistics released this week.
A senior business executive working for one of Armenia’s wealthiest entrepreneurs will get a parliament seat reserved for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) thanks to last-minute resignations of two eminent members of the opposition party.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) welcomed on Thursday the Prosperous Armenia Party’s impending withdrawal from the government, saying it that it will deal a serious blow to President Serzh Sarkisian.
More than 50 people remained in hospital on Tuesday recovering from serious burns sustained in near-simultaneous explosions of hundreds of gas balloons during an election campaign gathering organized by the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on May 4.
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