Citing security concerns, European football’s governing body, UEFA, has banned Turkish fans from attending an upcoming match in Yerevan between Armenia’s and Turkey’s national soccer teams.
Armenia’s agricultural sector remains in crisis despite double-digit economic growth recorded by the government last year.
The Armenian police made more than 20 arrests on Thursday as they evicted hundreds of squatters from the former building of the country’s Defense Ministry.
Armenia offered to provide urgent aid to Turkey and Syria after the two countries were hit by a powerful earthquake early on Monday.
Ten days after the unexpected resignation of Armenia’s state ombudswoman, Kristine Grigorian, the ruling Civil Contract party has still not nominated a new human rights defender.
Transparency International has downgraded Armenia’s position in its annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world, finding “worrying signs” in the country.
Armenia’s government has banned yet another Diaspora-based activist of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) from entering the country, in a move strongly condemned by the opposition party.
Armenian pro-government lawmakers dismissed on Friday Russia’s strong criticism of the European Union’s decision to send a new team of monitors to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has partly restored Armenia’s natural gas supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh blocked by it earlier this week, the authorities in Stepanakert said on Friday.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian toned down their rhetoric on Wednesday after Moscow angrily denied trying to force Armenia to join the “union state” of Russia and Belarus and open a corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave.
The Armenian government pushed through the National Assembly on Friday a bill that will gradually introduce a system of mandatory universal income declaration in the country.
Finance Minister Tigran Khachatrian was appointed as Armenia’s deputy prime minister on Monday one week after his predecessor Hambardzum Matevosian resigned following the reelection of a state university chief at odds with the government.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday temporary tax breaks for domestic tech companies hit hard by a significant strengthening of the national currency.
Public utility regulators on Tuesday approved a nearly 5 percent increase in the price of drinking water requested by a French company managing Armenia’s water distribution network.
Russia has reportedly agreed not to raise the concessionary price of its natural gas supplied to Armenia for the next decade in return for a $350 million compensation promised by the Armenian government.
Water tariffs in Armenia are likely to be further raised next year after a regulatory body has presented its proposal largely in line with a corresponding bid submitted by the water supply network’s French operator.
The head of Armenia’s leading media watchdog has criticized a senior pro-government lawmaker for his threats to journalists ostensibly asking annoying questions to officials that they will be sent for combat duty at the tense border with Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s economy is on course to grow by at least 11 percent this year on the back of soaring trade with and remittances from Russia, Finance Minister Tigran Khachatrian said on Monday.
The Armenian police have drafted a controversial bill that would allow foreigners investing at least $150,000 in Armenia to become its citizens.
A vocal critic of the Armenian government who has campaigned for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s removal from power was beaten up outside his Yerevan home on Tuesday.
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