Schools across Armenia reopened on Monday two weeks after the start of an autumn break that coincided with a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths in the country.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijani authorities guilty of torturing two residents of Armenian border villages who died after crossing into Azerbaijan in 2014.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday that his government expects the Armenian economy to continue its recovery from a coronavirus-related recession and grow by 7 percent next year.
An Armenian press freedom group on Friday expressed serious concern over what it called new restrictions on news reporting imposed by the authorities in recent months.
Armenia reported a record 2,603 coronavirus cases and hundreds of its unvaccinated citizens awaited hospitalization on Thursday as health authorities struggled to cope with a new wave of infections in the country of about 3 million.
An anti-corruption arm of the Council of Europe has described as largely “unsatisfactory” the Armenian authorities’ response to policy measures recommended by it five years ago.
Opposition lawmakers said on Friday that they will not accept hefty holiday bonuses allocated to all members and staffers of Armenia’s parliament by speaker Alen Simonian.
The Armenian government is negotiating with Gazprom in an effort to prevent a further rise in the price of Russian natural gas supplied to Armenia, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Wednesday.
Armenian authorities have announced that COVID-19 vaccines have been purchased from China as a result of negotiations with this country.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s army accused Azerbaijani forces on Tuesday of opening fire at some of its frontline positions in breach of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped last year’s Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
Citing an unusually hot summer taking a heavy toll on agriculture, the government has moved to use additional water from Armenia’s vast Lake Sevan for irrigation this year.
Nagorno-Karabakh has retained the vast majority of its population after last year’s Armenian-Azerbaijani war, a senior official in Stepanakert insisted on Tuesday.
Campaigning officially ended in Armenia on Friday for Sunday’s parliamentary elections which appear to be the most unpredictable in the country’s history.
The head of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), Martin Galstian, said on Thursday that it will revise upwards its economic growth forecast for 2021 made earlier this year.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian said on Thursday that he will resign if the Armenian economy does not grow at a double-digit rate this year.
A nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian accused of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking has been arrested again five months after being released on bail.
The Central Bank of Armenia has revised its economic growth forecast for the country in 2021.
Law-enforcement authorities have pledged to look into allegations that an aide to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is illegally directing a criminal investigation into a fugitive businessman critical of the Armenian government.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday set free a government critic who was arrested late last month for allegedly creating a social media account that spreads offensive comments about the country’s leadership.
One of the reasons for the attack against the crew of RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun) was that no one gets to be held accountable for obstructing the work of journalists and using violence against them, human rights activists and representatives of media organizations say.
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