The United States and Russia continue to work together in trying to broker a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict despite their disagreements on other international problems, a senior U.S. diplomat insisted on Tuesday.
Two of Armenia’s main political parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Tuesday that there are ulterior motives behind his intention to curtail presidential powers.
The resumption of a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war remains unlikely despite one of the most serious violations of the 1994 ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh registered in recent days, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian insisted on Monday.
President Serzh Sarkisian wants to curtail sweeping constitutional powers enjoyed by him but has yet to decide whether Armenia must be transformed into a parliamentary republic, one of his political allies said on Tuesday.
A civil activist campaigning against the rise in utility prices has been summoned to Armenia’s National Security Service after publicly threatening to carry out an act of terrorism.
Opposition members in Armenia have criticized Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian for failing to make any significant changes during the first 100 days in office, but representatives of the ruling party consider the period to be too short for making definitive conclusions.
Security measures are being taken to prevent new Azerbaijani saboteur infiltrations into Armenian-controlled territory near Nagorno-Karabakh, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said at a Cabinet meeting in Yerevan on Thursday.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh insist they have ‘serious grounds’ to assume that an Armenian teenager who was found dead on Tuesday, after a long search, had been killed by Azerbaijani ‘saboteurs’.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have opened criminal proceedings in connection with an alleged Azerbaijani ‘sabotage’ group infiltration into the territory controlled by the unrecognized republic’s ethnic Armenian forces.
Military authorities in Stepanakert have reported a successful completion of a special operation aimed at neutralizing a group of saboteurs that allegedly infiltrated into an Armenian-controlled district near Nagorno-Karabakh last week.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry insisted on Friday that an Azerbaijani man detained by authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh is a civilian, rather than a member of a commando unit that allegedly infiltrated an Armenian-controlled district.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed military said on Thursday that its forces have captured Azerbaijani military personnel after neutralizing a commando raid from the Azerbaijani side of the frontline. (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday accused Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) of using threats and intimidation to try to recruit as informers two senior members of his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party.
A businessman arrested on charges of defrauding a partner insisted through a lawyer on Monday that former Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian was not involved in the alleged scam despite what some media present as evidence to the contrary.
The Armenian government increased on Thursday modest poverty benefits paid to more than 100,000 families in an effort to compensate them for a 10 percent rise in electricity prices.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties on Wednesday pledged to retaliate against the government’s decision to raise electricity prices with “adequate” joint actions.
Two retired senior Armenian diplomats criticized President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday for appointing a politically inexperienced former weightlifter as Armenia’s ambassador to neighboring Georgia.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Tuesday praised former President Robert Kocharian’s latest criticism of the government and said the country’s leading opposition forces should be ready to cooperate with him.
Opposition lawmakers slammed the Armenian government on Friday as the National Assembly debated its plans to relaunch an unpopular pension reform that was blocked by the country’s highest court in April.
The Armenian government on Thursday hit out at Russia’s most famous television journalist backed by the Kremlin for stating that the Russian language must be granted an official status in Armenia.
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