Carrefour S.A., a French multinational retail group, will open after all its first supermarket in Armenia later this year following a more than yearlong delay, it was announced on Thursday.
Three employees of Yerevan’s underground metro system were sacked on Friday two days after actively participating in a demonstration against its management’s enforcement of a controversial pension reform.
Employees of Yerevan’s underground metro system demonstrated outside its administration building on Wednesday to add their voice to continuing protests against a controversial pension reform.
Members of the European Parliament have become less sympathetic to the Armenian position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since Armenia unexpectedly decided to join a Russian-led customs union, lawmakers in Yerevan claimed on Monday.
State bodies continued to make conflicting interpretations of a Constitutional Court decision on Armenia’s controversial pension reform on Friday, with the Central Bank defending its enforcement by tax authorities.
Hundreds of mostly young people rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to demand that the Armenian authorities stop enforcing a controversial reform of the national pension system that was suspended by the Constitutional Court late last month.
The Armenian government has finally made public a “roadmap” to Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Customs Union which it plans to complete in the next few months.
Finance Minister Davit Sargsian on Wednesday dismissed a U.S. anti-graft group’s recent claims that more than $6.2 billion was siphoned out of Armenia in 2002-2011 as a result of government corruption, tax evasion and other illegal activity.
President Serzh Sarkisian has undergone stem cell therapy in South Korea aimed at rejuvenating his body, a Korean newspaper revealed on Friday. (UPDATED)
President Serzh Sarkisian has effectively sided with Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian in his bitter war of words with former President Robert Kocharian.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) remained reluctant to clarify its political status on Wednesday, saying that it will not demand President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation despite criticizing his policies.
The main political parties critical of Armenia’s government are increasingly cooperating with each other and could soon join forces to try to oust President Serzh Sarkisian, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) claimed on Monday.
A prominent opposition politician scoffed at mounting tensions between President Serzh Sarkisian and his predecessor President Robert Kocharian on Friday, saying that they have no bearing on the lives of ordinary people.
Levon Ter-Petrosian’s opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) played down on Thursday the significance of former President Robert Kocharian’s latest statements, saying that they do not herald his return to active politics.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) ruled out the possibility of former President Robert Kocharian’s return to the political arena on Wednesday as it again responded to his latest verbal attacks on the Armenian government. (UPDATED)
President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Monday rejected as “unacceptable” his predecessor Robert Kocharian’s latest verbal attacks on the country's government.
Armenia would have dramatically increased the risk of another with war with Azerbaijan had it not decided to join a Russian-led customs union at the expense of closer ties with the European Union, according to a prominent political ally of President Serzh Sarkisian.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met not only his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian but also veteran politician Vazgen Manukian during his visit to Yerevan last week, it emerged on Monday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid a first-ever visit to Armenia on Thursday, underlining Ankara’s declared attempts to initiate a new thaw in Turkish-Armenian relations. (UPDATED)
The Armenian government has effectively acknowledged that it secretly subsidized the increased price of Russian natural gas up until Armenia’s last presidential election, running up mountains of debt to Russia as a result.
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