Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok on Thursday described as “excellent” his country’s relationship with Armenia and confirmed its plans to open an embassy in Yerevan soon.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that his government will help to ensure an objective and thorough investigation into the death of Georgi Kutoyan, a former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian on Monday did not rule out the possibility of an increase in the prices of Russian natural gas supplied to Armenian households and corporate consumers.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s office on Friday confirmed reports that he has received a letter from the jailed man who led a deadly attack on the Armenian parliament in 1999.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted TV stations critical of him on Thursday, saying that they belong to corrupt individuals and wage an “information war” against the Armenian government.
A law-enforcement body interrogated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday as part of its criminal investigations into his and other officials’ leaked phone conversations that caused an uproar in Armenia in 2018.
The Armenian economy grew by at least 7.5 percent last year, Economy Minister Tigran Khachatrian insisted on Tuesday.
Economic growth in Armenia will remain faster than in neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan in the coming years, according to the World Bank.
Armenia’s GDP per capita is on course to exceed neighboring Azerbaijan’s and Georgia’s this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The Armenian government formalized on Thursday a roughly 10 percent increase in pensions which will take effect next month.
Russia is planning to significantly strengthen its troops deployed in Armenia with new weapons, the Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Sergey Kopyrkin, said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s burgeoning information technology (IT) industry dominated by software firms has grown by around 30 percent this year and will double its output by 2024, Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakian said on Wednesday.
Armenian tax authorities said on Tuesday that the total amount of underreported corporate revenues detected by them has nearly doubled this year.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has decided to field its own candidate in Nagorno-Karabakh’s forthcoming presidential election after failing to reach an agreement with any of the major contenders.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian thanked the U.S. Congress on Friday for recognizing the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, saying that resolutions adopted by it will help to reduce what he called a Turkish threat to Armenia’s security.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lashed out Armenian government and law-enforcement agencies on Thursday, saying that they are sabotaging the fight against corruption, economic policies and reforms initiated by him.
The Metsamor nuclear power station generating more than one-third of Armenia’s electricity is safe enough to remain operational until 2036, Minister for Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikian said on Tuesday.
A wealthy businessman prosecuted along with Serzh Sarkisian on Friday strongly denied corruption charges brought against the former Armenian president.
Armenia will continue to press Russia to extradite a former senior Armenian official facing corruption charges, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian said on Friday.
The price of Russian natural gas supplied to Armenia will not change at least until next April, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Thursday.
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