Ten days after inaugurating a new factory in the presence of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, the official owner of Armenia’s leading freight and agribusiness company faced on Friday tax evasion charges which he strongly denied.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights set an important precedent which could benefit Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in the conflict with Azerbaijan, a senior Karabakh official said on Wednesday.
The Ethics Committee for High-Ranking Officials has found that the head of a supervisory body subordinate to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has violated rules of ethics set out in Armenia’s law on public service.
One of the Armenian demining officers recently deployed to Syria has been seriously wounded while clearing landmines near Aleppo.
Armenia has reached a “political” agreement with neighboring Iran on importing larger amounts of Iranian natural gas, outgoing Energy Minister Garegin Baghramian said on Thursday.
A leader of a radical Armenian party demanded on Monday the immediate release of two of its members accused of murdering three police officers during a 2016 attack on a police station in Yerevan.
Armenia is reportedly continuing to object to the appointment of a new secretary general of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) nominated by Belarus.
Georgia’s Defense Minister Levan Izoria expressed hope that Armenia will continue to participate in NATO-led military exercises held in his country each year as he visited Yerevan on Thursday.
The Armenian economy grew by 5.2 percent last year on the back of major gains in manufacturing, trade and other services, according to official statistics released on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday ordered his government to take a set of measures which he said will “stimulate the economic revolution” in Armenia promised by him.
A senior official in Yerevan insisted on Thursday that Armenia’s relations with the United States will not deteriorate after Washington’s negative reaction to the deployment of Armenian military personnel to Syria.
A senior Pentagon official has said that she will visit Yerevan soon to explore the possibility of stepping up military cooperation between the United States and Armenia.
Armenia is inching closer to buying sophisticated Russian fighter jets for its armed forces, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan indicated on Thursday.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin spoke of Russia’s “developing” relations with Armenia and a favorable international environment for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh at the end of a two-day visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
The European Union and the World Bank have allocated over 730 million euros ($832 million) for investments in Armenia’s transport infrastructure that will be made by 2030, a senior EU official confirmed on Friday.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Armenian law-enforcement authorities to enable a prominent businessman prosecuted on corruption charges to receive adequate medical care.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday that he will press ahead with a significant reduction of the number of government ministries in Armenia despite strong criticism from affected civil servants and opposition politicians.
Armenia’s public debt is projected to rise to about $7.5 billion next year as a result of more borrowing planned by its government, a senior official from the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
Countries selling weapons to Azerbaijan contribute to an arms race that fuels instability in the region, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Moscow and Yerevan have still not agreed on a new price of Russian natural gas imported by Armenia, Energy Minister Garegin Baghramian said on Thursday.
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