The Armenian government is planning around $2.5 billion worth of additional defense spending over the next five years, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday.
The Armenian government announced on Thursday increases in the minimum amount of modest pensions and other benefits paid to tens of thousands of people.
The European Union intends to increase its financial and technical assistance to Armenia, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.
The Armenian economy is on course to grow by 5 to 6 percent this year, Economy Minister Tigran Khachatrian said on Friday.
The chief of the Armenian police, Valeri Osipian, downplayed on Thursday an 11 percent increase in the number of crimes registered in the country this year, saying that they were previously underreported.
The nuclear power station at Metsamor may well be deemed safe enough to remain operational until 2037, Energy Minister Garegin Baghramian said on Wednesday.
Russian-Armenian agreements signed in 2013 and 2014 have made it harder for Armenian utility regulators to cut domestic prices of natural gas, Energy Minister Garegin Baghramian said on Wednesday.
The European Union expects the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia to be the most democratic in the country’s history, a senior EU diplomat said on Wednesday.
Armenia on Tuesday denounced Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for objecting, at a meeting with an Azerbaijani official, to its efforts to install another Armenian secretary general of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
The government has selected the type of first-ever fighter jets which it is planning to acquire for Armenia’s armed forces, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said on Monday.
The Armenian government is negotiating with the Russian Ministry of Energy and Gazprom the possibility of reducing the price of natural gas supplied to Armenia, according to a minister.
The Armenian government on Thursday came up with a law amendment that will give the former presidential palace in Yerevan back to the president.
An Armenian Foreign Ministry official on Monday neither confirmed nor denied that Yerevan may lose a rotating leadership post in a Russian-led defense grouping of several post-Soviet nations.
Armenia said on Wednesday that it is still discussing with Russia and other ex-Soviet allies the thorny issue of who should replace Yuri Khachaturov, a retired Armenian army general, as head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani met with Armenia’s Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and visited the Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan on Monday during what he described as a private trip to the country.
The United States plans to hold early next year “strategic discussions” with Armenia on ways of strengthening bilateral relations, a senior U.S. State Department official said at the end of a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Richard Mills, the outgoing U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, sounded optimistic on Monday about Armenia’s chances of becoming an established democracy after the recent dramatic change of its government.
The Armenian economy will suffer if snap parliamentary elections sought by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian are delayed until next year, the head of the State Revenue Committee (SRC), Davit Ananian, said on Thursday.
Dozens of relatives of former Presidents Serzh Sarkisian and Robert Kocharian are reportedly among more than 350 individuals whose diplomatic passports have been revoked since the recent change of Armenia’s government.
Artur Vanetsian, the head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), on Thursday pledged to elaborate “soon” on his recent allegations of corruption made against former President Robert Kocharian.
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