Alexander Arzumanian, a former opposition politician currently serving as Armenia’s ambassador to Denmark, won on Thursday a court case against the Armenian authorities that stems from his controversial arrest in 2007.
Armenia’s economy will grow by more than 6 percent this year after stagnating in 2016, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller insisted on Tuesday that she has seen no indications that Russia has tried to prevent Armenia from forging closer ties with NATO.
A senior official claimed on Thursday that Russian border guards did not block construction work on Armenia’s border with Iran which was commissioned by an Armenian government agency earlier this year.
Armenia will continue to contribute troops to the NATO-led missions in Afghanistan and Kosovo and step up its broader cooperation with NATO, senior officials in Yerevan said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s economy is continuing to suffer from a lack of competition, a senior official from the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
One of Armenia’s most influential army generals was sacked on Tuesday after being publicly rebuked by Defense Minister Vigen Sargsian.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has cancelled a planned official visit to Armenia at the last minute, citing domestic political issues.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with President Serzh Sarkisian and other Armenian leaders on Tuesday during a visit to Yerevan that appeared to focus on ongoing efforts to expand Armenian-Iranian economic ties.
Official Yerevan will welcome Azerbaijan’s membership or observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union if Baku lifts the current blockade of Armenia and ceases hostile actions against its neighbor, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharian said at a news briefing in Yerevan on Thursday.
The Tashir group of companies, which has pledged to invest $872 million in Armenian electricity grids in the next ten years, is going to make large-scale investments also in the electricity generation sector, a representative said.
Despite Azerbaijan’s unconstructive position, negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement should be continued, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said during a joint press conference with his visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian thinks it is more appropriate to speak about differences in the approaches of Azerbaijan and the European Union rather than Azerbaijan and Armenia towards the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as far as the dispute over wording in the final declaration at an upcoming Eastern Partnership summit is concerned.
The Russian foreign minister’s upcoming Karabakh-related discussions in Yerevan and Baku will be “within the format” of the Organization for Security and Cooperation’s Minsk Group co-chairmanship, a senior Armenian official said on Thursday.
The leadership of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has held no discussions yet on who will be the country’s prime minister after President Serzh Sarkisian’s final term ends in April, Prime Minister Karen Karapetian said on Thursday.
The World Bank has downgraded Armenia’s position in its annual survey on ease of doing business around the world despite reporting a slight improvement in the country’s investment climate.
Russia will refrain from raising the price of its natural gas supplied to Armenia next year, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said during an official visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
The Armenian government may abandon its ambitious plans to build a new nuclear power station in place of the aging plant at Metsamor, Justice Minister Davit Harutiunian said on Tuesday.
A senior Armenian diplomat sounded pessimistic on Thursday about prospects for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ahead of a planned meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s presidents.
Russia and other ex-Soviet republics making up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are committed to jointly defending Armenia against foreign aggression, the Russian-led security bloc’s top military commander said over the weekend.
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