A Yerevan-based pressure group said on Friday that it will stage another larger demonstration next month to protest against the authorities’ plans to raise the electricity prices in Armenia for a third time in two years.
The impending increase in the electricity prices in Armenia will not be as drastic as has been requested by the Russian-owned national power distribution network, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Yervand Zakharian said on Thursday.
Tigran Sarkisian has filed a libel suit against a businessman who has accused Armenia’s former prime minister and current ambassador to the United States of helping a former partner defraud him of millions of dollars, it emerged on Tuesday.
The European Union’s latest summit held in Riga paved the way for a new accord that will deepen its relations with Armenia, an EU diplomat and senior Armenian lawmakers said on Monday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian insisted on Thursday that the Armenian economy will continue to grow this year contrary to gloomy forecasts made by international lending institutions.
The European Union’s executive body has asked the EU member states to authorize it to open official negotiations on a new agreement to deepen political and economic ties with Armenia, a senior official in Brussels said on Tuesday.
Just two days after claiming that he left Armenia, law-enforcement authorities interrogated on Saturday a notorious son of a provincial governor in connection with fresh violence reportedly provoked by him.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has added its voice to forecasts that Armenia will fall into recession this year because of knock-on effects of Russia’s economic troubles.
A Russian energy conglomerate plans to sell Armenia’s loss-making national electricity distribution company owned by it, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Yervand Zakharian confirmed on Wednesday.
A senior Swedish diplomat expressed hope on Tuesday that Armenia will help allay Russia’s concerns about the European Union’s Eastern Partnership program now that it is a member of a Russian-led alliance of ex-Soviet republics.
The United States and Armenia signed on Thursday an economic agreement which they hope will help to expand their modest bilateral trade and facilitate U.S. investments in the Armenian economy.
Russia is addressing serious concerns that have been voiced by Armenia about its large-scale sales of offensive weapons to Azerbaijan, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian implied on Thursday.
President Serzh Sarkisian will fly to Washington next week to take part in a religious ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and possibly hold talks with senior U.S. officials.
The Armenian Apostolic Church filed on Wednesday an unprecedented lawsuit with Turkey’s highest court demanding the return of the former headquarters of its Cilicia Catholicosate that had for centuries been located in what is now southeastern Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decried the latest recognitions by France, Germany, Austria and Russia of the 1915 Armenian genocide and criticized the United States for nearly doing the same.
Armenia’s government and leading political parties on Tuesday dismissed as disingenuous “deep condolences” offered by Turkey to descendants of Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Turks a century ago.
The White House has declined to clarify whether U.S. President Barack will use the word “genocide” in his upcoming annual statement on the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
Gazprom’s chairman, Alexei Miller, received an Armenian state award from President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday during a visit to Yerevan that came amid continuing negotiations over the price of natural gas supplied by the Russian monopoly to Armenia.
The lifting of Western sanctions against Iran anticipated as a result of a landmark framework agreement to restrict Tehran’s nuclear activities would boost Armenian-Iranian commercial ties and regional security, official Yerevan said on Friday.
The Armenian police detained on Wednesday a man suspected of stabbing an opposition activist during an anti-government rally held in Gyumri over the weekend.
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