Several dozen opposition and civic activists rallied in Yerevan on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the official announcement of President Serzh Sarkisian’s unexpected decision to make Armenia part of a Russian-led union of ex-Soviet states.
Two leading opposition parties made clear on Tuesday that they will continue to cooperate with Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) despite renewed speculation about his close ties to former President Robert Kocharian.
It is not yet clear whether Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Yerevan next year to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Monday.
Despite its massive military buildup Azerbaijan still lacks the capacity to protect its strategic facilities against Armenian missile strikes in case of another war for Nagorno-Karabakh, a retired Armenian army general claimed on Friday.
Ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh have decreased dramatically since Sunday’s meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents mediated by their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Thursday.
In a further sign of slower-than-expected economic growth, industrial production in Armenia did not increase in the first half of this year, according to government statistics.
Russia has agreed in principle to lend Armenia $300 million needed for extending the life of the aging nuclear power plant at Metsamor, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Yervand Zakharian said on Friday.
The United States welcomed on Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming talks with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts that are meant to defuse increased tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Armenia sees no need for the deployment of third-party peacekeeping troops in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone despite a sharp rise in ceasefire violations there, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Wednesday.
The resumption of a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war remains unlikely despite one of the most serious violations of the 1994 ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh registered in recent days, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian insisted on Monday.
The Armenian government has narrowly failed to meet its key budgetary target for the first half of this year despite ensuring a more than 4 percent rise in tax revenue.
The United States has urged Armenia to avoid doing business with Russian companies and individual entrepreneurs that have been subjected to U.S. sanctions in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged role in the Ukraine crisis.
The Armenian subsidiaries of two leading Russian commercial banks sanctioned by the European Union and the United States in connection with the Ukraine crisis ruled out on Wednesday any serious impact on their operations.
The United States will continue to press for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with renewed vigor, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, John Heffern said on Tuesday.
A prominent Armenian-American businessman sounded alarm bells on Monday over what he sees as a lack of competition in Armenia, saying that it could spell serious trouble for the country’s economy.
Armenia thinks that Azerbaijan’s accession to the emerging Eurasian Economic Union would be against its interests, but does not consider such an option to be realistic, a senior lawmaker in Yerevan said on Wednesday.
Opposition members in Armenia have criticized Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian for failing to make any significant changes during the first 100 days in office, but representatives of the ruling party consider the period to be too short for making definitive conclusions.
Armenia will have to reconsider its ties with Russia if the latter is recognized as a terrorist state, a leading expert in Yerevan said on Monday, commenting on the deepening standoff between the West and Moscow over the recent plane crash in eastern Ukraine blamed on the region’s separatists.
Iran still has to see what impact Armenia’s planned membership in the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will have on its trade relations with the South Caucasus neighbor, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador in Yerevan said on Friday.
A treaty on Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will be signed in late October, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said late on Thursday.
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