Parents of Armenian servicemen who went missing during last year’s 44-day war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh came to the National Security Service building in Yerevan on Thursday demanding information about the fate of their children.
Armenia’s human rights ombudsman and leading media associations have condemned authorities for trying to block press coverage of an acrimonious parliament debate and again demanded a repeal of other restrictions imposed on journalists covering the National Assembly.
Almost one year after Turkey banned Armenian commercial aircraft from its airspace, Turkish passenger planes are still allowed to fly over Armenia.
Armenian authorities have drawn condemnation from press freedom groups after revoking the parliamentary accreditation of a photojournalist who took pictures of additional security officers deployed inside the parliament building in Yerevan.
The Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional a controversial bill giving the Armenian government direct control over state universities.
The chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), who was controversially indicted and suspended in April amid rising tensions with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, has sued the state body overseeing Armenia’s courts over its refusal to reinstate him.
Companies in Armenia are grappling with a shortage of workers as the country’s economy is recovering from a recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian.
Hundreds of Iranians visiting Armenia to get vaccinated against COVID-19 continued to spend nights on streets in Yerevan on Tuesday waiting in long lines that formed around outdoor vaccination centers.
The European Union pledged on Friday to provide Armenia with up to 2.6 billion euros ($3.1 billion) in economic assistance and investments over the next five years.
Campaigning officially began in Armenia on Monday for the June 20 snap parliamentary elections aimed at ending a serious political crisis resulting from last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A controversial pro-government parliamentarian admitted on Friday stealing the mobile phone of an Armenian journalist who filmed him in a street in Yerevan.
The opposition parties led by former President Serzh Sarkisian and former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian have officially joined forces to participate in Armenia’s parliamentary elections scheduled for June 20.
The Armenian government is continuing its efforts to gain direct control of three of the country’s leading state universities two weeks after President Armen Sarkissian blocked a relevant bill pushed by it through the parliament.
The global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has slightly downgraded Armenia’s position in its annual survey of the freedom of speech around the world.
Forging closer ties with Russia is vital for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh given the outcome of last year’s with Azerbaijan, Ara Harutiunian, the Karabakh president, said on Wednesday.
A passenger aircraft belonging to a private Armenian airline arrived in Yerevan at the weekend two months after mysteriously disappearing and being found in neighboring Iran.
Only 60 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 during the first two days of the Armenian government’s first major inoculation program launched earlier this week, health authorities said on Thursday.
Armenian officials accused Azerbaijan on Friday of reneging on a pledge to free Armenian soldiers and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity five months after a Russian-brokered ceasefire stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Former President Robert Kocharian has filed another defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian just days after being cleared of coup charges.
A subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprom Company has announced that due to gas pipeline repairs Russian natural gas will be temporarily supplied to Armenia via Azerbaijan.
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