Vote counting began in Armenia late on Sunday after polls closed in tightly contested general elections.
Russian should beef up its military presence in Armenia to counter the “Turkish expansion” into the South Caucasus, former President Robert Kocharian said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s human rights defender, Arman Tatoyan, has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political opponents of resorting to inflammatory rhetoric in their election campaigns, saying that could deepen a political crisis in the country.
Georgia has reopened its land border with Armenia to travelers more than one year after closing it to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again welcomed on Friday the Russian government’s decision to lift a coronavirus-related entry ban for Armenians, saying that it will reduce their economic hardship.
Opposition leaders promised on Friday more efforts to force Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign as they began touring Armenia’s regions in a bid to drum up greater support for their campaign.
The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province, Tigran Petrosian, tendered his resignation on Friday after almost two years in office.
Armenia’s government gave on Thursday the green light for the relocation of an entire village as part of a $71 million project to build a new reservoir and irrigation system in northwestern Shirak province.
At least 55 elderly people living in a nursing home in Gyumri have been infected with the coronavirus following similar outbreaks of the disease reported at Armenia’s two other elderly care centers.
Two more textile factories in Armenia suspended their operations on Tuesday after dozens of their workers tested positive for the coronavirus.
Authorities sealed off a small town and an adjacent village in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province on Sunday after 18 employees of a local hospital tested positive for coronavirus.
Residents of a small town in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province and nearby villages blocked a highway on Wednesday to protest against the government’s decision to close a local maternity hospital.
Residents of Gyumri ran into the streets and stayed there for hours after a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Armenia late on Tuesday.
The government has announced plans to set up a free economic zone in Gyumri, a move welcomed by the mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.
The Armenian government has approved a project to move the customs house for vehicles from Yerevan to Gyumri. The executive on Thursday also allocated an equivalent of about $380,000 for the purpose.
Government inspectors raided on Wednesday a textile factory in Gyumri which halted its operations two weeks ago after its workers protested against meager wages and poor working conditions.
The Russian soldier charged with beating an Armenian woman to death will remain in custody at the Russian military base in Gyumri, according to a local court.
Authorities in Turkey have found and transported back to neighboring Armenia a tractor that was stolen from an Armenian farmer in September.
A soldier serving at a Russian military base in Armenia has reportedly been charged with beating an Armenian woman to death.
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