The latest decision by the Armenian government to pay for more expenses of a local Russian military base has fueled the ongoing debate about whether the host country should make such payments.
Armenia’s three main opposition parties rallied thousands of supporters in Gyumri on Wednesday, ending a two-week regional tour aimed at drumming up popular support for their larger anti-government protests planned in Yerevan.
Russian and Armenian troops simulated on Friday a joint operation against an imaginary enemy dubbed “Ottomania” by their commanders on the third day of their joint exercises held in central Armenia.
Armenia will capitalize on Russia’s controversial ban on food imports from the European Union and the United States to sharply increase exports of agricultural products and prepared foodstuffs to the Russian market, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian acknowledged widespread popular distrust in Armenia’s government and pledged to address it during a visit to the northwestern Shirak province on Wednesday.
A court in Gyumri on Tuesday sentenced four former employees of Armenia’s state pension fund to between 3 and 4 years’ imprisonment for embezzling 91.3 million drams ($220,000) in various social benefits.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) suffered a rare setback when the incumbent mayor of a village affiliated with it was defeated by an independent candidate in a local election held over the weekend.
The Armenian government appears to have frozen indefinitely the protracted reconstruction of Gyumri amid growing anger and frustration among hundreds of families in the country’s second largest lacking adequate housing more than 25 years after a catastrophic earthquake.
Hundreds of Russian and Armenian soldiers marched in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri on Friday in a joint parade that marked the 69th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War Two.
The first two residents of Kessab have taken refuge in Armenia and many others are said to be willing to do the same nearly two weeks after the historically Armenian-populated town in Syria was seized by Islamist rebels.
Armenia on Tuesday pointedly declined to react to Russian officials’ apparently unfounded claims that Syrian rebels shot and killed ethnic Armenians when they captured Kessab, a small town close to Syria’s border with Turkey.
The Armenian police on Monday pressed charges against a notoriously violent son of Gyumri’s controversial former Mayor Vartan Ghukasian who has reportedly threatened to assault the latter’s successor and bitter rival.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday pledged to strengthen Russia’s geopolitical presence in the South Caucasus and insisted that Armenia decided to join a Russian-led union of ex-Soviet states on its own. (UPDATED)
Armenia’s law-enforcement stands ready for possible protests during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to the country, Police Chief Vladimir Gasparian said on Tuesday.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian attracted small crowds on Friday as he visited Armenia’s second and third largest cities to drum up support for his new campaign of anti-government street protests.
At least 1,500 families in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri still lack adequate housing despite government pledges to complete the protracted reconstruction of the areas devastated by a catastrophic earthquake in 1988.
Vartan Ghukasian, the controversial former mayor of Gyumri, is facing fresh accusations of violent conduct one year after his resignation that was engineered by the Armenian government.
Russia considers its military base in Armenia to be vital for the South Caucasus country’s national security and will continue to strengthen it with modern weaponry, a visiting top Kremlin official said on Monday.
About two thousand apricot farmers blocked a major highway in Armenia’s southern Ararat province on Tuesday to demand that wholesale buyers raise the price of their produce.
Russia’s state-owned national railway on Tuesday expressed support for the idea of restoring a rail link with Georgia and Armenia passing through Abkhazia, which has been floated by the new Georgian government.
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