The more than month-long depreciation of the Armenian dram has accelerated this week amid a deepening financial crisis in Russia, the main source of vital cash remittances to Armenia.
The Armenian authorities rejected on Monday allegations that they ordered the latest beatings of anti-government activists in an effort to quash an opposition campaign of protests against President Serzh Sarkisian.
Police detained two men on Friday night just hours after yet another Armenian opposition activist was attacked and injured on the street.
Armenia has joined a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon with a contingent of 32 soldiers that will serve on the country’s borders with Israel and Syria under Italian command.
