A group of environmental activists cycled toward Yerevan’s airport Wednesday night to greet a U.S. rock star of Armenian descent who they hope will assist in their campaign to preserve an endangered forest in northern Armenia.
The U.S.-based mother of a soldier blamed for last week’s deadly shootings at an Armenian army unit insisted on Friday that he could not have killed himself and five other servicemen.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Wednesday extended from two to three years a prison sentence that was given to a former school teacher convicted of sexually and physically abusing female students.
Armenia’s under-fire Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian has offered his condolences to the families of seven soldiers shot dead in non-combat incidents last week and assured them that “everything” is being done to solve the shock shootings.
An Armenian soldier who allegedly killed himself and five other servicemen last week had a long criminal record in the United States and should not have been drafted on his return to Armenia, according to his relatives.
The Armenian military officially confirmed on Friday the deaths of one officer and five soldiers in a mysterious shooting spree that occurred at one of its frontline detachments on Wednesday.
The recently sacked police chief of the central Armenian town of Charentsavan on Tuesday continued to avoid testifying at the ongoing trial of his former subordinates accused of ill-treating a man who died in local police custody.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) will soon resume regular anti-government rallies in Yerevan to press for leadership change in the country, a senior member of the opposition alliance led by Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Friday.
A prominent opposition politician has left the former ruling Armenian Pan-National Movement (HHSh), accusing its de facto top leader Levon Ter-Petrosian of stifling dissent and engaging in foul play.
The resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations is indispensable for Armenia’s security and sustainable development, opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian said over the weekend.
Armenia announced on Wednesday the impending launch of three more joint energy projects with neighboring Iran that are estimated to cost more than $700 million.
The Armenian government is not concerned about a Georgian parliament vote allowing the privatization of a key pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to Armenia, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian said on Wednesday.
The government pledged on Thursday to ease Armenia’s heavy dependence wheat imports in the next few years by supplying local farmers with new sorts of seeds meant to boost their yields.
Kirk Kerkorian, a U.S. billionaire of Armenian descent, will provide $12 million for building and refurbishing more schools in Armenia, a Yerevan-based representative of his Lincy Foundation said on Wednesday.
The Moscow municipality reaffirmed on Wednesday its pledge to support a massive redevelopment project in Yerevan which the Armenian government says will require billions of dollars in investments.
The Armenian government will enact no further changes in a controversial law on broadcasting criticized by domestic media watchdogs as well as foreign governments and human rights bodies, an official said on Wednesday.
A standing committee of the Armenian parliament approved on Friday a watered-down version of a controversial government bill that would allow the existence of schools where the main language of instruction is not Armenian.
Armenia’s education minister said on Wednesday that a redrafted government bill allowing a limited number of schools in Armenia to teach in a foreign language is due to be submitted to parliament for approval soon.
A new multi-storey underground car park has been officially opened in a central Yerevan square that remained closed for nearly two years because of the large-scale construction project.
The Armenian parliament began debating on Tuesday a government bill on broadcasting which has prompted serious concern from some of its members and the country’s leading media associations.
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