Paruyr Hayrikian, a veteran Armenian politician, said on Tuesday that he has still not recuperated from a gunshot wound sustained during the recent presidential race despite having undergone medical treatment in Europe.
In what some observers see as a deliberate snub, President Serzh Sarkisian will not take part in an informal summit of Russia and its ex-Soviet military allies that will take place in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek on Tuesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding “intensive” discussions with to try to arrange a fresh meeting of their presidents on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, international mediators said in Yerevan on Friday.
Farmers in southern Armenia hit hard by a severe hailstorm will be exempted from land tax and irrigation fees and have their debts to commercial banks rescheduled, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said on Thursday, unveiling an aid package approved by his cabinet.
The Armenian government is discussing with Russian officials ways of subsidizing the increased cost of Russian natural delivered to Armenia, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian said on Wednesday.
Armenia granted Russia’s Gazprom giant ownership of a pipeline supplying limited amounts of natural gas from Iran under pressure from Moscow, a senior Armenian pro-government lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Gagik Khachatrian, the controversial chief of Armenia’s tax and customs services, has not abused his position to enrich himself or his relatives, according to a state anti-graft body that has investigated corruption allegations leveled against him.
U.S. Ambassador John Heffern stressed on Friday the importance of liberalizing lucrative sectors of the Armenian economy that have long been dominated by a handful of large companies or individual entrepreneurs.
A powerful hailstorm caused severe damage to Armenia’s southern Armavir province on Sunday, destroying crops in about three dozen local villages and leaving scores of debt-ridden farmers with virtually no source of income for this year.
The Armenian military might launch a preemptive strike against Azerbaijan to prevent it from attempting to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by force, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Thursday.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
Tensions between two major political parties led by Gagik Tsarukian and Raffi Hovannisian again rose on Friday as they accused each other of foul play in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan.
Relatives of a senior Armenian police officer who was found shot to death in his car said on Friday that they believe he was killed and could not have committed suicide.
The police chief of a district just north of Yerevan was found shot to death inside his car on Thursday.
The controversial head of the Armenian government’s tax collection agency, Gagik Khachatrian, said on Thursday that an inquiry launched by a state anti-corruption body is the result of a long-running smear campaign targeting him.
The government continues to expect Armenia’s economy to expand by over 6 percent this year despite slower growth forecast by the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Vache Gabrielian said on Tuesday.
A senior member of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) on Monday rejected the latest U.S. criticism of Armenia’s human rights record which is contained in an annual global report released by the State Department.
Armenia reiterated on Wednesday its unpublicized conditions for restoring diplomatic relations with Hungary that were frozen last year following the release from a Hungarian prison of the Azerbaijani axe-killer of an Armenian army officer.
A leader of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Tuesday accused the ruling Republican Party (HHK) of abusing its government levers to prevail in next month’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian returned from Moscow on Friday, refusing to disclose important details of what he called a “private and confidential” visit that involved “several good meetings.”
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