The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan promised “more decisive efforts” to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict but announced no concrete peace agreement at an OSCE summit that began its work in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Wednesday. (UPDATED)
One of the senior Armenian government officials accused by Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian of corruption and incompetence on Friday denied any wrongdoing and insisted that his impending dismissal is unfair.
The Armenian government has failed to properly restore and isolate a toxic waste burial site near Yerevan that was left dangerously exposed earlier this year, environment protection groups claimed on Wednesday.
The leaders of NATO’s 28 member states singled out Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity as the guiding principle of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s resolution in a weekend declaration denounced by Armenia but welcomed in Azerbaijan.
Highly-enriched uranium confiscated by the Georgian authorities from two Armenian citizens was not stolen from the Metsamor nuclear power plant or any other facility in Armenia, a senior official in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) will take up seats in Armenia’s next parliament even if it refuses to recognize its legitimacy, a leading member of the opposition alliance said on Friday.
State anti-trust regulators opened on Wednesday a formal inquiry into a drastic rise in the prices of cheese that has been observed in Armenia over the past two weeks.
Hrant Bagratian, an opposition politician and former prime minister, harshly criticized on Tuesday the Armenian government’s draft budget for next year which calls for a nearly 7 percent increase in public spending.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed the death of an Armenian captive in Azerbaijani prison earlier this month, but its Yerevan office spokesman says the confirmation is on the basis of a death certificate issued by authorities in Baku.
Armenia is taking ‘asymmetric steps’ in response to Azerbaijan’s growing military spending, seeking a higher efficiency at a relatively low cost, according to a senior defense official in Yerevan.
The Russian and Armenian governments have started jointly looking to into the possibility of building a railway that would connect Armenia with neighboring Iran, a top executive of Russia’s state-run rail network, RZD, said on Thursday.
The Armenian authorities have not imposed a permanent ban on opposition rallies in a key Yerevan square, the chief of the national police service, Alik Sargsian, insisted on Friday.
Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, was forced to briefly delay three flights from Yerevan on Thursday because of its outstanding debts to the Zvartnots international airport.
Armenia’s new defense agreement with Russia will not reflect negatively on its growing cooperation with NATO, a senior official from the Western alliance said on Wednesday.
Authorities in Armenian insisted on Wednesday that an Armenian man reportedly detained in Azerbaijan over the weekend is a civilian and not a serviceman, as is claimed by Baku.
Hundreds of rescue workers from across Europe and the former Soviet Union began on Sunday a week-long disaster relief exercise held by NATO in Armenia.
Armenia is continuing to trail most countries of the world in terms of the competitiveness of domestic economy, according to an annual global survey released on Thursday.
Responding to a recent spate of non-combat deaths within its ranks, the Armenian military unveiled on Tuesday a bill allowing soldiers to challenge controversial orders issued by their immediate commanders.
Michel Platini, the French football legend running European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, received an Armenian state award and pledged continued support for the Armenia’s Football Federation during a visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
Armenia’s main governing and opposition forces responded positively on Friday to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s pledge to promote democracy and human rights in the country.
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