Prominent members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) announced on Tuesday the launch of a campaign to raise funds for relief aid to ethnic Armenian and other civilians in Syria increasingly suffering from the country’s civil war.
A Spanish construction company launched on Thursday the first phase of a multimillion-dollar government project to upgrade Armenia’s main highways stretching more than 550 kilometers to neighboring Georgia and Iran.
The Armenian authorities are still not doing enough to combat widespread software piracy despite growing use of licensed computer programs in the country, according to local representatives of an international information technology (IT) association.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) of Gagik Tsarukian has underlined its apparent support for a “Eurasian Union” of former Soviet republics by sponsoring an international youth conference on the controversial idea promoted by Russia.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenia-backed armed forces wrapped up on Thursday three-day military exercises which they said demonstrated their “adequate preparedness” for a possible war with Azerbaijan.
Armenia has temporarily moved its consulate-general in Aleppo to a safer location in Syria’s largest city after more than a week of fierce fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, official Yerevan announced over the weekend.
A court in Yerevan sentenced two former executives of Armenia’s state pension fund to seven and three years in prison on Monday in the first trial stemming from large-scale fraud in the payment of social benefits alleged by law-enforcement authorities.
Karen Andreasian, the state human rights ombudsman, urged the Armenian authorities on Tuesday to do more to combat ill-treatment of criminal suspects and other individuals, saying that the practice remains widespread.
