Armenia marked on Wednesday the 11th anniversary of an armed attack on its parliament that left its prime minister, parliament speaker and six other officials dead and had lasting political repercussions for the country.
A leading international watchdog this week reported a further slight increase in government corruption in Armenia, ranking it among the 55 or so most corrupt countries of the world covered by its annual surveys.
Armenia’s main opposition alliance says it has no expectations that a civil court in Yerevan will accept the claim filed by its supporters on Wednesday holding law-enforcement agencies responsible for human rights violations resulting in deaths and injuries over two years ago.
Armenian opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian has leveled fresh criticism at a European body overseeing the state of democracy in Armenia accusing it of “inconsistent efforts” to see the fulfillment of its resolutions through in the South Caucasus state.
Grieving relatives of the Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity this week joined official Yerevan on Thursday in insisting that he was a civilian, rather than a military serviceman sent to Azerbaijan on a sabotage mission.
Armenia and Turkey have held no fresh negotiations since the effective collapse of their normalization agreements, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian insisted on Wednesday, denying statements to the contrary attributed to his Turkish and Swiss counterparts.
An influential American-Armenian group has called for a careful scrutiny of the record of an Obama nominee, a former mediator in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, to take a diplomatic post in Baku.
A Turkish-Armenian newspaper columnist claimed on Friday to have received hundreds of deaths threats after altering a famous quote from the founder of modern Turkey to make a case for sweeping reforms in the country.
A senior United States representative mediating the ongoing peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute has said that “the Karabakhi Armenian representatives were at the [negotiating] table until a few years ago when the Armenian side, Yerevan, decided to represent them.”
Azerbaijan’s foreign minister has spoken of ‘certain progress’ made in the Karabakh settlement process after the latest round of talks between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Moscow late last week.
A Tupolev plane operating a Caspian Airlines commercial flight from Tehran to Yerevan crashed on Wednesday in northwest Iran, near the city of Qazvin.
At least three people were killed and about two dozen others injured in two powerful explosions at Armenia’s largest chemical company on Thursday.
