One year after announcing his decision to start political activities in Armenia, the Kremlin-backed head of Russia’s largest Armenian Diaspora organization said on Tuesday that he will not participate in next year’s Armenian parliamentary elections.
The American, Russian and French co-chairs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Minsk Group held meetings with ethnic Armenian leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh as they arrived in capital Stepanakert on Monday on the second leg of their three-stop regional tour aimed at promoting a peaceful solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the disputed region.
Armenia plans to increase imports of natural gas from neighboring Iran and will sign a relevant agreement with the Islamic Republic soon, a senior Armenian official said on Friday.
Rock musician Serj Tankian and other prominent Diaspora Armenian artists have called on Armenia’s government to end widespread corruption, respect laws and hold democratic elections, in a joint appeal which they hope will speed up democratic change in the country.
A Russian national detained in Armenia late last week was allowed to return to Moscow on Wednesday, avoiding extradition to the United States where he is wanted on charges of money laundering and illegal arms trade.
Russia is going to supply Armenia with the same types of weapons that it has delivered to Azerbaijan, a report in the Russian Izvestiya daily said on Tuesday.
Vartan Oskanian, a former foreign minister who recently set up an opposition party, on Friday pointedly declined to criticize anti-government gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan and said President Serzh Sarkisian should offer them “political” concessions.
Armenia continues to regard Russia as its key military ally despite criticizing Russian arms sales to Azerbaijan following the recent escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Wednesday.
A planned summit in Yerevan of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has been cancelled after Kazakhstan, one of the Russian-led bloc’s member states, refused to attend it in an apparent show of support for Azerbaijan.
At least eight Armenians were killed and 42 others injured early on Tuesday when a Yerevan-bound bus carrying them drove off a highway in Russia’s Tula region just south of Moscow. (UPDATED)
A Moscow-based Armenian businessman has reaffirmed his determination to pursue a political career in Armenia despite criticism within media and opposition circles regarding his decision.
The pro-Russian leader of Crimea blacklisted by the West has received no official invitations to visit Armenia, an Armenian government source said on Wednesday, commenting on his plans to attend a Russian-Armenian forum in Yerevan.
Russia is strongly opposed to any attempts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by military means, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday after talks with his visiting Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian.
The lower house of Russia’s government-controlled parliament on Wednesday unanimously ratified a recently signed treaty on Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian returned to Yerevan late on Thursday after paying a one-day working visit to Moscow that apparently did not include a meeting with his Russian counterpart.
A committee of medical experts is looking into the possibility of allowing a top Armenian businessman, who was arrested in Moscow last week, to be confined to his house pending investigation or trial.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian believes there is a ‘political implication’ behind the recent arrest by Russian authorities of a Moscow-based Armenian businessman with close connections to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia has effectively stopped seeking membership in a new alliance of ex-Soviet states dominated by Russia, a prominent Russian pundit reputedly close to the Kremlin claimed on Friday.
Armenia’s consul general to the second largest Russian city of St. Petersburg has denied recognizing the “reunification” of Crimea with Russia after a local report quoted him as saying that.
Russia did not provoke former President Robert Kocharian’s latest criticism of the Armenian government, a prominent Russian pundit reputedly close to the Kremlin said on Thursday.
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