A building under construction in the center of Yerevan collapsed on Thursday, injuring 11 workers.
Coinciding with the year’s apricot ripening time in Armenia, an annual international film festival named after the country’s most famous fruit is again enabling local critics and movie buffs to keep abreast of the latest offerings of world cinema.
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian praised RFE/RL’s commitment to “exposing problems and shortcomings” in Armenia and implied its work met the interests of his government as he visited the U.S-funded radio station’s Yerevan bureau on Saturday.
Sabeh has long bleached hair, and for once she does not have to hide it in public. The young woman is one of thousands of Iranians traveling to neighboring Armenia during two-week celebrations of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, that began on Monday.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan gave on Tuesday a posthumous award to Amalia Kostanian, Armenia’s most prominent anti-corruption campaigner who unexpectedly died last September, for what it described as her “decade-long crusade to promote accountable and transparent governance.”
A senior Armenian prosecutor called for a toughening of legal punishment for pedophilia on Wednesday amid an under-age sex scandal involving an Armenian-American businessman who was until recently an advisor to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
Armenia’s government on Monday advised citizens not to travel to Egypt and Tunisia for the moment but had no immediate plans to evacuate Armenians remaining in the two unrest-stricken countries.
Armenia’s leading environment protection groups expressed serious concern on Monday over the possible launch of another large-scale mining project which they said would not only destroy more green spaces but also pollute a major Armenian town.
More than a hundred angry civil servants, many of them members of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), rallied in Yerevan on Monday to protest against the government’s decision to liquidate a division of the State Social Security Service employing them.
Hundreds of opposition supporters marched through central Yerevan on Friday to mark International Human Rights Day and reiterate opposition demands for the release of Armenia’s remaining “political prisoners.”
Armenia has fallen slightly behind three of its four neighbors in the United Nations’ annual index of people’s well-being around the world, despite advancing to what UN researchers consider a high degree of “human development.”
Armenia’s largest information technology (IT) firm was honored by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan on Wednesday for being shortlist for an annual U.S. government award given to American-owned companies around the world.
More than a dozen Iranians picketed their country’s embassy in Armenia on Monday to condemn the possible execution of an Iranian woman sentenced to death for alleged adultery.
An opposition party in Armenia has downplayed its failure to press for a vote in parliament on a bill formally obliging Yerevan to recognize the independence of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The office of Armenia’s ombudsman has published a study revealing “essential shortcomings” in Armenia’s armed forces.
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.
Despite promises by the government that no changes will be made in Armenia’s language law, a key parliament committee on Wednesday decided to bring the revised piece of legislation implying such changes to a full session next week.
Travel agencies in Yerevan said on Friday that they will cancel plans to take hundreds of Armenian pilgrims to the upcoming landmark liturgy at a medieval Armenian cathedral in southeastern Turkey unless Turkish authorities restore a cross on its dome.
Armenia on Monday celebrated the 20th anniversary of adopting a declaration of independence that marked the beginning of its formal secession from the crumbling Soviet Union.
Armenia and Russia have signed a raft of agreements, including a protocol that extends the lease of the Russian military base in the South Caucasus country for nearly a quarter of a century.
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