Recent weeks’ increases in the prices of key foodstuffs in Armenia are the inevitable consequence of a major depreciation of the national currency, the dram, state anti-monopoly regulators said on Thursday.
Citizens of the United States will no longer need visas to visit Armenia starting next month, the Armenian government said on Thursday.
Two Azerbaijani men standing trial in Stepanakert have blamed one another for the murder of an Armenian teenager near Nagorno-Karabakh that led to their high-profile arrests in July.
John Heffern, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, on Tuesday discussed with with Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian the aftermath of last week’s downing by Azerbaijani forces of an Armenian combat helicopter, which reignited tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The armed forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday vowed to retaliate strongly against Azerbaijan for shooting down an Armenian helicopter gunship on “the line of contact” east of Karabakh.
The armed forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have been engaged in large-scale military exercises these days, a Defense Ministry spokesman in Yerevan confirmed on Thursday.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates positive and negative influences of membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on the Armenian economy as relative, the organization’s resident representative in Armenia said on Friday.
Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian on Wednesday ordered an Armenia law-enforcement agency to launch criminal proceedings in connection with a recent assault on a journalist carried out by a senior security official.
The Armenian government moved to make concessions to scores of angry market traders on Monday in response to their continuing street protests against new taxation rules introduced by it.
Hundreds of market traders demonstrated in Yerevan on Tuesday to demand the repeal of new government rules meant to end tax evasion among larger businesses selling goods to them.
The head of an Armenian parliamentary oversight body again alleged misuse of public funds on Thursday as he assessed the implementation of a government project to refurbish 74 schools across the country.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a controversial six-year prison sentence given to a retired army colonel who was arrested last year after organizing anti-government protests by fellow veterans of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
One of Armenia’s most powerful security officials admitted on Thursday Armenian law-enforcement authorities have long lacked independence and carried out questionable government orders.
Authorities in Azerbaijan have arrested another resident of Armenia who crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in unclear circumstances.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has cancelled a planned visit to Yerevan that was expected to focus on Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said on Monday.
The European Court of Human Rights has handed down almost 50 rulings against the Armenian authorities in the past seven years, costing them over 576,000 euros ($770,000) in damages, a senior official said on Thursday.
Armenia’s largest sports and concert arena was formally renationalized on Thursday in payment for its Russian-based owner’s debts to the Armenian government exceeding 10.4 billion drams ($25 million).
The U.S. State Department has urged the Azerbaijani authorities to investigate the suspicious death of an Armenian man who was detained by them after crossing into Azerbaijan on August 7.
Several dozen angry Yezidis demonstrated in Yerevan on Thursday to demand that the Armenian government stand up for their ethnic kin in northern Iraq massacred and displaced by radical Islamist militants.
President Serzh Sarkisian has launched a scathing attack on Recep Tayyip Erdogan in response to what critics of Turkey’s outgoing prime minister and president-elect regard as a racist slur against Armenians.
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