Armenians should not criticize Russia for selling weapons to Azerbaijan despite its military alliance with Armenia, the secretary of President Serzh Sarkisian’s National Security Council said on Friday.
Armenia played down on Wednesday media reports that Russia has begun delivering $1 billion worth of tanks and other military hardware to Azerbaijan, saying that Baku will not gain a decisive military advantage in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
More than 30 pilots and other former employees of Armavia gathered outside the offices of Armenia’s bankrupt national airline on Wednesday to demand their wages not paid since last autumn.
Armenia’s state utility regulators formally approved on Friday substantial increases in the prices of natural gas and electricity for households, citing the increased cost of gas imported from Russia.
The government announced on Thursday a “gradual liberalization” of Armenia’s commercial aviation sector which officials said will open it up to more domestic and foreign airlines.
Armenia plans to contribute troops this year to a United Nations peacekeeping force deployed in southern Lebanon, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Farmers in southern Armenia hit hard by a severe hailstorm will be exempted from land tax and irrigation fees and have their debts to commercial banks rescheduled, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said on Thursday, unveiling an aid package approved by his cabinet.
Facing growing public discontent, the Armenian government pledged on Thursday to alleviate the impending sharp rise in the price of natural gas with major subsidies that will apply to all individual consumers.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday said that Armenia has made significant progress towards democracy with three major elections held over the past year and instructed his newly reshuffled government to achieve quick economic betterment in the country.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian unveiled late on Tuesday his new but largely unchanged cabinet that was formed as a result of Armenia’s recent presidential election.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
The government on Thursday voiced support for an opposition proposal to at least restrict the presence of offshore-registered companies in Armenia’s mining industry accused by critics of tax evasion.
Over two dozen Iranians jailed in Armenia for mostly drug-related crimes have been sent back to Iran since the beginning of last year, Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian said on Tuesday after talks with his visiting Iranian counterpart.
Armenia’s main political groups challenging the government can win the forthcoming municipal elections and appoint an opposition-affiliated mayor of Yerevan, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) claimed on Friday.
Armenia’s leading opposition groups on Friday scoffed at President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision to reappoint Tigran Sarkisian as prime minister, saying that it heralds no major changes in government policy demanded by many people.
Armenia has signed an essentially non-binding memorandum of understanding with the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus that does not call for its membership of the Russian-led trade bloc which Moscow hopes to extend to other ex-Soviet states.
General Vladimir Gasparian, the chief of the Armenian police, praised opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday night just hours after his forces clashed with opposition protesters attempting to march towards the presidential palace in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and all 18 members of his cabinet tendered their resignations immediately after President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration on Tuesday.
Riot police used force to stop opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and thousands of his supporters from marching towards the presidential palace in Yerevan on Tuesday at the end of daylong protests against President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration for a second term. (UPDATED)
Citing the need to support domestic agriculture, the Armenian government decided on Thursday to continue subsidizing interest rates on loans provided by commercial banks to tens of thousands of farmers.
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