Citing a culture of electoral fraud, Armenia’s main opposition parties have not fielded or endorsed any candidates in local elections that will be held in two dozen towns and villages next month.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) rallied hundreds of supporters and threatened to boycott parliament sessions on Monday after one of its activists was kidnapped and beaten unconscious in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Friday reportedly agreed to again make major concessions to scores of small business owners demonstrating against controversial new taxation rules introduced by his government.
Businessmen from Iran urged their Armenian partners on Tuesday to invest in an Iranian tax-free economic zone adjacent to Armenia, saying that would boost the relatively modest trade between the two neighboring states.
The Armenian Apostolic Church hit out at Georgia’s Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II on Tuesday for making what it called “inappropriate” references to its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, just days after his visit to Georgia.
The spiritual leaders of Armenia and Georgia have failed to reach any concrete agreements on disputes between their state-backed churches after nearly one week of negotiations held during Catholicos Garegin II’s visit to Georgia.
The Armenian Apostolic Church said over the weekend that its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, reached agreements with Georgia’s political and spiritual leaders that will help to resolve its long-running disputes with the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Catholicos Garegin II began on Friday a weeklong visit to Georgia which the Armenian Apostolic Church hopes will help to resolve its disputes with the Georgian government and Orthodox Church over the country’s Armenian religious heritage.
The two most prominent members of the Armenian opposition remaining in prison were set free on Friday in accordance with a general amnesty declared by the Armenian authorities.
A Turkish sculptor condemned Turkey’s government and accused it of playing the nationalist card as it began dismantling on Tuesday his controversial statue designed to promote reconciliation with Armenia.
Hundreds of Turks rallied in downtown Istanbul on Sunday to remember more than one million Armenians massacred in the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago.
A prominent Turkish painter recovering from a stab wound on Tuesday pledged to continue to fight against the demolition of a controversial monument designed to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia.
It is already seven years that Armenak Melkonian’s job has been to keep a close eye on a site that recently produced a sensation in the world of archeology.
A court in Yerevan has found an Iranian citizen guilty of spying in favor of Azerbaijan and his alleged Armenian accomplice of committing high treason.
For the first time in nearly a century, Armenians have been allowed to conduct a religious service in a recently renovated island church in eastern Turkey, in an event that Ankara intended as a show of tolerance toward its Christian minority.
Turkey continues to link the implementation of its normalization agreements with Armenia with significant progress towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
An Iranian citizen being tried in Armenia on charges of spying for Azerbaijan collapsed at a court hearing in Yerevan when he was delivering his defense speech on Thursday.
Six Armenian army servicemen have been reportedly shot dead this week in two separate non-combat incidents highlighting lingering abuse and other serious problems within the country’s armed forces.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian rejected on Tuesday strong criticism of one of his key ministers voiced by Gagik Tsarukian, an influential businessman whose Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) is represented in his cabinet.
A sudden upsurge in exports of Armenian sheep to Iran observed since last spring has drastically pushed up the cost of lamb in Armenia, raising fears of dwindling livestock numbers that could eventually cost local farmers dearly.
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