Citing a continuing slump in construction, one of Armenia’s two cement factories halted production operations and effectively laid off most of its 600 workers on Wednesday.
Armenian farmers have grown 10 percent more grapes this fall and have already sold out of them despite the ongoing economic crisis, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
Police in southern Armenia appear to have again rounded up and interrogated scores of people in an attempt to hunt down a local businessman who went into hiding earlier this year after falling out with controversial parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian.
Energy Minister Armen Movsisian has confirmed that Russia is willing to have a major role in the construction of a new nuclear plant facility in Armenia that will have a projected capacity nearly three times exceeding that of the existing one.
President Serzh Sarkisian arrived in the Turkish city of Bursa on Wednesday on a brief visit that marks a new milestone in Armenia’s “football diplomacy” with Turkey praised by world powers.
A pro-government member of the Armenian parliament has been involved in a shooting incident in which he opened fire wounding a person after being hit with an iron bar.
Police in Yerevan have been instructed to confront anyone who makes what they see as offensive comments about Armenia’s leaders during opposition demonstrations, a senior police official said on Friday.
More than a hundred angry farmers in Armenia’s wine-growing Ararat region rallied late Tuesday to protest against a sharp cut in the cost of grapes which they said is planned by wine and brandy companies.
Authorities in Armenia again seriously restricted transport communication between Yerevan and surrounding regions ahead of a major opposition rally in the capital on Friday.
After decades of negligence, motorists in Yerevan began wearing their safety belts in droves on Thursday to avoid paying hefty fines finally enforced by traffic police.
A well-known Armenian photojournalist who was controversially penalized for contempt of court has successfully petitioned authorities in Yerevan to declare illegal amnesty granted to him last month.
The number of Armenians visiting Georgia’s Black Sea coast on vacation is on course to reach a new record high this year, according to local government projections cited by Armenian diplomats.
An Armenian journalist insisted in court on Thursday that the former president’s reply to the head of a U.S. government agency over the latter’s warning to discontinue crucial aid to Armenia should not be kept secret from the public.
State prosecutors have demanded lengthy prison sentences for four prominent opposition figures facing trial on charges of provoking last year’s deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.
Traveling to Yerevan from other parts of Armenia by public transport was all but impossible ahead of a fresh opposition rally held in the capital on Monday evening.
The Armenian opposition alleged widespread vote buying and other irregularities on Sunday as voting progressed in Yerevan’s mayoral elections marked by a relatively high voter turnout. The polling was also marred by reported attacks on and intimidation of several journalists. (UPDATED)
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a three-year prison sentence given to Gagik Jahangirian, a former deputy prosecutor-general strongly opposed to the government, for his alleged resistance to police officers that arrested him more than a year ago.
Activists of Armenia’s two largest pro-government parties reportedly clashed in Yerevan late on Tuesday in a dispute related to the upcoming municipal elections.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) accused President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday of jeopardizing Armenia’s national security with his diplomatic overtures to Turkey.
In what has become a pattern, the Armenian authorities again seriously restricted transport communication between Yerevan and the rest of the country ahead of an opposition rally in the capital on Friday.
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