As many as 30,000 Armenian citizens have been banned this year from reentering Russian for allegedly violating Russian immigration rules, according to a senior Armenian government official.
The Russian government has offered to help Armenia increase exports of agricultural products to Russia after its ban on food imports from the West, a senior official in Yerevan revealed on Thursday.
Dozens of employees of a troubled cement plant in the central Armenian town of Hrazdan again went on strike on Tuesday to demand the payment of their back wages for the past several months.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has rejected the idea of providing residents of villages situated near the restive border with Azerbaijan with weapons for defense purposes.
A retired army colonel critical of the government has been convicted of fraud and sentenced to six years in prison in a controversial trial that ended in Yerevan on Thursday.
An Armenian army soldier was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Friday for shooting to death one comrade and seriously wounding another in disputed circumstances in May last year.
Raising more questions about Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has announced the cancellation of a summit of ex-Soviet states which was due to discuss Yerevan’s membership bid.
President Serzh Sarkisian has no mandate to make Armenia part of a Russian-led alliance of ex-Soviet states and must step down as soon as possible, opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said over the weekend.
Two Armenian and two Azerbaijani soldiers died early on Friday amid continuing ceasefire violations reported from “the line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh and the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Hundreds of Syrian Armenians lined up outside Syria’s embassy in Armenia on Wednesday to vote in a contentious presidential election which is expected to give President Bashar al-Assad a third term amid a continuing civil war in his country.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian met with Armenia’s leading entrepreneurs on Wednesday to discuss economic policies planned by his newly formed cabinet.
The Ministry of Agriculture assessed on Wednesday the severe consequences of an unprecedented spring snowstorm for thousands of farmers growing fruits and vegetables in southern Armenia.
Authorities in Azerbaijan freed and sent home on Thursday a resident of an Armenian border village just over a month after he strayed into Azerbaijani territory by accident.
Armenia on Tuesday pointedly declined to react to Russian officials’ apparently unfounded claims that Syrian rebels shot and killed ethnic Armenians when they captured Kessab, a small town close to Syria’s border with Turkey.
Armenia has expressed its ‘deep concern’ over the situation around a Syrian town near the border with Turkey where its mainly ethnic Armenian residents have had to abandon their homes fleeing cross-border attacks by militant groups.
The Armenian government will discuss and likely approve on Thursday a bill curtailing the powers of a financial oversight body that alleged serious misuse of its budgetary funds last year.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian criticized the Armenian government’s economic policies and signaled his readiness to challenge President Serzh Sarkisian more forcefully at the weekend.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has criticized President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision to make Armenia part of the Russian-led Customs Union, saying that it will seriously limit prospects for the country’s economic development.
Opposition deputies blamed the Armenian authorities on Tuesday for last week’s fruitless session of an inter-parliamentary body tasked with fostering closer ties between Armenia and the European Union.
Several dozen people picketed prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Friday to demand that the Armenian police stop holding incommunicado 14 anti-government activists who were arrested in clashes with riot police more than a month ago.
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