The defense ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan reportedly discussed an apparent upsurge in ceasefire violations along the border between the two countries during a rare conversation on Friday.
Arman Melikian, an opposition presidential candidate, on Wednesday branded the upcoming presidential election as “illegitimate” and said he will not cast a ballot on February 18.
Thousands of Syrians of Armenian descent, who have taken refuge in Armenia and become its citizens recently, will be able to vote this month in a relatively competitive election for the first time in their lives.
Education Minister Armen Ashotian said on Wednesday that he will order disciplinary action against two more school principals who cancelled classes so that their students attend President Serzh Sarkisian’s campaign rallies.
An Armenian presidential candidate announced his withdrawal from the race and another one threatened to follow suit on Tuesday, expressing serious concern over the freedom and fairness of the February 18 election.
Syria’s national airline has suspended weekly flights to Armenia, mainly used by ethnic Armenians fleeing the country, following fierce fighting between government forces and rebels reported around Aleppo airport.
A Yerevan-based non-governmental organization began distributing on Thursday $100,000 worth of humanitarian assistance allocated by Kuwait to thousands of Syrian Armenians who have taken refuge in Armenia.
Citing the worsening situation in Syria, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that it has decided to send cash, rather than food and medication, to ethnic Armenians remaining there from now on.
Education Minister Armen Ashotian rejected on Wednesday opposition calls for an urgent revision of a new history textbook for state-run universities that upholds the disputed official version of Armenia’s 2008 post-election unrest.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) continues to believe that official Yerevan must not encourage a mass out-migration of ethnic Armenians from Syria despite worsening violence there, a senior representative of the pan-Armenian party said on Wednesday.
In annual fundraisers held this month, a pan-Armenian charity has secured over $21 million in donations to finance more rural infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh and help Syria’s struggling Armenian community.
A leading Armenian Diaspora charity is subsidizing, for a second consecutive month, housing expenses of hundreds of ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia and are struggling to make ends meet.
Seven ethnic Armenians have been kidnapped near the war-stricken Syrian city of Aleppo, local Armenian sources and the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
A second planeload of humanitarian aid has been successfully delivered from Armenia to Syria, organizers of the non-governmental relief effort said on Wednesday.
Syria’s national airline said on Tuesday that it will continue carrying out weekly flights to Armenia despite Turkey’s decision to close its airspace to Syrian aircraft.
An Armenian cargo plane carrying 14 tons of humanitarian assistance arrived in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo late on Monday after being ordered to land and searched in Turkey.
A senior member of Armenia’s ruling party on Friday dismissed opinions that the concern voiced by a Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly representative regarding the prosecution of former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian amounted to an evaluation from the Strasbourg-based body.
A prominent Armenian American scholar believes the time has come for raising demands for justice instead of seeking reaffirmations of what more than two dozen governments of the world and many historians have recognized as the genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of last century.
Senior members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Tuesday that have stored 30 tons of key foodstuffs since launching a campaign help to ethnic Armenian and other civilians in Syria two weeks ago.
Four Syrians of Armenian descent were killed and at least 11 others wounded near Aleppo airport on Tuesday night shortly after the latest flight from Yerevan to Syria’s commercial capital.
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