Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday again claimed that the Armenian authorities are intent on putting Nagorno-Karabakh back under Azerbaijani control and downplayed the dwindling attendance at his anti-government rallies in Yerevan.
More than 300 families in Armenia’s northern Lori province received new houses and apartments on Friday over two decades after a powerful earthquake that destroyed their homes.
Armenia’s government unveiled on Thursday the state budget for next year which calls for a nearly 7 percent increase in its expenditures.
In an apparent response to continuing protests from Armenian environmentalists, a major Russian commercial bank put on hold its plans to finance a controversial mining project in northern Armenia.
Armenia’s second-largest chemical enterprise is resuming production operations and rehiring hundreds of workers after a nearly two-year stoppage caused by the global economic crisis, its chief executive said on Monday.
Residents of Spitak, a small town in northern Armenia, are going to send a letter of congratulations to Ukraine to express their joy to Victor Yanukovich.
President Serzh Sarkisian criticized on Wednesday the quality of the renewed reconstruction of Armenia’s northern regions devastated by the 1988 earthquake, which seems to be increasingly falling behind schedule.
Workers at a chemical plant in Armenia’s third largest city on Monday refused to enter the work premises as they demanded that the company’s administration pay their back wages first.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian accused Armenia’s leadership of agreeing to put Nagorno-Karabakh back under Azerbaijani control as he continued his nationwide meetings with supporters on Tuesday.
The Armenian government will not provide direct financial assistance requested by the country’s second-largest chemical enterprise but is ready to help it sell its production to domestic consumers, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s second largest chemical enterprise is seeking millions of dollars in government assistance to kick-start its production operations largely halted late last year because of the global economic crisis.
