Military authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the non-combat death of yet another Armenian soldier, which highlighted their continuing failure to root out chronic abuses within the army ranks.
Armenian state regulators on Wednesday pledged to investigate a more than 20 percent surge in the retail prices of sugar which will further raise the cost of life in the country and could hamper government efforts to curb inflation.
A Yerevan prosecutor who was found dead at a cemetery in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor on Tuesday most probably committed suicide, law-enforcement authorities said on Wednesday.
The leadership of Armenia’s national bar association has accused police in Yerevan of illegally detaining and manhandling two of its members defending opposition activists arrested last week.
A senior government official urged the Armenian Apostolic Church on Wednesday to be more active in countering the spread of non-traditional religious organizations in the country, which is seen by many in Armenia as a threat to national unity.
The Armenian government has told Russian authorities to stop encouraging and helping families in Armenia to migrate to Russia, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian revealed on Friday.
Armenia’s state forestry agency reported on Tuesday a sharp increase in the scale of illegal logging in the country, blaming it on the increased cost of natural gas.
Researchers from Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences claim to have found high concentrations of toxic substances in agricultural produce grown near two mining enterprises in the northern Lori province.
Public transport between Yerevan and other regions of Armenia was again effectively brought to a halt on Thursday ahead of a fresh rally held there by the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK).
A U.S. businessman of Armenian descent was formally remanded in custody on Saturday pending trial on pedophilia charges which he strongly denies.
A senior Armenian prosecutor called for a toughening of legal punishment for pedophilia on Wednesday amid an under-age sex scandal involving an Armenian-American businessman who was until recently an advisor to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
Armenia’s main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) held simultaneous protests in capital Yerevan and three provinces on Friday demanding the release of its members currently imprisoned for their roles in the 2008 post-election unrest.
The Russian management of Armenia’s national rail network on Wednesday reassured workers of a railway depot in the northern Lori province that none of them will lose their jobs as a result of its upcoming restructuring.
More than a hundred angry employees of Armenia’s two largest chemical enterprises demonstrated on Thursday to demand the payment of their back wages for the past several months.
Armenia on Thursday repatriated an Azerbaijani captive and received the body of one of its citizens who died in Azerbaijani captivity last month, in an exchange facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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.
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