Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has caused another scandal after reportedly telling journalists to stand up when seeing him in the National Assembly building in Yerevan.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday upheld lengthy prison sentences handed down to key members of an armed anti-government group that seized a police base in Yerevan in July 2016.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have again exchanged fire along some sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border amid lingering tensions between the two states.
Angry relatives of Armenian soldiers remaining in Azerbaijani captivity have taken to the streets to protest against what they see as offensive comments made by parliament speaker Alen Simonian.
Armenia will temporarily bar entry of residents of South Africa and seven other regional states in a bid to protect its population against the new coronavirus variant Omicron, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said on Monday.
It is in the interest of Armenia that the process of delimitation and demarcation of its Soviet-era border with Azerbaijan should start as soon as possible, a senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
A number of mostly fringe opposition groups in Armenia staged protests in Yerevan on Monday, expressing their concern about what they described as a potentially risky border demarcation with Azerbaijan and demanding that the government reveal details of the process expected to begin soon.
Schools across Armenia reopened on Monday two weeks after the start of an autumn break that coincided with a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths in the country.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijani authorities guilty of torturing two residents of Armenian border villages who died after crossing into Azerbaijan in 2014.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday that his government expects the Armenian economy to continue its recovery from a coronavirus-related recession and grow by 7 percent next year.
An Armenian press freedom group on Friday expressed serious concern over what it called new restrictions on news reporting imposed by the authorities in recent months.
Armenia reported a record 2,603 coronavirus cases and hundreds of its unvaccinated citizens awaited hospitalization on Thursday as health authorities struggled to cope with a new wave of infections in the country of about 3 million.
An anti-corruption arm of the Council of Europe has described as largely “unsatisfactory” the Armenian authorities’ response to policy measures recommended by it five years ago.
Opposition lawmakers said on Friday that they will not accept hefty holiday bonuses allocated to all members and staffers of Armenia’s parliament by speaker Alen Simonian.
The Armenian government is negotiating with Gazprom in an effort to prevent a further rise in the price of Russian natural gas supplied to Armenia, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Wednesday.
Armenian authorities have announced that COVID-19 vaccines have been purchased from China as a result of negotiations with this country.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s army accused Azerbaijani forces on Tuesday of opening fire at some of its frontline positions in breach of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped last year’s Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
Citing an unusually hot summer taking a heavy toll on agriculture, the government has moved to use additional water from Armenia’s vast Lake Sevan for irrigation this year.
Nagorno-Karabakh has retained the vast majority of its population after last year’s Armenian-Azerbaijani war, a senior official in Stepanakert insisted on Tuesday.
Campaigning officially ended in Armenia on Friday for Sunday’s parliamentary elections which appear to be the most unpredictable in the country’s history.
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