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.
The head of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), Martin Galstian, said on Thursday that it will revise upwards its economic growth forecast for 2021 made earlier this year.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian said on Thursday that he will resign if the Armenian economy does not grow at a double-digit rate this year.
A nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian accused of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking has been arrested again five months after being released on bail.
The Central Bank of Armenia has revised its economic growth forecast for the country in 2021.
Law-enforcement authorities have pledged to look into allegations that an aide to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is illegally directing a criminal investigation into a fugitive businessman critical of the Armenian government.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday set free a government critic who was arrested late last month for allegedly creating a social media account that spreads offensive comments about the country’s leadership.
One of the reasons for the attack against the crew of RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun) was that no one gets to be held accountable for obstructing the work of journalists and using violence against them, human rights activists and representatives of media organizations say.
In a bill criticized by press freedom groups, several pro-government members of Armenia’s parliament have proposed restrictions on the use of anonymous sources in news stories reported by the Armenian media.
The judge presiding over the trial of Robert Kocharian has allowed the former Armenian president to visit Moscow for the second time in less than two months, it emerged on Tuesday.
The Homeland Salvation Front should stage an anti-government “uprising” if it fails to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with conventional street protests, a leader of the alliance of 17 Armenian opposition parties said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government’s tax revenues fell by 8 percent last year due to an economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the State Revenue Committee (SRC) said on Monday.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian was sacked and appointed as chief of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s staff on Monday.
A former official who ran Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh has hit out at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, saying that he could have stopped hostilities three weeks before the ceasefire brokered by Russia on November 9.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian declined to attend on Wednesday a Christmas mass celebrated by Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church increasingly at loggerheads with Armenia’s government.
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