A newly established company controlled by Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian has asked for a government permission to explore for oil and gas in northern Armenia.
Officials inaugurated on Wednesday the first street that has been refurbished in Gyumri’s as part of a $10 million reconstruction of its historic old town initiated by Prime Minister Karen Karapetian.
President Serzh Sarkisian and other officials inaugurated on Sunday a third checkpoint on Armenia’s border with Georgia that has been modernized as part of a $64 million program mostly financed by the European Union.
More than a hundred university students in Gyumri boycotted classes on Tuesday in a show of support for one of their senior professors who risked losing his job after accusing the university rector of corruption.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian refused to be drawn on his political future when he visited Gyumri on Friday.
Another opposition party announced on Wednesday that it will stop boycotting sessions of Gyumri’s municipal assembly in protest against official results of local elections held in Armenia’s second largest city last October.
Senior government officials toured Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province on Monday, encouraging local officials to propose development programs for their cash-strapped rural communities, instead of waiting for funding from Yerevan.
Authorities in Gyumri unveiled a new religious monument on Sunday on the first anniversary of a landmark mass which Pope Francis celebrated in the city during his visit to Armenia.
Around a hundred Armenian civilians working for a Russian military base in Gyumri went on strike on Wednesday to demand their wages which they said have not been paid for the last three months.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have decided not to prosecute a school principal in Gyumri who admitted pressurizing parents of her students to vote for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the April 2 parliamentary elections.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), President Serzh Sarkisian’s junior coalition partner, expressed concern at serious irregularities which it said were committed in two Armenian provinces during Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian promoted on Friday a $10 million plan to refurbish Gyumri’s historic old town which the Armenian government says will greatly stimulate economic activity in the impoverished city.
The long-awaited repairs of battered streets in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, which will cost about 24 million euros ($25.2 million), will get underway in 2017, officials said on Friday.
More than a hundred families living in a small town in northwestern Armenia moved into newly built apartments on Tuesday 28 years after a catastrophic earthquake that destroyed their homes.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian has given more indications that he will return to active politics nearly two years after his bitter dispute with President Serzh Sarkisian.
Samvel Balasanian, the incumbent of Gyumri, controversially secured a second term in office on Monday amid an opposition boycott of the newly elected municipal council that approved his candidacy.
The three main opposition contenders of the weekend municipal election in Gyumri on Thursday warned the Armenian authorities against declaring a pro-government bloc its outright winner.
The governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed victory in local elections held in about 300 communities on Sunday but risked losing control of Vanadzor, the country’s third largest city.
A pro-government bloc and several opposition parties suspended their election campaigns in Gyumri after a son of a local mayoral candidate died from a gunshot wound on Tuesday.
A Russian soldier charged with killing a family of seven in Armenia has refused to make a closing argument and have his “last word” as the main proceedings in his high-profile trial were completed on Friday.
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