Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian appealed on Friday to the jailed leader of a hardline opposition group to help end the continuing hostage situation in Yerevan provoked by the latter’s armed loyalists.
Russia insisted that it is not trying to sideline other international mediators in seeking a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh as its Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov again visited Armenia on Monday.
Election experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have given a critical assessment of Armenia’s recent constitutional referendum, singling out “serious problems” with vote counts at polling stations visited by them.
Armenia on Thursday played down political implications of a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling on an Azerbaijani lawsuit stemming from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
A senior member of the Russian legislature has reminded Armenia of the Ukrainian experience, stressing that having a large number of non-governmental organizations advocating integration with the European Union is “unacceptable”.
Armenia and the European Union are negotiating on a new far-reaching accord that would contain many political and economic provisions of their ill-fated draft Association Agreement, a senior Armenian official said on Tuesday.
The European Union expressed concern on Tuesday at a series of violent attacks on Armenian opposition politicians and activists, saying that failure to punish their perpetrators could deepen “a sense of impunity” in Armenia.
Amid their continuing row over the situation in Ukraine, both the United States and Russia have issued statements expressing concern over the fate of an Armenian-populated town in Syria that has been under attacks by Islamic militants in recent days.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian defended on Friday his government’s controversial gas agreement with Russia, saying that it will provide Armenia with cheap natural gas without limiting the country’s sovereignty.
More Armenians will likely flee Syria in the coming weeks and Armenia must be prepared for accommodating many of them, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said over the weekend.
Armenia is holding negotiations with Russia on the possibility of its accession to new Russian-led unions of former Soviet republics, the Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Ivan Volynkin, said on Monday.
The Armenian national currency has shown a tendency towards depreciation in recent days against the backdrop of what some local observers argue is an increased rate of capital outflow based on negative market expectations.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian voiced support for opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian’s continuing street protests and criticized President Serzh Sarkisian’s response to last month’s disputed presidential election on Wednesday.
U.S., Russian and French mediators will again tour the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone later this month after holding fresh talks with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the weekend.
The family of an Armenian army officer who was hacked to death in Budapest nine years ago has sued Hungary and Azerbaijan in connection with the recent release of his convicted Azerbaijani murderer, it was announced on Friday.
The Armenian authorities have criticized Britain’s ambassador in Yerevan for raising questions regarding the freedom and fairness of Armenia’s upcoming presidential election.
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have issued fresh warnings to Azerbaijan after it stepped up its threats to forcibly halt planned commercial flights to the disputed territory.
The Armenian economy remains one of the freest in the former Soviet Union thanks to a “relatively efficient” regulatory framework and limited government spending, according to an annual survey released by two conservative U.S. institutions on Thursday.
The foreign ministers of Sweden, Poland and Bulgaria called for the proper conduct of Armenia’s presidential election on Friday during a joint visit to Yerevan aimed at promoting the country’s closer ties with the European Union.
The ruling Republican Party (HHK) insisted on Monday that it did not pledge support for Armenia’s eventual membership in a Russian-led Eurasian Union of former Soviet republics during a conference in Saint Petersburg last week.
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