Armenia’s burgeoning construction sector is grappling with a shortage of cement a large part of which is imported from neighboring Iran.
A senior member of billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia alliance was moved to house arrest on Wednesday after spending almost four months in prison on what the opposition group sees as trumped-up charges.
Residents of a village in southeastern Armenia continue to drink water from their taps, ignoring strict warnings by health authorities that detected mercury in it one month ago.
In yet another foreign loan designed to finance its budget deficit, the Armenian government will borrow 250 million euros ($285 million) from the French Development Agency (AFD).
Amid heightened tensions with Armenia, Russia’s Security Council again cited on Tuesday the Armenian government’s decision to join an international court that issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2023.
In a continuing crackdown on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s detractors, Armenian law-enforcement authorities arrested on Tuesday an outspoken writer and playwright on charges of spreading antigovernment “hate speech” on social media about two years ago.
The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom discussed with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian at length its proposal to build a new nuclear plant in Armenia during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Facing a storm of criticism, Armenia's Public Television apologized on Monday for broadcasting a pop concert on the sixth anniversary of the outbreak of the last war in Nagorno-Karabakh that left at least 3,833 Armenian soldiers and civilians dead.
Lawmakers representing the Council of Europe have criticized a controversial decision by Armenian authorities that may have prevented a major opposition party from having any seats in Armenia’s current parliament elected in June.
Armenia’s ambassador to Iran, Grigor Hakobian, met with Iranian Vice President Hamid Pourmohammadi at the weekend to discuss what his office described as “obstacles” to cargo shipments between the two neighboring countries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Turkey for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York late on Thursday.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry has essentially denied a report claiming that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian offered Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan stakes in a U.S.-controlled company which is due to manage a transit corridor for Azerbaijan passing through Armenia.
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