A company importing mobile phones and re-exporting most of them to Russia became Armenia’s number one corporate taxpayer last year, continuing to take advantage of Western sanctions against Moscow.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will travel to Azerbaijan and Armenia next month to build on Armenian-Azerbaijani peace agreements brokered by the United States, President Donald Trump announced at the weekend.
Eleven persons, who may well include the last remaining ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, were evacuated from Karabakh to Armenia on Friday.
Ignoring strong opposition objections, the Armenian parliament hastily approved on Friday government-backed legislation that will make it easier for authorities to bar local groups from monitoring the country’s upcoming general elections.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) did not deny on Friday that it has warned Iranians living in the country against demonstrating outside the Iranian Embassy in Yerevan in support of recent antigovernment protests that rocked the Islamic Republic.
An Armenian appeals court has declared illegal a recent search conducted in the home of an independent expert who concluded that billionaire Samvel Karapetian did not call for a violent regime change before being arrested in June.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was among leaders from two dozen countries who joined U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday in signing the founding charter of his “Board of Peace” initiative aimed at resolving international conflicts.
One of the two hosts of an Armenian pro-opposition podcast arrested two months ago was rushed to hospital but then taken back to prison on Thursday on the 14th day of his hunger strike that has raised fears for his life.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan warned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov against interfering in Armenia’s internal affairs on Wednesday when he dismissed the latter’s criticism of criminal proceedings against a pro-Russian Armenian politician.
A former nurse heading a standing committee of the Armenian parliament tendered her resignation on Wednesday two days after making a controversial statement criticized even by some fellow members of the country’s ruling party.
The chairman of the Armenian Ski Federation, Gagik Sargsian, has resigned after strongly backing an Armenian cross-country skier’s refusal to advertise Azerbaijan during a recent race in Italy.
Citing continuing government pressure on its top clergy loyal to Catholicos Garegin II, the Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church has decided to hold a delayed emergency conference of its bishops abroad.
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