The Moscow municipality reaffirmed on Wednesday its pledge to support a massive redevelopment project in Yerevan which the Armenian government says will require billions of dollars in investments.
The Armenian government will enact no further changes in a controversial law on broadcasting criticized by domestic media watchdogs as well as foreign governments and human rights bodies, an official said on Wednesday.
A standing committee of the Armenian parliament approved on Friday a watered-down version of a controversial government bill that would allow the existence of schools where the main language of instruction is not Armenian.
Armenia’s education minister said on Wednesday that a redrafted government bill allowing a limited number of schools in Armenia to teach in a foreign language is due to be submitted to parliament for approval soon.
A new multi-storey underground car park has been officially opened in a central Yerevan square that remained closed for nearly two years because of the large-scale construction project.
The Armenian parliament began debating on Tuesday a government bill on broadcasting which has prompted serious concern from some of its members and the country’s leading media associations.
A Yerevan-born Azerbaijani government minister spoke of his delight with a first visit to Armenia in over two decades on Thursday as he took part in an international conference held in his hometown.
Armenia will face “a new wave of emigration” unless its government does more to improve the socioeconomic situation and boost the rule of law in the country, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) warned on Tuesday.
Argishti Kivirian, an Armenian media editor who was badly beaten in Yerevan last year, accused on Friday an ethnic Armenian police official in Georgia of masterminding the still unsolved assault.
Georgia suspended the transit of Russian natural gas through Georgian territory on Thursday following landslides that reportedly damaged the pipeline carrying it to neighboring Armenia.
Armenia inaugurated on Wednesday a new thermal power plant that will allow it to considerably cut back on use of natural gas for electricity production.
A Yerevan court opened Friday hearings on one of several lawsuits against law-enforcement authorities lodged by relatives of Armenians who died in the March 2008 post-election violence in the capital.
Iran’s most prominent human rights campaigner, Shirin Ebadi, on Wednesday visited several jailed members of the Armenian opposition and renewed her calls for the immediate release of all “political prisoners” in Armenia.
Organizers of an international human rights conference in Yerevan joined on Tuesday thousands of Armenians in demanding the immediate release of opposition supporters remaining in prison, sparking jubilant scenes at a rally held by the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK).
The owner of Armenia’s leading independent television station controversially closed by the authorities said on Friday that it is well placed to win a new license and resume broadcasts by the end of this year.
European diplomats in Yerevan presented on Friday details of new, stricter visa rules for citizens of Armenia and other countries planning to travel to the European Union.
Taxi drivers and gold trade workers held separate protests in Armenia on Thursday condemning what they see as unfair tax pressures threatening their further business operations.
A leading Armenian entrepreneur who claims to be a victim of political persecution in an ongoing police investigation has appealed to the country’s top leadership for protection “against fraud and intrigues”, warning that failure to investigate his case properly will have far-reaching repercussions for the business environment.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied more than a thousand supporters in Yerevan on Monday to demand that Armenia’s Constitutional Court invalidate the fence-mending agreements with Turkey.
Armenia’s opposition has reported at least one major case of violence against its activists in the Sunday by-election in which its jailed candidate Nikol Pashinian was contesting a vacant seat in the country’s legislature.
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