Samvel Karapetian, a Russian-Armenian billionaire who owns Armenia’s electric utility, said on Friday that the company is not for sale despite government efforts to nationalize it.
Armenia will continue diversifying its natural gas supplies regardless of possible changes in their price, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday amid ongoing tensions with Russia, which currently covers the bulk of the country’s gas needs.
The latest meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was held in a “very constructive atmosphere,” according to a senior official in Baku.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday that Armenia faces a problem with “overall literacy” after the country showed subpar performance in the first global assessment of students in which it has participated.
WASHINGTON -- US Congressman Abraham Hamadeh says the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process is moving faster than many expected and predicts a final peace agreement could be reached well before the end of President Donald Trump's current term.
The market value of Armenia’s national electric utility will be assessed by a local company, a minister has said, as the government moves to take over the utility owned by billionaire businessman and opposition leader Samvel Karapetian.
Opposition Strong Armenia alliance leader and businessman Samvel Karapetian has filed a civil lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, demanding a public apology for an alleged insult and 3 million drams (about $8,250) in compensation.
The mayor of Armenia’s southern town of Meghri, Khachatur Andreasian, has been arrested in a corruption case, investigators said on Thursday, one day after the local leader was detained.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian discussed cooperation between the two countries in various areas, as well as regional developments during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday.
The launch of construction of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) has been postponed until next year, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has said shortly after U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Armenia David Allen visited Baku.
Less than a month after being unexpectedly dismissed as secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigorian has taken up a position at an international consulting company involved in activities related to the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP).
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet in the near future, official Yerevan confirmed on Wednesday as the two countries continue to work on unresolved issues in their normalization process.
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