http://www.azatutyun.am «Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայանը միջազգային լրատվական եւ հեռարձակող կազմակերպություն է, որի հաղորդումները սփռվում են Կենտրոնական եւ Արեւելյան Եվրոպայումշ Կովկասում, Կենտրոնական Ասիայում, Ռուսաստանում, Միջին Արեւելքում եւ Բալկանյան երկրներում: http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.azatutyun.am hy-AM Copyright 2010 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:48:08 +0500 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL A sharp fall in agricultural output resulting from bad weather has inflicted serious damage on farmers across Armenia and led to a dramatic rise in the prices of fruits and vegetables. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2093590.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2093590.html Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:48:53 +0500 in English The international community holds Azerbaijan primarily responsible for the latest upsurge in ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian claimed on Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2082706.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2082706.html Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:55:27 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2082706.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia on Wednesday pointedly refused to comment on possible implications of tougher international sanctions against Iran for its close political and especially economic relationship with the Islamic Republic. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2066858.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2066858.html Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:58:44 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2066858.html#relatedInfoContainer The Armenian government plans to significantly toughen financial penalties for unfair competition as part of its declared efforts to improve the country’s business environment, a senior state regulator said on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2060269.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2060269.html Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:45:06 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2060269.html#relatedInfoContainer Representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh should be a party to Armenian-Azerbaijani peace negotiations, Poland’s ambassador to Armenia indicated on Monday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2058100.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2058100.html Mon, 31 May 2010 22:17:23 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2058100.html#relatedInfoContainer U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch on Tuesday reiterated Washington’s positive reaction to President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision not to formally annul the Turkish-Armenian normalization agreements despite Ankara’s refusal to implement them unconditionally. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2032491.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2032491.html Tue, 04 May 2010 21:33:17 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2032491.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia will not walk away from its historic agreements with Turkey for now and is only suspending their parliamentary ratification despite Ankara’s refusal to unconditionally normalize bilateral ties, President Serzh Sarkisian said late Thursday. (UPDATED) http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2021597.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2021597.html Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:52:18 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2021597.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia’s economic recovery continued to accelerate in March, resulting in a first-quarter GDP growth of 5.5 percent, according to latest government statistics. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2020638.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2020638.html Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:18:22 +0500 in English Germany’s government has provided Armenia with a new 20 million-euro ($27 million) loan designed to spur the development of the local mortgage market, a major focus of anti-crisis measures taken by the Armenian authorities. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2019455.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2019455.html Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:50:39 +0500 in English A senior official from the International Monetary Fund criticized on Friday what he called poor tax collection in Armenia, saying that government efforts to improve it have not lived up to the fund’s expectations so far. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2007904.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2007904.html Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:28:55 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2007904.html#relatedInfoContainer Ashot Ghulian, the speaker of Nagorno-Karabakh’s parliament, on Friday brushed aside talk of an impending end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, saying that attempts to “hasten” its settlement would be counterproductive. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1982298.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1982298.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:46:47 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1982298.html#relatedInfoContainer In what was his second visit abroad in less than two months, Former President Robert Kocharian met with his former French counterpart Jacques Chirac in Paris on Wednesday, his office confirmed the next day. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1981192.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1981192.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:27:24 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1981192.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijan reaffirmed its stated acceptance, in principle, of a recently modified international plan to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after its Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met the American, French and Russian mediators in Paris at the weekend. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1977908.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1977908.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:37:03 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1977908.html#relatedInfoContainer Washington did not prevent a U.S. congressional panel from approving the Armenian genocide resolution on Thursday in order to press Turkey to ratify its normalization agreements with Armenia, leading pro-government politicians in Yerevan speculated on Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975827.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975827.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:13:43 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975827.html#relatedInfoContainer The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) blamed on Friday Armenia’s controversial agreements with Turkey for the difficulty with which pro-Armenian lawmakers pushed their latest genocide resolution through a U.S. congressional committee. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975824.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975824.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:10:41 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975824.html#relatedInfoContainer The European Union is stepping up its efforts to negotiate an association agreement with Armenia that will bring the latter “much closer” to the EU, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1972683.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1972683.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:43:08 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1972683.html#relatedInfoContainer Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian welcomed on Tuesday the reopening of Georgia’s main border crossing with Russia and confirmed reports that a Russian-Georgian agreement to that effect was reached under Armenian mediation. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1972669.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1972669.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:36:58 +0400 in English Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian said on Wednesday that he has instructed his subordinates to oversee controversial criminal proceedings launched by the Armenian police against a brother of Khachatur Sukiasian, a prominent opposition businessman. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1967375.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1967375.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:59:33 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1967375.html#relatedInfoContainer Iran has its own considerations and views about a peacekeeping force that could be deployed in the Karabakh conflict zone, according to the Islamic Republic’s chief diplomat in Armenia. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1962780.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1962780.html Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:59:11 +0400 in English A major investor in Armenia and partner in the country’s development projects is closely following the developments in the police investigation of a ‘murder threat’ claim made against an affluent Armenian banker and expects it to be carried out “in a transparent and impartial manner.” http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1959815.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1959815.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:17:20 +0400 in English Armenia would draw substantial economic benefits from the possible opening of its border with Turkey and most Armenians seem to realize that, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Marie Yovanovitch said on Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1956612.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1956612.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:27:59 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1956612.html#relatedInfoContainer President Serzh Sarkisian formally sent Armenia’s normalization agreements with Turkey to parliament for ratification on Friday after his government approved legal amendments making it easier for Yerevan to walk away from the deal. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1956610.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1956610.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:24:19 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1956610.html#relatedInfoContainer The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) denounced on Monday the U.S. State Department for welcoming an Armenian Constitutional Court ruling on Turkey that has sparked a diplomatic dispute between Yerevan and Ankara. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1939419.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1939419.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:35:35 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1939419.html#relatedInfoContainer The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is unlikely to again discuss the political situation in Armenia at its forthcoming session in Strasbourg, a pro-government Armenian lawmaker said on Thursday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1936030.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1936030.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:29:35 +0400 in English Turkey has accused Armenia of setting “unacceptable” preconditions for normalizing bilateral ties, citing the Armenian Constitutional Court’s interpretation of the ground-breaking agreements signed by the two estranged nations. (UPDATED) http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1933524.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1933524.html Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:13:56 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1933524.html#relatedInfoContainer Authorities in Armenia have finally found a buyer for a mineral water company controversially confiscated from a wealthy opposition-linked businessman, a senior official said on Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1913854.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1913854.html Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:06:35 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1913854.html#relatedInfoContainer U.S instructors will soon launch a training course for Armenian riot police on new and less heavy-handed methods of crowd control practiced in the West, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1911017.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1911017.html Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:00:42 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1911017.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia and Turkey will hold no further major negotiations until the ratification of their recently signed agreements by their parliaments, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1881710.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1881710.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:05:43 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1881710.html#relatedInfoContainer The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday that it could freeze further financial assistance to Armenia if the authorities in Yerevan continue to heavily intervene in the local financial market to prop up the national currency, the dram. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1876493.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1876493.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:09 +0400 in English A leading Armenian opposition newspaper slightly changed its name on Tuesday to get around a court order to suspend publication pending a verdict on its financial dispute with a printing company. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1874398.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1874398.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:33:48 +0400 in English Armenia will soon send a small contingent of troops to Afghanistan to help the United States and its NATO allies fight the Taliban insurgency, a senior NATO official said on Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1871270.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1871270.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:16:08 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1871270.html#relatedInfoContainer The number of Armenians illegally evading compulsory military service has shrunk at least by half over the past decade, a top military official in charge of the draft said on Thursday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1870573.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1870573.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:43:32 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1870573.html#relatedInfoContainer The U.S. State Department flatly denied on Wednesday an Azerbaijani press report alleging that Washington has threatened to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state unless Baku commits to a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1869547.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1869547.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:08:03 +0400 in English Official Yerevan remains firm in its position to welcome efforts by other countries to recognize the Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians as genocide and deems them important not only for Armenia but also for the entire international community, according to the country’s top diplomat. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1865350.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1865350.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:44:48 +0400 in English Orinats Yerkir party leader Artur Baghdasarian acknowledges in an interview with “Hraparak” that as a political figure he lost some of his popularity when he joined the governing coalition after the 2008 presidential election. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1864352.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1864352.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:47 +0400 in English “Aravot” implies that a monument sculpted by a contemporary artist “who, together with us, has gone through the October 27, 1999 [parliament attack]” would be a better option to perpetuate the memory of the victims of that attack than the work by eminent sculptor and artist Yervand Kochar that was unveiled in the National Assembly park on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1863384.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1863384.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:02:20 +0400 in English In a clear toughening of its position, Armenia’s largest opposition alliance has officially condemned as “immoral and inadmissible” the signing of landmark agreements to normalize Turkish-Armenian agreements. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1851499.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1851499.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:33:48 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1851499.html#relatedInfoContainer The normalization of the Turkish-Armenian relations but not only help to reconcile the two nations but also foster NATO’s closer cooperation with Armenia and improve its image in the ex-Soviet republic, an official from the U.S.-led alliance said on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1850765.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1850765.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:24:13 +0500 in English U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch downplayed on Friday the Armenian nationalist outcry against rapprochement with Turkey, saying that it alone is not indicative of public opinion in the country. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1848063.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1848063.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:48:39 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1848063.html#relatedInfoContainer “Haykakan Zhamanak” blasts President Serzh Sarkisian’s recent public comments that he “cannot insist that all possible consequences of the initialed Armenian-Turkish protocols can be calculated”. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1846021.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1846021.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:23:34 +0500 in English Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian subjected Armenia’s fence-mending agreements with Turkey to harsh criticism on Tuesday, saying that Yerevan is giving the Turks “everything they have wanted for 17 years” and gaining very little in return. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1828694.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1828694.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:18:00 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1828694.html#relatedInfoContainer Stripping the country’s largest opposition force of its modest representation in parliament, the Armenian authorities have revoked the mandates of three opposition legislators prosecuted and convicted in connection with last year’s post-election unrest in Yerevan. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1825298.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1825298.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:17:03 +0500 in English Raffi Hovannisian, the leader of a major Armenian opposition party, has decided to end his membership in the country’s parliament, a senior party source said on Monday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1816608.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1816608.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:08:02 +0500 in English Arman Babajanian, the gravely ill newspaper editor released from prison last week, pledged to fight for leadership change in Armenia alongside the country’s main opposition force on Monday as he prepared to travel abroad for urgent medical treatment. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1796454.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1796454.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:33:05 +0500 in English Four trial attorneys representing arrested opposition members have refused to be granted amnesty and avoid punishment for what the Armenian authorities call a contempt of court. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1786439.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1786439.html Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:57:04 +0500 in English A senior member of Armenia’s ruling party has insisted that the status of Nagorno-Karabakh remains the core issue for the Armenian side in its continuing negotiations with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1784917.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1784917.html Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:43:36 +0500 in English A troubled mineral water company owned by the extended family of fugitive opposition parliamentarian Khachatur Sukiasian is going to file a lawsuit with the European court in Strasbourg over what it claims to be the violation of its ownership rights by the Armenian authorities. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1784000.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1784000.html Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:57:20 +0500 in English Deputy parliament speaker Samvel Nikoyan, who heads the ad hoc parliamentary commission conducting a probe into last year’s post-election unrest, tells “Hayots Ashkhar” that in the near future he will invite the attention of the commission to the fact that a minor spent the night together with opposition protesters in Theater Square on February 29, 2008, the night before the dispersal of the ten-day protests by security forces. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1783991.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1783991.html Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:53:24 +0500 in English “Aravot” raises a question in its editorial: “What does it mean – we are a constructive opposition and therefore we choose to demand the resignation of the foreign minister rather than the president.” http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1783105.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1783105.html Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:06:05 +0500 in English “Hayk” writes: “Following an already formed tradition Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliev have already instructed their foreign ministers to prepare their autumn meeting. Of course, it is not difficult to suppose that in the autumn they will instruct their ministers to prepare the winter meeting, and after the winter meeting there will be statements about constructive sentiments.” http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1781014.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1781014.html Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:08:35 +0500 in English