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 15:47:45 +0500 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL The prices of bread and flour in Armenia have risen by roughly 20 percent in recent days as a result of the Armenian government says is a significant decrease in global wheat output expected this autumn. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2113478.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2113478.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:03:08 +0500 in English A leading member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) accused former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Monday of demoralizing the nation with his latest statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Turkish-Armenian relations. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2110227.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2110227.html Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:11:25 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2110227.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia on Friday commended the highest United Nations court for upholding the legality of Kosovo’s secession from Serbia but gave no indication that it is ready to recognize the mostly Albanian-populated region’s independence. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2108120.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2108120.html Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:25:52 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2108120.html#relatedInfoContainer Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian reasserted formal control over his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party and took a swipe at former President Levon Ter-Petrosian, while also calling for leadership change in Armenia at the weekend. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2097732.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2097732.html Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:32:42 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2097732.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia’s leading political forces offered on Tuesday differing assessments of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Yerevan, with the ruling Republican Party (HHK) touting it as “very important” for the country and its opponents sounding far more skeptical. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2092662.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2092662.html Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:31:07 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2092662.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijan is fully satisfied with the latest joint statement by the U.S., Russian and French presidents that reaffirmed their blueprint for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a senior aide to President Ilham Aliyev said on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2087353.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2087353.html Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:53:59 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2087353.html#relatedInfoContainer A political party led by one of Armenia’s wealthiest and most influential businessmen, Gagik Tsarukian, announced on Monday yet another resignation of a minister representing it in the government. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2078357.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2078357.html Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:45:31 +0500 in English Armenia might join Russia and other ex-Soviet allies in sending troops to Kyrgyzstan to stop continuing ethnic violence there that has killed at least 124 people, senior lawmakers in Yerevan indicated on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2072722.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2072722.html Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:37:29 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2072722.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia will develop much faster if its government puts in place equal and fair conditions for all businesses, the head of a semi-governmental body charged with making the Armenian economy more competitive said on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2066851.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2066851.html Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:54:00 +0500 in English At least 15 people were detained in Yerevan on Monday as the Armenian police continued to block opposition access to a newly renovated square that has traditionally been the country’s main venue for political gatherings. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2058116.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2058116.html Mon, 31 May 2010 22:44:33 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2058116.html#relatedInfoContainer The tariff of drinking water supplied to consumers in the Armenian capital will remain unchanged for at least another year despite the fact that the state regulators have approved a new rise in the utility price. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2052418.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2052418.html Tue, 25 May 2010 18:18:22 +0500 in English The Armenian economy is recovering from the global recession faster than expected and should expand by around 4 percent this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2047080.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2047080.html Wed, 19 May 2010 20:40:10 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2047080.html#relatedInfoContainer The Armenian government is embarking on a sweeping overhaul of its tax collection body in an effort to improve tax administration in the country, a senior lawmaker said Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2029360.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2029360.html Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:29:51 +0500 in English Armenia’s leading business association and three local civic groups said on Wednesday that they will work together in maintaining continued contacts between Armenian and Turkish societies. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2027275.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2027275.html Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:43:36 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2027275.html#relatedInfoContainer Hundreds of Armenian nationals remain stranded at airports across Europe because of the huge cloud of volcanic ash hanging over the continent, Armenia’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2018994.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2018994.html Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:21:22 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2018994.html#relatedInfoContainer Prime Minister Sarkisian publicly embarrassed the head of his government’s tax collection agency on Thursday as he continued to decry widespread tax evasion among Armenia’s largest and most lucrative businesses. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2014898.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2014898.html Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:16:27 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2014898.html#relatedInfoContainer Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said on Thursday that his government is stepping up its fight against tax fraud in Armenia and, in particular, large companies grossly underreporting their revenues. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2006760.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2006760.html Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:22:44 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2006760.html#relatedInfoContainer The price of Russian natural gas supplied to Armenia will rise further in the coming years, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian confirmed on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2005637.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2005637.html Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:27:25 +0500 in English Samvel Babayan, a former military leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, warned on Tuesday of a growing threat of another Armenian-Azerbaijani war which he said may break out “at any moment.” http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1998091.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1998091.html Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:10:17 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1998091.html#relatedInfoContainer The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) did not explicitly deny Friday that one of its senior members has been censured for backing criticism of a government minister voiced by Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the country’s second largest pro-government force. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1994866.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1994866.html Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:56:17 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1994866.html#relatedInfoContainer A renewed depreciation of Armenia’s national currency, the dram, which began last month, has accelerated this week, despite the Central Bank’s apparently increased intervention in the local financial market. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1987771.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1987771.html Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:29:09 +0400 in English Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk commended Armenia on Friday for seeking to forge closer ties with the European Union under the bloc’s Eastern Partnership program which his country helped to launch last year. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1982294.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1982294.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:44:19 +0400 in English Turkey is extremely unlikely to ratify its fence-mending protocols with Armenia at this juncture, a senior Turkish lawmaker and deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Thursday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1980769.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1980769.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:14:59 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1980769.html#relatedInfoContainer Ruben Hayrapetian, a government-linked wealthy entrepreneur, confirmed on Friday that he has become the owner of yet another company claimed by the embattled family of a fellow businessman supporting the Armenian opposition. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975818.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975818.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:06:30 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1975818.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 A senior World Bank official on Friday downplayed Armenia’s renewed economic growth and said its government is still not doing to enough to tackle “oligopolies” which the Washington-based institution believes hamper the country’s development. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1969421.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1969421.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:33:44 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1969421.html#relatedInfoContainer Hundreds of employees of Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) were evacuated on Thursday after a false bomb alert reported by the police. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1968506.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1968506.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:53:18 +0400 in English The National Assembly began debating on Tuesday a government bill that would make it easier for Armenia to annul its normalization agreements with Turkey if Ankara continues to delay their ratification. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1966347.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1966347.html Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:21:09 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1966347.html#relatedInfoContainer President Serzh Sarkisian praised Iran’s “pivotal” role in the region and reaffirmed Armenia’s intention to deepen its relations with the Islamic Republic as he met Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Yerevan on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1941546.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1941546.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:56:42 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1941546.html#relatedInfoContainer Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian warned Azerbaijan on Monday against attempting to win back Nagorno-Karabakh by force, saying that Armenian troops have significantly beefed up defense fortifications around the disputed territory and are prepared for another war. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1939284.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1939284.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:06:11 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1939284.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia continues to suffer from a grave lack of media freedom, with the government continuing to effectively control domestic broadcasters and more journalists subjected to physical attacks in the past year, a Yerevan-based watchdog said on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1933940.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1933940.html Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:47:40 +0400 in English Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian urged supporters not to fall into “despair” but shed little light on his further political activities on Friday as he campaigned for one of his imprisoned loyalists running for parliament. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1924297.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1924297.html Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:53:37 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1924297.html#relatedInfoContainer More than a dozen young opposition activists were beaten up by a larger group of men in downtown Yerevan on Sunday while campaigning for Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader running for Armenia’s parliament. (UPDATED) http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1915479.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1915479.html Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:03 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1915479.html#relatedInfoContainer Two prominent retired army generals urged President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday to pardon Sasun Mikaelian, one of the Armenian opposition leaders arrested and imprisoned after last year’s post-election unrest in Yerevan. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1892567.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1892567.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:12:41 +0400 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1892567.html#relatedInfoContainer The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has no serious disagreements with President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK), its senior partner in the governing coalition, and continues to support him, a senior BHK representative said on Monday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1891469.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1891469.html Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:16:47 +0400 in English The continuing economic crisis has forced the Armenian government to delay by one year a sweeping reform of the national pension system, the head of the country’s state pension fund said on Monday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1861645.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1861645.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:27:26 +0400 in English The head of Russia’s Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (Rosatom), Sergey Kirienko, ended at the weekend a two-day visit to Armenia during which he discussed with Armenian leaders growing bilateral cooperation on nuclear energy. (UPDATED) http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1859629.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1859629.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:14:25 +0500 in English The chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court defended on Thursday his participation in President Serzh Sarkisian recent intercontinental trip aimed at explaining his conciliatory policy on Turkey to major Armenian communities abroad. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1858682.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1858682.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:23:34 +0500 in English The Armenian government is committed to implementing the kind of reforms which Western donors believe are critical for Armenia’s sustainable economic development, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said through an aide on Tuesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1856693.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1856693.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:36:10 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1856693.html#relatedInfoContainer Senior executives from a Turkish energy company will arrive Yerevan next week for fresh talks on planned exports of Armenian electricity to Turkey, Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said on Friday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1853867.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1853867.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:08:35 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1853867.html#relatedInfoContainer Thousands of people demonstrated in Yerevan on Friday in the largest street protest yet against the controversial Turkish-Armenian agreements organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and other nationalist groups opposed to President Serzh Sarkisian. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1848064.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1848064.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:53:45 +0500 in English The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will campaign for President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation if he signs controversial normalization agreements with Turkey, a leader of the nationalist party warned on Thursday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1847053.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1847053.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:02:06 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1847053.html#relatedInfoContainer President Serzh Sarkisian dismissed domestic and Diaspora criticism of his conciliatory policy towards Turkey on Thursday after wrapping up a tense intercontinental tour of major Armenian communities abroad that sparked angry street demonstrations. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1846825.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1846825.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:50:12 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1846825.html#relatedInfoContainer A former deputy defense minister expects the planned actual curtailment of military spending envisaged by Armenia’s 2010 state budget to have a negative effect on the country’s defense capability. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1845045.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1845045.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:57:33 +0500 in English A senior representative of Armenia’s ruling party on Monday expressed confidence that a majority of the worldwide Armenian Diaspora supports the current rapprochement with Turkey and, in particular, the two draft protocols envisaging the normalization of bilateral relations that the two countries are expected to sign later this month. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1844039.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1844039.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:30:24 +0500 in English A major Armenian opposition party, Zharangutyun (Heritage), has been thrust into turmoil and is facing an uncertain future following the still mysterious decision by its top leader, Raffi Hovannisian, to resign his parliament seat. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1819653.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1819653.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:04:35 +0500 in English The Armenian government should not pay too much attention to construction in its efforts to reduce the effects of the global recession on the domestic economy, a senior official from the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1818912.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1818912.html Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:59:30 +0500 in English A well-known Armenian genocide scholar voiced support on Monday for official Yerevan’s and Ankara’s plans to form a joint body tasked with looking into the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1816784.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1816784.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:48:42 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1816784.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenia will not have a permanent military presence in Russia as part of its involvement in a Russian-dominated rapid reaction force comprising troops from five former Soviet republics, a top official in Moscow said on Thursday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1813958.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1813958.html Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:20:17 +0500 in English The reopening of the Turkish-Armenian border is still not a forgone conclusion despite the newly announced agreement to that effect between Ankara and Yerevan, Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian acknowledged on Wednesday. http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1813391.html http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1813391.html Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:19:03 +0500 in English http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1813391.html#relatedInfoContainer