Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff has introduced a resolution in the United States Congress calling for the recognition of independence and self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh.
France has called for an extension of a two-month monitoring mission launched by the European Union along Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan in October.
The embattled mayor of the Armenian town of Echmiadzin resigned late on Sunday after law-enforcement authorities made new and far more embarrassing accusations against his father, retired General Manvel Grigorian, arrested by them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for a quick solution to the political crisis in Armenia which would reflect the outcome of last year’s parliamentary elections won by Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK).
Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgian and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian held talks with Russian officials in Moscow on Thursday amid the continuing political crisis in their country.
After nearly two years of delay, Russia, Armenia and four other ex-Soviet states appointed on Friday the new, Armenian secretary general of their Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
International mediators brokering a solution to the protracted Nagorno-Karabakh conflict hope that the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will accept the French leader’s invitation to hold their next round of talks in Paris, one of them said on Tuesday.
Armenia has made a decision to increase the number of its troops in Afghanistan helping the U.S.-led NATO forces cope with the Taliban insurgency in the war-torn Asian country, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan told RFE/RL’s Armenian service on Monday.
Armenia has finished seventh in Europe’s biggest pop music contest, Eurovision, won by Germany's entry this year.
One of the seven men convicted in a 1999 deadly attack on Armenia’s parliament was found dead in his prison cell at the weekend. Armenian prison authorities said they have launched an investigation to ascertain the cause of Hamlet Stepanian’s sudden death.
A teenage Armenian woman was among 39 people killed in twin suicide bombings on Moscow’s underground railway, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
