Environment protection groups on Friday denounced the Armenian government for moving to increase the amount of water from Lake Sevan that can be used for irrigation this year.
Manvel Grigorian, a retired but still influential army general, and a reputed crime figure challenging him were arrested on Saturday amid rival demonstrations held by their supporters in the Armenian town of Echmiadzin.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian on Thursday told members of his cabinet to continue to work as usual despite having to tender their resignations immediately after Armenia’s new president takes office on Monday.
An Armenian businessman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for defrauding another entrepreneur who has implicated former Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian in the high-profile case.
Russia sent a large water-dropping aircraft to Armenia to help authorities there contain a massive wildfire in a forest southeast of Yerevan that raged for the third consecutive day on Monday.
Representatives of a Slovakian-based investment company announced on Tuesday that they have held fresh negotiations with the Armenian government on their proposals to revive Armenia’s largest chemical plant that was declared bankrupt late last year.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced the official final results of Armenia’s April 2 parliamentary elections that gave a landslide victory to President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK).
Gagik Tsarukian, one of Armenia’s richest men, claimed on Tuesday that his alliance is headed to victory in this Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) dismissed on Wednesday former President Robert Kocharian’s renewed criticism of Armenia’s ongoing transition to a parliamentary system of government.
Leaders of the Yazidi community in Armenia have urged the authorities in Yerevan to organize a separate election of members of the next Armenian parliament who would represent the country’s largest ethnic minority.
Three more men were sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday in connection with this summer’s clashes between riot police and supporters of opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
Two men were sentenced to three years in prison and two others received suspended jail terms on Thursday for their alleged role in this summer’s clashes between riot police and supporters of opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
Exports of Armenian fresh fruits and vegetables mostly going to Russia have almost doubled in physical terms this year, Armenia’s Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
Dozens of employees of Armenia’s largest chemical plant rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to condemn a court ruling that declared it bankrupt.
Teachers and students of a village school in central Armenia boycotted classes on Monday in protest against the provincial governor’s decision to sack its principal.
Russian gas monopolist Gazprom’s subsidiary in Armenia has asked the local regulators to lower tariffs for consumers as well as approve new ones for certain groups of citizens and corporate bodies after an apparent request from the country’s authorities.
Remaining employees of an idling rubber-producing plant in Yerevan staged a protest outside government offices on Thursday, demanding that they be paid back wages for four months.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian defended a local prefecture’s controversial allocation of land to a family that lost two members in Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh earlier this year as he argued with an opposition member of the City Council at the body’s regular session on Wednesday.
Agriculture Minister Ignati Arakelian visited on Wednesday a village in the southeastern Vayots Dzor province that has for months been the scene of angry protests by famers demanding payment for their grapes sold to a private winery last year.
Farmers in a village in Armenia’s southeastern Vayots Dzor province blocked a major highway on Monday in continuing protests against a wine distillery’s failure to pay for grapes purchased from them last year.
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