The Armenian government is ready to import natural gas from Azerbaijan, a senior official in Yerevan said on Wednesday, commenting on Russia’s threats to sharply raise the price of Russian gas supplied to Armenia.
Alen Simonian, the secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said on Wednesday that he spoke with a senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev who denied the Armenian origin of Nagorno-Karabakh’s most famous medieval church.
The Constitutional Court has validated a U.S.-Armenian agreement to open a U.S.-run transit corridor for Azerbaijan through Armenia.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court has agreed to look into a government-backed law that will effectively disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Armenians living abroad and Russia in particular.
Armenia’s top appeals court has rejected prosecutors’ demand to imprison the formerly opposition mayor of the southeastern town of Goris following his decision to team up with the ruling Civil Contract party for an upcoming local election.
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a proposal to waive the European Union’s tariffs on imports of Armenian agricultural products and beverages that were effectively banned by Russia earlier this year.
Two weeks after President Vladimir Putin expressed readiness to withdraw Russian troops from Armenia, a senior Russian diplomat has said that their continued presence is indispensable for the South Caucasus country’s security.
Armenia’s multimillion-dollar reexports of mobile phones to Russia, made possible by Western sanctions against Moscow, continued to grow rapidly in the first half of this year despite mounting tensions between the two states.
A senior European Union diplomat insisted on Monday that she did not question Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian cultural and religious heritage with her visit to the region used by Azerbaijan for again claiming that its ancient churches are not Armenian.
Azerbaijan has again denied the Armenian origin of Nagorno-Karabakh’s most famous medieval church, drawing strong condemnation from Armenian opposition leaders and exiled Karabakh activists but no official reaction from Yerevan.
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.
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