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.
The latest meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was held in a “very constructive atmosphere,” according to a senior official in Baku.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday that Armenia faces a problem with “overall literacy” after the country showed subpar performance in the first global assessment of students in which it has participated.
WASHINGTON -- US Congressman Abraham Hamadeh says the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process is moving faster than many expected and predicts a final peace agreement could be reached well before the end of President Donald Trump's current term.
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