President Serzh Sarkisian has made the first joint public appearance with businessman Gagik Tsarukian after the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader’s unexpected decision not to challenge him in next February’s presidential election.
Armenian and Iranian authorities are negotiating on the possible lease by Iranian sheep and cattle breeders of mountain pastures in southeastern Armenia, it was officially confirmed on Friday.
More than 100 Syrian nationals studying at universities in Armenia received government scholarships on Friday in what Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian called the latest in a series of measures to help thousands of ethnic Armenian refugees from Syria.
Consumer price inflation in Armenia continued to fall in 2012, reaching the lowest level since 2005, according to the latest government data released on Friday.
“Hraparak” says the announcement by Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) that it will boycott the election is not valid because not all groups affiliated with the opposition alliance formally endorsed the move.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) declared on Thursday that it will not field or endorse any presidential candidate after all, saying that changing Armenia’s government through elections has become impossible because of chronic vote rigging.
More than 20,000 ethnic Armenians from Georgia have become citizens of Armenia in the last three years despite a Georgian legal ban on dual citizenship, immigration authorities in Yerevan said on Thursday.
A Yerevan-based non-governmental organization began distributing on Thursday $100,000 worth of humanitarian assistance allocated by Kuwait to thousands of Syrian Armenians who have taken refuge in Armenia.
The government announced on Thursday that it has annulled the controversial sale of a historic building in central Yerevan that houses the Armenian ministries of foreign affairs, energy and local government.
“Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun” says the decision by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) not to nominate a presidential candidate leaves President Serzh Sarkisian with no serious election challenger.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that it too will not nominate a candidate in the upcoming presidential election because it does not think that the vote will be free and fair.
The number of Armenian soldiers killed in skirmishes with Azerbaijani forces around Nagorno-Karabakh has drastically fallen this year despite increased ceasefire violations along the “line of contact,” a top military official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
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