Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has handed in his resignation after today’s session of the ruling Republican Party executive body.
Mkrtich Matevosyan, representing himself as a non-voting moderator of the 2013 Orange Book Prize jury, has responded to a Hetq article published yesterday citing a source claiming that top Orange management instructed the jury to overlook the work of Mher Yenokyan, now serving a life sentence for murder.
In its flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2014 (ADO),, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates 4.6% in economic growth for Armenia this year and 5% in 2015.
15 year-old Shahen Haroutyunyan, son of jailed dissident Shant Haroutyunyan, was yesterday charged with hooliganism and ordered to appear at the Police Central Investigative Department tomorrow.
A committee tasked with assessing the issue of restoring the Ishkhan fish species in Lake Sevan, told a government cabinet session today that two of the four sub-species were forever extinct.
Ara Zakaryan, the lawyer who defending journalist Tigran Petrosyan, one of the fourteen political activists arrested in Yerevan on November 5 last year when they attempted to stage a protest march on the Presidential Palace, has told reporters today that the charges aginst his client have been changed from “assaulting a representative of the government” to “hooliganism”.
Officials from the governments of the United States and Armenia met in Yerevan April 3-4, 2014, to discuss ways to further strengthen cooperation to counter nuclear smuggling.
Yesterday, a march in defense of the Armenians of Kesab took place in Gyumri.
Formerly imprisoned Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky now-defunct Yukos Oil Company established a subsidiary in Armenia that, in turn, founded its own daughter companies with their total assets amounting to more than double the Republic of Armenia's state budget in 2006. While Rosneft (an oil company majority owned by the Russian government) and Yukos' Armenian subsidiary continue to battle in foreign courts for control over other...
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