The newly appointed ambassador of the United States in Yerevan has reiterated his government’s continued support for rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey as he paid his first fact-finding visit to the northern Armenian town of Gyumri near the Turkish border.
Armenia has joined in the largely symbolic celebration of the birth of the world’s seventh billion person expected by the United Nations on Monday.
A civic group based in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri printed on Wednesday the inaugural edition of what will apparently be the sole Armenian daily newspaper published outside Yerevan.
Armenia’s aggregate output of wheat will rise by almost 20 percent this year mainly because of more favorable weather conditions, a senior government official announced on Friday.
The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied several hundred people in Gyumri on Saturday, in what its leaders described as the start of nationwide demonstrations aimed at drumming up popular support for “regime change.”
The Russian ambassador to Armenia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, dismissed on Thursday a public outcry against a government program encouraging and helping Armenians to migrate to Russia.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has started signing symbolic contracts with voters in Gyumri as part of a public campaign against electoral fraud that was announced by the opposition party early this year.
A leading member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) urged supporters on Friday to get ready for fresh presidential and parliamentary elections which he said are imminent.
Armenia will start modernizing later this year an electricity substation and a high-voltage transmission line stretching to the Armenian-Turkish border with a $21 million loan provided by Germany.
The two most prominent members of the Armenian opposition remaining in prison were set free on Friday in accordance with a general amnesty declared by the Armenian authorities.
Armenia’s government and largest opposition grouping are already engaged in an “open dialogue,” opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Thursday after being allowed to meet the most prominent of his loyalists remaining in prison.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian has inaugurated the first agricultural cooperative that will benefit from a $21 million government program to support livestock farming in 55 mountainous villages across Armenia.
The protracted reconstruction of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, still reeling from a catastrophic 1988 earthquake, will be essentially completed as planned this year, government officials and a private contractor said on Thursday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday rejected opposition leader and newspaper editor Nikol Pashinian’s demand to quash a highly controversial extension of his imprisonment decided by prison authorities.
Police cordoned off a square in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri on Tuesday to stop angry protests by local car owners against the abolition of a legal loophole that has allowed them to pay significantly lower import taxes.
An independent television station based in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri lost on Thursday a government-administered tender for a new broadcasting license and will therefore be almost certainly taken off the air by 2015.
President Serzh Sarkisian has sought to downplay the lingering allegations of pervasive corruption and abuse in the Armenian army, condemning its “vilification” in the wake of a recent series of non-combat deaths and reported malpractices in the military.
For the first time in nearly a century, Armenians have been allowed to conduct a religious service in a recently renovated island church in eastern Turkey, in an event that Ankara intended as a show of tolerance toward its Christian minority.
An Armenian opposition activist was set free on Thursday after completing a controversial prison sentence stemming from Armenia’s 2008 presidential race.
More than a thousand families in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri received new apartments on Friday over two decades after a powerful earthquake that destroyed their homes.
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