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RFE/RL -- A multilateral lending arm of the OPEC group of oil-exporting nations agreed on Thursday to provide the Armenian government with a $20 million loan designed to support Armenia’s struggling agriculture. A relevant agreement reached with ...
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RFE/RL -- The basic principles of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict put forward by international mediators are largely acceptable to Armenia, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian reiterated on Thursday. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, said it sees no ch...
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PanARMENIAN.Net - A high level meeting of representatives from Switzerland, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Croatia, Armenia, Belarus and Turkey to discuss EU stress tests of nuclear power plants is scheduled for 23 June 2011.
“Following the reque...
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ePress -- The Court of Appeals today denied an appeal by Dareskizb LLC, publisher of local daily Haykakan Jamanak (“Armenian Times”), thereby sustaining a lower court ruling mandating the paper to pay compensation for damages caused through libel and...
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ePress -- At the Jun. 8 session “Spotlight on Russia” at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia in Vienna, Armenian Prime MInister Tigran Sargsyan, in his four-minute opening address, addressed various issues such as setting up innovatio...
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PanARMENIAN.Net - In Armenia, psychological help is sought by mainly young people, who’re more vulnerable at that age, psychologist Karine Nalchajyan said.
As she told a news conference in Yerevan, women, more often than men, seek psychological help...
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Mediamax -- Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian said that corruption and investment environment are not so dangerous phenomena for transnational organizations: political predictability of the future state is more important for them.
The Prime Min...
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TertAm Armenia’s State Commission for Protection of Economic Cooperation (SCPEC) will start to strictly control business activities in supermarkets.
At a meeting on Wednesday, the SCPEC unveiled the results of a recent large-scale study in the retail ...
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ArmeniaNow Recent cases of gastrointestinal disorders among residents of a Yerevan suburb have raised concerns among the city’s population about a possible outbreak of E.coli bacteria type intestinal infection that is said to have already killed about ...
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ArmeniaNow Despite the fact that Armenia’s external debt will have exceeded the level of 50 percent of its Gross Domestic Product by 2012, the country’s government still has to borrow again. This time the matter concerns half a billion dollars to be p...
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Mediamax -- President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan said at the meeting with OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in Stepanakert today that withdrawal of snipers from the border will have positive influence on the negotiation process.
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Mediamax -- Lead singer of Deep Purple Ian Gillan confirmed that he considers the chance to record an album with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. Mediamax reports that Ian Gillan said this in an interview to Greek RockPages.gr.
He noted t...
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TertAm The Court of First Instance of Yerevan’s Norq-Marash administrative district has partly satisfied a lawsuit against the Armenian local daily Zhamanak filed by the family of the former President Robert Kocharyan.
The court ruled on Monday that t...
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TertAm At a news conference on Monday, Hrach Berberyan, the president of the Armenian Agrarian Peasants Union, NGO expressed concerns over the decrease in fruit yield in Armenia. He said the country has failed to take enough measures to protect plants fr...
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ArmeniaNow Father Abel Manukyan, who served at Saint Hakob Church in Geneva and was disgowned by the patriarchal order of the Catholicos of All Armenians, released a statement-letter, titled Another Unacceptable Patriarchal Order.
“It is not an honor ...
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ePerss.am -- The first two instances of corruption in Yerevan reported by members of the public on Bribespot appeared this month. Note, Bribespot is an application that allows anyone to report corruption anywhere in the world. Built by an international...
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EpressAm Moscow-based blogger, photographer Ilya Varlamov blogged about his three-day trip to Yerevan on board Armavia’s recently acquired Sukhoi SuperJet 100.
“The first day was, unfortunately, the most successful. Initially, Armavia with its crumb...
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ArmeniaNow A recent New York Times article giving an Azerbaijani perspective of the Karabakh conflict has elicited mixed reactions among Armenian scholars and the broader public.
A page-four article in the May 31 edition of the leading international news...
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TertAm A stolen canvas by world-famous marine painter Hovhannes Ayvazovsky has been returned to Armenia.
The Storm at Rocky Coast which was earlier flown to Zvartnots International airport has been officially handed to the Armenian National Art Gallery ...
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ArmeniaNow Georgian Satkha village of Ninotsminda province is in the midst of celebration. All villagers, young and old, are dressed up and gathered in the village square celebrating the 93rd anniversary of the heroic battle of Satkha.
The festivities in...