Campaigning has officially begun for Armenia’s May 6 parliamentary elections, with most of the main contenders unveiling their electoral manifestos during rallies and indoor gatherings....

ArmeniaNow -- Hotels, restaurants, concert halls and night clubs in Yerevan are ready to receive about 25,000 Iranian tourists who are expected to visit Armenia and on March 21 to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, marked at around the vernal equinox time.

Maria Rameza, 38, will stay in Armenia with her family for almost two weeks. This is her fourth

ArmeniaNow --The Armenian Parliament on Monday rejected the opposition Heritage party’s proposal to consider a bill condemning the genocides of Pontus Greeks, Assyrians and other ethnic minorities in the Ottoman Empire.

Only 17 MPs (representing Heritage and the other parliamentary minority party, Dashnaktsutyun) voted in favor of putting such a bill on the

ArmeniaNow -- The Armenian Defense Ministry has reported another death of a serviceman in the borderline section of Armenia’s Tavush region, blaming it on an Azeri sniper shot.

According to the Armenian military authorities, on March 19, at about 2:20 pm, 35-year-old major Artak Mnatsakanyan received a lethal bullet wound. The serviceman died in Noyemberyan’s h

RFE/RL -- Two pro-Armenian members of the U.S. Senate formally introduced on Tuesday a new draft resolution that refers to the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey as genocide and urges President Barack Obama to act accordingly....