[ last updated 17:52 ] The owner of Armenia’s largest car dealership has been shot dead in Russia less than nine months after surviving an apparent assassination attempt in Yerevan, law-enforcement sources told RFE/RL on Monday.
[ last updated 17:55 ] Public healthcare, which is only partly subsidized by the state, remains effectively off limits to the majority of Armenia’s population hamstrung by poverty and especially rampant corruption among medical personnel.
[ last updated 17:57 ] The pro-presidential majority in the Armenian parliament faced on Monday fresh accusations of intransigence after refusing to debate an opposition bill dealing with Soviet-era cash savings depreciated during the hyperinflation of the early 1990s.
[ last updated 17:59 ] Armenia is among 19 impoverished countries of the world that could soon have part of their external debt written off by Britain, it emerged on Sunday.
[ last updated 18:00 ] Armenian prosecutors announced on Monday the arrest of three unidentified men suspected of taking part in a late-night gunfight in Yerevan that left one person dead and two others seriously wounded.
11 January 2005 -- Watch RFE/RL’s exclusive interview by Harry Tamrazian
with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, following his meeting with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister in Prague to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh
[ last updated 17:51 ] Newspapers report that the Armenian parliament’s foreign relations committee has accepted an opposition proposal to hold open hearings on Karabakh on March 20.