[ last updated 17:54 ] U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans has publicly referred to the 1915 slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as “genocide,” signaling a significant shift in the U.S. government’s position on the highly sensitive issue.
[ last updated 18:01 ] Close associates of Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian sought on Friday to downplay a bitter of war of words between the two men which has dealt a fresh blow to the unity of Armenia’s ruling coalition.
[ last updated 18:04 ] Police said on Friday that they are still investigating last month's high-profile car crash in Yerevan that killed two people and highlighted widespread disregard for traffic rules by Armenia’s wealthiest citizens.
[ last updated 18:11 ] The World Bank announced on Friday the disbursement of a new $20 million loan to Armenia which is designed to finance the second phase of a long-running restructuring of Yerevan’s hugely inefficient water network.
[ last updated 17:53 ] In an interview with “Ayb-Fe,” Former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian says that a new opposition grouping which his Zharangutyun party and two other opposition parties might form soon will not seek to break up the Artarutyun bloc.
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
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