[ last updated 17:07 ] Armenians are slow in embracing their national currency, the dram, despite its dramatic appreciation against the world’s two most important currencies, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) said on Thursday.
[ last updated 17:09 ] Armenia on Thursday rejected a Turkish proposal for an impartial panel of historians to test Armenian claims their people suffered a genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turkey.
[ last updated 17:11 ] Armenian prosecutors lost on Thursday another court battle stemming from their refusal to launch criminal proceedings in connection with an alleged misappropriation of business assets claimed by a U.S. businessman of Armenian origin.
[ last updated 17:14 ] The Armenian government has delayed the entry into force of a law extending the mandatory use of cash registers to virtually all businesses amid angry street protests by small traders affected by the measure.
[ last updated 17:18 ] Transport and Communications Minister Andranik Manukian on Thursday denied reports that Armenia’s state-run railway is about to be privatized.
[ last updated 17:16 ] A private Polish foundation will spend an undisclosed amount of money on combating alcoholism and drug addiction among Armenian prisoners, officials announced on Thursday.
[ last updated 17:05 ] Citing unspecified “American sources,” “168 Zham” claims that the U.S. State Department will soon present the Armenian government with a list of “Armenia’s most corrupt and criminal” officials and oligarchs.
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