[ last updated 16:02 ] The Armenian economy grew by 10.2 percent in the first half of this year helped by a continuing major upswing in the construction and service sectors, according to government statistics released on Wednesday.
[ last updated 16:06 ] Next month’s meeting in Russia between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan could mark a “turning point” in the long-running international efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a high-ranking U.S. official said on Wednesday.
[ last updated 16:09 ] Armenia’s leading media associations criticized on Wednesday a Council of Europe body dealing with legislative reform for supporting constitutional amendments which they said fail to guarantee the freedom and independence of Armenian electronic media.
[ last updated 16:01 ] “Azg” accuses the West and the United States in particular of using Georgia for a “dirty game of discrediting Russia and Armenia.”
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