[ last updated 16:12 ] Armenia remains ahead of its neighbors in the annual "human development index" of the United Nations that uses life expectancy, the level of education and average income to measure prosperity around the world.
[ last updated 16:18 ] The Armenian government approved on Thursday $200,000 in assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina, joining the long list of nations that have offered to alleviate the devastating consequences of the disaster that hit the south of the United States.
[ last updated 16:20 ] Armenia’s top official in charge of human rights protection on Thursday strongly criticized the government’s controversial handling of a large-scale redevelopment in central Yerevan that has sparked angry protests from residents forced to leave their homes.
[ last updated 16:22 ] Leaders of the Armenian parliament’s pro-government majority welcomed on Thursday the opposition’s intention to end its prolonged boycott of National Assembly sessions.
[ last updated 16:24 ] Azerbaijan will double military spending in 2006 to $600 million, President Ilham Aliev said Thursday.
[ last updated 16:11 ] “168 Zham” reports that President Robert Kocharian’s Oversight Service suspects that tens of thousands of mobile handsets have been smuggled into Armenia since the launch of the second wireless network on July 1.
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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