[ last updated 15:41 ] Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Friday that Armenia is keeping a Russian military base on its soil because of Turkey’s “hostile” policies, not the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict which was cited by a senior Western diplomat.
[ last updated 15:44 ] President Robert Kocharian told his visiting Latvian counterpart on Friday that he is keenly interested in the Baltic state’s dramatic post-Soviet transformation and hopes it will help Armenia move closer to the European Union.
[ last updated 15:45 ] Armen Sargsian has not repaired a single street in nearly a decade but is supremely confident of his reelection as mayor of Agarak, Armenia’s most remote town located on the Iranian border.
[ last updated 15:49 ] An Istanbul court on Friday sentenced Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to a six-month suspended sentence for "insult to the Turkish national identity."
[ last updated 15:40 ] “When the Europeans are trying to persuade Armenians that [President Kocharian’s] constitutional changes are good and that we should say yes to them, one is simply amazed,” writes “Ayb-Fe.”
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