[ last updated 17:01 ] Armenia’s natural gas distributor appeared on Friday unconvinced by Russian officials’ latest pledge to repair a key pipeline running to the region on Saturday, saying that it may still have to introduce gas rationing.
[ last updated 17:03 ] Underscoring his growing political clout, Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian was overwhelmingly elected on Friday as head of the newly formed supervisory board of Armenia’s most prestigious university.
[ last updated 17:06 ] Armenia does not recognize Turkey’s territorial integrity and may in the future lay claim to lands that were populated by Armenians before the 1915 genocide, a senior member of the governing Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) claimed on Friday.
[ last updated 17:08 ] A deputy district prosecutor in Yerevan was found dead in office late Friday under mysterious circumstances.
[ last updated 16:59 ] “Hayots Ashkhar” says the slow pace of repairs on the damaged section of a Russian gas pipeline in the North Caucasus “gives one reason to conclude that Russia is not quite interested in its speedy restoration.”