[ last updated 16:42 ] The government moved on Thursday to minimize damage from massive spring floods anticipated as a result of unusually heavy snowfalls that have hit Armenia this winter.
[ last updated 16:44 ] A human rights lawyer, who was controversially arrested last October after helping evicted residents of Yerevan sue the Armenian government, was unexpectedly released from a maximum-security prison late on Wednesday.
[ last updated 16:49 ] The failure of last week’s Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in France bore out official Stepanakert’s skepticism about prospects for a speedy resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a senior Karabakh official said on Thursday.
[ last updated 16:51 ] The opposition minority in the Armenian parliament demanded on Thursday additional safeguards against a possible manipulation of the National Assembly’s second attempt to elect the country’s new human rights ombudsman.
[ last updated 16:40 ] President Robert Kocharian’s national security adviser, Garnik Isagulian, tells “Hayots Ashkhar” that the Karabakh peace process will continue despite the failure of the Rambouillet talks.
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