[ last updated 15:22 ] The head of the World Bank office in Yerevan joined senior Armenian officials on Thursday in downplaying negative effects of the upcoming surge in the price of Russian natural gas on Armenia’s population and economy.
[ last updated 15:24 ] Armenia and Azerbaijan have reported fresh exchanges of fire between their forces which have disrupted a regular international monitoring of ceasefire around Nagorno-Karabakh and killed at least one soldier.
[ last updated 15:28 ] A renowned U.S. academic of Armenian descent launched on Thursday a scathing attack on the authorities in Yerevan, saying that their failure to hold free elections and respect political freedoms threatens to turn Armenia into a “failed state.”
[ last updated 15:21 ] “According to our information, Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and businessman-deputy Gagik Tsarukian met recently and discussed the possibility of jointly contesting [next year’s] parliamentary elections,” reports “Aravot.”
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