[ last updated 14:22 ] The Orinats Yerkir Party of parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian has lost its status as Armenia’s second largest parliamentary force after the apparently government-orchestrated defection of four of its 19 lawmakers.
[ last updated 14:24 ] A top Armenian army general who leads the influential Yerkrapah Union of Nagorno-Karabakh war veterans indicated on Monday his strong opposition to any peace accord that would result in the liberation of Armenian-occupied territories in Azerbaijan proper.
[ last updated 14:26 ] Moscow is to ask France for specialist help in retrieving the black box flight recorders of an Armenian aircraft that crashed in the Black Sea last week, a Russian minister said Sunday.
[ last updated 14:27 ] Turkey has recalled its ambassadors to France and Canada for "a short time" for consultations, the Foreign Ministry announced Monday, to protest moves in both countries that recognize the mass killings of Armenians as genocide.
[ last updated 14:21 ] “Aravot” is worried about the fact that Russian and Armenian investigators have still not established the causes of Wednesday’s Armavia plane crash.
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