[ last updated 15:29 ] The government unexpectedly terminated on Thursday a multimillion-dollar contract with a Russian company to construct a new building for Armenia’s Defense Ministry.
[ last updated 15:34 ] Angry scenes broke out in the French National Assembly on Thursday after lawmakers were forced to call off a vote on a bill that would make it a punishable offence to deny the Armenian genocide.
[ last updated 15:37 ] The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will get hold of another senior government position that was controlled by the Orinats Yerkir Party until its withdrawal from Armenia’s governing coalition last week, it emerged on Thursday.
[ last updated 15:39 ] Armenia’s two main opposition groups said on Thursday that they will boycott the upcoming election of the new speaker and the chairmen of two standing committees of parliament, dismissing it as an “illegitimate” body.
[ last updated 15:41 ] Armenian airline Armavia, which lost two of its Airbus planes in accidents this month, took delivery of a replacement aircraft on Thursday and is due to acquire another shortly.
[ last updated 15:28 ] “Maybe the sinking ship is not Orinats Yerkir but the political coalition led by [President] Kocharian,” suggests “168 Zham.”
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