[ last updated 15:40 ] Official Yerevan stepped up its hitherto timid pressure on Moscow to prevent further racist killings of ethnic Armenian residents of Russia, with President Robert Kocharian and Prime Minister Andranik Markarian raising the issue with a visiting senior Kremlin insider on Friday.
[ last updated 15:43 ] The chairman of the Armenian Central Bank (CBA) acknowledged Friday that buying U.S. dollars in Armenia is now considerably more difficult than it was in the past, raising more questions about the official reason for the dramatic strengthening of the dram.
[ last updated 15:35 ] “If Armenia’s president declares tomorrow that we have an intention to join NATO, then the next day Russia will avenge our audacity and encourage an Azerbaijani attack on Karabakh by moral and military means,” writes “Aravot.”
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