[ last updated 15:12 ] Russian law-enforcement authorities have stepped up their efforts to combat and avert racist attacks on Armenians and other non-Slavic immigrants, Russia’s Prosecutor-General Yuri Chayka said during a visit to Yerevan on Friday.
[ last updated 15:14 ] Khachatur Sukiasian, a prominent millionaire businessman, lashed out at the Armenian customs on Friday, saying that its top officials’ extensive business interests preclude free enterprise and fair competition in the country.
[ last updated 15:19 ] A key committee of the U.S. Senate has joined the House of Representatives in banning U.S. government assistance to controversial plans for the construction of a railway that would link Turkey with Georgia and Azerbaijan and bypass Armenia.
[ last updated 15:23 ] Another Azerbaijani soldier has been shot dead in a skirmish with Armenian forces positioned east of Nagorno-Karabakh, reports from Baku said on Friday.
[ last updated 15:10 ] “Haykakan Zhamanak” says the show of Armenia’s military power during Wednesday’s Yerevan parade was designed not so much for Armenians as foreign officials who “might share their impressions with Azerbaijani and Turkish diplomats.”
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