[ last updated 17:17 ] The ArmenTel national telecommunications company on Monday officially relinquished its controversial legal monopoly on Armenia’s Internet communication with the outside world, making good on one of the promises given by its new Russian owner.
[ last updated 17:19 ] Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other top Iranian officials on Sunday during a one-day visit to Tehran which officials said focused on bilateral relations and regional security.
[ last updated 17:23 ] The European Union hopes that that Armenia and Azerbaijan will keep up the fresh “momentum” in their efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict despite the upcoming Armenian parliamentary elections, a senior EU diplomat said late Sunday.
[ last updated 17:25 ] An Azerbaijani soldier who was taken prisoner by Karabakh Armenian forces earlier this month claims to have been badly mistreated by his commanders and fellow conscripts and does not want to be repatriated, according to the authorities in Stepanakert.
[ last updated 17:28 ] The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development urged Armenia to crack down on a "tradition of bribe-giving" in a report on Monday which passed severe judgment on the handling of corruption.
[ last updated 17:13 ] “All those who doubted that the founder and the real leader of Prosperous Armenia [party] is Robert Kocharian were yesterday able to dispel those doubts,” “Zhamanak Yerevan” writes, commenting on the Armenian president’s Friday televised comments.
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