[ last updated 15:48 ] The National Assembly is due debate on Thursday government bills that could end the Armenian-language broadcasts of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a key source of information for a considerable part of Armenia’s population.
[ last updated 15:50 ] The United States has named a new, more high-ranking diplomat to run its embassy in Yerevan in the continuing absence of a U.S. ambassador to Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.
[ last updated 15:52 ] Armenia remains a “partly free” country despite while having a better human and civil rights record than most other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, according to a respected U.S. watchdog.
[ last updated 15:47 ] “Zhamanak Yerevan” reports that speaker Tigran Torosian has reluctantly agreed not to head the new Armenian delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
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