[ last updated 15:43 ] The United States hopes that next year’s presidential election will be the most democratic in Armenia’s history and will be closely monitoring its conduct, the new U.S. charge d’affaires in Yerevan, Rudolf Perina, said on Friday.
[ last updated 15:45 ] Armenia and Iran pledged to give a new boost to the development of bilateral commercial ties following a regular meeting in Yerevan on Friday of their intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.
[ last updated 15:47 ] The candidate backed by the leadership and main political parties of Nagorno-Karabakh scored a resounding victory in Thursday’s presidential election, local election officials said on Friday.
[ last updated 15:49 ] A fugitive son of Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian was arrested on Friday nearly two months after being charged with instigating a high-profile shootout in Armenia’s second largest city.
[ last updated 15:39 ] “Zhamanak Yerevan” reports that a special state commission on Thursday turned down its imprisoned editor Arman Babajanian’s request for parole.
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