[ last updated 15:25 ] Armenia’s diamond-processing industry, once a driving force of economic growth, recorded a further steep decline in the first half of this year, a senior government official said on Monday.
[ last updated 15:27 ] The editor of an Armenian pro-opposition newspaper serving a prison sentence for draft evasion has suspended a hunger strike which he began last Friday after being denied an early release from jail, his lawyer said on Monday.
[ last updated 15:29 ] Armenia on Monday hit back at international criticism of last week’s presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh and hailed the vote as proof of the Karabakh Armenians’ “commitment to democracy and rule of law.”
[ last updated 15:24 ] “Aravot” commends the outgoing Nagorno-Karabakh President Arkady Ghukasian for his decision not to seek a third term in office and says it must serve as a good example for Armenia’s leaders.
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