[ last updated 14:47 ] The future of RFE/RL’s unfettered activities in Armenia again hung in the balance on Wednesday just three weeks after the Armenian parliament rejected a government bill that would have effectively banned the crucial retransmission of its programs by state radio.
[ last updated 09:02 ] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and its oversight agency, the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), expressed dismay at Armenian Public Radio's rejection of a new contract to continue carrying programs of RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
[ last updated 14:50 ] Several dozen taxi drivers parked their cars outside the main government building in Yerevan Wednesday in protest against new government regulations that could lose them and many of their colleagues their jobs.
[ last updated 14:51 ] “According to our information, first President Levon Ter-Petrosian is visited these days by various oligarchs and businessmen that are serving and absolutely loyal to the current authorities,” says “Zhamanak Yerevan.”