[ last updated 15:43 ] President Serzh Sarkisian signed a decree late on Monday appointing Armenia’s ambassador to France Eduard Nalbandian as the country’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sarkisian’s press office announced the same day.
[ last updated 15:42 ] The Monitoring Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday passed a draft resolution concerning the state of democratic institutions in Armenia urging Armenian authorities to make a number of steps towards changing the situation in the country.
[ last updated 15:39 ] Armenian authorities on Tuesday announced plans to terminate the state subsidy on supplies of natural gas to households and enterprises across Armenia beginning next month.
[ last updated 15:38 ] A lower court in Armenia’s Aragatsotn province on Tuesday reached guilty verdicts in the cases of four opposition supporters standing trial for assaulting a Karabakh war veteran during Levon Ter-Petrosian’s election campaign trip.
[ last updated 15:36 ] Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, in a tense armed standoff with neighbour Armenia, is to increase military spending by 53 percent this year, state media quoted President Ilham Aliyev as saying on Tuesday.
[ last updated 15:34 ] “Aravot” writes in its editorial that “Armenia wasn’t a democratic country even before the March 1 events – but, as they say, things may go from bad to worse.”
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