[ last updated 16:51 ] The Armenian government and Russia’s Gazprom energy giant have failed to reach a final agreement on the price of Russian natural gas for Armenia, which is due to rise significantly next year.
[ last updated 16:58 ] The Armenian authorities have yet to satisfy Council of Europe demands for the release of opposition members arrested and imprisoned for their political activities, a senior official from the Strasbourg-based human rights organization said on Tuesday.
[ last updated 16:59 ] Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday again failed to broker a “dialogue” between the governing coalition and its radical opponents over ways of ending Armenia’s post-election crisis.
[ last updated 17:01 ] A leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) was elected deputy speaker of parliament on Tuesday in line with the nationalist party’s power-sharing agreement with President Serzh Sarkisian.
[ last updated 16:48 ] “One of the favorite topics of government representatives lately has been the ‘atmosphere of hatred’ which they believe has arisen as a result of [Levon] Ter-Petrosian’s return to politics,” editorializes “Aravot.”