Georgia’s agriculture minister has abruptly cancelled a visit to Armenia during which he was due to discuss major obstacles to the transit through Georgian territory of Armenian brandy exports to Russia.
An ongoing campaign by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife purportedly aimed at educating Armenians but dismissed by critics as a political gimmick is financed by Armenia’s government, a senior official revealed on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sparked an uproar from opposition leaders, prominent public figures and many ordinary citizens on Friday after using obscene language to lambaste senior clergymen who denounced his latest attacks on the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Another civilian house in a village on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was hit early on Thursday by what the Armenian Defense Ministry and local residents described as cross-border gunfire.
Yerevan’s municipal administration has admitted suffering significant financial losses as a result of many commuters’ continuing boycott of a recent significant increase in the cost of public transport.
Finance Minister Vahe Hovannisian on Friday blamed global trends for the increased cost of the Armenian government’s external borrowing.
Economic growth in Armenia will continue to slow down this year amid dwindling positive side effects of Western sanctions against Russia, according to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Azerbaijani forces again shot at a border village in Armenia’s Syunik province overnight, damaging one of its residential houses, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Economic growth in Armenia continued to slow down in the first two months of this year amid a nearly 20 percent year-on-year slump in industrial output.
Armenia’s modest exports to the United States will likely fall after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose major trade tariffs on countries around the world, some Armenian entrepreneurs said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted at the weekend that his government is doing its best behind the scenes to try to secure the release of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
Yerevan’s municipal administration faced more accusations of incompetence and mismanagement after the city’s public transport network largely collapsed due to heavy snowfall on Thursday evening.
Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan has been accused by critics of misleading Armenians about the size of their country’s public debt which has doubled to over $12.8 billion during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s time in office.
Workers of Armenia’s largest metallurgical company have agreed to end their strike after its management pledged to raise their wages and improve their working conditions.
The Russian chief executive of the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) accused “some forces” of trying to seize control of Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise that remained paralyzed by a strike on Monday despite a 20 percent pay rise promised by him.
The Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) fired on Friday eight of its workers who organized one week ago a continuing general strike that disrupted mining and ore-processing operations at Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise.
Many commuters appeared to be heeding on Monday opposition calls to boycott a significant increase in the cost of public transport in Yerevan initiated by Mayor Tigran Avinian.
Traders selling various goods in small shops and markets have rallied in Yerevan to protest against a sharp increase in the key tax paid by them.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Wednesday pledged to slightly scale back the impending significant increase in public transport fees which could trigger protests in the Armenian capital.
Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice.
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