Armenia is facing its most severe political crisis since April, when widespread protests forced the former prime minister Serzh Sargysan to resign. Armenians are now...
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A block of parties allied to Prime Minister Nicol Pashinyan has won municipal elections in the Armenian capital Yerevan. The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Armenia...
Armenia’s government announced on September 17 that it plans to increase pensions by 60 per cent from January 1, 2019. According to the new bill, the new basic pension...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (pictured above) met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on September 14 for talks focused on an upcoming summit of...
Armenia should take vigorous measures to tackle entrenched corruption and widespread conflict of interest, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic...
The changes which have followed in the wake of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution earlier this year have had a positive impact on the macroeconomic development of the country...
Robert Kocharyan, the president of Armenia from 1998 to 2008 has been arrested on charges of “overthrowing the constitutional order” during the presidential election of...
The European Commission is to review the amount of financial assistance it sends to Armenia following criticism from the country’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan (above...
Armenia has given its green light to the first large-scale solar power plant in the country’s history, the Masrik-1 55 MW solar power plant, the first...
After the Velvet Revolution which saw Nikol Pashinyan replace Serzh Sargysan as prime minister, Armenia is taking stock of the country’s social and economic...
Armenia’s Velvet Revolution, which began in April when the country’s parliament elected the former president Serzh Sargsyan prime minister, ostensibly came to end on May...
An extraordinary session of Armenia’s parliament will meet on May 8 in order to elect an interim prime minister. The post has been vacant since large protests...
