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Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has hailed his country's close ties with Russia after meeting with President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow to mark the Days of Armenian Culture in Russia celebrations.
A year after suffering a setback in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian military is looking to end a loophole that provides potential conscripts a way to avoid service -- and students are putting up resistance.
Armenia’s parliament has passed in its second and final reading a controversial bill that would restrict draft deferments.
The prosecutor in the trial of former separatist Nagorno-Karabakh military commander Samvel Babayan has urged an Armenian court to convict the retired army general of arms smuggling and money laundering.
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has said that Yerevan will declare two protocols aimed at normalizing relations with Turkey "null and void" if Ankara does not show any progress toward their implementation.
Armenia says it never confirmed its participation in a multinational military drill under way in neighboring Georgia.
Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetian has said that his government remains “very determined” to sign an agreement on deepening Armenia’s links with the European Union.
Firefighters who have been battling a wildfire in Armenia's Khosrov forest reserve for days have succeeded in localizing the fire with help from a Russian air tanker, officials say.
The trial of Armenian opposition politician Andreas Ghukasian on charges of organizing mass disturbances opened in Yerevan on August 2.
The parliament of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region elected leader Bako Sahakian for a third three-year term on July 19.
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group mediating talks between Baku and Yerevan are “urgently” calling on all sides in the conflict over Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region to cease military actions.
International mediators brokering a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict condemned recent cease-fire violations in the region in a statement issued on May 18.
A Russian soldier convicted of murdering a family of seven in the Armenian city of Gyumri in 2015 has been sent to Russia to serve out his life sentence, the Armenian Justice Ministry says.
A Russian soldier convicted of murdering an Armenian family of seven in Gyumri in 2015 has been sent to Russia to serve out his life sentence, the Armenian Justice Ministry says.
Armenia's Republican Party (HHK), which won last month’s parliamentary elections, has proposed former Health Minister Ara Babloyan for the position of parliament speaker.
International observers have welcomed what they called an improved electoral framework in Armenia and new technologies to prevent fraud, but warned that "more needs to be done to address the root cause of apathy and frustration about politics" in the South Caucasus country.
Police in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, used force against an opposition mayoral candidate during city council elections on May 14, according to her party and video footage.
An RFE/RL reporter has been attacked for the second time in two months while investigating potential vote buying.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's ruling Republican Party (HHK) has signed a coalition agreement with the smaller Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), a party official told reporters on May 11.
Commemoration ceremonies have been held in Armenia to mark the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 102 years ago.
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