ARMENIA BRACES FOR MORE HARDSHIPS.
In a New Year's message, Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian urged the nation to brace for serious challenges, including: international pressure upon Armenia in connection with... MORE
ARMENIA SENTENCES ALLEGED "DRO" PLOTTERS.
Armenia's Supreme Court on December 10 sentenced three alleged terrorists to death and eight others to prison terms ranging from 3 to 15 years. One... MORE
RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS WELCOME BUT STARVING IN ARMENIA.
The commander of Russia's border troops, Gen. Andrei Nikolaev, conferred in Yerevan with President Levon Ter-Petrosian and Internal Affairs and National Security Minister Serge Sarksian... MORE
ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BLESSES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Armenia's Constitutional Court on November 22 declared the result of the September 22 presidential election valid and rejected the opposition's petition to invalidate it as... MORE
ARMENIA’S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BLOCKING REVIEW OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RETURNS.
Armenian opposition representatives yesterday charged at a news conference that the Constitutional Court "practically covers up the falsification of the presidential election returns" in its... MORE
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT INAUGURATED, GOVERNMENT INSTALLED.
Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian was inaugurated yesterday to a second term of five years. The act prejudged the decision due shortly from the Constitutional Court,... MORE
ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER REPLACED.
Prime Minister Hrant Bagratian resigned yesterday "at his own request," and President Levon Ter-Petrosian appointed Armen Sarkisian to the post on the same day. Sarkisian,... MORE
MASS RALLY SUPPORTS ARMENIAN OPPOSITION’S APPEAL TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT.
An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 supporters of Armenia's opposition rallied in central Yerevan on October 25, and opposition leaders called a follow-up rally for November... MORE
RUSSIA STANDS BY ITS ARMENIAN ALLY IN ELECTION CONTROVERSY.
The Armenian government informed its public yesterday that Russia had deflected OSCE criticism of the government's conduct of the recent presidential election. At a meeting... MORE
FALLOUT CONTINUES FROM ARMENIA’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
In a report on Armenia's September 22 presidential election, the U.S.-based International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) concluded that "the electoral process broke down as... MORE