The Armenian government's tender to privatize all four of the country's electricity distribution networks failed on April 21. On that day--the tender's last deadline--the assembled... MORE

Armenia reported 6 percent GDP growth last year, despite a drought which caused agricultural production to decline. Industrial output grew 6 percent, thanks to 28-percent... MORE

Until very recently, Armenia's relations with NATO were almost nonexistent, having been circumscribed to episodic bilateral military cooperation with Greece, a NATO country which official... MORE

GDP in the first eleven months of 2000 grew 4.3 percent despite the summer drought, which was predicted to cause severe difficulties in the agricultural... MORE

As late as this January international financial organizations had threatened the Armenian government with reduced financing of development programs if the government did not meet... MORE

Russian President Vladimir Putin won a standing ovation when he told Azerbaijan's parliament last week that the eventual solution to the conflict with Armenia should... MORE

The year 2000 was to have been one of recovery for all of the CIS economies. Spillover effects from the Russian crisis, which had caused... MORE

On October 20 and 23, two convoys of Russian armored vehicles moved from Russia's Akhalkalaki base in Georgia to Russia's base at Gyumri in Armenia... MORE