POWER SHIFT IN ARMENIA; MOSCOW TERMS COUNTRY A RUSSIAN SPHERE.
Yesterday Prime Minister Robert Kocharian became the acting president of Armenia, and Kocharian's adviser Hozrov Harutiunian -- prime minister of Armenia in 1992 and 1993... MORE
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT FORCED TO RESIGN.
President Levon Ter-Petrosian announced on national television last night that he is resigning his office. According to the constitution, the Chairman of Parliament -- currently... MORE
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AT BAY.
President Levon Ter-Petrosian was obliged yesterday to accept the resignations of both Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanian and Yerevan Mayor Vano Siradeghian. Siradeghian is also expected... MORE
ARMENIA’S FOREIGN POLICY: BALANCING BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Armenia's foreign policy: balancing between East and West By Emil Danielyan The liberal government that came to power in 1990 following Soviet Armenia's first free... MORE
ATTACKS ON ARMENIAN OFFICIALS TRACED TO DIFFERENCES OVER KARABAKH.
On January 19, the chief of Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian's security service, Maj. Gen. Roman Ghazarian, was fired upon in an ambush outside Yerevan. A... MORE
ARMENIA QUALIFIES STANCE ON IRANIAN ROLE IN KARABAKH TALKS.
Armenian Foreign Ministry chief spokesman Arsen Gasparian on January 16 reaffirmed Yerevan's position that the OSCE and its "Minsk conference" group of countries is the... MORE
DIFFERENCES DEEPEN WITHIN ARMENIAN LEADERSHIP OVER KARABAKH.
Armenian prime minister Robert Kocharian told a Yerevan briefing yesterday that an Armenian Security Council session, held on January 7-8, resulted in a complete deadlock... MORE
DOES ARMENIA FAVOR IRANIAN MEDIATION IN KARABAKH CONFLICT?
According to Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Armenian foreign minister Alexander Arzumanian has urged Iran to become a mediator between Armenia and Azerbaijan... MORE
ARMENIA’S FOREIGN MINISTRY APPEARS TO DISSENT FROM PRESIDENT’S POSITION ON KARABAKH.
At the OSCE's year-end Ministerial Council, held in Copenhagen on December 18-19, Armenia twice exercised its right of veto against a final document on the... MORE
ARMENIA SENTENCES THE "GROUP OF 31."
Armenia's Supreme Court on December 12 pronounced sentence in the political trial of the "Group of 31," most of whom are associated with the Armenian... MORE