SENIOR ARMENIAN OFFICIAL ON POSSIBLE ACCESSION TO RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
According to Armenian parliament vice-chairman Ara Sahakian, Yerevan "does not rule out its eventual accession to the Russia-Belarus Union" as a means for Armenia to... MORE
INFLUENTIAL BROTHER OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DIES.
President Levon Ter-Petrosian's politically powerful elder brother, Telman Ter-Petrosian, is being buried in Yerevan today following a fatal heart attack at the age of 59.... MORE
ALIEV WANTS TRUTH ON RUSSIAN ARMS SUPPLIES TO ARMENIA.
Azerbaijani president Haidar Aliev yesterday observed that "strong forces in Russia seek to impede the investigation" into clandestine arms deliveries to Armenia, valued at more... MORE
IMF SMILES ON ARMENIA, UKRAINE; FROWNS ON BELARUS, UZBEKISTAN.
Armenian finance minister Levon Barkhoudarian told a news conference in Yerevan on May 12 that official IMF approval for the release of the first $25... MORE
U.S. SENATE RESPONDS TO COVERT ARMS TRANSFERS TO ARMENIA.
Recent disclosures that the Russian military had covertly transferred large quantities of arms to Armenia was reflected in one of the reservations the U.S. Senate... MORE
ARMENIA CREATES TOP BODY FOR DIASPORA RELATIONS.
President Levon Ter-Petrosian has decreed the creation of a high-level State Council for Relations with the Diaspora, to be headed by Prime Minister Robert Kocharian.... MORE
ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS HOLD TALKS.
Presidents Levon Ter-Petrosian of Armenia and Haidar Aliev of Azerbaijan met privately to discuss the Karabakh conflict during the Black Sea Economic Cooperation summit, held... MORE
ARMENIA LEGALIZES RUSSIAN MILITARY BASES.
The Armenian parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ratify the treaty on Russian military basing rights in Armenia, which Russia's Duma had ratified on April 18.... MORE
ARMENIA’S LEFTISTS UNITE, URGE ACCESSION TO RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION.
Armenia's Communist and Social-Democrat parties, the revived Komsomol, the party of defrauded depositors, and leftist nationalist groups united in an "Alliance of National-Patriotic Forces" at... MORE
ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN MILITARY AGREEMENT SAID TO DISREGARD CFE TREATY.
According to Armenia's official news agency, reporting from Istanbul, Turkey is worried that the agreement on Russian military basing rights in Armenia, just ratified by... MORE