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Armenian lawmakers have elected Vahagn Khachatrian as the country's new president following the sudden resignation of Armen Sarkisian in January.
Amid ethnic tension during the late 1980s, Armenians and Azeris swapped villages near the border of what were then two Soviet republics. Before the fall of the U.S.S.R., ethnic Armenians from a village in Azerbaijan exchanged their homes with people from an Azeri-populated village in Armenia.
The National Security Service of Armenia (HAAT) has detained 19 people suspected of being members of an "espionage network" in the South Caucasus nation.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time in less than two years.
Armenian President Armen Sarkisian has resigned from the largely ceremonial position, citing a lack of power to influence policy during times of national crisis.
The chief of the General Staff of the Armenian military, General Artak Davtian, former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan, and several other officials went on trial on fraud and embezzlement charges related to purchases of faulty weaponry and ammunition for the armed forces.
Turkey's Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure says flights to and from Armenia will resume next month as the two neighbors continue discussions aimed at normalizing bilateral ties after years of animosity.
Representatives of Armenia and Turkey have agreed to continue negotiations after a first round of talks in Moscow on January 14 aimed at normalizing relations after years of animosity.
A straw poll of residents in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, indicated that they were mostly unhappy about the decision to send their country's troops as part of a Russian-led military intervention to shore up the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan.
The Armenian government has lifted a ban on the import of Turkish goods that was imposed over Ankara's backing of Azerbaijan in last year’s war with Armenia.
Armenian teachers must travel by all-terrain vehicle up and down a mountain to reach village schools in Armenia's southernmost Syunik Province after Azerbaijan set up a border checkpoint on a highway section previously controlled by Armenia.
The city council of Armenia’s capital has voted to remove Mayor Hayk Marutian and replace him with one of his deputies, Hrachya Sargisian.
Armenian and Azerbaijani have exchanged fire across their shared border for a third consecutive day, with both sides accusing each other of violating a cease-fire deal that ended their six-week war last year over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have accused each other of violating a cease-fire along their shared border as lingering tensions following their war last year over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh appeared to boil over.
Azerbaijan has freed 10 Armenian soldiers captured during deadly border clashes last month.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have expressed willingness toward progress on border delimitation and improving economic and transport links after Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted trilateral talks in Sochi.
Russia says it is prepared to mediate efforts to repair relations between Armenia and Turkey following reports earlier this week of a request by Yerevan to facilitate such a rapprochement.
Poland has donated a total of 201,640 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca anti-COVID-19 vaccine worth nearly $660,000 to Armenia as the country struggles with a low inoculation rate that has seen only 20 percent of its 2.9 million people fully vaccinated.
An Armenia court has opened a controversial trial against a human rights activist from the minority Yazidi community over comments he made in an interview, despite international concerns about his prosecution.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev this week, the Kremlin said on November 23 amid renewed fighting in recent days between the Caucasus neighbors.
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