Following an investigation into a high-level crime ring accused of selling Armenian infants to foreigners, women who think they may have been victims are demanding justice.
Three years since the Eurasian Union unveiled a grand plan to build a unified digital agenda, there is little sign that member governments are interested in the program.
With a park, garbage trucks, and now a waste-processing facility, watchdog groups are questioning the city government’s many gifts from politically connected businessmen.
The new budget would substantially increase tax revenues and expenditures, but the government’s macroeconomic projections have been received skeptically.
The charges come just two weeks after Serzh Sargsyan broke his silence since leaving office, heavily criticizing the current authorities at a conference in Croatia.
The restoration has sparked arguments about whether the mosque should be considered “Persian” or “Azerbaijani,” and some locals question whether the Armenian-controlled territory should be rebuilding its mosques at all.
Hyperbolic claims by the prime minister prompted more hyperbolic – and xenophobic – conspiracy theories about the rising presence of Indians in Armenia.
Earlier this year, both sides appeared to be trying to turn down the temperature on their grievances against the other. But now the momentum seems to be going in the other direction.
Following last month’s successful Eurasian Economic Union summit in Yerevan, it was all smiles between the Russian foreign minister and Armenian officials.
