Armenia transitions to a parliamentary system from April 9. On this day, the term in office of President Serzh Sargsyan ends, and on the same day President-elect Armen Sarkissian will be sworn into office.
Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened gunfire at Armenian troops on April 7 and overnight April 7 – April 8 in the Nakhijevan section. The Armenian Armed Forces suppressed the attack with countermeasures.
During the period from April 1 to 7 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact by nearly 300 times firing more than 3000 shots at the Armenian positions.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin has appointed Sergei Kopyrkin to serve as next Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, as the term in office of Ivan Volynkin has ended.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan talked about the country’s economic narrative under his leadership in an interview for a special edition of Gulf News newspaper and Global FDI Reports about Armenia.
Armenia’s domestic market is no longer 3 million people – it’s a shared market of 170 million in the Eurasian Economic Union, President Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview for a special edition on Armenia of Gulf News and Global FDI Reports.
Investments in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey, which is under development by Russia’s Rosatom, have reached nearly 3 billion dollars, Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak said, TASS reported.
One of the major directions of Armenia’s foreign policy has been cooperation with Arab countries, President Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview for a special edition of Gulf News newspaper and Global FDI Reports about Armenia.
Aram Mkrtchyan, one of the HALO Trust deminers who were wounded in the accidental detonation of an anti-tank landmine in Ghazanchi area of Artsakh, has been discharged from hospital.
The Prime Minister of Armenia will have two official residences, minister of justice Davit Harutyunyan told reporters after the April 5 Cabinet meeting.
