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Life in the Georgian city of Marneuli without weddings for 1000 guests

Coronavirus

July 25, 2020

Ethnic Azerbaijanis in the Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli are asking the authorities to lift the ban on large weddings

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Armenia: political conclusions, economic calculations in wake of July border clashes Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan-Armenia

July 23, 2020

The Armenian government intends not only to restore the border zone, but also to come up with a development strategy

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Armenia’s largest freshwater lake blooms once again

July 22, 2020

Ecologists say the phenomenon, which has already become an annual tradition, can be explained by the high temperatures, the decrease in the water level and the presence of organic substances.

Why Armenia can’t cope with corona

Coronavirus

July 22, 2020

The country has hundreds of new cases every day. The situation has remained the same for weeks. Doctors are hesitant to say that the virus is retreating

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Azerbaijani downed drones on display in Yerevan

Azerbaijan-Armenia

July 22, 2020

Things are quiet on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Armenian Ministry of Defence has released information on the state of the wounded, the Minister of Foreign Affairs excludes Turkey from peace talks

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Armenian FM: “Azerbaijan once again trying to extract unilateral concessions in Karabakh issue”

Azerbaijan-Armenia

July 20, 2020

In an interview with TV channel Sky News Arabia, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan expressed his point of view on the reasons behind the military escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

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90 seconds: video from an Armenian street named for a Georgian poet

Travel Armenia

July 18, 2020

Shota Rustaveli Street appeared in the second largest city in Armenia, Gyumri, in the 1950s. Now, the street has been restored along with its old buildings

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Armenia-Azerbaijan border calmer on 4th day of outbreak of fighting

Azerbaijan-Armenia

July 15, 2020

What is known about the most serious breakout of violence on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border itself since the 1990s

Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Ilham Aliyev, Nikol Pashinyan, shootout, seizure of positions, violation of the ceasefire, violation of the border,

Tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border continues for second day

Azerbaijan-Armenia

July 13, 2020

All the details of the situation - according to the defense ministries and governments of the two countries and international partners

judicial reform, constitutional court, vetting, transitional court system, constitutional crisis, constitutional changes,

Why the Armenian gov’t has waited two years to reform the judicial system

July 10, 2020

The public is still awaiting promised reforms, the opposition criticizes the administration’s decisions and fears that courts will continue to answer to orders ‘from above’

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Armenia starts producing Kalashnikov assault rifles

July 09, 2020

The Armenian army will receive the first locally-made Kalashnikov assault rifles by the end of July.

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Op-ed: how Armenian relations with the Kremlin affect domestic political processes

July 08, 2020

The opposition assesses the attempts of the ‘revolutionary’ government of Armenia to strengthen the sovereignty of the country and resist external pressure as ‘anti-Russian’

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White House Press Secretary uses the term ‘Armenian Genocide’

July 07, 2020

This move ‘contradicts the official position of the United States’ and could put President Donald Trump in an awkward position regarding relations with Turkey, foreign media say