(Reuters) – U.S. machinery maker Caterpillar’s former Russian assets have been transferred to a company owned by Armenian investment fund Balchug Capital, Russian company filings showed. Caterpillar Inc suspended operations in its manufacturing facilities in Russia in 2022, joining a number of foreign companies that halted business in the country after Moscow’s February 2022 invasion […]
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The leader of Armenia on Wednesday declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated security alliance of several ex-Soviet nations as tensions rise between the two allies. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said his government will decide later when to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a grouping that includes […]
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – A large crowd protested in Armenia’s capital Yerevan on Sunday against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, led by a Christian cleric who announced the start of four days of rallies to seek to drive him from office. Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is seeking to tap into popular anger over military defeats and […]
A roughly 10-acre section of Fresno’s Armenian cemetery has been hit by a rash of suspected arson fires that burned trees, including the most recent one this week. It is not alone. There have been 30 scorched trees this year going back to Jan. 13 in the grouping of six cemeteries in southwest Fresno that […]
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for Azerbaijan on Monday urged the top United Nations court to throw out a case filed by Armenia linked to the long-running dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, arguing that judges do not have jurisdiction. Armenia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2021, accusing Azerbaijan of […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it was alarmed by what it described as insulting rhetoric and ultimatums directed at Moscow from the political leadership of Armenia and advised Yerevan to use the proper communications channels instead. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was reacting to a statement made the previous day by Armenian Prime […]
STORY: The televised demolition, with giant metal claws tearing at the masonry of the gutted edifice, demonstratively underlined the restoration of control by Azerbaijan since its forces recaptured Karabakh last year and more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled. The region had previously been de facto independent of Baku since a war that spanned the collapse […]
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stated that Armenia is not an ally of Russia when it comes to the war in Ukraine, and pointed to international conventions on the recognition of state borders. Source: European Pravda, citing Armenpress news agency Quote from Pashinyan: “I have repeatedly emphasised that Armenia is not an ally of […]
Representatives of the Union of Armenians of Ukraine and the Armenian Embassy in Ukraine delivered 10 tons of medical equipment to one of Ukraine’s main military hospitals on Feb. 9, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. Armenia has long been an ally of Russia, especially vis-a-vis its primary regional foe Azerbaijan, and has thus largely refrained from […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose country’s relations with Russia grew tense this year, said Monday that when Armenia takes the rotating chairmanship of a Moscow-dominated economic alliance he will try to suppress politics obstructing regional integration. Armenia is to become the chairman country of the Eurasian Economic Union in 2024. […]