Armenian News

A lending arm of the OPEC group of oil-exporting nations provided Armenia on Thursday with a $25 million loan that will be used for upgrading water and irrigation networks in the country's impoverished rural regions.
Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian signed a corresponding agreement with Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish, director-general of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), at the OFID's headquarters in Vienna....

President Serzh Sarkisian met with members of his National Security Council on Thursday at the start of "strategic command-and-staff military exercises" that will simulate Armenia's response to foreign aggression.
The four-day exercises codenamed "Shant-2015" (Lightning-2015) are involving not only the Armenian military but also other state bodies, including those responsible for mass mobilization and evacuation of civilian residents from border settlements in...

19:23, September 2, 2015
The 14th Istanbul Biennial revealed today full details of the Armenian programme in SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms (5 September – 1 November 2015), presented with the support of Dilijan Art Initiative, which is part of the IDeA (Initiatives for...

12:07, September 3, 2015
Of the 2,379 people who called the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs hotline in August, 942 had questions regarding the receipt of pensions.
507 calls dealt with subsidy information and 147 dealt with the accrual aspect of the new pension system....