[ last updated 15:29 ] Germany will provide Armenia with 74 million euros ($117 million) in fresh low-interest loans designed to improve its energy and water infrastructure and financial services, it was announced on Friday.
[ last updated 15:33 ] A senior U.S. official ended on Friday a three-day visit to Yerevan that focused on continued U.S. economic assistance to Armenia which Washington has threatened to freeze over its government’s post-election election crackdown on the opposition.
[ last updated 15:39 ] The Armenian authorities faced more protests from activists of a radical opposition party on Friday despite agreeing to hospitalize its arrested leader suffering from heart trouble.
[ last updated 15:28 ] “Iskakan Iravunk” notes that the confrontation between Armenia’s leadership and opposition led by Levon Ter-Petrosian “does not seem to be deepening.”