The Armenian government seems ready to sell its remaining 20 percent share in the domestic gas distribution network to Gazprom in order to subsidize the recently increased price of Russian natural gas delivered to Armenia.

Presidents of the US, France and Russia, Barack Obama, Francois Hollande and Vladimir Putin, as heads of states of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, issued a joint statement Tuesday regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process.

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian issued a statement Tuesday in response to an earlier declaration by presidents Barack Obama, Fracois Hollande of France and Vladimir Putin of Russia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process.

Astrophysicists at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and the Byurakan Observatory (Armenia) have detected a star of low luminosity which within a matter of moments gave off a flare so strong that it became almost 15 times brighter. The star in question is the flare star WX UMa, phys.org reported.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, one of the longest-lasting conflicts in the region, seems to have passed into an essential phase of its settlement.

Armenia is still not eligible for renewed large-scale assistance from the United States which is conditional on political and economic reforms, U.S. Ambassador John Heffern said on Friday.

A U.S. energy company announced on Wednesday that it is close to buying three big hydroelectric stations generating a considerable part of Armenia’s electricity.

n what appears to be a reversal of a diplomatic position, Baku has invited world-renowned opera singer Montserrat Caballe to Azerbaijan, after protesting her recent visit to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, reported the Trend news agency.

The Armenian Soccer Team upset Denmark Tuesday 4-0 in a World Cup qualifying game, with experts predicting that Denmark’s hopes for reaching the 2014 World Cup all but faded.

Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian received strong praise from President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday as he was inaugurated for a four-year term more than one month after the ruling Republican Party’s victory in disputed municipal elections.

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen were unable to bring the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev, to the negotiating table to discuss the settlement in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, a diplomatic source from one of the Minsk Group delegations told Tass on Friday.

While the mandates and composition of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe are different, co-operation can give political impetus and create synergies on the ground, the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a speech to the representatives of the 57 OSCE participating States Thursday.

Suren Khachatrian, the controversial governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province, officially stepped down on Thursday amid the continuing fallout from a deadly shootout that occurred near his house on June 1.

As world-renowned opera star from Spain soprano Montserrat Caballe performed Groung by Komitas at the Gandzasar monastery in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, she was being declared persona non grata by Baku for her visit to Artsakh.