Russia

Armenian Job Sharks Do Brisk Business

Much of Armenia’s job market remains in the shadows as an unofficial labour exchange continues to flourish.

10 Nov 04

The law is failing to protect child brides forced into early marriage in southern Azerbaijan.

10 Nov 04

The president disavows his son-in-law as a scandal grows.

3 Nov 04

Worries of economic fallout as the dram surges against the country’s unofficial second currency – the US dollar.

21 Oct 04

More than two weeks after elections, no one knows who the winner is, although the opposition candidate is steadily gaining support.

21 Oct 04

Is a proposed relaxation of citizenship laws a benefit or a danger for Armenia?

13 Oct 04

Parliament begins to ponder president’s plan to send Armenians to Iraq.

6 Oct 04

Opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsh may have benefited from Russia’s heavy-handed endorsement of Prime Minister Raul Khajimba.

6 Oct 04

Armenians are the main victims of the shutting of the chief Georgian-Russian border crossing point.

29 Sep 04

Squeezed out by their neighbours in southern Georgia, the religious sect is returning to the land of its forefathers.

23 Sep 04

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