Armenia Online, launched a week ago as the Armenian-Australian community's premier news source, has registered fantastic statistics during its first week of going live to the public.

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)-The Armenian parliament on Thursday passed in the second and final reading a controversial bill which local press freedom groups say will fail to end a strong government influence on the country's broadcast media.

The Armenian government has announced plans to spend 44 billion drams ($122 million) in the next few years on addressing the environmental fallout from the rising water level of the country's ecologically vital Lake Sevan.

Two Armenian deputy ministers of health and another senior government official were dismissed on Tuesday less than a week after Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan accused them of corruption and incompetence.