An Armenian opposition activist was released from custody on Monday pending a verdict in his trial on charges of aiding gunmen that seized a police station in Yerevan in 2016 to demand then President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
Protesters again blocked many roads in and outside Yerevan on Wednesday, responding opposition leader Nikol Pashinian’s calls for renewed “civil disobedience” actions which followed the Armenian parliament’s vote against his becoming prime minister.
According to the latest report of the International Labor Organization published ahead of March 8, International Women’s Day, among post-Soviet countries Armenia has the highest unemployment rate among women.
A U.S.-British company said on Monday that it expects to finish next year the ongoing construction of a massive gold mine in Armenia that will sharply increase the country’s gold exports.
Armenia’s policy of seeking a “privileged” relationship with the European Union while remaining part of a Russian-led bloc will strengthen its positions in the region and make it more attractive to investors, France’s ambassador in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s highest court on Friday declared unconstitutional a legal provision that has enabled pro-government forces to overcome a yearlong boycott of Vanadzor’s municipal council by its majority representing opposition parties.
After years of foot-dragging and indecision, the Armenian authorities plan to enact soon a special law aimed at combatting domestic violence and helping its predominantly female victims.
Retail prices of meat and butter in Armenia have risen by more than 20 percent in the last ten days, making these foodstuffs even less affordable for a large part of the country’s population.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities announced on Friday a nationwide hunt for three individuals who they said were behind a brazen shooting in downtown Yerevan which left one man dead and another gravely wounded.
A landmark agreement to deepen the European Union’s relations with Armenia will most likely be signed as planned in November, Germany’s and France’s ambassadors in Yerevan said on Tuesday
A trial prosecutor claimed on Friday that an Armenia Catholic priest financed members of a militant group that allegedly plotted to seize power in Armenia before being arrested in November 2015.
The European Union said on Monday that it will not cut funding for Armenian civil society groups despite the alleged embezzlement of some of its grants that has led to the arrest of a senior EU staffer in Armenia.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), President Serzh Sarkisian’s junior coalition partner, expressed concern at serious irregularities which it said were committed in two Armenian provinces during Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities indicated on Friday that they might prosecute doctors in connection with the death of a man who was arrested last year after delivering food to opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian grappled with widespread voter apathy and cynicism as he took his Yelk alliance’s election campaign to Yerevan’s southern Erebuni district on Friday.
Opposition leader Vartan Oskanian made a passionate case for ousting Armenia’s current leadership as he addressed the first conference of his electoral alliance with former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian at the weekend.
Three major opposition parties launched scathing attacks on Armenia’s government over the weekend as they held the founding congress of their recently formed electoral alliance.
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Thursday that he may meet his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Germany next week for further talks on reviving the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Fifteen women have died in Armenia this year as a result of domestic violence, a coalition of women’s rights organizations said on Friday, demanding tougher government action against the practice.
An expensive facility being built in Armenia’s resort town of Dilijan as a training center for tax and customs officials is facing an uncertain future after last month’s resignation of the government and, in particular, Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian who is believed to have personally lobbied its construction still when combining his post with that of chief of the State Revenue Committee.
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