An Armenian opposition party has strongly criticized the top clergyman of Vanadzor for effectively voicing support for the pro-government mayor of Armenia’s third largest city controversially installed three months ago.
The government played down Armenia’s rising sovereign debt on Thursday as it sought parliamentary approval of $180 million in fresh loans allocated to it by international lending institutions.
The Armenian government asked the parliament on Thursday to classify information about personal and travel expenses of Armenia’s president, prime minister and parliament speaker covered from the state budget.
The Armenian government made clear on Tuesday that will not significantly amend its controversial bill on raising financial compensations to the families of soldiers killed or seriously wounded in action.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian is returning to active politics as part of President Serzh Sarkisian’s efforts to weaken Armenia’s genuine opposition forces, an opposition leader claimed on Tuesday.
A controversial new tax sought by the Armenian government for raising compensations paid to the families of soldiers killed or seriously wounded in action might become optional, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Acting on an order issued by President Serzh Sarkisian, Yerevan’s municipal administration said on Wednesday that it will nationalize a private company that has collected street parking fees in the Armenian capital for the last three years.
The impending reductions in the prices of electricity and natural gas in Armenia are aimed at improving the ruling Republican Party’s chances of winning the April 2017 parliamentary elections, opposition leaders said on Tuesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian will continue to lead the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) for “many years” to come, the chief HHK spokesman said on Monday.
No rise in salaries, pensions and social benefits is planned for next year, Finance Minister Vartan Aramian told reporters on Wednesday.
Armenia’s ruling party will raise no obstacles to tycoon Gagik Tsarukian should he decide to return to active politics, according to a senior member.
In a dramatic setback, three opposition parties that struck a power-sharing deal in Vanadzor on Monday failed to appoint the new mayor of Armenia’s third-largest city, despite winning a majority of seats in the local council earlier this month.
An opposition candidate inched closer on Friday to becoming the mayor of Vanadzor, Armenia’s third largest city, after securing the backing of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK).
Three Armenian political parties that are officially in opposition to the government gave no indication on Tuesday that they will a strike a post-election deal that would end the ruling Republican Party’s control of the country’s third largest city.
Candidates of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) were defeated in around three dozen communities across the country in local elections held on Sunday.
Highlighting serious differences existing among them, Armenia’s leading opposition parties have failed to form any alliances for upcoming municipal elections in Gyumri and Vanadzor.
Senior member of the opposition New Armenia movement Andrias Ghukasian charged with organizing mass disturbances during a July 29 protest will, for now, remain in custody pending trial, an appeals court in Yerevan ruled on Wednesday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress party kept low profile during a two-week standoff between security forces and radical opposition gunmen that seized a police station in Yerevan in a July 17 attack to preclude further escalation and developments that would threaten the nation’s statehood, the party’s senior member told media on Tuesday.
An appeals court in Yerevan has granted bail to another opposition member who was charged in connection with a recent rally in the Armenian capital.
An appeals court in Yerevan on Wednesday granted bail to an opposition party member charged in connection with a recent rally.
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