Twenty Armenian soldiers have been killed and 26 others have gone missing since the outbreak of heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday morning, the Karabakh Armenian military said on Monday evening.
The Azerbaijani military reported three more combat deaths within its ranks on Monday morning as it continued to face what appeared be an intensifying Armenian counteroffensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia’s government will open negotiations on Wednesday with leading opposition parties and civil society members on new legislation that could greatly influence the conduct and outcome of next year’s parliamentary elections.
Leaders of parliamentary opposition forces condemned the Armenian authorities on Monday for their continuing refusal to release a prominent activist who was arrested during an anti-government protest three months ago.
Ignoring concerns voiced by human rights groups and the European Union, an Armenian court on Friday further extended the pre-trial arrest of an opposition activist accused of assaulting a police officer during an anti-government protest.
Dismissing opposition concerns about Armenia’s foreign debt, the National Assembly allowed the government on Thursday to borrow $112 million from the Asian Development Bank (ABD) for building new roads around Yerevan.
A formal annulment of the 2009 Turkish-Armenian normalization agreements is not a necessary condition for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun’s new power-sharing deal with President Serzh Sarkisian, a leader of the party said on Friday.
Gagik Jahangirian, an opposition lawmaker who had served as Armenia’s chief military prosecutor, on Tuesday pointedly declined to refute rumors that he will be offered to become the state human rights ombudsman.
President Serzh Sarkisian met with senior members of his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) late on Thursday to discuss the possibility of reaching power-sharing agreements with other parties loyal to the government.
A female opposition activist was beaten up by unknown assailants in Yerevan late on Tuesday, in what she and an Armenian opposition alliance consider a politically motivated attack ordered by the authorities.
Irregularities reported during the December 6 referendum in Armenia did not affect its official results indicating popular approval of President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes, the ruling Republican Party (HHK) insisted on Friday.
Fighting along “the line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh reportedly continued unabated after Saturday’s Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Switzerland which international mediators hoped will deescalate the Karabakh conflict.
In what it called fresh evidence of serious fraud, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) reported on Wednesday huge discrepancies between official results of the December 6 constitutional referendum in five precincts in Yerevan.
In an unprecedented warning, the United States said on Monday that it could blacklist individuals who committed serious irregularities reported during Armenia’s recent constitutional referendum.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Friday formally petitioned the Central Election Commission (CEC) to invalidate the official results of the disputed December 6 referendum on President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes.
Campaigning ahead of Armenia’s constitutional referendum officially ended on Friday, with the ruling Republican Party (HHK) again expressing confidence that President Serzh Sarkisian will win popular support for the country’s transition to the parliamentary system of government.
An Armenian opposition alliance attracted fewer people on Wednesday on the second day of its sustained street protests in Yerevan described by its leaders as an anti-government democratic “revolution.”
The Armenian authorities are not worried about the latest opposition campaign of street protests aimed at forcing President Serzh Sarkisian to step down, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Tuesday.
Armenia’s ambassador to Ukraine, Andranik Manukian, has vacated his rented house in Kiev after local media revealed that it belongs to the family of a former Ukrainian government official suspected of corruption.
An Armenian opposition alliance on Friday urged voters to go to the polls in large numbers in order to thwart President Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial constitutional reform, insisting that it is aimed at extending his rule beyond 2018.
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