A 24-year-old leader of the Armenian youth group that organized recent dramatic protests in Yerevan against an electricity price hike announced his resignation on Monday, saying that he is unable to combine civic activism with his new blue-collar job.
President Serzh Sarkisian has assured critics of controversial constitutional reforms planned by him that he will not seek top positions in the executive and legislative branches if Armenia switches to a parliamentary system of government.
More than a hundred activists briefly blocked a major Yerevan street on Tuesday as they rallied to demand punishment for police officers who used excessive force during recent street protests against an electricity price hike.
The Armenian police on Monday demoted one of their officers and “reprimanded” eight others for excessive use of force during the June 23 dispersal of young activists in Yerevan protesting against an electricity price hike.
A poorly attended rally at Yerevan’s Liberty Square has marked the end of sustained street protests that have forced the Armenian government to effectively suspend a controversial rise in electricity prices.
Several hundred Armenians protesting against an electricity price hike again rallied in Yerevan but avoided reoccupying one of the city’s main thoroughfares late on Monday hours after being driven out of there by riot police.
Riot police forcibly unblocked on Monday a central Yerevan avenue that has been the scene of a nonstop demonstration for the past two weeks against a controversial rise in electricity prices in Armenia.
Thousands of people continued to hold a nonstop demonstration in Yerevan on Sunday night, rejecting its organizers’ calls to unblock a key street in the city center voiced after concessions made to the protesters by President Serzh Sarkisian.
President Serzh Sarkisian flew to Brussels on Wednesday evening to attend a meeting of European politicians, continuing to avoid public statements on nonstop street protests in Yerevan against a rise in electricity prices in Armenia.
Armenian security forces refrained from another violent crackdown on demonstrators protesting against a hike in electricity prices as the latter blocked a central avenue in Yerevan for the third day running on Wednesday.
Thousands of Armenians again rallied on a street leading to President Serzh Sarkisian’s offices on Tuesday evening just 15 hours after riot police forcibly unblocked it and arrested scores of activists protesting against electricity price rises. (UPDATED)
More than 230 people were arrested in downtown Yerevan early on Tuesday as riot police broke up an overnight demonstration against rising electricity prices in Armenia on a street leading to President Serzh Sarkisian’s administration building.
After two days of heated debates, the Armenian parliament tentatively approved on Friday a government proposal to raise taxes collected from alcohol, tobacco and fuel.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Thursday accused another major opposition party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), of helping President Serzh Sarkisian to prolong his rule with controversial constitutional changes.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian pledged to mount a serious challenge against President Serzh Sarkisian as he presided at the weekend over the founding congress of his new party tipped to become one of Armenia’s main opposition forces.
A Yerevan-based pressure group said on Friday that it will stage another larger demonstration next month to protest against the authorities’ plans to raise the electricity prices in Armenia for a third time in two years.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Yerevan on Wednesday to protest against a more than 35 percent rise in electricity prices sought by Armenia’s loss-making national power distribution network.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) formerly led by Gagik Tsarukian said on Thursday that it remains in opposition to the government after being allowed to lease new state-owned offices at a discounted price.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities claim to have failed to track down a notorious son of a regional governor after belatedly pledging to question him in connection with yet another violent assault allegedly provoked by him.
Dismissing opposition objections, the National Assembly approved on Wednesday a government bill that will require some of the hundreds of thousands of Armenians working abroad to pay taxes in Armenia.
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