Scores of people took to the streets of Yerevan on Friday in separate May Day demonstrations organized by the Armenian Communists, pro-government trade unions, unpaid workers of a troubled chemical plant and angry taxi drivers.
Armenia’s national gas distribution company said on Wednesday that it will not lower the cost of Russian natural gas supplied to households despite a 13 percent reduction in its wholesale price set by Gazprom.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Friday effectively justified the arrests of six leading members of another, more radical opposition group that plans to stage sustained anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Thursday pressed criminal charges against the leaders of the Founding Parliament opposition movement arrested in advance of its planned anti-government protests in Yerevan.
The Founding Parliament said on Wednesday that its nonstop anti-government protests in Yerevan will start as planned on April 24 despite the arrests of six leading members of the radical opposition movement.
In what they called an effort stave off “mass disturbances,” Armenian law-enforcement authorities arrested on Tuesday five leaders of a hardline opposition group that plans to launch later this month nonstop rallies aimed at toppling President Serzh Sarkisian. (UPDATED)
A radical opposition group on Friday urged Diaspora Armenians to travel to Armenia later this month and join its campaign of nonstop street protests aimed at ousting President Serzh Sarkisian.
The European Union and Armenia are currently discussing a new deal that would serve as an alternative to their cancelled Association Agreement, a senior European parliamentarian said on Monday.
Most political parties in Armenia opposed to the current government appear to have agreed to participate in discussions of a controversial constitutional reform that will turn the country into a parliamentary republic.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday held a series of meetings with representatives of the country’s political parties to discuss plans for a controversial constitutional reform initiated by his administration.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Wednesday gave more indications that Gagik Tsarukian will step down as its leader this week after backing away from a decisive showdown with President Serzh Sarkisian.
Hundreds of angry taxi drivers blocked the main squares of Yerevan and Gyumri with their cars on Monday in protest against new taxation rules introduced by the Armenian government.
Armenia’s ruling Republican Party will wait to see what political messages one of its top critics, Prosperous Armenia, sends to the public at a convention scheduled for next month, a spokesman said.
A group of members of the Prosperous Party of Armenia led by embattled tycoon Gagik Tsarukian recently met with the Armenian prime minister to discuss “problems related to small and medium-sized enterprises”, a senior party member confirmed on Wednesday.
Armenia’s ruling party has given more indications that it is keen to see embattled opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian quit politics despite his apparent retreat following a showdown with President Serzh Sarkisian.
An embattled Armenian opposition party reported late on Monday that several of its members had been detained amid what it described as a continuing crackdown ordered by President Serzh Sarkisian last week.
Authorities in the Armenian capital have not approved at short notice the opposition bid to hold a rally in a central Yerevan square later this week, explaining that the request submitted by three political parties is short of necessary grounds.
In a dramatic riposte to mounting pressure from Gagik Tsarukian, President Serzh Sarkisian moved to kick the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader out of parliament, ordered tax audits of his businesses and warned of the possibility of his prosecution late on Thursday.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian visited Moscow this week to meet with lawmakers representing President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party, it emerged on Wednesday.
The Armenian government on Monday warned Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian against exploiting a violent attack on one of his loyalists to heighten political tensions in the country.
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