The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) wrapped up its high-profile election campaign on Thursday with a rally in downtown Yerevan that was attended by tens of thousands of people.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday urged residents of the central Kotayk province to vote for his coalition partner Gagik Tsarukian who is running for reelection to parliament in a local single-mandate constituency.
Tens of thousands of people marched to a hilltop memorial in Yerevan on Tuesday to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the start of the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey which many countries and historians consider a genocide.
President Serzh Sarkisian reaffirmed on Friday his government’s pledges to do its best to ensure that Armenia’s parliamentary elections are widely recognized as democratic and legitimate.
The Armenian government formally decided on Thursday to extend operations at the Metsamor nuclear power, a move reflecting the apparent delay in its planned replacement by a new and more modern facility.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian on Wednesday predicted that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will win the upcoming parliamentary elections and downplayed violence that has already marred the election campaign.
More than 2,800 new houses and apartments will be constructed this year in Armenia’s northwestern regions devastated by the catastrophic 1988 earthquake, government officials said on Thursday.
Armenian tax authorities have met their revenue target for the first quarter of this year despite their misgivings about the government’s 2012 state budget, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said on Thursday.
Armenia’s second most important governing party and three main opposition groups on Wednesday pledged to work together in trying to prevent possible vote rigging in next month’s parliamentary elections.
Dozens of new buses gifted to Armenia by the government of China were ceremonially launched in the streets of capital Yerevan on Saturday as part of a broader municipality plan to improve the city’s public transport service.
Three more political parties seen as major contenders in Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections have unveiled their lists of candidates including well-known individuals that were not affiliated with them until recently.
Hrayr Tovmasian, a former opposition member now serving as Armenia’s justice minister, on Friday defended his decision to join President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) less than two months before parliamentary elections.
Membership in a Russian-led military alliance of seven former Soviet republics is becoming an even more important element of Armenia’s defense doctrine, the secretary of Armenian National Security Council said on Monday.
In a scheme which it hopes will benefit tens of thousands of struggling farmers, the Armenian government has started subsidizing the price of diesel fuel used by tractors and other agricultural machines.
The World Bank still expects the Armenian economy to grow by over 4 percent this year despite the risk of “external shocks” that could slow its recovery, the head of the bank’s Yerevan office, Jean-Michel Happi, said on Friday.
An unusually heavy snowfall temporarily closed Armenia’s main international airport, blocked highways across the country and disrupted public transportation in Yerevan on Friday.
The Armenian government on Thursday formally rejected the idea of holding the upcoming parliamentary elections only on the party-list basis, dismissing opposition claims that that would complicate vote rigging.
A member of the World Bank Group will provide about $2 million to finance more reforms of Armenia’s economic and regulatory environment planned by the government, it was announced on Wednesday.
High-ranking Russian officials pledged to help spur agricultural activity in Armenia and reaffirmed Moscow’s stated support for the construction of a new Armenian nuclear plant during separate visits to Yerevan on Tuesday.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and its two junior coalition partners may sign soon a declaration that will clarify their coordinated actions in the upcoming parliamentary elections, coalition representatives said on Friday.
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