A former regional governor representing the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) risked on Tuesday a criminal investigation into his role in a violent incident during a local election in the southeastern Vayots Dzor province.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed victory in more local elections that were held across the country and largely ignored by the opposition on Sunday.
Armenia signaled on Tuesday no plans to unilaterally withdraw from ongoing peace talks with Azerbaijan in response to the controversial release from a Hungarian prison of an Azerbaijani army officer who had brutally murdered an Armenian colleague.
A local election candidate in the Armenian town of Masis whose son was controversially arrested this month has pulled out of the mayoral race there after failing to win the backing of his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK).
The CEC Central Election Commission (CEC) has called for the abolition of special passport stamps that are meant to prevent fraudulent multiple voting in elections held in Armenia, it emerged on Thursday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Wednesday that it will not reconsider after all its decision to boycott the work of Yerevan’s municipal assembly that was elected more than three years ago.
The son of a candidate challenging the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) in a small town near Yerevan was arrested and risked on Thursday criminal charges which his father linked with the upcoming mayoral election there.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Tuesday that it will not field or endorse any candidate in a mayoral election that will held in the country’s second largest city of Gyumri next month.
A candidate of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) won a mayoral election in the central Armenian town of Talin on Sunday amid allegations of foul play made by his two main challengers.
The director of a small provincial hospital has been unexpectedly sacked after her well-known husband affiliated with the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) was publicly accused of breaking party ranks ahead of a local election.
A senior diplomat from the Syrian Embassy in Armenia appears to have defected to Dubai, joining several of his colleagues in openly backing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The last senior government officials affiliated with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) resigned from the executive on Friday, citing the BHK’s recent pullout from the country’s governing coalition.
Armenia announced on Thursday a major simplification of procedures for granting Armenian citizenship to thousands of ethnic Armenians in Syria increasingly affected by the country’s bloody strife.
Armenia must not encourage a mass out-migration of ethnic Armenians from Syria and thereby eliminate a key Diaspora community in the Middle East, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday.
More than a hundred people demonstrated outside Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General on Tuesday to condemn prison sentences in the trial of four young opposition activists who clashed with police last year.
Four young activists of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) who clashed with police last year were sentenced on Friday to between two and six years in prison on what the opposition alliance considers politically motivated charges.
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Armenian government to pay 2,500 euros ($3,000) in compensatory damages to a prominent lawyer more than six years after he was arrested on highly controversial charges.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian and his close associates affiliated with his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) are too wealthy to be in opposition to the government, a well-known BHK member said on Monday.
The deputy governor of Armenia’s central Kotayk province, Levon Mikaelian, was arrested on Friday for what the National Security Service (NSS) described as bribery.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and the Civilitas Foundation founded by him have asked a court in Yerevan to halt controversial criminal proceedings launched against them by the Armenian authorities, their lawyers said on Thursday.
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