Police in Yerevan said on Monday that they have failed to collect sufficient incriminating evidence to put a young opposition activist on trial despite keeping him prison for more than three months on highly controversial charges.
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Tuesday effectively validated the controversial removal of an outspoken opposition parliamentarian from the Armenian delegation in the Strasbourg-based body.
The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) denounced on Monday the U.S. State Department for welcoming an Armenian Constitutional Court ruling on Turkey that has sparked a diplomatic dispute between Yerevan and Ankara.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan on Thursday criticized a weekend by-election to Armenia’s parliament and urged the authorities to prosecute those responsible for “numerous irregularities” witnessed by American and local observers. (UPDATED)
The main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Tuesday continued to put a brave face on its candidate Nikol Pashinian’s defeat in the weekend parliamentary by-election that was marred by reports of fraud and violence.
The pro-government candidate in an upcoming parliamentary by-election in Yerevan on Wednesday categorically denied any involvement in the weekend attack on young opposition activists campaigning for his main challenger, Nikol Pashinian.
Sasun Mikaelian, a controversially imprisoned opposition figure, was taken back to jail on Monday after more than three weeks of urgent treatment at a civilian hospital in Yerevan.
Two more police officers were convicted on Friday of using disproportionate force during the break-up of demonstrations staged by the Armenian oppositions in the wake of the February 2008 presidential election.
Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian on Thursday denied plotting to become Armenia’s next president and said he will help President Serzh Sarkisian win a second term in office in 2013.
Sasun Mikaelian, a controversially imprisoned opposition figure, will have to stay in a civilian hospital in Yerevan for at least one more week, a senior doctor treating him said on Wednesday.
Two police officers were sentenced to three years in prison late Wednesday after being convicted of using disproportionate force during the break-up of demonstrations staged by the Armenian oppositions in the wake of the February 2008 presidential election.
Two more people are suspected of having died of swine flu in Armenia in recent days, one of the country’s leading hospitals said on Tuesday.
The National Assembly approved on Thursday a revised and final version of Armenia’s state budget for next year that commits the government to boosting actual spending despite the continuing economic crisis.
Armenia on Wednesday denounced Turkish leaders’ continuing linkage of Turkish-Armenian relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that Ankara risks wrecking the Western-backed rapprochement between the two states.
The All-Armenian Fund Hayastan said on Friday that it has received almost $16 million in donations pledges from Armenians around the world to rebuild the war-ravaged Nagorno-Karabakh town of Shushi during an annual fundraising campaign.
Two ministers and seven other senior government officials close to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian have applied for membership in the governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), it emerged on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian pledged to markedly improve Armenia’s business environment, crack down on tax evasion by the rich and strengthen the broader rule of law as he laid out his government’s new and ambitious reform agenda on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian has become a member of the governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), it was announced on Tuesday.
The Armenian Ministry of Health scrambled over the weekend to end what it sees as an increasingly frenzied public reaction to the discovery of the first cases of swine flu in the country.
A key committee of the National Assembly effectively rejected on Friday a proposal by the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) to criminalize public statements denying that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey constituted genocide.
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