Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and businessman Gagik Tsarukian met again on Tuesday after major political parties led by them pledged to continue challenging Armenia’s government reshuffled last month as a result of their growing cooperation.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian has brushed aside the ruling Republican Party’s declared plans to stay in power for at least ten more years, saying that it will be voted out of office in the next national elections. (UPDATED)
Hrayr Tovmasian, who served as Armenia’s justice minister until last week, insisted on Monday that he was not sacked because of recent controversies involving him and the Ministry of Justice.
The municipal authorities in Yerevan have announced controversial plans to erect a monument to Anastas Mikoyan, an ethnic Armenian leader of the Soviet Union and close associate of Joseph Stalin.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Wednesday implicitly accused the pro-government majority in the National Assembly of rigging the results of Tuesday’s election of the new parliament speaker.
The Armenian government has pointedly refused to add its voice to domestic concerns about Russia’s recent pledge to counter any “aggressive” foreign interference in Armenia’s internal affairs.
Law-enforcement authorities launched on Tuesday criminal proceedings against senior Justice Ministry officials effectively accused by Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman of violent conduct.
The Armenian police have downgraded their controversial criminal case against an opposition activist who was arrested last November during clashes with security forces in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian has urged all political forces opposed to the current government to rally around a common agenda that he believes will help achieve a power change in Armenia.
An Armenian lawmaker visiting Syria as part of a six-member parliamentary delegation to address the situation around Armenian-populated Kesab has spoken of the plight of its residents who were evacuated following last week’s attacks by Islamic militants.
Officials in Armenia as well as some members of the country’s opposition still see an opportunity for signing the political component of the Association Agreement with the European Union after Brussels inked a similar document with Ukraine last week.
Close associates of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian held what they called a “productive” meeting with Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian on Tuesday, saying that it will lead to closer cooperation between their parties.
A group of pro-Western civic activists and other prominent Armenians on Tuesday strongly criticized Armenia’s government for not condemning Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.
The Armenian authorities categorically denied on Thursday any political motives behind a recent inspection conducted at a cement plant belonging to Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) increasingly critical of the government.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) accused the authorities on Wednesday of seeking to intimidate its leader Gagik Tsarukian by disrupting the work of one of the largest companies owned by him.
Representatives of major Armenian opposition parties on Wednesday voiced solidarity with anti-government protesters battling security forces in Ukraine’s capital Kiev but disagreed on consequences of the deadly unrest for Armenia.
Former President Robert Kocharian on Tuesday praised through a spokesman Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s latest criticism of the Armenian government’s economic policies.
Immigration authorities in Yerevan said on Tuesday that they have started considering a request for political asylum lodged by an Azerbaijani family that crossed into Armenia via Georgia last week.
An Armenian soldier has been killed in Nagorno-Karabakh in continuing ceasefire violations on Armenian-Azerbaijani “the line of contact,” military authorities in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
The Azerbaijani military said on Thursday that one of its officers has been shot dead at a section of the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline where an Armenian soldier was killed earlier this week in what the Armenian side insists was a failed Azerbaijani commando raid.
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