Armenia’s ongoing integration with the European Union is not putting it at odds with Russia, its longtime ally, a senior government official in Yerevan insisted on Thursday.
Another opposition party condemned President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday for angrily reacting to corruption allegations that were made against his government by an Armenian parliamentary body.
A leader of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Wednesday rejected President Serzh Sarkisian’s harsh criticism of a parliamentary oversight body that has alleged serious misuse of public funds by his government.
The lawyer for a man shot and wounded outside the home of Suren Khachatrian, a controversial regional governor sacked last month, on Tuesday strongly criticized the criminal investigation into the deadly incident.
Six senior officers of an Armenian army unit have been dismissed in connection with last month’s non-combat death of one of its soldiers, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
The Armenian police ended on Wednesday weeklong exercises during which they tested new crowd control techniques and equipment aimed at avoiding casualties among anti-government protesters in the future.
Law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against an Armenian businessman in a fraud case that has sparked embarrassing media allegations against Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
Several army officers are currently under investigation and will be sacked in connection with the latest non-combat death of an Armenian soldier, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Armenia’s Administrative Court refused on Monday to invalidate the official results of the May 5 municipal elections in Yerevan, throwing out an appeal by Raffi Hovannisian’s opposition bloc.
An Armenian army conscript has been arrested after killing one fellow soldier and seriously wounding another in unclear circumstances.
Four prominent opposition politicians moved on Tuesday to revive a former ruling party that led Armenia to independence and was incorporated into a new political force set up by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian earlier this year.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) and two leading opposition groups made on Friday differing interpretations of vote recounts that have been conducted at nearly one hundred precincts in Yerevan following the May 5 municipal elections.
The Armenian police launched on Thursday a criminal investigation into grave threats against a journalist that were made by an unknown man in a phone call publicized by her employer.
Armenia’s highest appeals court struck down on Wednesday controversial prison sentences that were given to four opposition activists who clashed with police in downtown Yerevan in 2011.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that it has received a popular mandate to govern Yerevan for another four years amid allegations of vote rigging made by the country’s main established opposition forces.
Groups of pro-government youths standing in or outside polling stations, keeping a watchful eye on voters and clearly influencing the process have been a fixture in Armenian elections and Sunday’s municipal polls in Yerevan were not an exception to this rule.
Gagik Tsarukian rallied thousands of supporters in Yerevan on Thursday, urging city residents to defy what he called attempts to intimidate them and to vote for his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) in Sunday’s mayoral elections.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), the second largest in parliament, will not join a new government which is currently being formed by President Serzh Sarkisian, a senior BHK figure insisted on Wednesday.
Armenian prosecutors have pledged to consider opposition demands to investigate the legality of millions of dollars worth of business assets that have been declared by Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian ahead of Sunday’s municipal elections.
A senior police official in Yerevan has been dismissed in connection with a reported assault on a journalist who covered an election campaign rally held by the ruling Republican Party (HHK) this week.
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