Hrant Bagratian, a former prime minister affiliated with the Armenian National Congress (HAK), on Thursday further distanced himself from the opposition alliance and said he would like to run in the upcoming presidential election.
Armenia’s chief military prosecutor downplayed on Wednesday the acquittal of three former soldiers who were accused of murder in one of the most controversial criminal investigations ever conducted by his office.
Two prominent opposition politicians formally asked law-enforcement authorities on Tuesday to launch criminal proceedings in connection with the scandalous recording and disclosure of their recent conversation at a Yerevan café.
President Serzh Sarkisian did not force Gagik Tsarukian, his most popular potential rival, to avoid challenging him in the upcoming presidential election, his ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Thursday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have finished a criminal investigation into this year’s shock murder of a man who was about to marry a daughter of Gyumri’s former Mayor Vartan Ghukasian.
Two government-backed candidates of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) swept to landslide victories in parliamentary by-elections on Sunday which their opposition challengers condemned as fraudulent.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Tuesday reaffirmed its intention to boycott and thereby thwart a planned parliament session on an opposition-drafted bill aimed at complicating fraud in the upcoming presidential election.
A man controversially convicted in last May’s explosion of thousands of balloons during an election campaign rally in Yerevan was hospitalized on Monday for urgent surgery that will reportedly be financed by civic and opposition activists.
Armenia’s main opposition alliance has condemned the latest appeals court verdict in regards to several of its activists, claiming that it is a case of retribution for its efforts to achieve consolidation among forces opposed to the current administration ahead of next year’s presidential ballot.
An unemployed man blamed by the authorities for last May’s shock explosion of thousands of balloons during a campaign rally in Yerevan has decided to appeal against a one-year prison sentence given to him by an Armenian court last month.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) is trying to drum up broad-based opposition support for its leader Levon Ter-Petrosian but is ready, in principle, to back other presidential candidates, a senior member of the bloc indicated on Monday.
A man serving a lengthy sentence in Armenia’s largest prison has cut off one of his fingers and two other inmates have sewn their mouths shut in desperate protest against prison conditions and punishments given to them.
The arrested former head of Armenia’s state pension fund denies any role in large-scale fraud in the payment of various social benefits alleged by law-enforcement authorities, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Armenia’s leading opposition groups dismissed on Friday President Serzh Sarkisian’s latest pledge to ensure the proper conduct of the upcoming presidential election.
A series of corruption inquiries and arrests ordered by the Armenian authorities in recent weeks might be directed against the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), a senior BHK representative suggested on Tuesday.
Armenia’s largest opposition group is waiting for the decision of its leader Levon Ter-Petrosian regarding his participation in next year’s presidential election to be able to determine its further strategies for the new political season.
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Armenian government to pay 31,000 euros ($40,000) in damages to a former opposition activist who was arrested and tortured in police custody during former President Robert Kocharian’s rule.
The European Court of Human Rights has fined the Armenian authorities 6,000 euros ($7,700) in connection with the 2006 arrest and prosecution of a prominent nationalist activist bitterly opposed to them.
The deputy chief prosecutor of Armenia’s southern Armavir province was dismissed on Thursday following the arrest of his locally famous son accused of hooliganism.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) demanded on Wednesday a fresh parliamentary inquiry into the March 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan that left ten people dead and more than 100 others injured.
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