A coalition of about three dozen opposition parties and civic groups will hold a rally in Gyumri next week to launch its nationwide campaign against controversial constitutional changes put forward by President Serzh Sarkisian.
About three dozen opposition parties, civic groups and other non-governmental organizations pledged at the weekend to jointly fight against sweeping amendments to Armenia’s constitution sought by President Serzh Sarkisian.
President Serzh Sarkisian has agreed to drop one of his most controversial constitutional changes relating to the conduct of Armenia’s next parliamentary elections, a legal expert representing him confirmed on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian plans to hold the referendum on his far-reaching amendments to Armenia’s constitution before the end of this year, a leading member of his governing Republican Party (HHK) said on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian will likely drop one of his most controversial draft constitutional changes regulating the conduct of parliamentary elections, the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) said on Tuesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian held through his aides on Monday fresh talks with major Armenian political parties on a package of controversial constitutional amendments which he plans to put on a referendum later this year.
A senior member of the Armenian Pan-National Movement (HHSh) left the opposition party on Friday in protest against its apparent readiness to support a controversial constitutional reform initiated by President Serzh Sarkisian.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) reaffirmed on Monday its support for President Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial constitutional changes that envisage Armenia’s transition to a parliamentary system of government.
The expert commission drafting constitutional amendments has released eight more chapters of the new Constitution that implies Armenia’s switch to a parliamentary form of government.
President Serzh Sarkisian has assured critics of controversial constitutional reforms planned by him that he will not seek top positions in the executive and legislative branches if Armenia switches to a parliamentary system of government.
A state commission formed by President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday publicized its draft constitutional amendments envisaging Armenia’s transformation into a parliamentary republic with a largely ceremonial head of state not elected by popular vote.
Protesters continuing to occupy a central Yerevan avenue chose on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday new leaders who pledged to reinvigorate their campaign for the cancellation of a controversial rise in Armenian electricity prices.
An Armenian teenage activist briefly disrupted a European football championship qualifier in Yerevan on Saturday to demand the release of his father jailed for organizing a violent anti-government demonstration in 2013.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities claim to have failed to track down a notorious son of a regional governor after belatedly pledging to question him in connection with yet another violent assault allegedly provoked by him.
The European Union an Armenia could revive the political part of their cancelled Association Agreement in their quest for a new legal framework for closer relations, Poland’s ambassador in Yerevan said on Monday.
Scores of people took to the streets of Yerevan on Friday in separate May Day demonstrations organized by the Armenian Communists, pro-government trade unions, unpaid workers of a troubled chemical plant and angry taxi drivers.
President Serzh Sarkisian criticized Turkey for refusing to acknowledge the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire as Armenia hosted an international forum on crimes against humanity on Wednesday.
The Russian and French presidents and representatives of about 60 other states will arrive in Yerevan this week to participate in official events marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, it was announced on Monday.
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Thursday denounced Turkey’s furious reaction to the European Parliament’s latest calls for an official Turkish recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
American reality television star Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloe visited on Friday the Tsitsernakabert memorial in Yerevan to the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
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