A radical Armenian opposition group said on Thursday that it will launch on April 24 a campaign of nonstop street protests in Yerevan aimed at forcing President Serzh Sarkisian to step down.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said on Wednesday that his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party will avoid any further dialogue with President Serzh Sarkisian on his controversial plans to make sweeping changes in Armenia’s constitution.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian dismissed at the weekend sweeping constitutional changes planned by Armenia’s leadership, saying that his recently formed political group will not even discuss them with President Serzh Sarkisian.
Poland hopes that Armenia will specify its position on relations with the European Union at the next Eastern Partnership summit, outlining the limits of its possible cooperation with the 28-nation bloc, the country’s ambassador in Yerevan said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s major opposition parties remain vague on their immediate steps after Prosperous Armenia, admittedly the most influential of them, came under huge government pressure earlier this month.
An Armenian lawmaker critical of the government has slammed other opposition members of parliament for not supporting his initiative to impeach President Serzh Sarkisian that failed earlier this week.
Armenia’s key opposition parties seeking an immediate regime change have decided to hold a joint “urgent” rally in Yerevan next Friday in response to a government crackdown against one of them.
Gagik Tsarukian on Thursday announced fresh anti-government protests planned by his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and its opposition allies but again stopped of calling for President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
Bako Sahakian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president, on Tuesday ordered the local police to investigate their violent response to dozens of opposition activists from Armenia who attempted to enter Karabakh at the weekend.
A commission comprising Armenia’s top state officials and Diaspora leaders has yet to decide what it will demand from Turkey apart from the recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide, a senior official in Yerevan said on Friday.
The Armenian police said on Wednesday that they are trying to identify and prosecute the “organizers” of violent protests in Gyumri that followed the January 12 massacre of a local family blamed on a Russian soldier.
Yet another activist highly critical of Armenia’s political leadership was beaten up and hospitalized in Yerevan at the weekend in an attack which he blamed on the authorities.
Dozens more minibus drivers in Yerevan refused to work Thursday on the second day of a strike action organized by their colleagues in protest against a sharp rise in the price of liquefied gas used by their vehicles.
An Armenian opposition lawmaker was beaten up late on Thursday, the latest in a series of violent attacks on prominent participants of recent anti-government demonstrations staged by three major opposition parties.
Three leading opposition parties assured thousands of supporters rallying in Yerevan on Wednesday that they will soon publicize a plan of further joint actions aimed at achieving “regime change” in Armenia.
An Armenian opposition activist alleged a government campaign of intimidation on Friday as he was discharged from hospital one day after being attacked and injured in Yerevan by unknown individuals.
An Armenian opposition activist was assaulted and injured in Yerevan on Thursday shortly after a series of arson attacks on cars belonging to six other members of a vocal anti-government movement.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Friday acknowledged differences among his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party and two other major parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian and set conditions for their continued joint activities.
The Constitutional Court upheld on Friday a recently signed treaty on Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, paving the way for its ratification by the Armenian parliament.
A group of parents whose sons died in the army in circumstances not related to combat duty have threatened to start a sitting strike near the presidential office in Yerevan and stay there until the head of state meets them personally.
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