Russian soldiers will march alongside thousands of Armenian troops on Wednesday in a military parade in Yerevan that will mark the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) looks set to declare that Armenia has essentially overcome the political fallout from the disputed February 2008 presidential election and the deadly unrest caused by it.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation on Tuesday threw out an appeal from the opposition daily “Haykakan Zhamanak” that was fined 6 million drams ($16,200) earlier this year for implicating three government-linked businessmen in criminal activity.
A court in Yerevan has frozen 3 million drams ($8,000) worth of assets belonging to the independent daily “Hraparak” after a libel lawsuit filed against it by the head of a state body overseeing the Armenian judiciary.
Ministers and other senior government officials continue to aggressively lobby for patronage appointments of new civil servants connected with them or their political parties, the head of a body overseeing Armenia’s state bureaucracy said on Tuesday.
Representatives of Yerevan’s municipal administration assured the Armenian parliament on Friday that Mayor Karen Karapetian will scale back the ongoing closure of commercial kiosks across the capital that has provoked angry protests by their owners.
Colonel Margar Ohanian was formally dismissed as chief of Armenia’s traffic police on Wednesday the day after being arrested on corruption charges.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) has ceased to represent a credible alternative to Armenia’s current leadership, a leader of another major opposition force claimed on Wednesday.
A large underground pass in central Yerevan could soon become a new flashpoint in Mayor Karen Karapetian’s controversial efforts to regulate and curb street trade.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Armenia has increased further this year following robust growth registered in 2010, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Monday that it will decide within the next 24 hours whether to continue its dialogue with Armenia’s governing coalition if not all of its seven activists arrested last week are set free.
Armenians have married and divorced in larger numbers this year, according to latest official statistics released on Friday.
Instances of human trafficking in Armenia have fallen considerably since the country was removed from a U.S. State Department blacklist two years ago, a senior police official said on Friday.
The newly reelected chairman of Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Friday acknowledged a lack of public trust in the integrity of the electoral process but insisted that the CEC is not to blame for that.
A government official in Yerevan in charge of links with Armenian communities abroad has shared concerns about migration tendencies observed in the country recently, but effectively downplayed the mounting talk about an impending ‘national disaster’.
A group of Armenian scholars has addressed an open letter to the country’s political leadership urging immediate action on emigration that they claim is “turning into a national catastrophe.”
Military authorities were investigating on Friday the non-combat death of yet another Armenian soldier which highlighted their failure so far to root out chronic abuses within the army ranks.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday partly accepted libel claims made against the “Yerkir” daily by a wealthy businessman and parliament deputy close to the government.
A court in Yerevan on Monday ordered a pro-opposition newspaper to pay the family of former President Robert Kocharian 3 million drams ($8,000) in damages for what it called slanderous reports that attributed extensive business interests to his relatives.
Conditions in Armenia’s prison remain inadequate and have only worsened in recent years, a team of civil society representatives that regularly inspects them claimed on Thursday.
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