Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday formally certified the landslide victory of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance in the September 23 municipal elections in Yerevan.
The chief of Armenia’s most powerful security service has been chosen to also manage the national Football Federation (FFA) that has long been headed by a controversial businessman.
The war of words between Nikol Pashinian and his coalition partners continued on Thursday when a leading member of Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) accused the Armenian prime minister of blackmail.
The first large group of Armenian interior troops joined army units in guarding Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan on Thursday as part of an unprecedented redeployment ordered by the new government.
Citing a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable, an Armenian law-enforcement agency has charged Armen Gevorgian, a former top aide to former President Robert Kocharian, with obstructing justice in the wake of Armenia’s disputed 2008 presidential election.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party has chosen a prominent Armenian comedian as its candidate for the vacant post of Yerevan’s mayor.
Armenia’s water operator has pledged to restore full supply in the nation’s capital Yerevan where residents in recent days have complained about water shortages amid a midsummer heat wave.
United States Ambassador Richard Mills believes the recent political changes in Armenia will help bring more American trade and investments to the South Caucasus country.
The embattled mayor of the Armenian town of Echmiadzin resigned late on Sunday after law-enforcement authorities made new and far more embarrassing accusations against his father, retired General Manvel Grigorian, arrested by them.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) searched some offices in Yerevan’s municipal administration building and confiscated documents from them on Wednesday in a criminal investigation into a charity headed by embattled Mayor Taron Markarian.
The mayor of an Armenian town affiliated with the former ruling Republican Party (HHK) and three other men were controversially released from custody on Saturday one day after being charged with assaulting protesters in Yerevan in April.
An Armenian information technology (IT) association criticized the government on Friday for not financing more engineering labs in public schools, saying that they are essential for continued rapid growth Armenia’s IT sector.
A bookstore in Yerevan has cancelled a planned presentation of the Armenian translation of a memoir written by Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s former president who is now an outspoken opposition figure in Ukraine.
Several dozen drivers of minibuses in Yerevan went on strike on Tuesday to protest against a sizable increase in fuel prices that has cut their incomes.
The government has reaffirmed its pledges to significantly reduce poverty in Armenia in the next five years.
Poverty in Armenia continued to fall slowly last year despite sluggish economic growth, the National Statistical Service (NSS) said on Tuesday.
Angry parents in a village in western Armenia briefly blocked a road passing through their community on Monday morning in protest against what they described as the lack of elementary conditions at a local school attended by their children.
The Armenian government will not refrain from essentially abolishing temporary exemptions from compulsory military service, Education Minister Levon Mkrtchian told on Wednesday university students protesting against the planned measure.
At least a hundred university students in Yerevan boycotted classes on Tuesday in protest against the Armenian government’s plans to largely abolish temporary exemptions from military service enjoyed by most of them.
