Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has ordered the Armenian government to reduce “corruption risks” in its handling of state procurements which has been repeatedly criticized by the country’s leading anti-graft watchdog.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament said on Tuesday that it could make more concessions to the opposition despite pushing through a controversial bill that will regulate the conduct of next year’s parliamentary elections.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as the top U.S., Russian and French diplomats may meet early next week in an attempt to de-escalate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, senior Russian diplomats said on Thursday.
Armenia’s leading anti-graft watchdog on Wednesday voiced fresh concerns about the integrity of state procurements in the country, saying that they remain rife with serious “corruption risks.”
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) insisted in court on Wednesday that it has “reasonable” suspicions that a Paris-based Armenian Diaspora activist is a threat to the country’s security.
Armenian-populated areas of Aleppo have reportedly sustained more damage in recent days as Syrian government troops have continued their Russian-backed offensive in and around Syria’s largest city partly controlled by rebels.
A continued depreciation of the Russian ruble took a heavy financial toll on Armenia last year, cutting the country’s export revenue and especially multimillion-dollar remittances from Armenian migrant workers in Russia.
An Armenian couple has staged daily sit-ins inside a provincial administration building to protest its exclusion from a government-funded housing program which it attributes to corruption.
The Armenian authorities have failed to properly investigate any of the numerous cases of serious fraud reported during last month’s constitutional referendum, two leading opposition parties claimed on Wednesday.
As part of its stated fight against corruption, the Armenian governments plans to give more powers to a body that scrutinizes income declarations submitted by senior state officials and their family members.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) rejected on Sunday opposition demands to annul the official results of the disputed December 6 referendum in Armenia, insisting that voters overwhelmingly backed President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional amendments.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Thursday shed no further light on Wednesday’s arrests in Yerevan of 12 members of an alleged militant group, saying only that they will not be used against opposition groups.
Authorities in Azerbaijan sent an elderly resident of an Armenian border village back to Armenia on Thursday four days after she accidentally crossed the heavily militarized border between the two countries.
A retired army colonel who was jailed two years ago after organizing anti-government protests in Yerevan went on a hunger strike on Friday in protest against the Armenian authorities’ refusal to set him free on parole.
Over 2,000 more ethnic Armenians from Syria have taken refuge in Armenia since fighting in Aleppo, their principal place of residence, escalated in May, Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian said on Wednesday.
One Azerbaijani and two Armenian soldiers have been killed and several more civilians from both sides wounded in continuing ceasefire violations reported from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
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.
An Armenian prosecutor demanded on Tuesday a 14-year prison sentence for a man who opened fire outside a Yerevan court last year to protest against the trial of 14 activists jailed for staging a violent anti-government demonstration.
An Armenian police officer was suspended over the weekend after slapping a participant of a fresh demonstration in Yerevan against a controversial increase in electricity prices in the country.
Andranik Azibekian, the former chief of police of the town of Ijevan in Armenia’s northeastern Tavush province, has been sentenced to 5 years after being found guilty of forging evidence to save a friend from prosecution.
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