The controversial construction of an apartment building in a Yerevan neighborhood appeared to be suspended on Monday following renewed clashes between riot police and angry local residents backed by dozens of civic activists.
The Armenian government has attracted only 240 million drams ($600,000) in private donations to thousands of farmers whose crops were destroyed by a severe hailstorm in May, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s largest supermarket chain on Friday accused its competitors, among them a government-linked tycoon, of foul play that led to bankruptcy proceedings launched against it by a court in Yerevan late last month.
Top representatives of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) and leading Armenian opposition groups expressed concern on Tuesday about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Azerbaijan that may have further improved Russia’s relations with Armenia’s arch-foe.
Hundreds of ethnic Armenian refugees from Syria have signed up for buying new and low-cost housing in a special residential district which is due to be constructed for them near Yerevan in the coming years.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday controversial guilty verdicts stemming from the 2010 death of a soldier which heightened public awareness of violent crimes committed in the Armenian army.
Armenia’s leading civic groups supporting European integration on Monday urged the government to publicize more information about its forthcoming Association Agreement with the European Union and stop “imitating” democratic reforms required for its implementation.
A former provincial government official has been arrested on embezzlement charges which some observers see as a government move against Armenia’s embattled parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian.
Tensions in a big village near Yerevan are running high more than two months after the killing of its longtime mayor who was affiliated with the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun).
Armenia’s national bar association confirmed on Tuesday it did not endorse a two-day strike called by hundreds of lawyers despite supporting their complaints against the country’s top appeals court.
About 200 lawyers went on a two-day strike on Monday to protest against what they say are arbitrary decisions routinely made by Armenia’s highest body of criminal and civil justice.
Armenia will continue to do its best to alleviate the plight of ethnic Armenians in Syria increasingly trapped by the country’s civil war, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
The Armenian government has appealed to the country’s leading businesspeople to donate money for thousands of farmers whose crops were destroyed by a powerful hailstorm on May 12.
The Armenian government will distribute free seeds and seedlings to scores of farmers in the southern Armavir province to help them partly recoup their losses incurred as a result of a powerful hailstorm, a senior official announced on Friday.
The prices of electricity in Armenia are also likely to rise soon because of the increased cost of natural gas imported from Russia, the state utilities regulator announced on Thursday.
Police used force on Wednesday to stop hundreds of angry farmers from again blocking a major highway in Armenia in continuing protests against what they see as the government’s inadequate response to a weekend hailstorm that destroyed their crops.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) and two leading opposition groups made on Friday differing interpretations of vote recounts that have been conducted at nearly one hundred precincts in Yerevan following the May 5 municipal elections.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
Tensions between two major political parties led by Gagik Tsarukian and Raffi Hovannisian again rose on Friday as they accused each other of foul play in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan.
Opposition parties should cut a power-sharing deal in Yerevan if they succeed in stripping the ruling Republican Party (HHK) of its majority in the municipal council, a deputy chairman of Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Thursday.
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