A man arrested on charges of murdering a village mayor affiliated with the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) strongly denies any involvement in the high-profile crime, according to his lawyer.
Riot police should have acted more forcefully against thousands of opposition supporters that demonstrated against President Serzh Sarkisian’s second inauguration, a deputy chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday.
The mayor of a village near Yerevan affiliated with the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on Tuesday.
A newly established political party seeking representation in the Armenian capital’s municipal assembly has been given until Friday afternoon to pay an electoral deposit or be disqualified from the race.
Raffi Hovannisian’s Zharangutyun (Heritage) party has teamed up with five other, smaller opposition groups to participate in the upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan, it was announced on Thursday.
Raffi Hovannisian, the official runner-up in Armenia’s presidential election, sought to keep up pressure on Serzh Sarkisian on Friday, again rallying supporters in Yerevan and demanding the incumbent president’s resignation.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) expects to retain control of Yerevan’s municipal administration as a result of elections scheduled for May 5, according to a senior HHK official.
A lawyer for Vartan Sedrakian on Thursday asked Armenia’s Court of Appeals to overturn what he called an illegal pre-trial arrest of the presidential candidate accused of attempting to kill another contender.
The government has proposed helping to build special residential areas in three small towns close to Yerevan for thousands of ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia.
The defense ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan reportedly discussed an apparent upsurge in ceasefire violations along the border between the two countries during a rare conversation on Friday.
Arman Melikian, an opposition presidential candidate, on Wednesday branded the upcoming presidential election as “illegitimate” and said he will not cast a ballot on February 18.
Thousands of Syrians of Armenian descent, who have taken refuge in Armenia and become its citizens recently, will be able to vote this month in a relatively competitive election for the first time in their lives.
Education Minister Armen Ashotian said on Wednesday that he will order disciplinary action against two more school principals who cancelled classes so that their students attend President Serzh Sarkisian’s campaign rallies.
An Armenian presidential candidate announced his withdrawal from the race and another one threatened to follow suit on Tuesday, expressing serious concern over the freedom and fairness of the February 18 election.
Syria’s national airline has suspended weekly flights to Armenia, mainly used by ethnic Armenians fleeing the country, following fierce fighting between government forces and rebels reported around Aleppo airport.
A Yerevan-based non-governmental organization began distributing on Thursday $100,000 worth of humanitarian assistance allocated by Kuwait to thousands of Syrian Armenians who have taken refuge in Armenia.
Citing the worsening situation in Syria, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that it has decided to send cash, rather than food and medication, to ethnic Armenians remaining there from now on.
Education Minister Armen Ashotian rejected on Wednesday opposition calls for an urgent revision of a new history textbook for state-run universities that upholds the disputed official version of Armenia’s 2008 post-election unrest.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) continues to believe that official Yerevan must not encourage a mass out-migration of ethnic Armenians from Syria despite worsening violence there, a senior representative of the pan-Armenian party said on Wednesday.
In annual fundraisers held this month, a pan-Armenian charity has secured over $21 million in donations to finance more rural infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh and help Syria’s struggling Armenian community.
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