Former Justice Minister Arpine Hovannisian said on Monday that she has suspended her membership in the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) in order to start a law practice and run a new think-tank.
Armenia’s government formally approved its five-year policy program on Friday, with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian saying that it marks the beginning of an “economic revolution” promised by him.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday a lower court’s decision to extend the pretrial detention of former President Robert Kocharian prosecuted on coup charges.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday did not rule out the possibility of yet another meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers later this month.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have a launched a criminal investigation into the death of a man in a Yerevan prison which followed his 44-day hunger strike.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision not to allow investigators to arrest a former senior aide to former President Robert Kocharian on a string of criminal charges.
Former Environment Minister Aram Harutiunian denied through a lawyer on Friday corruption accusations brought against him by an Armenian law-enforcement body.
A senior Armenian government official insisted on Friday that the administration of Yerevan State University (YSU) is responsible for financial irregularities worth at least 800 million drams ($1.6 million).
The leader of an Armenian parliamentary opposition party criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday for not curtailing his sweeping executive powers inherited from the country’s former leaders.
A group of ethnic Armenian migrants from Syria joined on Tuesday employees of Armenia’s Ministry of Diaspora in protesting against its closure planned by the government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended on Wednesday his decision to appoint an Armenian army general sacked following the 2016 war in Nagorno-Karabakh as his national security adviser.
Voters in Armenia cast ballots on Sunday in snap parliamentary elections held more than seven months after mass protests that brought down the country’s former government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian criticized the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Friday for promising that its wealthy leader Gagik Tsarukian will invest more in the Armenian economy if the BHK does well in the upcoming general elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian refused on Wednesday to take part in a one-on-one televised debate with the top parliamentary election candidate of the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
Fake oppositions have eroded Armenia’s political landscape in the past two decades, acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said at a meeting in Astana with representatives of the Armenian community of Kazakhstan.
