Two more ethnic Armenians were reportedly killed and three others wounded in Aleppo on Wednesday as Syrian government forces and rebels continued to battle for control of the war-ravaged city.
The governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed victory in local elections held in about 300 communities on Sunday but risked losing control of Vanadzor, the country’s third largest city.
Representatives of Armenia’s government and three major opposition parties signed on Tuesday a new agreement aimed at preventing possible fraud in next year’s crucial parliamentary elections.
The European Court of Human Rights has handed down 20 rulings against the Armenian authorities since the beginning of 2014, costing them over 335,000 euros ($375,000) in damages, a senior official said on Friday.
More than a thousand people blocked a major street in central Yerevan late on Saturday in continuing demonstrations held in support of an armed opposition group demanding President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
Armenia’s human rights ombudsman on Tuesday criticized police for detaining opposition activists and apparently ill-treating some of them during Monday’s demonstrations held in support of gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
Nikol Pashinian, a prominent Armenian opposition parliamentarian, demanded that law-enforcement authorities allow him to meet the jailed leader of a radical opposition group whose armed members continued to occupy a police building in Yerevan early on Monday.
Several dozen supporters of Zhirayr Sefilian rallied in downtown Yerevan on Thursday to demand the immediate release of the radical opposition leader prosecuted on what they consider politically motivated charges.
The European Union said on Monday that it is prepared to finance the implementation of a compromise agreement on the proper conduct of next year’s parliamentary election reached by Armenia’s government and opposition.
The Armenian government has laid off three deputy ministers of agriculture as part of a major cost-cutting drive that was announced by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian last month.
A new Russian-Armenian system of joint air defense agreed by the two sides recently will boost Armenia’s national security and will not limit its sovereignty, the authorities in Yerevan insisted on Thursday.
Not only Russia but also other states making up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) deserve credit for a quick end to last April’s heavy fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian-led alliance’s secretary general claimed on Wednesday.
The government is serious about its pledges to de-monopolize lucrative imports of essential goods and commodities to Armenia, Economy Minister Artsvik Minasian insisted on Thursday.
More than one month after meeting with Armenian lawmakers in Yerevan, a Russian parliamentary delegation has still not approved a draft joint statement that reportedly blames Azerbaijan for the recent escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Thursday reaffirmed Armenia’s strong support for urgent confidence-building measures that would strengthen the ceasefire regime around Nagorno-Karabakh following last month’s heavy fighting there.
The government moved on Thursday to postpone by one more year the full entry into force of its controversial reform of Armenia’s national pension system which sparked angry street protests two years ago.
The Armenian government paved the way on Thursday for parliamentary debates on an opposition bill that would obligate it to formally recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested a man suspected of throwing a hand grenade towards former President Robert Kocharian’s private residence in Yerevan late last week.
The longtime mayor of Hrazdan narrowly defeated a prominent candidate representing Nikol Pashinian’s opposition Civil Contract party in a local election held in the central Armenian town on Sunday.
The parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have pledged to honor a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped heavy fighting between their troops, international mediators said on Saturday at the end of their visit to Baku, Stepanakert and Yerevan.
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