Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his Civil Contract party fell just short of winning a two-thirds majority in Armenia’s new parliament, the Central Election Commission (CEC) confirmed on Tuesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian warned on Tuesday that an opposition alliance led by him will stage street protests if the Armenian authorities rig the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe officially launched on Wednesday its observation mission for Armenia’s parliamentary elections slated for June 20.
In an apparent response to international criticism, the government has withdrawn a bill that would allow it to cut state funding to Armenia’s office of the human rights ombudsman.
The Russian military announced late on Monday that it has secured the release of two Azerbaijani army soldiers detained after crossing into Armenia at the weekend.
An upcoming meeting in Yerevan of the prime ministers of former Soviet republics making up the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will go ahead as planned despite the continuing hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
The Armenian government has rejected Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest statements blaming it for the current deadlock in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
The opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) claimed on Wednesday that the Armenian authorities want to prosecute more of its senior members after bringing criminal charges against BHK leader Gagik Tsarukian.
Alen Simonian, a deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament, has dismissed accusations of breaking ethical standards after making comments about George Soros viewed by an international grant-making institution founded by the business magnate as insulting.
A leading Armenian political analyst believes that the establishment of democracy in Belarus will be of high significance to Armenia, a member of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union and Collective Security Treaty Organization that also include Belarus.
Armenian parliamentarians say they hope that the current political crisis in Belarus will not take a violent course and the situation there will be resolved peacefully.
The Armenian government on Thursday approved two more assistance programs aimed at stimulating businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Armenian Government Cautiously Upbeat On Curbing COVID-19
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has refused to issue an “interim” injunction that would freeze the implementation of constitutional changes calling for the dismissal of the chairman and three other members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
The Armenian government approved on Monday unprecedented cash payments to scores of people who have been hit hard by economic disruptions resulting from the coronavirus epidemic.
Former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian could be indicted in an ongoing criminal investigation into a 2010 privatization deal which Armenian law-enforcement autorities say cost the state millions of dollars in losses.
Artur Vanetsian, the former head of Armenia’s most powerful security service, has announced his entry into active politics, saying that he will set up a party to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government.
The Armenian branch of U.S. billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) on Wednesday accused radical anti-government forces of conducting an “unprecedented” smear campaign against it and its local partners.
A newspaper controlled by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s family has accused Artur Vanetsian of organizing a smear campaign against it, prompting an angry rebuttal from the former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).
Poverty in Armenia continued to fall last year after reaching in 2017 the lowest level since the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to government data.
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