Former President Serzh Sarkisian has reportedly been questioned by Armenian-law-enforcement authorities as a witness in their ongoing investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The European Union will provide Armenia with additional financial assistance this year in recognition of democratic change in the country, a senior EU official said during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
A leader of a small Armenian party prosecuted on corruption charges died in prison at the weekend following a 44-day hunger strike.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) on Thursday strongly denied a media report that said its most-high ranking officials received huge yearend bonuses vastly exceeding their monthly wages.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) has reported a more than 14 percent increase in the amount of taxes and customs duties collected by it in 2018.
A senior representative of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance made clear on Monday that it will not seek a power-sharing agreement with any other political group after its landslide victory in the weekend parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has issued a stern warning to a newly formed nationalist party whose members stormed a police base in Yerevan more than two years ago.
Prime Minister on Nikol Pashinian on Thursday told relevant government bodies to ensure the freedom and fairness of Armenia’s upcoming general elections which he is expected to win by a landslide.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities are poised to arrest and prosecute a parliament deputy on corruption charges, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Wednesday.
Voters in Yerevan cast ballots on Sunday in snap local elections seen as the first major test of Armenia’s new government headed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s Police and National Security Service have reported that they immediately executed the order issued by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in the wake of yesterday’s wiretapping scandal to conduct raids to disarm “so-called bodyguards of oligarchs and [former] high-ranking officials” who illegally possess weapons.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised the current level of relations between Armenia and Georgia as he hosted his Georgian counterpart Mamuka Bakhtadze in Yerevan on Monday.
Senior representatives of the former ruling Republican Party (HHK) disagreed on Wednesday with former President Robert Kocharian’s claim that the recent dramatic change of Armenia’s government resulted from HHK leader Serzh Sarkisian’s attempt to cling to power.
Armenia can no longer qualify for a multimillion-dollar U.S. aid program because of what the World Bank regards as growth in living standards in the country, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.
The United States is exploring the possibility of organizing a meeting of President Donald Trump and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in New York in September, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday.
A senior representative of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Yelk alliance on Tuesday called for the conduct of fresh municipal elections in Yerevan following the resignation of Mayor Taron Markarian.
The chief bodyguard of Gagik Tsarukian, an influential Armenian businessman and political figure, was arrested early on Tuesday on suspicion of beating up a man in Yerevan.
The National Assembly approved on Wednesday the new Armenian government’s decision to complete an unpopular reform of the country’s pension system which was launched four years ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian told an Armenian law-enforcement agency on Tuesday to vigorously prosecute corrupt state officials, tackle vote buying and solve the killings of eight opposition protesters committed in 2008.
A man working for a controversial Armenian parliamentarian affiliated with the former ruling Republican Party (HHK) has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting anti-government protesters in Yerevan last month.
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