U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills on Tuesday praised the Armenian police and anti-government protesters led by Nikol Pashinian for avoiding bloodshed during their 11-day standoff that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian.
Angry demonstrations against Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s rule continued unabated in Yerevan on Saturday despite fresh mass detentions of their participants.
A new and more powerful body tasked with tackling corruption in Armenia will be formed before the end of next month in line with a government bill passed by the parliament last year.
In a move condemned by the opposition, the Armenian government has granted the outgoing President Serzh Sarkisian ownership of a mansion in Yerevan where he and his predecessors have lived while in office.
A former employee of Armenia’s electricity distribution network, who was fired in 2013 after accusing company executives of corruption, has filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A report aired during last week’s evening show on Armenia’s Public Television sparked criticism among human rights activists who insist that female prison inmates featured in the program became a target of unsolicited ridicule.
An opposition leader in Armenia has asked the country’s prosecutor-general to subpoena ex-president Robert Kocharian for questioning over 2008 post-election violence that left 10 people dead.
Armenia’s has slightly improved its position in an annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world conducted by Transparency International.
Justice Minister Davit Harutiunian on Tuesday brushed aside claims by some lawyers and opposition politicians that the upcoming election by the Armenian parliament of the country’s next president is unconstitutional.
Leaders of the opposition Yelk alliance denounced at the weekend President Serzh Sarkisian’s perceived plans to extend his decade-long rule by becoming prime minister after Armenia is transformed into a parliamentary republic in April.
The National Assembly voted down on Friday an opposition bill that would reverse recent increases in personal income and fuel taxes initiated by the Armenian government.
Hundreds of Armenian lawyers staged a fresh strike on Wednesday in protest against government plans to allow judges to fine them for contempt of court.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), President Serzh Sarkisian’s junior coalition partner, has said that it remains dissatisfied with the socioeconomic situation in Armenia despite “unprecedented” GDP growth achieved last year.
The Armenian government has already secured more than a third of around $850 million in investments which it promised to attract into the domestic economy this year, Minister for Economic Development Suren Karayan claimed on Friday.
The head of the European Union mission in Armenia, Piotr Switalski, dismissed on Tuesday the Armenian authorities’ angry reaction to his public criticism of the conduct of the country’s recent parliamentary elections.
Justice Minister Davit Harutiunian on Thursday strongly criticized the head of the European Union mission in Armenia for questioning the credibility of the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) dominated by government loyalists.
Armenia will continue to seek closer links with Qatar despite serious sanctions that have been imposed on it by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, a senior government official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The Armenian government remains confident that economic growth in the country will accelerate to at least 3.2 percent this year, Finance Minister Vartan Aramian said on Thursday.
Members of the opposition Yelk (Way Out) faction in Armenia’s newly elected parliament sought on Friday to convince the ruling Republican Party (HHK) to keep a standing human rights committee despite the decision to reduce the number of such committees from 12 to 9.
Voters in Yerevan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new municipal council that will appoint the Armenian capital’s mayor.
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