President Armen Sarkissian has still not received a financial report on the use of $100 million raised by a pan-Armenian charity for Nagorno-Karabakh and controversially donated to Armenia’s government.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday two temporary employment programs for residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who fled to Armenia during the recent war with Azerbaijan.
Law-enforcement authorities have launched a criminal investigation into a luxury compound belonging to Vladimir Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police.
Gagik Khachatrian, a former Armenian finance minister, and his nephew went on trial on Wednesday one year after being arrested on corruption charges denied by them.
Armenia’s government is working on a wide-ranging plan to help ethnic Armenian citizens of Lebanon immigrate to their ancestral homeland, according to a senior official in Yerevan.
Wearing face masks in classes will be mandatory for students in schools and universities that reopen across Armenia next month, Education Minister Arayik Harutiunian said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has heard criticism in Armenia over his “hasty” congratulations to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on his re-election in a ballot disputed by his main opposition challenger.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and two other opposition groups have pledged to work together in challenging the government and “restoring the constitutional order” in the country.
The Armenian authorities will double the number of special teams enforcing safety rules meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday.
Amid continuing opposition criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Thursday that his political foes themselves may have contributed to the rapid spead of the disease in Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again insisted that the success of his administration’s fight against coronavirus depends on ordinary people’s behavior after Armenian health authorities reported more than 500 new COVID-19 infections for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.
The family of arrested former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian on Tuesday accused Armenian authorities of illegally trying to force it to sell its controlling stake in one of Armenia’s leading telecommunication and information technology companies at a knockdown price.
Authorities blocked on Wednesday all roads leading to Vartenis, a small town 160 kilometers northeast of Yerevan, after registering 47 cases of coronavirus there in recent days.
The chief executive and hundreds of other employees of a leading Armenian telecommunication company have reportedly tendered their resignations in protest against its majority shareholders’ plans to buy a rival firm.
Health authorities are setting up hundreds of additional hospital beds to cope with a continuing rise in coronavirus cases in Armenia.
Armenians stranded in China appealed to Armenia’s government on Tuesday to help evacuate them from the country coping with a new coronavirus that has killed more than 400 people.
Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian on Thursday challenged two leading members of the opposition Bright Armenia Party (LHK) to substantiate their allegations that his administration has accepted dubious cash donations from wealthy businesspeople.
Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian criticized a state anti-corruption body on Wednesday for deciding to investigate allegations about his conflict of interest.
An opposition alliance represented in Yerevan’s municipal council seemed on the brink of collapse on Tuesday due to growing differences between its members affiliated with two political parties.
Police raided on Friday the home of Ruben Hayrapetian, a controversial businessman who had close ties to Armenia’s former leadership, and companies belonging to him in an apparent criminal investigation into his commercial activities.
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