Armenian businesswoman Silva Hambardzumian claims that in 2008 she gave a $14 million bribe to the then environment minister and current lawmaker Aram Harutiunian to obtain a mine development license.
A 41-year-old comedian allied to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian took over as mayor of Yerevan on Wednesday at the inaugural session of the new city council elected late last month.
A top candidate for Yerevan mayor running in this month’s municipal elections in an alliance loyal to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has expressed his regret over some controversial statements he made during a weekend campaign fundraising event.
Arman Mkrtumian, the former powerful head of Armenia’s highest criminal court, was shot and lightly wounded late on Tuesday in a reported armed attack on his house carried out by gunmen.
Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinian on Tuesday defended the decision by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party to nominate a prominent Armenian comedian as its candidate for the vacant post of Yerevan’s mayor.
In a move that sparked protests by medics, the Armenian Ministry of Health sacked on Friday the executive director of a Yerevan hospital, who is related to former President Serzh Sarkisian, after alleging fraudulent practices there.
Paving the way for pre-term local elections, Yerevan’s municipal council failed to elect a new mayor of the Armenian capital on Monday.
At least 169 people were detained in Yerevan on Friday as the Armenian police tried to stop opposition supporters from again blocking streets in protest against Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian.
A journalist working for an Armenian civic group was assaulted and seriously injured by unknown men while covering an opposition demonstration in Yerevan on Thursday.
At least 80 mostly young people were detained on Tuesday during continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Thousands of opposition supporters again took to the streets of Yerevan on Tuesday during a session of the Armenian parliament which formalized former President Serzh Sarkisian’s continued rule.
Hundreds of people blocked more streets in the center of Yerevan on Monday on the fourth day of their nonstop demonstrations aimed at preventing former President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his rule.
The Armenian parliament approved on Friday a government proposal to essentially ban reporters from attending sessions of Yerevan’s municipal council.
An Armenian television commercial using comparisons of prices and quality of goods with people of different age, color of the skin and physique has sparked criticism against its authors who have been accused of showing a discriminatory approach.
A senior representative of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s party indicated on Tuesday that it will not join forces with another opposition group, the Yelk alliance, in trying to prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his decade-long rule.
An Armenian youth activist went on hunger strike on Monday in protest against the government’s controversial decision to essentially abolish temporary exemptions from military service that have long been enjoyed by many students of state-run universities.
Couples with infertility in Armenia will not be able to benefit from a major state-funded reproductive health program next year after the government has excluded it from the 2018 state budget, casting doubts on its cost efficiency.
A controversial reform of Armenia’s pension system, which sparked angry street protests three years ago, will be completed as planned next year, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Artem Asatrian said on Monday.
Environment Minister Artsvik Minasian, one of the three cabinet members representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), on Tuesday dismissed renewed speculation about his tense relationship with Prime Minister Karen Karapetian.
The main defendants in the trial of 20 people prosecuted on coup charges insisted on Friday that they did not plot to overthrow Armenia’s government.
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