Yerevan’s Mayor Taron Markarian was sworn in for another four-year term on Monday one month after leading the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) to a landslide victory in municipal elections.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian dismissed on Monday lingering speculation about his mounting tensions with President Serzh Sarkisian, saying that their relationship is “very good, respectful and businesslike.”
President Serzh Sarkisian was confronted on Monday by about a dozen angry people dispossessed by a government-backed private construction company that demolished their homes in Yerevan years ago.
A senior diplomat from the European Union welcomed at the weekend the Armenian government’s decision to set up a new body tasked with tackling endemic corruption in the country.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), President Serzh Sarkisian’s junior coalition partner, expressed concern at serious irregularities which it said were committed in two Armenian provinces during Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
An activist of businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s electoral alliance has been stabbed and seriously wounded by men allegedly linked to the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), it emerged on Monday.
Armenia’s Minister for Emergency Situations Amen Yeritsian died at the age of 55 on Tuesday.
Twenty people went on trial in Yerevan on Friday, accused of being part of a clandestine armed group that plotted to seize power in Armenia.
A mayoral candidate from Vanadzor was detained on Wednesday after being accused of a violent assault connected with a weekend local election held in Armenia’s third largest city.
The pro-government mayor of Echmiadzin, a town 20 kilometers west of Yerevan, and his main challenger clashed with each other on the eve of a weekend local election that was won by the incumbent.
Two members of an ambulance crew who were taken hostage by opposition gunmen in Yerevan in July received awards from Armenia’s government and parliament over the weekend.
An Armenian opposition politician arrested after organizing rallies in support of a deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan has ended a month-long hunger strike, law-enforcement authorities said on Friday.
Two of the arrested opposition gunmen, who were wounded during last month’s standoff with Armenian law-enforcement authorities, underwent fresh surgeries in a Yerevan hospital on Tuesday.
An Armenian higher court has rejected the appeal filed by the lawyer of Pavel Manukian, one of about three dozen members of an armed group that seized and held for two weeks a police station in Yerevan in July, to have a general jurisdiction court’s decision on his pretrial detention revoked.
Riot police clashed late on Friday with hundreds of people near a police compound in Yerevan occupied by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group.
Armenian security forces shot and wounded three more gunmen on Friday in a continuing standoff with an armed opposition group barricaded inside a police compound in Yerevan.
Armenian security forces captured early on Wednesday four more gunmen who have been holed up in a police station in Yerevan for more than a week.
More than 200 radical opposition supporters fought pitched battles with riot police in Yerevan late on Wednesday as they attempted to approach a police station occupied by gunmen seeking to topple Armenia’s government.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh are scrambling to resettle hundreds of local residents who fled their homes immediately after heavy fighting broke out along the Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” around the territory on April 2.
Unusually strong snowstorms have swept through Armenia in recent days, killing one person, blocking major highways and leaving many cars stranded.
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