The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Monday that it has accepted Prime Minister Karen Karapetian’s offer to give one of its senior members, Economy Minister Artsvik Minasian, a different cabinet post.
Economy Minister Artsvik Minasian said on Friday that Prime Minister Karen Karapetian has offered him to take up another post in Armenia’s new government which is being formed at the moment.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) dismissed on Thursday as a “fairly tale” President Serzh Sarkisian’s pledges to implement far-reaching reforms in the county.
Candidates of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) were defeated in around three dozen communities across the country in local elections held on Sunday.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rebuked Prime Minister Karen Karapetian on Friday for publicly criticizing a government minister affiliated with the influential party.
Armenia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Karen Karapetian said on Wednesday that he will embark on “systemic changes” to try to improve what he called a “very grave” economic situation in the country.
Armenia’s leadership intends to make sweeping policy changes in an effort to improve the socioeconomic situation and meet new security challenges facing the country, a senior lawmaker from the ruling Republican Party (HHK) said on Wednesday.
Vazgen Manukian, a veteran politician heading an advisory state body, on Friday urged Karen Karapetian, Armenia’s incoming prime minister, to challenge government factions and government-linked businesspeople opposed to economic reforms.
Galust Sahakian, the Armenian parliament speaker and a leading member of the ruling Republican Party (HHK), on Wednesday declined to deny media claims that Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian is poised to resign.
RFE/RL President Thomas Kent answered questions from RFE/RL’s Armenian Service in Yerevan on Tuesday after meeting with President Serzh Sarkisian during a visit to Armenia.
Armenia has asked Russia to explain why it refused entry to a prominent Armenian political analyst critical of Moscow, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Friday.
Russian immigration authorities have reportedly barred a prominent pro-Western Armenian political analyst from entering Russia.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) demanded on Wednesday that President Serzh Sarkisian’s government accept alternative legal safeguards against vote rigging after refusing to implement a recent agreement with the opposition on the proper conduct of Armenia’s next parliamentary elections.
A Russian national detained in Armenia late last week was allowed to return to Moscow on Wednesday, avoiding extradition to the United States where he is wanted on charges of money laundering and illegal arms trade.
A senior representative of a fringe opposition group that has so far avoided participating in electoral processes in Armenia has urged a jailed activist who presented a bid last week to run for a mayor in his home village to stay out of the election.
A senior official in Nagorno-Karabakh considers it impossible that the Armenian side could have agreed in Moscow to territorial concessions to Azerbaijan after claims to that effect made by a former defense minister.
International mediators continue to believe that Nagorno-Karabakh’s final status should be determined by its predominantly Armenian population in a referendum, a senior Armenian official insisted on Wednesday.
Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian has asked Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) to look into a media report that exposed a luxury house in the United States belonging to Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian’s sons, it emerged on Thursday.
A senior European Union diplomat on Wednesday praised continuing international efforts to de-escalate and resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and said the EU looks forward to further Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have accused Azerbaijani forces of beheading three Armenian soldiers and mutilating the dead bodies of more than a dozen others during recent heavy fighting around the disputed territory.
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