President Serzh Sarkisian has predicted that his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will win next year’s parliamentary elections and remain in power for at least five more years.
The Armenian Apostolic Church considers Pope Francis a “friend” of Armenia and expects tens of thousands of people to greet him during his upcoming visit to the country, a senior clergyman said on Wednesday.
An independent Armenian newspaper on Friday stopped law-enforcement authorities from detaining and questioning one of its correspondents who has reported on alleged corruption in the Defense Ministry.
Two men were arrested in Stepanakert late on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in an assault on a local opposition leader which caused outrage in both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
The commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed army, General Levon Mnatsakanian, has accused one of his predecessors, Samvel Babayan, of exploiting recent heavy fighting with Azerbaijani forces for political purposes.
A leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) insisted on Thursday that the government is not serious about its latest pledge to combat corruption and create a level playing field for all businesses.
Former President Robert Kocharian insisted through a spokesman on Friday that he is not behind a new opposition party set up by former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and has still not decided whether to return to active politics.
The time is still not ripe for Armenia to formally recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said on Wednesday.
Opposition leader and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday to discuss with its leaders the recent escalation of the conflict with Azerbaijan.
President Serzh Sarkisian reportedly threatened to sack more Armenian officials late on Wednesday when he held an emergency meeting with senior members of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
An Armenian journalist demanded on Monday that the chief of the national police service, Vladimir Gasparian, apologize for publicly offending her.
Russia urged the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to “reduce military risks” and resume peace talks as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov headed to Yerevan on Thursday.
The Armenian military on Monday claimed to have obtained more evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by Azerbaijani troops after recovering the bodies of 18 Armenian soldiers killed in and around Nagorno-Karabakh this month.
An Armenian soldier killed and allegedly decapitated by Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh has been reburied after the Armenian military has retrieved his severed head and handed it to his family.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian asked his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday to accelerate the planned delivery of $200 million worth of Russian weapons to Armenia during their talks held in Yerevan following a sharp escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The lawyer for a man accused of setting up a clandestine paramilitary organization insisted on Thursday that he did not plan to seize key government buildings and forcibly remove President Serzh Sarkisian from power.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) partly publicized on Wednesday what it described as evidence of a coup d’etat that was allegedly planned by members of an obscure militant group arrested late last year.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian has ruled out his Civil Contract party’s participation in negotiations on Armenia’s new Electoral Code planned by other opposition groups and the pro-government majority in parliament.
Critics of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) accused it on Friday of following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party (KPSS) after it announced plans to set up a “political school” for its members.
The Armenian government rejected on Thursday an opposition motion to officially mark the anniversaries of the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan, which left 10 people dead, as days of “state terror” victims.
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