The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), the second largest in parliament, said on Wednesday that President Serzh Sarkisian has not yet offered it to join a new coalition government that could be formed by him.
Karen Andreasian, Armenia’s human rights ombudsman, remained reluctant to clearly explain his unexpected resignation as he was formally relieved of his duties on Monday.
Several dozen Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war gathered outside a Yerevan court on Friday to demand the release of their four comrades accused of being part of a militant group that allegedly plotted high-profile assassinations.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) detained on Thursday two more people, one of them a well-known politician, in a continuing investigation into political assassinations which it says were planned by an obscure Armenian group.
The official results of Armenia’s disputed constitutional referendum will not be annulled even if law-enforcement bodies accept opposition allegations of serious fraud in five precincts in Yerevan, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Thursday.
In what it called fresh evidence of serious fraud, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) reported on Wednesday huge discrepancies between official results of the December 6 constitutional referendum in five precincts in Yerevan.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) rejected on Sunday opposition demands to annul the official results of the disputed December 6 referendum in Armenia, insisting that voters overwhelmingly backed President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional amendments.
Former President Robert Kocharian alleged through a spokesman on Wednesday “systematic” fraud in Armenia’s constitutional referendum, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian did not win a popular mandate to turn the country into a parliamentary republic.
Voting began on Sunday in a referendum on controversial constitutional changes that would turn Armenia into a parliamentary republic after President Serzh Sarkisian completes his second and final term in office in 2018.
Campaigning ahead of Armenia’s constitutional referendum officially ended on Friday, with the ruling Republican Party (HHK) again expressing confidence that President Serzh Sarkisian will win popular support for the country’s transition to the parliamentary system of government.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian made clear on Wednesday that he will not join the ongoing anti-government protests in Yerevan organized by more radical opposition forces, questioning their ability to unseat President Serzh Sarkisian.
The United States said on Monday that it will consider helping Armenian law-enforcement authorities investigate political assassinations and other terrorist attacks in Armenia that were allegedly plotted by 21 people arrested last week.
The ten people arrested by security forces during Wednesday’s raid on their alleged hideout in Yerevan plotted to kill senior Armenian officials and carry out other terrorist attacks in Armenia, the National Security Service (NSS) said on Friday.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Thursday shed no further light on Wednesday’s arrests in Yerevan of 12 members of an alleged militant group, saying only that they will not be used against opposition groups.
Ruben Hayrapetian, the controversial chairman of the Armenia Football Federation (AFF), on Wednesday accused unnamed players of Armenia’s national soccer team of deliberately losing its last competitive game.
A senior representative of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) expressed confidence on Friday that Armenians will overwhelmingly back President Serzh Sarkisian’s sweeping constitutional changes in next month’s referendum.
President Serzh Sarkisian inspected Armenian troops deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan and proceeded to Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as his foreign minister, Edward Nalbandian, discussed the Karabakh peace process with lawmakers in Yerevan.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) accused Education Minister Armen Ashotian on Monday of forcing the directors and teachers of public schools to promote President Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial constitutional changes among voters.
Senior officials in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh dismissed on Thursday a Russian newspaper report which has fueled renewed speculation that Russia is pressuring the Armenian side to make unilateral territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Amid opposition allegations of serious fraud planned in Armenia’s upcoming constitutional referendum, the National Assembly passed in the final reading on Wednesday a bill that eases legal requirements for voter identification in polling stations.
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