A businessman tipped to become the next mayor of Gyumri on Tuesday flatly denied reports that he will join the ruling Republican Party (HHK) after the local election that will be held in Armenia’s second city next month.
Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri will hold next month the most competitive ever elections of its municipal council that has until now been a largely rubber stamp body controlled by mayors loyal to the central government.
Gyumri’s controversial Mayor Vartan Ghukasian said on Friday that he will not run after all for another term in office in next month’s local elections and will step down after 13 years at the helm of Armenia’s second city.
Wheat production in Armenia will not fall this year despite weather conditions that have been less favorable for the staple crop than in 2011, a senior government official predicted on Wednesday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) became on Monday the first opposition party to field a candidate for an upcoming mayoral election in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri.
Gyumri’s controversial Mayor Vartan Ghukasian has resigned as a regional leader of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) amid growing signs that the government in Yerevan does not want him to run the country’s second largest city anymore.
Hundreds of self-employed taxi drivers converged on a major square in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri on Friday to protest against new licensing and taxation rules which they said could drive them out of business.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) will not necessarily join the opposition despite its decision pull out of the country’s governing coalition, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said over the weekend.
Vartan Ghukasian, the controversial mayor of Gyumri, dismissed on Wednesday media reports that he will be forced to resign soon because of the ruling Republican Party’s electoral defeat in Armenia’s second largest city.
A prominent regional leader of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) stepped down on Monday in another sign of discord within the opposition alliance headed by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
A young man who planned to marry a daughter of Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian has been gunned down in Armenia’s second largest city in unclear circumstances.
Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian predicted on Wednesday that the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will win parliamentary elections in Armenia’s second largest city and surrounding Shirak province because of large-scale housing construction in the area ravaged by a 1988 earthquake.
Police in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri officially launched criminal proceedings on Tuesday in connection with a violent clash between groups of men reportedly linked with the country’s two main governing parties.
Armenia has significantly increased acquisitions of new and sophisticated weapons in the last few years in response to a massive military buildup in Azerbaijan, according to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian has spearheaded work on the electoral manifesto of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) that will be unveiled soon, a senior HHK figure revealed on Wednesday.
A married couple in Armenia named their firstborn child after France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday in recognition of his role in the passage of a French law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide.
More 200 environmental activists and their sympathizers marched to a rich forest in northern Armenia on Sunday in protest against its ongoing transformation into an open-pit mine which they believe would severely damage the local ecosystem.
The newly appointed ambassador of the United States in Yerevan has reiterated his government’s continued support for rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey as he paid his first fact-finding visit to the northern Armenian town of Gyumri near the Turkish border.
Armenia has joined in the largely symbolic celebration of the birth of the world’s seventh billion person expected by the United Nations on Monday.
A civic group based in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri printed on Wednesday the inaugural edition of what will apparently be the sole Armenian daily newspaper published outside Yerevan.
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