Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday pulled out of a power-sharing agreement with a political group that won most votes in municipal elections held in Gyumri two years ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian touted his government’s handling of the massive influx of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday even as at least 1,700 of them continued to live in kindergartens, schools and other buildings hastily converted into shelters.
At least 11 people were killed and nine others injured in an overnight collision of a passenger minibus and a truck in Armenia.
Wholesale prices of wheat mostly imported to Armenia from Russia have shrunk by half over the past year, taking their toll on Armenian grain farmers.
An opposition activist based in Gyumri on Monday claimed to have been assaulted by a local police officer.
A local government official affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party is prosecuted for assaulting a fellow villager but is not yet facing charges stemming from his recent threats to “shoot” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s detractors.
A member of Gyumri’s municipal council affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party was arrested on Thursday on charges of involvement in the kidnapping, torture and shooting of a man.
Armenia’ national customs service is struggling to cope with rapidly growing imports of cars that appear to be mostly re-exported to Russia as a result of Western sanctions against Moscow.
A member of Gyumri’s municipal council affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party was arrested over the weekend on charges of mugging a Russian couple.
Arkadi has worked in Russia on a seasonal basis for the last 15 years and is planning to go there again this spring. He earned in 2022 as much as he had in previous years despite the crippling Western sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.
The United States has called on Armenian opposition supporters to avoid violence and respect “Armenia’s democracy” in their continuing protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Teenagers attending a Russian school in Armenia have been lined up in letter Z in support of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Armenia and neighboring Georgia late on Sunday, causing brief panic among some people.
The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province was relieved of his duties on Thursday more than two weeks after the ruling Civil Contract party’s failure to win a municipal election in the provincial capital Gyumri.
A leader of the political force that won the October 17 municipal election in Gyumri became the mayor of Armenia’s second largest city on Monday after striking a power-sharing deal with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party.
The political force that won the October 17 municipal election in Gyumri has yet to clarify whether it will team up with the ruling Civil Contract party or an opposition group to install the new mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party failed to unseat the jailed opposition-linked mayor of a major community in Armenia’s Syunik province and was also defeated in Gyumri in local elections held on Sunday.
Seven political parties and three blocs have applied to run in local elections that will be held in Gyumri on October 17.
Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikian hailed on Tuesday the European Union’s pledge to provide up to 600 million euros ($715 million) in funding for the Armenian government’s plans to upgrade major national highways.
The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province has denied allegations that he fired the directors of two local schools and a policlinic because they supported the main opposition Hayastan alliance in this month’s parliamentary elections.
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