An Armenian opposition alliance on Sunday accused the authorities of transporting scores of residents of villages and small towns to Yerevan to illegally vote for President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes in local precincts.
Azerbaijan remains opposed to the idea of international investigations of intensifying ceasefire violations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, according to Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
Three opposition parties campaigning against President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional amendments have named their representatives to the vast majority of Armenia’s election commissions that will hold the December 6 referendum.
Opposition leaders accused Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Tuesday of pressuring Armenian servicemen to vote for President Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial constitutional changes in the upcoming referendum.
Two Armenian opposition parties and one civic group jointly campaigning against controversial constitutional amendments ahead of a December referendum claim they are in unequal conditions with the pro-reform forces at the start of the campaign.
Activists of a local civic group opposed to the planned constitutional changes have accused the administration of Armenia’s top university of allowing campaigning among students on the premises of the establishment ahead of a referendum, which is against Armenia’s law.
Turkish military helicopters twice violated Armenia’s airspace earlier this week, according to a senior Armenian government official.
Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian sought to reassure anxious grape growers across Armenia on Wednesday, insisting that they will be able to sell the bulk of their produce to domestic wine and brandy distilleries.
Ending months of speculation, Russia’s state-controlled energy conglomerate Inter RAO announced on Wednesday the widely anticipated sale of Armenia’s debt-ridden power distribution network to another Russian group owned by an Armenian-born billionaire.
Law-enforcement authorities reported on Thursday the arrest of three men suspected of involvement in Monday’s brutal attack on a member of an Armenian group at odds with the government.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned as “savage” the beating of yet another Armenian anti-government activist and called on the authorities in Yerevan to identify and punish those responsible for the violence.
An Armenian opposition activist treated for severe injuries in a Yerevan hospital claimed on Tuesday that one of the men who assaulted him works for Ruben Hayrapetian, a notoriously violent businessman linked to the government.
Yet another member of an Armenian pressure group challenging the government was severely beaten by unknown men and hospitalized on Monday after taking part in an opposition demonstration in downtown Yerevan.
An Armenian court handed down on Tuesday a 9-year prison sentence to a man who fired gunshots last year to protest against the trial of 14 activists jailed for staging a violent anti-government demonstration.
Armenian youth activists scheduled no fresh protests against a recent electricity price increase after riot police forcibly broke up early on Saturday their latest demonstration staged on a central Yerevan avenue.
In a quick pre-dawn operation, riot police dispersed on Saturday youth activists blocking a major street in central Yerevan to demand that the Armenian authorities formally annul a recent rise in electricity prices.
Hundreds of mostly young people re-occupied a central Yerevan avenue and faced off with riot police late on Friday in renewed protests against the recent increase in electricity prices in Armenia.
Armenian youth activists campaigning against a controversial electricity price hike on Wednesday gave the Armenian government until September 11 to formally scrap the unpopular measure or face fresh nonstop demonstrations in Yerevan.
About a hundred youth activists scuffled with riot police in Yerevan on Tuesday as they tried unsuccessfully to block a central city avenue during renewed protests against a recent increase in electricity prices in Armenia.
The government extended its electricity price subsidy to some Armenian small businesses on Monday ahead of new demonstrations planned by the organizers of the recent “Electric Yerevan” protests.
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