Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Thursday defended state regulators’ decision to raise electricity prices and urged thousands of protesters to unblock a major street in Yerevan on the fourth day of their nonstop demonstrations against the controversial measure.
Armenian security forces refrained from another violent crackdown on demonstrators protesting against a hike in electricity prices as the latter blocked a central avenue in Yerevan for the third day running on Wednesday.
The Armenian police attacked or detained more than a dozen reporters and smashed or confiscated cameras used by some of them during a violent crackdown on protesters in Yerevan on Tuesday morning.
More than 230 people were arrested in downtown Yerevan early on Tuesday as riot police broke up an overnight demonstration against rising electricity prices in Armenia on a street leading to President Serzh Sarkisian’s administration building.
Thousands of people faced off with riot police in Yerevan late on Monday after blocking a major street on the fourth day of demonstrations against the latest increase in the prices of electricity in Armenia.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Yerevan on Friday to condemn the latest increase in the prices of electricity in Armenia which was authorized by regulatory authorities on Thursday.
A convicted murderer pardoned by President Serzh Sarkisian in 2010 has emerged as another suspect in a recent brutal attack in the Armenian town of Goris that was allegedly orchestrated by a son of Suren Khachatrian, a notorious regional governor.
Utility regulators formally raised the prices of electricity in Armenia by over 16 percent on Wednesday as dozens of people scuffled with riot police in Yerevan in protest against the unpopular measure expected to spark larger anti-government demonstrations.
Four members of an ethnic Armenian family in Tbilisi are among at least 12 people killed in flooding that wreaked havoc on Georgia’s capital at the weekend, Armenia’s government said on Monday.
Two men have been arrested in connection with last month’s violent attack in the southeastern Armenian town of Goris that was allegedly orchestrated by a son of Suren Khachatrian, a controversial regional governor.
The prices of electricity in Armenia will likely rise by roughly 16 percent soon despite strong resistance from civic and opposition groups, the country’s chief utility regulatory said over the weekend.
A group of Armenian human rights activists have urged prosecutors to launch criminal proceedings against a controversial pro-government lawmaker who has threatened to “behead” those who offend Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian or members of his family.
Law-enforcement officials have questioned Suren Khachatrian, the controversial governor of Armenia’s Syunik province, in connection with a violent attack that was allegedly led by one of his sons, it emerged on Tuesday.
A pro-government parliamentarian notorious for his abusive rhetoric has sparked another scandal with death threats addressed to those who “slander” Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian or members of his family.
President Serzh Sarkisian has yet to drum up strong multi-partisan support for his controversial plans to amend Armenia’s constitution, a leading member of his Republican Party (HHK) admitted on Friday.
A notorious son of an equally controversial Armenian regional governor has been implicated in fresh violence almost two years after shooting and killing a man outside his family’s home in the southeastern town of Goris.
Armenia’s loss-making power distribution network said on Thursday that will ask public utility regulators next month to raise the prices of its electricity for a third time in less than two years.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian ruled out the possibility of returning to active politics on Tuesday two months after effectively capitulating in a bitter standoff with President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Monday refused to set free three arrested leaders of a radical opposition group that plans to launch this week a campaign of street protests against the government.
A supporter of President Serzh Sarkisian accused of beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian struck a defiant note as he went on trial in Yerevan on Friday.
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