President Serzh Sarkisian criticized on Monday youth activists protesting against his government’s decision to essentially abolish temporary exemptions from military service that have long been enjoyed by many students of state-run universities.
A holder of an Armenian diplomatic passport is one of 10 Russian nationals that have been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury Department for allegedly leading a major organized-crime syndicate.
A group of Armenian lawyers went on a symbolic brief strike on Thursday to protest against a government bill that will allow judges to fine them for contempt of court.
The chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, Gagik Harutiunian, said on Monday that he does not want to become the next president of the republic despite speculation to the contrary.
Armenia’s prominent Soviet-era dissident Paruyr Hayrikian, who currently heads an extra-parliamentary political party, has gone on an open-ended hunger strike in front of the Central Election Commission building in Yerevan over what he described as “anti-constitutional” behavior of the body.
The Armenian parliament began debating on Wednesday a government proposal to essentially abolish temporary exemptions from military service that have long been enjoyed by many students of state-run universities.
A man accused of plotting, together with a radical opposition leader, an armed revolt against the Armenian government has refused food for the last three weeks in what is his third hunger strike in less than a year.
An Armenian court refused on Tuesday to set free an opposition activist pending a verdict in his trial on charges of aiding gunmen that seized a police station in Yerevan last year to demand President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
Just months after being accused of forcing public sector employees to campaign for the ruling Republican Party (HHK), the Armenian authorities plan to introduce tougher penalties for abuse of administrative resources during elections.
The government plans to considerably increase its defense spending next year in order to purchase more weapons and ammunition for Armenia’s armed forces, Defense Minister Vigen Sargsian said on Monday.
A maverick activist controversially jailed in Armenia has again gone on hunger strike in an apparent show of defiance against the authorities.
An Armenian man extradited from Russia earlier this year went on trial on Monday, accused of involved in an armed revolt allegedly plotted by Zhirayr Sefilian, a radical opposition figure.
The trial began on Wednesday of an Armenian opposition activist accused of aiding gunmen that seized a police station in Yerevan last year to demand President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
One of the organizers of last summer’s rallies held in support of radical opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan on Monday described as deeply flawed the criminal investigation into his actions during the unrest.
Armenia’s human rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, on Tuesday described as “unacceptable” the prison conditions of a jailed opposition activist who has been kept in solitary confinement for the past three weeks.
Authorities in Yerevan began demolishing an open-air market on Wednesday as part of a planned redevelopment of a surrounding old neighborhood in the city center strongly resisted by local residents and traders.
An Armenian opposition activist was released from custody on Wednesday almost one year after being arrested during a demonstration held in support of anti-government gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
Law-enforcement authorities have somewhat reduced criminal charges levelled against Samvel Babayan, a retired army general close to an Armenian opposition alliance who was controversially arrested in March.
Relatives of an Armenian family of seven murdered by a Russian soldier have demanded that Armenia’s Constitutional Court overturn a lower court’s refusal to order Russia to pay them a hefty financial compensation.
A senior member of the opposition Yelk alliance on Tuesday welcomed the Armenian government’s plans to set up a new body tasked with tackling corruption in the country.
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