Ten days before the deadline for a final decision on introducing a set of safeguards to ensure a better conduct of elections in Armenia, a parliamentary party that was part of the landmark deal with the government claims most of the promised mechanisms are unlikely to be implemented.
An arrested member of an armed group that seized and held a police station in Yerevan for two weeks in a deadly standoff with security forces last month has filed his nomination to run for mayor in his home village in elections scheduled for next month.
Ten years after the adoption of a constitution stipulating a semi-presidential form of government the ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have signaled their intentions to change the self-styled republic’s basic law in favor of vesting more powers in the president and abolishing the prime-ministerial post.
Armenian security forces captured early on Wednesday four more gunmen who have been holed up in a police station in Yerevan for more than a week.
Two of the opposition gunmen locked in a standoff with the Armenian authorities were wounded by security forces early on Tuesday in a shootout that happened just outside a police station seized by them on July 17.
Thousands of people marched in Yerevan late on Monday in support of opposition gunmen that have occupied an Armenia police station for more than a week to demand the release of their jailed leader and President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
The armed members of an opposition group holed up in a police station Yerevan may well avoid imprisonment if they surrender to law-enforcement authorities, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Monday.
Police cleared a street in Yerevan’s southern Erebuni district early on Thursday several hours after clashing there with demonstrators sympathetic to opposition gunmen occupying a nearby police station.
More than 200 radical opposition supporters fought pitched battles with riot police in Yerevan late on Wednesday as they attempted to approach a police station occupied by gunmen seeking to topple Armenia’s government.
Armenian law-enforcement officers raided on Thursday the homes of members of a hardline opposition group whose leader, Zhirayr Sefilian, was arrested last month on what he considers politically motivated charges.
Armenia’s political leadership has reaffirmed its position that Nagorno-Karabakh’s internationally recognized status can only be determined by its predominantly Armenian population in a referendum.
Several dozen supporters of Zhirayr Sefilian rallied in downtown Yerevan on Thursday to demand the immediate release of the radical opposition leader prosecuted on what they consider politically motivated charges.
Armenia will be able to use Russian warplanes and spy satellites for protecting its airspace after its new system of joint air defense with Russia takes shape this year, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Wednesday.
Offering more concessions to the opposition, the Armenian authorities have expressed readiness to ensure live online broadcasts of voting in all polling stations and take other other measures against possible fraud in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s parliament appears to have postponed the ratification of a Russian-Armenian agreement to create a new system of joint air defense that has been criticized some opposition politicians and commentators in Yerevan.
The Armenian government has laid off three deputy ministers of agriculture as part of a major cost-cutting drive that was announced by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian last month.
The commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed army, General Levon Mnatsakanian, has accused one of his predecessors, Samvel Babayan, of exploiting recent heavy fighting with Azerbaijani forces for political purposes.
Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former top military commander, received a hero’s welcome from hundreds of supporters in Stepanakert on Sunday as he returned to Karabakh after years of self-imposed exile. (UPDATED)
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed leadership has embarked on the construction of new defense fortifications along “the line of contact” around the territory following this month’s heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces deployed there.
President Serzh Sarkisian lavished praise on Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed army on Tuesday, awarding medals to more than 30 of its soldiers that were involved in this month’s fierce clashes with Azerbaijani troops.
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