A senior Armenian diplomat has assured lawmakers in Yerevan that Russia does not object to Armenia’s plans to sign a new agreement to deepen its political and economic relations with the European Union.
A French-Armenian activist highly critical of President Serzh Sarkisian’s government was barred from entering Armenia and deported back to France on Friday more than 12 hours after arriving at Yerevan airport.
A 73-year-old businesswoman affiliated with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has been arrested on suspicion of plotting the contract killing of a wealthy lawmaker who quit the country’s second largest parliamentary force recently.
The Armenian government plans to introduce next year house arrest and community service as legal alternatives to imprisonment of criminal suspects and convicted individuals, a senior official revealed on Friday.
The Founding Parliament, a radical Armenian opposition group, will rally supporters in Yerevan on Friday to demand the immediate release of its five leading members arrested last week on what it considers trumped-up charges.
In what they called an effort stave off “mass disturbances,” Armenian law-enforcement authorities arrested on Tuesday five leaders of a hardline opposition group that plans to launch later this month nonstop rallies aimed at toppling President Serzh Sarkisian. (UPDATED)
Armenia formally recognized the First World War-era mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire as genocide with a resolution unanimously passed by its parliament on Tuesday.
A government-drafted bill setting a considerably reduced profit tax rate for large-scale exporters has sparked debate in Armenia after reaching the National Assembly this week.
The Armenian National Assembly on Wednesday turned down an opposition-drafted resolution describing the current situation in the country as a “government crisis” and calling for measures to deal with it.
The Armenian National Congress expects an upcoming rally in Yerevan to become a “test” for political forces critical of the government to determine how firm they are in seeking regime change, a senior representative of the opposition party said.
In a move that could reignite tensions in Gyumri, the Armenian police made on Wednesday the first arrest in their investigation into last month’s unrest which followed the slaughter of a local family blamed on a Russian soldier.
A cabinet reshuffle initiated by President Serzh Sarkisian last spring has contributed to a further deterioration of Armenia’s position in global “economic freedom” rankings drawn up by two conservative U.S. institutions.
Russian border guards were obliged to hand over a Russian soldier suspected of slaughtering a family in Gyumri when they captured him on Armenia’s frontier with Turkey last week, Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian said on Thursday.
An Armenian civic activist has voiced serious concern over the fate of Leyla Yunus, a prominent Azerbaijani human rights campaigner imprisoned in Azerbaijan on dubious charges, following reports about her deteriorating health.
A senior official from the Council of Europe on Friday urged Armenian opposition parties to rethink their categorical rejection of sweeping constitutional changes planned by President Serzh Sarkisian.
An Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani custody on Friday was alone and not armed when he crossed into Azerbaijan the day before, according to residents of a border village who first spotted him.
Government corruption in Armenia has slightly decreased over the past year but remains widespread, according to an annual global survey released by Transparency International on Tuesday.
The Turkish Embassy in the Czech Republic has complained to a local non-governmental organization about an international conference on genocides and the 1915 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire in particular.
The former U.S. ambassador in Tbilisi accused Russia of financing “minority extremists” to foment trouble in Georgia’s Armenian-populated Javakheti region, in a confidential cable obtained WikiLeaks and publicized this week.
Hundreds of Turkish nationalists performed Muslim prayers in one of the most important Armenian churches of the Middle Ages on Friday, in a high-profile ceremony authorized by Turkey’s government.
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