The opposition Bright Armenia party condemned the pro-government majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday for not electing one of its leaders as a deputy speaker of the parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with Bako Sahakian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president, in Yerevan on Thursday two weeks after accusing senior officials in Stepanakert of “meddling” in Armenia’s parliamentary race.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has abused his administrative resources ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections, a top representative of Armenia’s leading anti-corruption watchdog said on Thursday.
Acting ministers and governors representing the political team of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will run for parliament in December elections, according to a senior member of Pashinian’s Civil Contract Party.
The Armenian parliament will again debate next week a package of major amendments to the Electoral Code drafted by the government.
Responding to an appeal from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, thousands of people began gathering in Yerevan late on Tuesday after the Armenian parliament hastily passed a bill that could seriously complicate his plans to force snap general elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and parliament speaker Ara Babloyan reportedly agreed on Monday to defuse political tensions in Armenia following bitter recriminations traded by the country’s current and former leaders.
Dan Bilzerian, a controversial American social media celebrity of Armenian descent, officially became an Armenian citizen on Monday during his first-ever visit to his ancestral homeland.
Yerevan’s embattled Mayor Taron Markarian on Wednesday denied through a spokesman reports that he has decided to resign.
Two senior local government officials in Yerevan were arrested on Thursday as the National Security Service (NSS) continued a criminal investigation into a municipal fund overseen by Mayor Taron Markarian.
Leaders of a pressure group strongly opposed to a controversial reform of Armenia’s pension system on Tuesday pledged to stage street protests against the new government’s decision to complete its gradual introduction next month.
The government appointed on Friday the new governors of eight of the ten provinces of Armenia who mainly represent the three minority factions in the parliament.
A leading member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Sunday that it will not try to prevent a joint candidate of the three other parliamentary forces from becoming the country’s new prime minister.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday pledged to expand daily “blockades” of key government buildings, while telling supporters to stop spending nights at a street junction in Yerevan that has been occupied by them for the last four days.
Armenia hopes that Azerbaijan will agree to major confidence-building measures in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after President Ilham Aliyev’s victory in a snap presidential election, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The Armenian parliament on Wednesday unanimously ratified a landmark agreement aimed at deepening Armenia’s political and economic relations with the European Union.
A landmark agreement signed by Armenia and the European Union in November does not call for the closure of the Metsamor nuclear power plant anytime soon, a senior Armenian official insisted on Tuesday.
A senior aide to Gagik Tsarukian indicated on Monday that his political alliance will not attempt to scuttle President Serzh Sarkisian’s apparent plans to become prime minister after serving out his second term next week.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has said that street demonstrations planned by opposition groups cannot deter it from helping President Serzh Sarkisian stay in power after his final presidential term ends on April 9.
Less than two weeks after being elected member of the Constitutional Court Armenia’s ex-Minister of Justice Hrair Tovmasian has been named as a candidate for the post of the Court’s chairman.
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