Armenia still hopes to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union after deciding to join the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, a senior Armenian diplomat said on Friday. (UPDATED)
An indoor market situated in a central Yerevan boulevard reopened on Monday after undergoing reconstruction described by many local architects and urban conservation activists as illegal.
An Armenian opposition lawmaker who posed a question to President Serzh Sarkisian about his alleged gambling habit at the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly earlier this week was greeted as a hero by her supporters as she returned to Yerevan on Saturday.
Armenia officially launched on Friday the construction of a new checkpoint at its border with Georgia as part of a $80 million modernization program which is mostly financed by the European Union and aimed at facilitating cross-border travel and commerce.
Vartan Sedrakian, a former Armenian presidential candidate, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday for allegedly plotting to assassinate Paruyr Hayrikian, a veteran politician who also ran in the February 18 election.
Riot police clashed with about 100 angry activists and detained a dozen of them on Wednesday during an unsanctioned demonstration in Yerevan against Armenia’s accession to a Russian-led customs union.
Samvel Aleksanian, one of Armenia’s richest businessmen close to the government, rallied hundreds of his employees and other supporters on Monday in response to renewed protests against his controversial efforts to redesign Yerevan’s central covered market.
Five youth activists claimed to have been beaten up by unknown men over the weekend in what their leaders called a government-backed attempt to intimidate participants of a month-long sit-in outside the Yerevan Mayor’s Office.
Trial prosecutors demanded on Monday that a former Armenian presidential candidate be sentenced to 12 years in prison for plotting to assassinate Paruyr Hayrikian, a veteran politician who also ran in the February 18 ballot.
Russia’s Gazprom energy giant has expressed readiness to lower the price of its natural gas supplied to Armenia in return for gaining full ownership of the country’s gas distribution network.
Russia and Armenia gave a further boost to their defense cooperation on Tuesday with a new agreement that appears to facilitate continued Russian arms supplies to the Armenian army.
The man who confessed to shooting and wounding Paruyr Hayrikian insisted on Wednesday that he did not intend to kill the Soviet-era dissident who ran in Armenia’s recent presidential election.
A former Armenian presidential candidate charged with plotting to assassinate another hopeful received a major boost to his claims of innocence during his ongoing trial on Friday.
The parliamentary leader of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has come under fire from his opposition colleagues after publicly insulting one of them during a session of the National Assembly last week.
A self-styled scholar who ran in Armenia’s recent presidential election went on trial on Tuesday on charges of organizing an apparent attempt on the life of another outsider candidate, Paruyr Hayrikian.
Observers from the Council of Europe were cautious on Monday in evaluating the weekend municipal elections in Yerevan, praising technical aspects of their conduct but reserving judgment on their freedom and fairness.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
An Armenian police agency drawing up the national voter registry on Tuesday denied opposition allegations that thousands of provincial residents loyal to the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will be illegally allowed to vote in Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
A new opposition alliance led by Raffi Hovannisian criticized some of the other political groups challenging the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming local elections in Yerevan and ruled out pre-election cooperation with them on Thursday.
A close associate of Raffi Hovannisian rounded on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday for dismissing as unserious anti-government protests held by the fellow opposition leader after the recent presidential election.
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