The Armenian government moved on Thursday to make it a criminal offense to buy or sell votes in elections held in the country.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) confirmed on Tuesday that it will not take part in next month’s snap municipal elections in Yerevan.
Manvel Grigorian, a retired army general arrested recently on corruption charges, has been hospitalized to undergo medical tests ordered by an Armenian law-enforcement agency.
The Zharangutyun (Heritage) party on Monday nominated its founding leader Raffi Hovannisian as its top candidate in next month’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
Senior representatives of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) have reacted furiously to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest speech, accusing him of stifling dissent, blackmailing the Armenian parliament and seeking to control the judiciary.
The Armenian government formally dissolved Yerevan’s municipal council on Thursday, paving the way for snap local elections that will be held in the second half of September.
Hundreds of employees of the Armenian Ministry of Health and other government agencies were briefly evacuated on Wednesday after what turned out to be a false bomb alert.
A group of protesters burst into a hotel in Yerevan on Tuesday, preventing former President Robert Kocharian from holding a news conference there.
Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General on Wednesday refused to release former President Robert Kocharian from custody pending investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The head of an Armenian law-enforcement agency investigating the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan has declined to clarify whether it could also prosecute or question former President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenia’s French-managed water distribution network said on Friday that it will ask state utility regulators next week to allow a 7 percent increase in the price of drinking water in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party has chosen a prominent Armenian comedian as its candidate for the vacant post of Yerevan’s mayor.
Zharangutyun (Heritage) party leader Raffi Hovannisian confirmed on Friday the demise of his political alliance with former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian which unsuccessfully challenged Armenia’s former leadership.
A senior member of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Thursday that it is unlikely to nominate a new mayor of Yerevan who can be elected by the HHK-controlled municipal council.
A nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan has been charged with attempting to kill a man in Yerevan more than a decade ago, an Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Wednesday.
The mayor of Armavir, a town 45 kilometers west of Yerevan, resigned on Friday following a series of protests against his long rule staged by local residents.
Angry demonstrations against Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s rule continued unabated in Yerevan on Saturday despite fresh mass detentions of their participants.
Riot police cordoned off a major government building in Yerevan and pushed aside opposition supporters blocking its entrances on Thursday morning on the seventh day of street protests against Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian.
At least 80 mostly young people were detained on Tuesday during continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan.
The German Embassy in Armenia has effectively suspended its decision to outsource consular services to a Turkish-based company which is being investigated by the Armenian authorities, it emerged on Tuesday.
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