President Armen Sarkissian has refused to validate major amendments to Armenia’s Electoral Code which some opposition parties say are aimed at helping Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian win snap parliamentary elections expected in June.
The head of an independent body empowered to nominate, sanction and fire judges on Friday accused Armenia’s political leadership of ordering criminal proceedings against him in a bid to replace him with a government ally.
A court in Yerevan on Monday reaffirmed its provisional decision to reinstate Colonel-General Onik Gasparian, the former chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff fired last month after demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political team have named four senior government officials to run their parliamentary election campaign.
Armenian hospitals appeared to have practically run out of vacant beds for COVID-19 patients on Tuesday amid what health officials described as a third wave of coronavirus infections in the country.
Armenian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously adopted amendments to the penal code setting tougher penalties for high treason and espionage.
The Armenian parliament on Wednesday elected Arsen Mkrtchian judge of the Civil and Administrative Chamber of the Court of Cassation.
Armenian authorities say the search for a fugitive former prosecutor-general wanted on criminal charges continues despite a document unveiled by an Armenian lawmaker suggesting that Interpol has refused to put him on the international wanted list.
Opposition factions in the Armenian parliament have called for an end to martial law that was introduced in Armenia when a war with Azerbaijan broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh in late September.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team and one of the two opposition parties represented in the Armenian parliament on Thursday agreed to take part in talks proposed by President Armen Sarkissian.
President Armen Sarkissian offered on Wednesday to host talks between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and opposition leaders aimed at ending the political crisis in Armenia.
The Armenian government has forced the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF to recall its permanent representative in Armenia, Marianne Clark-Hattingh.
Law-enforcement authorities have reportedly brought criminal charges against a veteran Armenian politician who has said that opposition forces trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be ready to stage an uprising.
A correspondent and a cameraman of RFE/RL’s Armenian Service were assaulted while covering an opposition demonstration in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Dozens of members and supporters of an Armenian opposition alliance were detained on Tuesday as they attempted to stop Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from entering a government building in Yerevan.
Police launched criminal proceedings against a veteran Armenian politician on Monday after he said that opposition forces trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be ready to stage an uprising.
Four anti-government activists were arrested and indicted over the weekend for allegedly creating a social media account that regularly spreads offensive comments about Armenia’s leadership.
Traffic was brought to a standstill in much of central Yerevan on Saturday as an alliance of more than a dozen Armenian opposition parties resumed street protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
An Armenian court on Thursday again adjourned a trial of former President Serzh Sarkisian following the death of another defendant.
In a move condemned by press freedom groups, Armenian prosecutors have drafted legislation that would make defamation of government, law-enforcement and other state officials a crime punishable by up to two years in prison.
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