Parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan urged political forces on Wednesday to start negotiations on reforming Armenia’s electoral legislation and bodies.
The presidential and parliamentary elections held in Armenia during former President Serzh Sarkisian’s decade-long rule were not rigged, the chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), Tigran Mukuchian, insisted on Tuesday.
The Armenian police said on Thursday that they are trying to track down former Environment Minister Aram Harutiunian who was charged last month with receiving $14 million in bribes while in office.
Representatives of the pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament denounced on Tuesday what they called threats to the authorities made by a leader of a party whose members stormed a police station in Yerevan in 2016.
The National Security Service (NSS) said on Thursday that an indicted brother of Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian has paid the state $30 million from a bank account that was frozen last summer.
Parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan on Tuesday spoke out against the idea of restoring a presidential system of government in Armenia which has been floated by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s political party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted one of the two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament as he secured parliamentary approval of his government’s five-year policy program on Thursday.
Opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday of showing contempt for their criticism of his government’s five-year policy program debated by the Armenian parliament.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian on Tuesday added his voice to opposition criticism of the government’s five-year policy program, saying that it is too vague.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian insisted through a lawyer on Friday that he has not testified against his predecessor and former ally Robert Kocharian in the ongoing criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has allowed a prominent businessman prosecuted on corruption charges to receive medical treatment in Germany one week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in his favor.
The governor of Armenia’s southern Ararat province, Garik Sargsian, admitted on Tuesday that he made a mistake in paying himself and his senior staffers lavish bonuses late last month.
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.
The two opposition parties represented in the newly elected National Assembly called on Friday for the creation of a new parliament committee that would deal with Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
Ten days after triumphing in snap general elections, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step alliance named late on Wednesday the speaker of Armenia’s new parliament and two of his three deputies.
The commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed army, Lieutenant General Levon Mnatsakanian, was dismissed on Friday two weeks after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reacted angrily to Karabakh officials’ strong criticism of one of his close associates.
Former President Robert Kocharian was again taken into custody on Friday after an Armenian court allowed his pre-trial arrest on charges stemming from the deadly break-up of 2008 post-election protests in Yerevan.
Armenia’s outgoing parliament on Tuesday failed to discuss and vote on prosecutors’ request to allow the arrest of one of its deputies accused of corruption.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and the leaders of ten other political forces running in the December 9 parliamentary have agreed to take part in a live debate that will be hosted by the Armenian Public Television next week.
Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in contact with corresponding bodies in Berlin to clarify the credibility of allegations made in the German media about the activities of the Armenian mafia in Germany, a deputy minister said in Yerevan on Tuesday.
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