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.
Yuri Khachaturov, who headed the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) as part of Armenia’s rotating presidency in the organization, has been relieved of his duties.
Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has ordered an examination of a media report alleging a possible corruption case involving one of his deputies, Tigran Avinian.
The former ruling Republican Party of Armenia has confirmed that it will not vote for Nikol Pashinian in a prime-ministerial election scheduled in parliament later this week, thus clearing the way for the acting prime minister’s plans to force snap general elections.
Two parliamentary factions and some individual lawmakers on Tuesday nominated acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as a candidate for the top government post in Armenia in a tactical move designed to lead to the dissolution of parliament and holding of snap general elections.
Political allies of Nikol Pashinian did not expect the Armenian parliament to reelect him as prime minister after nominating him on Tuesday for the country’s top government post in an effort to force snap general elections.
A senior member of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) on Tuesday accused the authorities of forcing some of its deputies to agree to the early dissolution of Armenia’s current parliament.
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