Satellite images provided by the United States may help Armenia law-enforcement authorities identify the causes of a recent massive wildfire in a nature reserve southeast of Yerevan, Environment Protection Minister Artsvik Minasian said on Wednesday.
Nikol Pashinian, an outspoken opposition lawmaker, claimed to have been physically assaulted by a pro-government colleague in the Armenian parliament on Thursday after publicly deriding his pro-Russian views.
Six members of the U.S. House of Representatives discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and obstacles to closer U.S.-Armenian commercial ties with Armenian government officials and parliamentarians during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
The opposition Yelk alliance will spare no effort to prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from continuing to govern Armenia after his final term ends in April, one of its leaders, Nikol Pashinian, said on Friday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities announced on Friday a nationwide hunt for three individuals who they said were behind a brazen shooting in downtown Yerevan which left one man dead and another gravely wounded.
The opposition Yelk alliance called on Thursday for a parliamentary inquiry into consequences of Armenia’s membership in the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Karen Karapetian’s policies but declined to clarify whether the party represented in his government would like him to retain his post next year.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities will not prosecute anyone in connection with a secretly recorded audio suggesting that employees of a pro-government businessman were warned to help him get reelected to parliament or lose their jobs, it emerged on Friday.
An opposition proposal to rename streets in Yerevan still bearing the names of controversial Soviet-era figures met with resistance from pro-government members of the municipal council on Tuesday.
A massive fire that erupted in a chemical factory in Yerevan earlier this week may have been caused by negligence, Minister for Emergency Situations Davit Tonoyan said on Thursday.
Firefighters largely extinguished on Tuesday a massive fire in a chemical plant in Yerevan that raised health concerns among people in nearby residential areas.
More than a hundred Armenian lawyers will go on strike next month to protest against controversial security checks on attorneys representing radical opposition members in three ongoing trials.
The directors of 30 public schools and kindergartens have dropped their controversial lawsuit against an Armenian civic group that tricked them into confessing that they are campaigning for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in parliamentary elections.
A senior Armenian official on Wednesday criticized continuing Russian arms sales to Azerbaijan but made clear that they will not undermine Armenia’s close military ties with Russia.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Friday again called on Armenia’s opposition forces to jointly prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his decade-long rule next year.
The head of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) on Tuesday claimed to have made considerable progress in tackling widespread tax evasion in Armenia, pointing to a sizable increase in the government’s tax revenue.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian will again call on Armenia’s opposition groups to join forces during Sunday’s congress of his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party, which is no longer represented in the national parliament.
The head of the European Union mission in Armenia, Piotr Switalski, dismissed on Tuesday the Armenian authorities’ angry reaction to his public criticism of the conduct of the country’s recent parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s parliament allowed the government on Friday to privatize the national postal service and dozens of other state-run enterprises, hospitals and recreation facilities.
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