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.
Law-enforcement authorities have not charged anyone yet more than one month after launching an investigation into a secretly recorded audio suggesting that employees of a pro-government businessman were warned to help him get reelected to Armenia’s parliament or lose their jobs.
Members of the opposition Yelk (Way Out) faction in Armenia’s newly elected parliament sought on Friday to convince the ruling Republican Party (HHK) to keep a standing human rights committee despite the decision to reduce the number of such committees from 12 to 9.
Members of the Armenian parliament elected three deputy speakers during their second day of work in the new legislature on Friday.
Former health minister Ara Babloyan has been installed as speaker of Armenia’s newly elected parliament after receiving 88 “for” votes in a ballot of 100 lawmakers on Thursday.
Voters in Yerevan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new municipal council that will appoint the Armenian capital’s mayor.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian has again indicated his desire to retain his post after the end of President Serzh Sarkisian’s tenure in April 2018.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) dismissed on Friday claims that it encouraged allies of Gagik Tsarukian to defy his orders to cede their parliament seats to other candidates of his electoral alliance.
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