Armenia’s controversial Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian claimed on Monday that lucrative businesses linked with his family do not enjoy privileged treatment by tax authorities headed by him.
Armenian and Russian law-enforcement bodies are continuing their joint efforts to solve last January’s deadly shooting spree in Gyumri blamed on a Russian army soldier, Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties on Monday pledged to work together in trying to prevent a more than 35 percent surge in electricity prices sought by the Russian-owned national power distribution network.
An ad hoc commission on constitutional reform set up by President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday stood by its view that Armenia must be transformed into a parliamentary republic with a largely ceremonial head of state.
Armenia has reaffirmed its support for Georgia’s territorial integrity after its parliament speaker Galust Sahakian angered official Tbilisi by meeting with a leader of South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region.
Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian has come under fire from opposition figures and even some government loyalists after declaring that Armenian communities around the world have not done enough to ease socioeconomic hardship in Armenia.
Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday expressed gratitude to over two dozen countries that have recognized the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and called on other nations to do the same.
Armenia has succeeded in reinvigorating its relations with the European Union after its unexpected decision in 2013 to join a Russian-led alliance of former Soviet republics, a senior EU diplomat said on Friday.
The Founding Parliament, a radical Armenian opposition group, will rally supporters in Yerevan on Friday to demand the immediate release of its five leading members arrested last week on what it considers trumped-up charges.
Armenian lawmakers insisted on Monday that they will not cooperate with a pro-Azerbaijani British colleague who has been tasked by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) with drafting a report on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Friday effectively justified the arrests of six leading members of another, more radical opposition group that plans to stage sustained anti-government protests in Yerevan.
A pro-government deputy who has led an Armenian parliamentary inquiry into Armenia’s controversial energy dealings with Russia faced opposition allegations of fraud as he presented its purported findings to the National Assembly on Tuesday.
Armenia has only gained from preferring membership in a Russian-led bloc to an association agreement with the European Union, Russian State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin said during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties represented in parliament made clear on Friday that they will not join nonstop anti-government protests in Yerevan planned by another, more radical opposition group.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian will not lose his parliament seat after all, despite having rarely attended sessions of the National Assembly, speaker Galust Sahakian said on Thursday.
Bowing to strong pressure from President Serzh Sarkisian, Gagik Tsarukian resigned as chairman of Armenia’s largest opposition party and announced his retirement from “active politics” on Thursday.
Yet another parliament deputy defected from the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Tuesday following a government crackdown unleashed against its leader, Gagik Tsarukian.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Monday praised a major opposition party for deciding not to hold more anti-government rallies at least until the centenary of the 1915 Armenian genocide to be officially marked on April 24.
Armenia’s major opposition parties remain vague on their immediate steps after Prosperous Armenia, admittedly the most influential of them, came under huge government pressure earlier this month.
Citing the latest internal political developments, the Prosperous Armenia Party led by embattled tycoon Gagik Tsarukian decided to boycott the four-day session of the Armenian parliament that opened on Monday.
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