President Serzh Sarkisian has moved to set up a new and powerful law-enforcement agency that will be tasked with conducting criminal investigations.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties have given differing assessments of government plans to join the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, with only one of them condemning the unexpected U-turn in Armenian foreign policy.
An opposition bloc represented in Yerevan’s municipal assembly challenged the legality of Mayor Taron Markarian’s failed to attempt to sharply raise public transport fares in Armenia’s Administrative Court on Wednesday.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian on Tuesday did not rule out the possibility of making another attempt soon to significantly raise the cost of public transport in the Armenian capital.
Armenia hopes to earn quick and significant economic benefits from its forthcoming Association Agreement with the European Union, a senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Yerevan’s embattled Mayor Taron Markarian on Wednesday denied fresh allegations of illegal business ownership reflecting the continuing fallout from his ill-fated attempt to significantly raise public transport fees in the capital.
Hundreds of youth activists continued to demonstrate outside the Yerevan municipality on Friday despite Mayor Taron Markarian’s decision to cancel a controversial rise in public transport fees.
In what amounted to an out-of-court settlement, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) dropped on Wednesday controversial accusations of financial impropriety leveled against Vartan Oskanian, a former foreign minister highly critical of the government.
Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, on Tuesday denied any ethnic discrimination by Russian law-enforcement authorities of an Armenian man who caused a fatal bus crash near Moscow this month.
Vartan Ghukasian, the controversial former mayor of Gyumri, risked facing criminal proceedings on Monday after a man allegedly assaulted by him lodged a formal complaint with the local police.
State officials, opposition figures and civic activists in Armenia have condemned authorities in Russia for what they see as a humiliating and xenophobic treatment of an Armenian truck driver who was involved in a bus crash near Moscow that left 18 people dead.
A wealthy pro-government parliamentarian was appointed as governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province on Wednesday, replacing a notorious official who resigned last month following a deadly shooting near his residence.
Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian insisted late on Thursday that he was not criticized by President Serzh Sarkisian at a meeting of the leadership of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian has cancelled a planned official visit to Ukraine amid signs of tension within the governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
The government confirmed on Wednesday that it is considering giving up its minority stake in Armenia’s national gas company in ongoing negotiation with Gazprom over the price of Russian natural gas delivered to the country.
The Armenian police launched on Friday a criminal investigation into serious abuses in the administration of public procurements that have been alleged by the parliamentary Audit Chamber.
The opposition minority in the Armenian parliament lashed out at the country’s government on Wednesday, saying that its economic policies have been a gross failure.
Suren Khachatrian, the controversial governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province, officially stepped down on Thursday amid the continuing fallout from a deadly shootout that occurred near his house on June 1.
A senior Armenian law-enforcement official insisted on Wednesday that a regional governor notorious for violent conduct was not personally involved in a shootout outside his house that left one person dead and sparked calls for his prosecution.
The son and a bodyguard of Suren Khachatrian were remanded in pre-trial custody on Tuesday on charges of murdering a man outside the home of the controversial governor of Armenia’s Syunik province.
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