The trial began in Yerevan on Thursday of a man prosecuted in connection with last May’s mass explosions of balloons during an election campaign gathering held by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
The European Union has approved 60 million euros ($75 million) in fresh assistance to Armenia which is designed to support judicial reforms and speed up the country’s integration into the EU.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), the second largest in parliament, said on Monday that it stands for the resignation of Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and members of his cabinet but will not seek to unseat them for now.
The 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey are widely recognized as genocide in Israel, an Israeli cabinet minister said after visiting the genocide memorial in Yerevan on Friday.
The Armenian government plans to enact a new Code of Criminal Procedure which it says would strengthen due process in the country by limiting sweeping powers currently enjoyed by law-enforcement bodies.
Armenians will stop complaining about a lack of justice in their country as a result of sweeping reforms of the judicial and law-enforcement system planned by the government, Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasian said on Tuesday.
Economy Minister Tigran Davtian rejected on Wednesday calls for the establishment of a new government ministry that would specifically deal with information technology (IT), a major export-oriented sector of the Armenian economy.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday renewed its calls for the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to withdraw snipers from the frontlines and agree to joint investigations of growing truce violations there.
The Armenian government is “on the right track” in carrying out democratic reforms and can therefore count on greater financial assistance from the European Union, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said during an official visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
The European Union has officially begun negotiating with Armenia on a far-reaching free trade agreement that will significantly deepen the South Caucasus country’s ties with the 27-nation bloc.
About 30 former residents of an old Yerevan neighborhood partly demolished in a government-sanctioned redevelopment project stopped President Serzh Sarkisian’s motorcade on Wednesday to protest against municipal authorities’ failure to provide them with new housing.
The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Monday insisted that it has received a popular mandate to continue governing the country for five more years and faulted its rivals for not rushing to recognize its electoral triumph.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) praised the conduct of Armenia’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, saying that “isolated” irregularities did not compromise their freedom and fairness.
The three main challengers of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) accused the Armenian authorities of resorting to a “large-scale machination” and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the parliamentary elections just hours after the opening of the polls on Sunday. (UPDATED)
After months of protests by environmental and other civil activists, President Serzh Sarkisian ordered municipal authorities on Tuesday to remove more than a doze kiosks controversially built in a small park in downtown Yerevan.
The chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), Tigran Mukuchian, accused international observers at the weekend of painting an excessively negative picture of the run-up to Armenia’s parliamentary elections.
The news coverage of Armenia’s leading broadcasters has become considerably more objective and impartial since the official start of campaigning for the March 6 parliamentary elections, an independent media watchdog said on Wednesday.
Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian on Thursday appeared to urge Armenians to vote for President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party, rather than its coalition partner Orinats Yerkir, of which he is a senior member and candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Police authorities in Armenia have urged local environmental activists to call off their plans to dismantle kiosks in a Yerevan public park, warning that such an unauthorized step will draw a response from law enforcement.
The prices of fuel in Armenia have risen by an additional five percent within the past several days, adding to the already strong inflationary pressures on the domestic economy.
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