Several lawmakers from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party, including Parliament Speaker Alen Simonian, have proposed an amendment that would require a number of law enforcement bodies to report directly to the National Assembly.
A new law adopted by Armenian lawmakers on Thursday allows retired army officers to return to military service preserving their state pension, a move that pro-government authors of the bill believe will help attract more mid-level and junior officers to the armed forces.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped criminal charges against one of the three exiled Nagorno-Karabakh mayors prosecuted by them after signaling support for antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
The ruling Civil Contract party is starting preparations for a fresh municipal election in Gyumri following a government crackdown on a local businessman whose bloc runs Armenia’s second largest city.
Armenian opposition leaders gathered in the parliament on Thursday to again condemn Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration for “denigrating” a 1990 declaration of Armenia’s independence which Azerbaijan says is the main obstacle to peace between the two nations.
Azerbaijan is rejecting Armenian proposals to sign a bilateral peace deal in possible preparation for a new military aggression against Armenia, a deputy chairman of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party said on Wednesday.
Armenia should be ready to replace wheat mostly imported from Russia with rice grown elsewhere in order to boost its national security, a senior Armenian official declared over the weekend.
Catholicos Garegin II has not changed his critical attitude towards Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian after inviting the latter to a major religious ceremony, a spokesman for the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church indicated at the weekend.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian’s renewed street protests in Yerevan are unlikely to force Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign, another high-ranking clergyman critical of the Armenian government said on Friday.
Justice Minister Grigor Minasian tendered his resignation on Tuesday, bowing to demands from many lawmakers representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party.
It is still not clear when the Armenian government will start the repeatedly delayed introduction of a national system of health insurance, a senior official said on Tuesday.
In an Independence Day message to the nation, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Saturday apologized for his “mistakes” and said he will inevitably commit more of them while in power.
Hrayr Tovmasian, the former chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, rejected criminal charges levelled against him as baseless and politically motivated at the end of his marathon trial in Yerevan on Wednesday.
The ruling Civil Contract party stripped three more opposition members of Yerevan’s municipal council of their seats on Tuesday ahead of a planned opposition bid to oust Mayor Tigran Avinian through a no-confidence vote.
Russia maintains a ban on fresh fruits and vegetables imported by 16 Armenian entities following its negotiations with relevant Armenian authorities, a senior official in Yerevan said on Wednesday.
More than one month after raiding Nagorno-Karabakh’s permanent representation in Yerevan, law-enforcement authorities have still not returned its car used by Samvel Shahramanian, the exiled Karabakh president at odds with Armenia’s government.
Armenia’s Investigative Committee has paid 49 million drams ($125,000) to buy a new car for its government-linked head, Argishti Kyaramian.
An Armenian government agency said on Friday that it is negotiating with Russian authorities and will step up laboratory tests of Armenian fruits and vegetables in an effort to have a Russian ban on their imports lifted.
Citing food safety concerns, Russia has reportedly banned the import of fresh fruits and vegetables from Armenia amid heightened tensions between the two estranged allies.
Years after Nikol Pashinian accused Armenia’s former government of using too many cars for its officials, his cabinet will buy 49 more vehicles at a cost of just over 1 billion drams ($2.7 million).
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