Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party on Friday defended the abundance of former political allies of Armenia’s previous leadership among its candidates running in upcoming local elections.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian lambasted Armenia’s current leadership and deplored its track record during an international video conference organized by Russia’s ruling party on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has no plans to raise the national minimum wage before 2023 despite higher-than-projected inflation in the country, a senior official said on Friday.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Friday that it will rally supporters in Yerevan soon in an effort to thwart what it described as more Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan planned by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Dozens of supporters of the jailed opposition-affiliated mayor of a major community in Armenia’s Syunik province were reportedly taken to a local police station for questioning one day after he was reelected in a weekend vote.
Armenia’s top defense and security officials appear reluctant to brief lawmakers on lingering tensions along the country’s border with Azerbaijan that have caused serious disruptions in Armenian-Iranian trade.
Iran’s Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri reaffirmed his country’s readiness to expand relations with Armenia as he visited Yerevan on Wednesday amid continuing tensions between Tehran and Baku.
The ruling Civil Contract party confirmed on Friday plans to pass legislation that would block further attempts to install an outspoken opposition lawmaker as deputy chairman of a key standing committee of Armenia’s parliament.
Pro-government lawmakers dismissed on Wednesday U.S. democracy watchdog Freedom House’s strong criticism of recently enacted legislation allowing Armenian authorities prosecute people insulting state officials.
Parliamentary leaders of the ruling Civil Contract party and Armenia’s two leading opposition blocs have reached no agreement so far on practical modalities of investigating the causes and outcome of last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian downplayed on Thursday the significance of a roadblock which Azerbaijan has set up on the main highway connecting Armenia with Iran to check and tax Iranian vehicles.
Former President Robert Kocharian has told senior members of his opposition Hayastan alliance to intensify its political activities and public outreach efforts.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has drafted legislation that would require the government to provide “personal doctors” to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, parliament speaker Alen Simonian and members of their families.
The arrested mayor of an Armenian town affiliated with the main opposition Hayastan alliance is running in a local election that will be held next month.
Armenian government officials declined to attend on Thursday official ceremonies in Stepanakert to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Pro-government lawmakers prevented on Tuesday one of their opposition colleagues from becoming the deputy chairman of a key standing committee of the Armenian parliament.
The two opposition groups represented in Armenia’s new parliament said on Tuesday that they will ask the Constitutional Court to declare illegal the continuing detention of two opposition lawmakers.
The Armenian authorities deployed scores of security officers on Monday to seriously restrict journalists’ freedom of movement inside the parliament building in Yerevan.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) formally registered on Thursday the 107 members of Armenia’s new parliament, among them two arrested opposition figures, which was elected on June 20.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has again accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of making last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh inevitable with his “reckless and irresponsible” policy on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
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