A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Wednesday praised President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision to freeze the normalization process with Turkey, seemingly contradicting his party’s reaction to the move.
A former leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has joined a more radical opposition party that does not recognize the legitimacy of Armenia’s current and previous presidents, it emerged on Wednesday.
Leading Armenian opposition forces on Friday used the latest twist in the Turkish-Armenian normalization process to renew their criticism of President Serzh Sarkisian’s two-year policy of rapprochement with Turkey.
Several dozen people were detained in Yerevan over the weekend after two groups of armed men clashed in an apparent business dispute.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday effectively ordered law-enforcement authorities to formally declare innocent those opposition figures who were prosecuted for their alleged role in the 2008 post-election unrest but then cleared of all charges for lack of evidence.
European diplomats in Yerevan presented on Friday details of new, stricter visa rules for citizens of Armenia and other countries planning to travel to the European Union.
The Armenian police have discarded some of the riot equipment and ammunition used in deadly clashes opposition protesters that followed the 2008 presidential election, a senior police official said late Thursday.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Friday urged Armenian citizens living in Turkey to promptly return home, claiming that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest controversial statement has put their security at risk.
Orinats Yerkir Party leader Artur Baghdasarian said on Tuesday that he will not contest Armenia’s next presidential election due in 2013, implying that he will instead help President Serzh Sarkisian win reelection.
A major political party represented in Armenia’s government announced on Monday that it is replacing two of its three government ministers by other individuals who have had no ties with it until now.
The United States has again criticized the Armenian authorities’ human rights record, saying that they have continued to stifle dissent, manipulate elections, tolerate police brutality and restrict judicial independence over the past year.
The Armenian authorities should draw “serious conclusions” from an OSCE report criticizing the trials of dozens of opposition members arrested after the 2008 presidential election, a senior pro-government lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday criticized trials of Armenian opposition members arrested following the 2008 presidential election, saying that at least some of them were not fair and exposed “shortcomings” in Armenia’s judicial system.
The National Assembly approved Tuesday a government bill that will make it easier for Armenia to annul its normalization agreements with Turkey if Ankara continues to delay their ratification.
The National Assembly began debating on Tuesday a government bill that would make it easier for Armenia to annul its normalization agreements with Turkey if Ankara continues to delay their ratification.
Armenian Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamian on Monday formally put the two protocols on establishing diplomatic ties and developing bilateral relations with Turkey into ‘circulation’ within the Armenian legislature and appointed the standing foreign relations committee as the key body on matters related to the documents.
A former senior Defense Ministry official arrested recently on suspicion of disclosing a secret government order that paved the way for the Armenian military’s involvement in the suppression of the 2008 opposition protests in Yerevan has refused the statements made by his two lawyers in an RFE/RL interview last week and refused to further avail himself of their services.
President Serzh Sarkisian formally sent Armenia’s normalization agreements with Turkey to parliament for ratification on Friday after his government approved legal amendments making it easier for Yerevan to walk away from the deal.
The Armenian police have a set up a special unit tasked with solving high-profile murders committed in the country in the past decade, police chief Alik Sargsian announced on Wednesday.
The Armenian government has formally asked the National Assembly to approve its plans to move casinos further away from Yerevan, prompting criticism from the parliament’s opposition minority and some pro-government lawmakers.
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