An Armenian military officer was arrested and charged with negligence on Thursday in connection with last week’s deaths of 15 soldiers.
Police in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor have clashed with several local residents and seriously injured one of them after accusing them of interfering with a motorcade carrying Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A construction company managed by parliament speaker Alen Simonian’s brother has won its ninth government contract this year amid growing questions about integrity in public procurement in Armenia.
The mayor of a town in northern Armenia controversially arrested last year has been released from custody immediately after deciding to step down despite his victory in a recent local election.
Some low-paid workers in Armenia on Friday deplored Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that they have only themselves to blame for their modest incomes.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party prevailed in only half of 18 communities across Armenia that elected their local government bodies over the weekend.
The opposition-linked mayor of a large village in Armenia’s northern Lori province was arrested late on Wednesday ahead of local elections slated for this fall.
A brother of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is the executive director of a small hydroelectric power plant in northern Armenia whose former owners sold it for just 50,000 drams ($120) last year, official records show.
Armenia’s leading textile company is planning to lay off some of its 3,000 workers or cut their wages because of a significant appreciation of the national currency, the dram, which began shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The former mayor of Armenia’s third largest city of Vanadzor went on trial on Friday six months after defeating the ruling Civil Contract party in a local election and being arrested on corruption charges.
Two local government employees in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor have been fired for criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on social media and participating in ongoing opposition demonstrations aimed at toppling him.
Major anti-government protests continued in Armenia for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with opposition leaders vowing that there will be no letup in their efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Opposition groups in Vanadzor on Monday accused Armenia’s leadership of seeking to nullify their victory in last December’s municipal election through what they see as an unconstitutional bill.
As one of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, France is ready to respond to the request of the Armenian government and do everything possible to achieve a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the country’s envoy in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
One of Armenia’s largest mining companies belonging to a Russian bank sanctioned by the West has decided to suspend production operations.
Official Yerevan said on Thursday that it needs to sign a legally binding agreement with Baku before it can start building a railway that will connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave.
An Armenian court has extended the pre-trial arrest of the former mayor of Vanadzor who defeated the ruling Civil Contract party in a municipal election held in the country’s third largest city two months ago.
A court blocked on Friday the first session of Vanadzor’s newly elected municipal council in what local opposition figures denounced as a government attempt to prevent their arrested candidate from becoming the mayor of Armenia’s third largest city.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party was defeated in Armenia’s third largest city of Vanadzor and several other major urban communities in local elections held on Sunday.
Ten political parties and alliances have applied to run in a local election that will be held in Armenia’s third largest city of Vanadzor next month.
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