Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian rallied hundreds of supporters in Yerevan on Friday in what he called the start of a new campaign of street protests aimed at changing Armenia’s government.
Riot police detained five people on Thursday in renewed scuffles with mostly young civic activists that have held a non-stop sit-in outside the Yerevan Mayor’s Office for the past two weeks.
Youth activists who forced Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian to reverse a sharp rise in public transport fees last month warned the municipality on Monday against enforcing a new parking system that would put a much heavier financial burden on car owners.
Riot police used force on Thursday to stop youth activists from pitching tents outside the Yerevan municipality in continuing protests against its management of public transport.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian on Tuesday ruled out through a spokesman the dismissal of two senior municipal officials which is demanded by youth activists holding non-stop demonstrations outside his office.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian avoided reacting on Monday to continuing street protests against a controversial rise in the cost of public transport that was ordered but subsequently annulled by him.
Hundreds of youth activists continued to demonstrate outside the Yerevan municipality on Friday despite Mayor Taron Markarian’s decision to cancel a controversial rise in public transport fees.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said on Friday that Armenia must consider withdrawing from a Russian-led military alliance if Moscow carries on with what he described as anti-Armenian policies.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) denounced on Tuesday the conduct of a weekend local election that put an end to its almost decade-long control of a major rural community near Yerevan.
Leaders of Armenia’s main opposition forces voiced a range of grievances to the European Union’s Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele at a meeting late on Wednesday that concluded his visit to Yerevan.
Most Armenians remain skeptical about their government’s declared efforts to combat endemic corruption in the country, according to a fresh survey released by Transparency International on Tuesday.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian launched on Thursday a fresh scathing attack on the head of a coalition of Europe’s leading conservative parties who strongly supports Armenia’s government.
Dozens of veterans of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh ended an almost month-long sit-in in Yerevan on Friday after the Armenian government promised to consider a sizable increase in their modest pensions demanded by them.
Suren Khachatrian, the controversial governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province, officially stepped down on Thursday amid the continuing fallout from a deadly shootout that occurred near his house on June 1.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) again accused the Council of Europe of turning a blind eye to vote rigging and human rights abuses in Armenia as lawmakers from the Strasbourg-based organization met in Yerevan on Friday.
A senior Armenian official denied on Thursday any political motives behind President Serzh Sarkisian’s absence from this week’s summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), saying that Armenia’s relations with Russia remain “excellent.”
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian underscored the ambiguous status of his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Tuesday when he stood alongside President Serzh Sarkisian and other top officials during the celebration of a major public holiday.
Several foreign airlines will launch next month regular flights to Armenia in response to the recent effective bankruptcy of the Armavia national carrier, the country’s main airport operator said on Friday.
Armenia’s national gas distribution company on Tuesday acknowledged a significant increase in the cost of Russian natural gas imported to the country and asked regulatory authorities to approve corresponding price rises for domestic consumers.
An opposition bloc led by Raffi Hovannisian will likely take up its seats in Yerevan’s new municipal council despite considering the weekend local elections fraudulent, one of its senior members said on Tuesday.
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