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.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that it has received a popular mandate to govern Yerevan for another four years amid allegations of vote rigging made by the country’s main established opposition forces.
Samvel Aleksanian, one of Armenia’s richest men close to the government, scolded his loyalists working for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) on Sunday after they allegedly bullied voters and observers in his de facto fiefdom in Yerevan notorious for election-related violations.
Gagik Tsarukian rallied thousands of supporters in Yerevan on Thursday, urging city residents to defy what he called attempts to intimidate them and to vote for his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) in Sunday’s mayoral elections.
A new opposition alliance led by Raffi Hovannisian criticized some of the other political groups challenging the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming local elections in Yerevan and ruled out pre-election cooperation with them on Thursday.
Tens of thousands of people marched to a hilltop memorial in Yerevan on Wednesday in an annual remembrance of some 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey during World War I in what many historians consider genocide.
General Nerses Nazarian, the longtime head of Yerevan’s police department, was dismissed on Monday following media reports about his growing disagreements with General Vladimir Gasparian, the national police chief.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian on Monday expressed confidence that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will retain control of the municipal administration in next month’s elections.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian returned from Moscow on Friday, refusing to disclose important details of what he called a “private and confidential” visit that involved “several good meetings.”
Riot police used force to stop opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and thousands of his supporters from marching towards the presidential palace in Yerevan on Tuesday at the end of daylong protests against President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration for a second term. (UPDATED)
Supporters and opponents of Raffi Hovannisian scuffled in the southeastern Armenian town of Kapan on Monday as the opposition leader held a rally there at the start of a new nationwide campaign of post-election protests.
A top candidate of an opposition bloc set up to contest Yerevan’s upcoming elections says joining a broader anti-fraud coalition will only be meaningful if it undertakes to make ‘real and substantial’ steps rather than engages in another ‘imitation’.
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