Riot police clashed late on Friday with hundreds of people near a police compound in Yerevan occupied by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group.
Armenian security forces shot and wounded three more gunmen on Friday in a continuing standoff with an armed opposition group barricaded inside a police compound in Yerevan.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested another organizer of daily demonstrations held in Yerevan in support of armed members of an Armenian opposition group holed up in a police station.
Zhirayr Sefilian, a jailed opposition leader, on Tuesday urged the Armenian authorities to negotiate with him an end to their continuing standoff with armed members of his Founding Parliament movement occupying a police station in Yerevan.
The anti-government gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan released on Saturday all four police officers held hostage by them after negotiations held with the Armenian government through a mediator.
The anti-government gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan have agreed to free all four police officers held hostage by them, a retired army general negotiating with them said on Saturday.
The European Union and Russia on Thursday joined the United States in condemning the deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian radical opposition group.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities said on Wednesday that they have no plans yet to storm a police station in Yerevan three days after it was seized by gunmen affiliated with a hardline opposition group.
Nikol Pashinian, a prominent Armenian opposition parliamentarian, demanded that law-enforcement authorities allow him to meet the jailed leader of a radical opposition group whose armed members continued to occupy a police building in Yerevan early on Monday.
Lawyers for Zhirayr Sefilian demanded on Tuesday his immediate release from prison, insisting that the radical opposition politician arrested last week did not plan to mount an armed revolt against Armenia’s government.
Four ethnic Armenian civilians have reportedly been killed and dozens of others wounded in Syria’s formerly largest city of Aleppo in continuing clashes between Syrian government troops and rebel forces.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has ordered the Armenian government to reduce “corruption risks” in its handling of state procurements which has been repeatedly criticized by the country’s leading anti-graft watchdog.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament said on Tuesday that it could make more concessions to the opposition despite pushing through a controversial bill that will regulate the conduct of next year’s parliamentary elections.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as the top U.S., Russian and French diplomats may meet early next week in an attempt to de-escalate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, senior Russian diplomats said on Thursday.
Armenia’s leading anti-graft watchdog on Wednesday voiced fresh concerns about the integrity of state procurements in the country, saying that they remain rife with serious “corruption risks.”
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) insisted in court on Wednesday that it has “reasonable” suspicions that a Paris-based Armenian Diaspora activist is a threat to the country’s security.
Armenian-populated areas of Aleppo have reportedly sustained more damage in recent days as Syrian government troops have continued their Russian-backed offensive in and around Syria’s largest city partly controlled by rebels.
A continued depreciation of the Russian ruble took a heavy financial toll on Armenia last year, cutting the country’s export revenue and especially multimillion-dollar remittances from Armenian migrant workers in Russia.
An Armenian couple has staged daily sit-ins inside a provincial administration building to protest its exclusion from a government-funded housing program which it attributes to corruption.
The Armenian authorities have failed to properly investigate any of the numerous cases of serious fraud reported during last month’s constitutional referendum, two leading opposition parties claimed on Wednesday.
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