As part of its stated fight against corruption, the Armenian governments plans to give more powers to a body that scrutinizes income declarations submitted by senior state officials and their family members.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) rejected on Sunday opposition demands to annul the official results of the disputed December 6 referendum in Armenia, insisting that voters overwhelmingly backed President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional amendments.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Thursday shed no further light on Wednesday’s arrests in Yerevan of 12 members of an alleged militant group, saying only that they will not be used against opposition groups.
Authorities in Azerbaijan sent an elderly resident of an Armenian border village back to Armenia on Thursday four days after she accidentally crossed the heavily militarized border between the two countries.
A retired army colonel who was jailed two years ago after organizing anti-government protests in Yerevan went on a hunger strike on Friday in protest against the Armenian authorities’ refusal to set him free on parole.
Over 2,000 more ethnic Armenians from Syria have taken refuge in Armenia since fighting in Aleppo, their principal place of residence, escalated in May, Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian said on Wednesday.
One Azerbaijani and two Armenian soldiers have been killed and several more civilians from both sides wounded in continuing ceasefire violations reported from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
President Serzh Sarkisian held through his aides on Monday fresh talks with major Armenian political parties on a package of controversial constitutional amendments which he plans to put on a referendum later this year.
An Armenian prosecutor demanded on Tuesday a 14-year prison sentence for a man who opened fire outside a Yerevan court last year to protest against the trial of 14 activists jailed for staging a violent anti-government demonstration.
An Armenian police officer was suspended over the weekend after slapping a participant of a fresh demonstration in Yerevan against a controversial increase in electricity prices in the country.
Andranik Azibekian, the former chief of police of the town of Ijevan in Armenia’s northeastern Tavush province, has been sentenced to 5 years after being found guilty of forging evidence to save a friend from prosecution.
A debt-ridden Yerevan chemical plant’s bankruptcy recommended by the World Bank is not “suitable” for the Armenian government, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Yervand Zakharian said during discussions in the parliament on Tuesday.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Friday brushed aside Azerbaijan’s apparent threats to shell Yerevan from its Nakhichevan exclave and warned Baku against raising tensions on the frontlines in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Monday pressed charges against four men arrested late last week in connection with what it considers an attempt to assassinate a controversial regional governor.
Leaders of the influential Armenian community in France have reportedly urged the authorities in Yerevan to reverse their controversial decision to ban a Diaspora activist highly critical of them from visiting Armenia.
An Armenian teenage activist briefly disrupted a European football championship qualifier in Yerevan on Saturday to demand the release of his father jailed for organizing a violent anti-government demonstration in 2013.
A 29-year-old son of Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has become the new mayor of an Armenian town widely regarded as their family’s de facto fiefdom, winning an election in which he was the only candidate.
Forensic tests have confirmed that the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri were murdered at home in January by a Russian soldier currently kept under arrest, lawyers representing the victims’ relatives said on Thursday.
With no end in sight to the bloody civil war in Syria, the exodus of thousands of ethnics Armenians remaining there may be only a matter of time, Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian acknowledged on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Thursday expressed concern at the worsening security situation in Aleppo but stopped short of calling for a mass evacuation of thousands of ethnic Armenians remaining in the war-ravaged Syrian city.
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