A radical opposition group in Armenia has signaled its intention to seek public approval of its own amendments to the Constitution after rejecting the concept of a constitutional reform endorsed by President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenian law-enforcement agencies have brushed aside opposition claims that their recent actions targeting some political activists are part of a wider crackdown ordered by the government.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Thursday pressed charges against a young man who was briefly arrested last week for his role in a violent protest near the Russian consulate in Gyumri.
Armenia’s leading opposition parties have condemned authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh for forcibly preventing dozens of members of a smaller Armenian opposition group from entering the territory as part of its campaign for “regime change” in Yerevan.
The Armenian military suffered two more casualties and claimed to have killed at least three Azerbaijani soldiers early on Friday in what appears to be a further escalation of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and Armenia’s top army generals met on Thursday to discuss, among other things, skirmishes with Azerbaijani forces that appear to have intensified since the start of the new year.
A Yerevan-based charity founded by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has officially launched the construction of an apartment block for about 80 ethnic Armenian families from Syria that have taken refuge in Armenia.
Vazgen Khachikian, the arrested former head of Armenia’s state pension fund, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Saturday heaped praise on Karabakh Armenian commandos who have reportedly reached the crash site of the downed Armenian helicopter gunship near Nagorno-Karabakh after overcoming Azerbaijani obstruction.
The armed forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday vowed to retaliate strongly against Azerbaijan for shooting down an Armenian helicopter gunship on “the line of contact” east of Karabakh.
An odious Armenian general has been accused by human rights activists of violating the Geneva Conventions after he admitted he personally kept hostages during the Karabakh war.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) acknowledges that there are lots of problems in the country, but it does not think that a change of government can be a solution to them, according to a senior representative.
As many as 30,000 Armenian citizens have been banned this year from reentering Russian for allegedly violating Russian immigration rules, according to a senior Armenian government official.
The Russian government has offered to help Armenia increase exports of agricultural products to Russia after its ban on food imports from the West, a senior official in Yerevan revealed on Thursday.
Dozens of employees of a troubled cement plant in the central Armenian town of Hrazdan again went on strike on Tuesday to demand the payment of their back wages for the past several months.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has rejected the idea of providing residents of villages situated near the restive border with Azerbaijan with weapons for defense purposes.
A retired army colonel critical of the government has been convicted of fraud and sentenced to six years in prison in a controversial trial that ended in Yerevan on Thursday.
An Armenian army soldier was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Friday for shooting to death one comrade and seriously wounding another in disputed circumstances in May last year.
Raising more questions about Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has announced the cancellation of a summit of ex-Soviet states which was due to discuss Yerevan’s membership bid.
President Serzh Sarkisian has no mandate to make Armenia part of a Russian-led alliance of ex-Soviet states and must step down as soon as possible, opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said over the weekend.
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