Armenia’s national bar association confirmed on Tuesday it did not endorse a two-day strike called by hundreds of lawyers despite supporting their complaints against the country’s top appeals court.
About 200 lawyers went on a two-day strike on Monday to protest against what they say are arbitrary decisions routinely made by Armenia’s highest body of criminal and civil justice.
Armenia will continue to do its best to alleviate the plight of ethnic Armenians in Syria increasingly trapped by the country’s civil war, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
The Armenian government has appealed to the country’s leading businesspeople to donate money for thousands of farmers whose crops were destroyed by a powerful hailstorm on May 12.
The Armenian government will distribute free seeds and seedlings to scores of farmers in the southern Armavir province to help them partly recoup their losses incurred as a result of a powerful hailstorm, a senior official announced on Friday.
The prices of electricity in Armenia are also likely to rise soon because of the increased cost of natural gas imported from Russia, the state utilities regulator announced on Thursday.
Police used force on Wednesday to stop hundreds of angry farmers from again blocking a major highway in Armenia in continuing protests against what they see as the government’s inadequate response to a weekend hailstorm that destroyed their crops.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) and two leading opposition groups made on Friday differing interpretations of vote recounts that have been conducted at nearly one hundred precincts in Yerevan following the May 5 municipal elections.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
Tensions between two major political parties led by Gagik Tsarukian and Raffi Hovannisian again rose on Friday as they accused each other of foul play in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan.
Opposition parties should cut a power-sharing deal in Yerevan if they succeed in stripping the ruling Republican Party (HHK) of its majority in the municipal council, a deputy chairman of Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Thursday.
A man arrested on charges of murdering a village mayor affiliated with the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) strongly denies any involvement in the high-profile crime, according to his lawyer.
Riot police should have acted more forcefully against thousands of opposition supporters that demonstrated against President Serzh Sarkisian’s second inauguration, a deputy chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday.
The mayor of a village near Yerevan affiliated with the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on Tuesday.
A newly established political party seeking representation in the Armenian capital’s municipal assembly has been given until Friday afternoon to pay an electoral deposit or be disqualified from the race.
Raffi Hovannisian’s Zharangutyun (Heritage) party has teamed up with five other, smaller opposition groups to participate in the upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan, it was announced on Thursday.
Raffi Hovannisian, the official runner-up in Armenia’s presidential election, sought to keep up pressure on Serzh Sarkisian on Friday, again rallying supporters in Yerevan and demanding the incumbent president’s resignation.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) expects to retain control of Yerevan’s municipal administration as a result of elections scheduled for May 5, according to a senior HHK official.
A lawyer for Vartan Sedrakian on Thursday asked Armenia’s Court of Appeals to overturn what he called an illegal pre-trial arrest of the presidential candidate accused of attempting to kill another contender.
The government has proposed helping to build special residential areas in three small towns close to Yerevan for thousands of ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia.
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