The Armenian government on Wednesday unexpectedly withdrew from parliament a controversial bill which opposition politicians say would make it easier for the authorities to use the army for quelling street protests.
A once powerful organization uniting thousands of Armenian veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war has pledged to support President Serzh Sarkisian in the upcoming national elections four years after effectively backing his most formidable political foe, Levon Ter-Petrosian.
John Heffern, the U.S. ambassador to Armenia, on Tuesday expressed his overall satisfaction with the Armenian authorities’ handling of a weekend local election in Hrazdan denounced as fraudulent by the country’s leading opposition force.
Leaders of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Thursday urged people in the central town of Hrazdan to vote for a prominent candidate representing the opposition bloc in this Sunday’s mayoral election.
The governor of Armenia’s central Kotayk province on Monday ruled out the possibility of a well-known opposition candidate’s victory in the upcoming mayoral election in the regional capital Hrazdan.
An Armenian soldier has been arrested on charges of shooting and killing a fellow conscript in a dispute late last week, military authorities in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Agricultural production in Armenia will rise by over 10 percent this year following a sharp fall registered in 2010, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Friday.
More than 40 percent of children in Armenia lived below the official poverty line last year, according to a government survey released this week.
More than 100 entrepreneurs from Armenia and Turkey explored greater business opportunities in each other’s country during a U.S.-sponsored conference that began in Yerevan on Tuesday.
A 70-year-old U.S. businessman of Armenian descent was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison on charges of pedophilia which he partly accepted.
In a rare electoral setback for President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK), the long-serving mayor of the northern Armenian town of Ijevan was defeated Sunday by a candidate representing the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), a key partner in the ruling coalition.
The number of Armenian soldiers killed by fellow servicemen or in other non-combat circumstances has been steadily declining, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian insisted on Thursday amid continuing street protests against army crimes.
Human rights abuses committed by Armenian law-enforcement bodies will likely continue unabated under the new chief of the national police, Vladimir Gasparian, well-known civil rights activists said on Wednesday.
Russia has reaffirmed its stated commitment to help Armenia build a new nuclear plant, while cautioning that the ambitious and expensive project will not be easy to implement.
Several dozen residents of the central Armenian town of Hrazdan marched on Tuesday to a nearby hill rich in iron ore to protest against the launch of open-pit mining operations there which they believe would wreak havoc on the area.
Dozens of employees of Armenia’s nuclear power station at Metsamor who quit their jobs last week agreed to return to work on Monday after accepting a 10 percent increase in their wages offered by the government.
The administration of the Metsamor nuclear power plant began formally accepting on Friday job termination requests from dozens of its employees after failing to ensure significant pay rises demanded by them.
More than 160 employees of the Armenian nuclear power station at Metsamor look set to quit their jobs on Friday after failing to secure significant pay rises from the plant administration.
One Armenian and two Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in continuing skirmishes around Nagorno-Karabakh and along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
About 100 people picketed the main government building in Yerevan on Thursday to protest and demand urgent government action against continuing non-combat deaths in Armenia’s armed forces.
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