The government moved on Thursday to postpone by one more year the full entry into force of its controversial reform of Armenia’s national pension system which sparked angry street protests two years ago.
The Armenian government paved the way on Thursday for parliamentary debates on an opposition bill that would obligate it to formally recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested a man suspected of throwing a hand grenade towards former President Robert Kocharian’s private residence in Yerevan late last week.
The longtime mayor of Hrazdan narrowly defeated a prominent candidate representing Nikol Pashinian’s opposition Civil Contract party in a local election held in the central Armenian town on Sunday.
The parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have pledged to honor a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped heavy fighting between their troops, international mediators said on Saturday at the end of their visit to Baku, Stepanakert and Yerevan.
The office of Armenia’s human rights ombudsman has deplored continuing abuses committed by law-enforcement authorities, singling out ill-treatment of criminal suspects held in custody.
Armenia’s membership in a Russian-led trade bloc and Georgia’s Association Agreement with the European Union can be used for deepening relations between the two neighboring states, Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze said during a visit to Yerevan on Friday.
A new local airline promising some low cost flight options has announced its imminent entry into Armenia’s civil aviation market. The bid by the company called “Armenia” comes less than two years after another local airline stopped operating passenger flights citing unfair competition as the main reason.
Representatives of nongovernmental organizations involved in election monitoring processes in Armenia are dismayed at the changes proposed in the draft Electoral Code that was revealed by the government earlier this week, describing them as “regression” from even existing standards.
A well-known maverick activist controversially arrested and prosecuted by the Armenian authorities claimed to have been assaulted in prison as he was forced to undergo a psychiatric examination on Wednesday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) confirmed on Thursday that it will receive three ministerial posts in Armenia’s government as part of a “long-term” power-sharing deal with President Serzh Sarkisian.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Wednesday urged other opposition parties and civic groups to jointly seek to force the government to include significant anti-fraud provisions in a new Electoral Code which is due to be enacted soon.
The scale and gravity of government corruption in Armenia has remained essentially unchanged in the past year, Transparency International said in an annual global survey released on Wednesday.
The Armenian government on Thursday postponed the resumption of classes in the country’s public schools by one more week, until January 25, due to a continuing influenza epidemic that has killed 11 people.
An outbreak of swine flu, which struck Armenia late last month, is under control, the Ministry of Health insisted on Monday after the H1N1 virus killed two more people in the country.
A coalition of four Armenian civic organizations that deployed the largest monitoring team during Armenia’s constitutional referendum on Monday rejected as fraudulent its official results showing a “Yes” vote for President Serzh Sarkisian’s constitutional changes.
Radical opposition groups campaigning for “regime change” in Armenia rallied hundreds of supporters and demanded President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation on Sunday evening shortly after the polls closed in a constitutional referendum denounced by them as fraudulent.
Only one in three Armenians intend to vote for President Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial constitutional amendments in next month’s referendum, a non-governmental polling organization said on Tuesday.
A senior U.S. diplomat on Friday criticized a key committee of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) for backing a draft resolution that demands Armenian withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh and the territory’s return to Azerbaijani rule.
A team of U.S., Russian and French mediators reportedly came under fire on Tuesday as it crossed into Azerbaijani-controlled territory from Nagorno-Karabakh through a “line of contact” that has seen growing ceasefire violations in recent years.
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