Authorities blocked on Wednesday all roads leading to Vartenis, a small town 160 kilometers northeast of Yerevan, after registering 47 cases of coronavirus there in recent days.
The chief executive and hundreds of other employees of a leading Armenian telecommunication company have reportedly tendered their resignations in protest against its majority shareholders’ plans to buy a rival firm.
Health authorities are setting up hundreds of additional hospital beds to cope with a continuing rise in coronavirus cases in Armenia.
Armenians stranded in China appealed to Armenia’s government on Tuesday to help evacuate them from the country coping with a new coronavirus that has killed more than 400 people.
Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian on Thursday challenged two leading members of the opposition Bright Armenia Party (LHK) to substantiate their allegations that his administration has accepted dubious cash donations from wealthy businesspeople.
Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian criticized a state anti-corruption body on Wednesday for deciding to investigate allegations about his conflict of interest.
An opposition alliance represented in Yerevan’s municipal council seemed on the brink of collapse on Tuesday due to growing differences between its members affiliated with two political parties.
Police raided on Friday the home of Ruben Hayrapetian, a controversial businessman who had close ties to Armenia’s former leadership, and companies belonging to him in an apparent criminal investigation into his commercial activities.
Yerevan’s Mayor Hayk Marutian has strongly denied issuing construction permits or giving other favors to businesspeople who have donated garbage trucks and other equipment to the municipal administration.
Bowing to pressure from the opposition and media, Yerevan’s municipal administration named on Thursday private entities which it says have donated 21 garbage trucks to it in recent months.
Yerevan’s Mayor Hayk Marutian on Tuesday refused to reveal the names of wealthy individuals who have donated garbage trucks to the municipal administration and sparked corruption allegations by opposition members of the city council.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has issued a stark warning to “all those who dare threaten lawmakers” working on a bill that the government says is aimed at uprooting “widespread criminal subcultures” in Armenia.
The head of Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) declined to say on Wednesday whether it will bring criminal charges against Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian recommended by another law-enforcement body.
The presumed leader of a clandestine militant group that had allegedly plotted to overthrow Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian has been released from prison on bail.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has refused to drop corruption charges brought against a senior government official who actively participated in last year’s “Velvet Revolution.”
Health Minister Arsen Torosian cut short a news conference on Tuesday after it was gatecrashed by one of his former aides who accused him of mismanagement and corruption.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sought to reassure residents of the resort town of Jermuk and two villages located close to the Amulsar gold deposit in southeastern Armenia as he visited their communities on Friday.
An Armenian court issued has an arrest warrant for the former head of a Yerevan hospital related to former President Serzh Sarkisian after a law-enforcement body brought more corruption charges against him.
Parts of Yerevan and other Armenian regions were left without electricity on Wednesday following what authorities described as an “accident” in the national power grid.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals overturned on Tuesday a lower court’s May 18 decision to release former President Robert Kocharian from prison pending the outcome of his trial stemming from the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
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