A senior representative of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s party indicated on Tuesday that it will not join forces with another opposition group, the Yelk alliance, in trying to prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his decade-long rule.
An Armenian youth activist went on hunger strike on Monday in protest against the government’s controversial decision to essentially abolish temporary exemptions from military service that have long been enjoyed by many students of state-run universities.
Couples with infertility in Armenia will not be able to benefit from a major state-funded reproductive health program next year after the government has excluded it from the 2018 state budget, casting doubts on its cost efficiency.
A controversial reform of Armenia’s pension system, which sparked angry street protests three years ago, will be completed as planned next year, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Artem Asatrian said on Monday.
Environment Minister Artsvik Minasian, one of the three cabinet members representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), on Tuesday dismissed renewed speculation about his tense relationship with Prime Minister Karen Karapetian.
The main defendants in the trial of 20 people prosecuted on coup charges insisted on Friday that they did not plot to overthrow Armenia’s government.
Yerevan’s Mayor Taron Markarian was sworn in for another four-year term on Monday one month after leading the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) to a landslide victory in municipal elections.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian dismissed on Monday lingering speculation about his mounting tensions with President Serzh Sarkisian, saying that their relationship is “very good, respectful and businesslike.”
President Serzh Sarkisian was confronted on Monday by about a dozen angry people dispossessed by a government-backed private construction company that demolished their homes in Yerevan years ago.
A senior diplomat from the European Union welcomed at the weekend the Armenian government’s decision to set up a new body tasked with tackling endemic corruption in the country.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), President Serzh Sarkisian’s junior coalition partner, expressed concern at serious irregularities which it said were committed in two Armenian provinces during Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
An activist of businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s electoral alliance has been stabbed and seriously wounded by men allegedly linked to the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), it emerged on Monday.
Armenia’s Minister for Emergency Situations Amen Yeritsian died at the age of 55 on Tuesday.
Twenty people went on trial in Yerevan on Friday, accused of being part of a clandestine armed group that plotted to seize power in Armenia.
A mayoral candidate from Vanadzor was detained on Wednesday after being accused of a violent assault connected with a weekend local election held in Armenia’s third largest city.
The pro-government mayor of Echmiadzin, a town 20 kilometers west of Yerevan, and his main challenger clashed with each other on the eve of a weekend local election that was won by the incumbent.
Two members of an ambulance crew who were taken hostage by opposition gunmen in Yerevan in July received awards from Armenia’s government and parliament over the weekend.
An Armenian opposition politician arrested after organizing rallies in support of a deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan has ended a month-long hunger strike, law-enforcement authorities said on Friday.
Two of the arrested opposition gunmen, who were wounded during last month’s standoff with Armenian law-enforcement authorities, underwent fresh surgeries in a Yerevan hospital on Tuesday.
An Armenian higher court has rejected the appeal filed by the lawyer of Pavel Manukian, one of about three dozen members of an armed group that seized and held for two weeks a police station in Yerevan in July, to have a general jurisdiction court’s decision on his pretrial detention revoked.
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