In a surprise move, Justice Minister Rustam Badasian has asked the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe to advise his government on its standoff with Armenia’s Constitution Court.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and a major opposition party traded bitter accusations after lawmakers representing them brawled on the Armenian parliament floor on Friday.
The number of coronavirus cases in Armenia could quadruple by the end of this month, Health Minister Arsen Torosian said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has launched fresh scathing attacks on Artur Vanetsian, prompting angry rebuttals from the former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS).
Armenian tax authorities have brought corruption charges against Mikael Minasian, former President Serzh Sarkisian’s son-in-law and reputed confidant highly critical of the current government, it emerged on Wednesday.
Armenian opposition leaders demanded on Wednesday that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian personally comment on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s claim that Yerevan and Baku are “actively discussing” peace proposals calling for Armenian territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian testified on Thursday before an Armenian parliamentary commission investigating the April 2016 hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has praised the Armenian government’s efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus and condemned “fierce” attacks launched against it by hardline opposition forces.
Citing the coronavirus pandemic, the candidate who finished second in the first round of Nagorno-Karabakh’s presidential election has called on supporters to boycott a runoff vote scheduled for April 14.
Health authorities are setting up hundreds of additional hospital beds to cope with a continuing rise in coronavirus cases in Armenia.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have registered no cases of coronavirus so far and are not planning to cancel presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for March 31, a senior official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), made clear on Monday that he will not pay the wages of those of his employees who have been put on leave because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Armenia’s parliamentary opposition parties consider the steps offered by the government to support the economy to be insufficient and call for substantial bailouts to help businesses during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Journalists and civil society representatives in Armenia have voiced their concerns over the restrictions on media imposed under the terms of the coronavirus-conditioned national emergency, calling on the government to “stop the censorship.”
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) appears to have refused to cooperate lawyers campaigning for a “no” vote in the upcoming referendum on a government proposal to oust most Constitutional Court judges.
An opposition leader accused the Armenian authorities on Friday of using their administrative resources to try to win the upcoming referendum on their drive to replace most members of the country’s Constitutional Court.
Armenia’s political leadership has insisted that it will not resort to fraud and use government levers to win the upcoming referendum on controversial constitutional changes sought by it.
Parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan expressed confidence on Monday that Armenia’s political leadership will win the upcoming referendum on its bid to oust most Constitutional Court judges.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday warned his political opponents against appealing to Armenia’s Constitutional Court in a bid to scuttle controversial constitutional changes sought by him.
President Armen Sarkissian has validated the parliament’s controversial decision hold a referendum on constitutional changes that would dismiss seven of the nine members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court locked in a bitter dispute with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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