The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) defended on Monday its decision to expel from its ranks three activists who refused to join anti-government protests staged by the opposition party last month.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has expelled from its ranks three young members who have publicly objected to recent anti-government protests staged by the opposition party.
The two opposition parties represented in the Armenian parliament categorically rejected on Monday a government proposal to give most Constitutional Court judges financial incentives to resign before the end of their mandate.
A senior pro-government parliamentarian on Monday shrugged off former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian’s claim that activities financed by U.S. billionaire George Soros in Armenia pose a security risk.
The Armenian government on Monday approved a bill envisaging a stricter punishment for those who drive soldiers to commit suicide.
A pro-government lawmaker has dismissed as cynical the remarks by former President Serzh Sarkisian, who implied during his recent meeting with a U.S. envoy that Armenia lacks real democracy.
Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian insisted on Friday that long-running efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are not in deadlock, citing more high-level talks planned by Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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 head of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission has expressed serious concern over what he described as the Armenian government’s “open conflict” with the Constitutional Court and called for a renewed “normal operation” of Armenia’s constitution.
The jailed man who led a deadly attack on the Armenian parliament in 1999 has asked authorities to release him on parole, it emerged on Tuesday.
The key witness in an ongoing investigation into the recent mysterious death of a former chief of the Armenian police has left the country, law-enforcement authorities said on Thursday.
Armenia’s government on Thursday condemned Turkey’s military offensive in northeastern Syria as “illegal” and discussed it at an emergency meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In a weekend incident condemned by Armenia’s leading political forces, angry government supporters attacked the offices of an online publication highly critical of the Armenian authorities.
The Armenian parliament formally appealed to the Constitutional Court on Friday to replace its chairman, Hrayr Tovmasian, who is increasingly at loggerheads with the country’s political leadership.
Russian and Armenian officials are holding negotiations over a new agreement on the price of Russian natural gas delivered to Armenia, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Wednesday.
One day after being relieved of his duties as director of the National Security Service (NSS), Artur Vanetsian on Tuesday strongly denied collaborating with Armenia’s former leaders and warned them against exploiting his dramatic falling out with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that he will not break laws to prevent a British-American company, Lydian International, from mining gold at the Amulsar deposit in southeastern Armenia.
The leader of Sasna Tsrer, an Armenian party whose members stormed a police station in Yerevan in 2016, on Friday warned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian against giving the green light to a large-scale mining project opposed by environmentalists.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a legal provision that has been used by law-enforcement authorities for arresting and prosecuting former President Robert Kocharian.
A British-American mining company has accused a Lebanese-based consultancy of misleading the Armenian government about the environmental risks of its project to develop the Amulsar gold deposit in southeastern Armenia.
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