The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) dismissed on Friday claims that it encouraged allies of Gagik Tsarukian to defy his orders to cede their parliament seats to other candidates of his electoral alliance.
The official results of the recent parliamentary elections held in Armenia largely reflect the will of its people, a senior European Union diplomat insisted on Friday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday refused to release Samvel Babayan, an opposition figure arrested last month, pending an investigation into an alleged smuggling of weapons.
Samvel Babayan, a prominent opposition figure, urged a court in Yerevan on Thursday to release him from custody pending an investigation into the alleged smuggling of a shoulder-fired rocket to Armenia.
Zaruhi Postanjian, an outspoken opposition politician, on Wednesday denied a media report that her newly established political party is financed by a wealthy Russian businessman of Armenian descent highly critical of Armenia’s government.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has come under more fire following the publication of secretly recorded audio purportedly indicating that employees of one of its wealthy parliamentarians were told to campaign for his reelection or lose their jobs.
Parliamentary election results for a village in Armenia’s central Aragatsotn province have been annulled because of serious fraud, it emerged on Monday.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s influential son-in-law, Mikael Minasian, on Thursday urged two prominent opposition politicians to stop accusing each other of secretly collaborating with him.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Wednesday admitted that vote bribes were distributed during the weekend parliamentary elections but insisted that they did not significantly affect the vote results.
The spokesman for the governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday that it expects to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections and remain in power for five more years.
The lawyer for Samvel Babayan has denied prosecutors’ claim that the arrested opposition figure has admitted his involvement in an alleged smuggling of a shoulder-fired rocket to Armenia.
Samvel Babayan, an opposition figure and a retired army general arrested on Wednesday, denies smuggling weapons to Armenia, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former top military commander close to an Armenian opposition alliance, and two other people were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of smuggling weapons to Armenia.
Foreign forensic experts can participate in the ongoing inquiry into the death of an Armenian activist who was charged with aiding opposition gunmen las summer, the Investigative Committee said on Monday.
An alliance led by former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Friday claimed that President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will lose power as a result of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Opposition leader Vartan Oskanian on Thursday heaped praise on the arrested members of an armed opposition group who seized a police base in Yerevan last year.
Samvel Babayan, a retired army general close to former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian’s ORO opposition bloc, on Wednesday accused a controversial deputy chief of the Armenian police of orchestrating violent attacks on its supporters.
An opposition alliance led by former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian accused the Armenian authorities of spreading an “atmosphere of fear” ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections after three of its supports were shot, stabbed and beaten up on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian reaffirmed his pledges to implement “serious reforms” and attract large-scale investments in Armenia’s economy as he campaigned for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the Armavir province on Wednesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian painted a grim picture of the Armenian parliamentary race on Monday, saying that its outcome is likely to be decided by vote buying.
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