A leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) insisted on Thursday that the government is not serious about its latest pledge to combat corruption and create a level playing field for all businesses.
Former President Robert Kocharian insisted through a spokesman on Friday that he is not behind a new opposition party set up by former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and has still not decided whether to return to active politics.
The time is still not ripe for Armenia to formally recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said on Wednesday.
Opposition leader and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday to discuss with its leaders the recent escalation of the conflict with Azerbaijan.
President Serzh Sarkisian reportedly threatened to sack more Armenian officials late on Wednesday when he held an emergency meeting with senior members of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
An Armenian journalist demanded on Monday that the chief of the national police service, Vladimir Gasparian, apologize for publicly offending her.
Russia urged the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to “reduce military risks” and resume peace talks as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov headed to Yerevan on Thursday.
The Armenian military on Monday claimed to have obtained more evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by Azerbaijani troops after recovering the bodies of 18 Armenian soldiers killed in and around Nagorno-Karabakh this month.
An Armenian soldier killed and allegedly decapitated by Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh has been reburied after the Armenian military has retrieved his severed head and handed it to his family.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian asked his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday to accelerate the planned delivery of $200 million worth of Russian weapons to Armenia during their talks held in Yerevan following a sharp escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The lawyer for a man accused of setting up a clandestine paramilitary organization insisted on Thursday that he did not plan to seize key government buildings and forcibly remove President Serzh Sarkisian from power.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) partly publicized on Wednesday what it described as evidence of a coup d’etat that was allegedly planned by members of an obscure militant group arrested late last year.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian has ruled out his Civil Contract party’s participation in negotiations on Armenia’s new Electoral Code planned by other opposition groups and the pro-government majority in parliament.
Critics of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) accused it on Friday of following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party (KPSS) after it announced plans to set up a “political school” for its members.
The Armenian government rejected on Thursday an opposition motion to officially mark the anniversaries of the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan, which left 10 people dead, as days of “state terror” victims.
A radical opposition alliance renewed on Wednesday its calls for Armenia’s mainstream anti-government forces to join it in trying to topple President Serzh Sarkisian with a “civil disobedience” campaign.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian has renewed his allegations that one of Armenia’s richest men close to the government may be evading millions of dollars in taxes through a fraud scheme allowed by President Serzh Sarkisian.
A new opposition party to be set up by Vartanian Oskanian will comprise many “prominent figures” and do well in next year’s parliamentary elections, an ally of the former Armenian foreign minister said on Wednesday.
Vartan Oskanian, a key member of former President Robert Kocharian’s administration, said on Monday that it was responsible for the March 2008 post-election unrest in Armenia that left ten people dead.
The Armenian government will not meet the opposition demand to ensure post-election publication of signed voter lists because it does not wish to violate the principles stipulated by international documents, a senior official insisted on Friday.
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