The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) is still not convinced that influential businessman Gagik Tsarukian and his political team have decided to campaign for President Serzh Sarkisian’s ouster, a senior HHK member said on Wednesday.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and its opposition allies are concentrating on the prevention of sweeping constitutional changes in their joint effort to unseat President Serzh Sarkisian, a senior BHK figure said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s political leadership sees no serious threat to its hold on power emanating from nationwide rallies held by three leading opposition forces, a senior lawmaker from the ruling Republican Party (HHK) said on Monday.
Three leading political parties at odds with President Serzh Sarkisian rallied hundreds of supporters in the southern town of Ararat on Friday as they continued to prepare for a joint anti-government rally in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian again met with representatives of market traders in Yerevan on Thursday as hundreds of them continued to demonstrate against recent changes in tax legislation which they say could ruin their businesses.
Armenia hopes that Greece will help it deepen relations with the European Union, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Tuesday after talks with his visiting Greek counterpart, Karolos Papoulias, on Tuesday.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has moved closer to publicly demanding regime change in the country during its ongoing nationwide rallies staged jointly with two established opposition parties.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Friday defended the government’s decision to reinstate a notorious regional governor which has prompted outrage from the Armenian opposition, media and human rights campaigners.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) defended on Friday its readiness to support a radical constitutional reform planned by the authorities and rejected by other major opposition parties.
Current domestic challenges to President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule result from a political marriage of convenience between some oligarchs and politicians bent on “revanchism,” the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed on Wednesday.
The United States and Russia continue to work together in trying to broker a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict despite their disagreements on other international problems, a senior U.S. diplomat insisted on Tuesday.
Two of Armenia’s main political parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Tuesday that there are ulterior motives behind his intention to curtail presidential powers.
The resumption of a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war remains unlikely despite one of the most serious violations of the 1994 ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh registered in recent days, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian insisted on Monday.
President Serzh Sarkisian wants to curtail sweeping constitutional powers enjoyed by him but has yet to decide whether Armenia must be transformed into a parliamentary republic, one of his political allies said on Tuesday.
A civil activist campaigning against the rise in utility prices has been summoned to Armenia’s National Security Service after publicly threatening to carry out an act of terrorism.
Opposition members in Armenia have criticized Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian for failing to make any significant changes during the first 100 days in office, but representatives of the ruling party consider the period to be too short for making definitive conclusions.
Security measures are being taken to prevent new Azerbaijani saboteur infiltrations into Armenian-controlled territory near Nagorno-Karabakh, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said at a Cabinet meeting in Yerevan on Thursday.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh insist they have ‘serious grounds’ to assume that an Armenian teenager who was found dead on Tuesday, after a long search, had been killed by Azerbaijani ‘saboteurs’.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have opened criminal proceedings in connection with an alleged Azerbaijani ‘sabotage’ group infiltration into the territory controlled by the unrecognized republic’s ethnic Armenian forces.
Military authorities in Stepanakert have reported a successful completion of a special operation aimed at neutralizing a group of saboteurs that allegedly infiltrated into an Armenian-controlled district near Nagorno-Karabakh last week.
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