Ukraine’s interim government on Thursday refrained from publicly criticizing official Yerevan for accepting the outcome of a disputed referendum in its autonomous republic of Crimea that led to its incorporation into Russia.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian voiced skepticism at the weekend about cautious anti-government actions favored by Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), saying that opposition forces should strive for “complete regime change” in the country.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) insisted on Wednesday that it is not seeking President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation despite increasingly criticizing his government’s economic policies and cooperating with established opposition groups.
Prosperous Armenia Party leader (BHK) Gagik Tsarukian has begun a series of consultations with the country’s main established opposition groups that could lead them to take more forceful joint actions against President Serzh Sarkisian.
Pro-government and opposition lawmakers have proposed a controversial bill that would allow Armenian officials to sue online media outlets for offensive comments made by anonymous readers.
Armenia’s decision to join the Russian-led Customs Union will not have an adverse impact on relations with neighboring Georgia, President Serzh Sarkisian and his visiting Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili said after talks on Thursday.
The Armenian authorities remain convinced that their controversial pension reform is necessary but are ready to reconsider some of its details, parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian said on Tuesday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Tuesday pressed the pro-government majority in parliament to stop blocking a new inquiry into the 2008 deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.
The Armenian government was in no rush to officially recognize Ukraine’s new authorities on Monday just as the National Assembly in Yerevan observed a minute of silence for more than 80 people killed in last week’s bloody clashes in Kiev.
A group of anti-government activists gatecrashed an international conference organized by the government in Yerevan on Friday in fresh protests against an ongoing reform of Armenia’s national pension system.
Carrefour S.A., a French multinational retail group, will open after all its first supermarket in Armenia later this year following a more than yearlong delay, it was announced on Thursday.
Three employees of Yerevan’s underground metro system were sacked on Friday two days after actively participating in a demonstration against its management’s enforcement of a controversial pension reform.
Employees of Yerevan’s underground metro system demonstrated outside its administration building on Wednesday to add their voice to continuing protests against a controversial pension reform.
Members of the European Parliament have become less sympathetic to the Armenian position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since Armenia unexpectedly decided to join a Russian-led customs union, lawmakers in Yerevan claimed on Monday.
State bodies continued to make conflicting interpretations of a Constitutional Court decision on Armenia’s controversial pension reform on Friday, with the Central Bank defending its enforcement by tax authorities.
Hundreds of mostly young people rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to demand that the Armenian authorities stop enforcing a controversial reform of the national pension system that was suspended by the Constitutional Court late last month.
The Armenian government has finally made public a “roadmap” to Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Customs Union which it plans to complete in the next few months.
Finance Minister Davit Sargsian on Wednesday dismissed a U.S. anti-graft group’s recent claims that more than $6.2 billion was siphoned out of Armenia in 2002-2011 as a result of government corruption, tax evasion and other illegal activity.
President Serzh Sarkisian has undergone stem cell therapy in South Korea aimed at rejuvenating his body, a Korean newspaper revealed on Friday. (UPDATED)
President Serzh Sarkisian has effectively sided with Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian in his bitter war of words with former President Robert Kocharian.
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