The Armenian government is “on the right track” in carrying out democratic reforms and can therefore count on greater financial assistance from the European Union, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said during an official visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
Ethnic Armenians keen to flee escalating violence in Syria have limited options of taking refuge in Armenia as all the tickets for a single flight service currently existing between the two countries have been booked until September.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of an Armenian military doctor on Monday amid continuing public outrage against a government-connected businessman who employed the men accused of beating him to death at a Yerevan restaurant last month.
An Armenian army officer was arrested early on Sunday after reportedly threatening to blow up an expensive restaurant in Yerevan where one of his colleagues was beaten to death by security guards working for an influential government-linked businessman.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian will again run for president next year if he sees “favorable conditions” for doing that, a leading member of his Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Friday.
One of the three men who were badly beaten up this month at a Yerevan restaurant belonging to a powerful government-linked businessman died in hospital on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday again blamed Azerbaijan for recent ceasefire violations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and the lack of progress in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that a controversial businessman affiliated with it is not responsible for a violent assault that occurred at a Yerevan restaurant owned by his family.
The Armenian police have made three more arrests in the criminal investigation into the weekend violence at a Yerevan restaurant that left three men, all of them military doctors, seriously injured.
Four men have been arrested in connection with the severe beating of three military doctors at a Yerevan restaurant belonging to an influential government-connected businessman, police said on Wednesday.
An influential businessman and parliament deputy close to the government on Tuesday strongly denied any responsibility for the severe beating of three men at a Yerevan restaurant owned by him.
U.S. Ambassador John Heffern on Thursday expressed concern at criminal proceedings launched against Vartan Oskanian and the Civilitas Foundation before visiting the think-tank, founded by the former Armenian foreign minister, together with Yerevan-based European diplomats.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians from Syria have applied for Armenian citizenship since the outbreak of the bloody unrest in the Middle Eastern country, immigration officials in Yerevan revealed on Wednesday.
The Armenian government flatly denied on Tuesday any political reasons behind the launch of criminal proceedings against former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian amid serious concerns about the case voiced by his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), the second largest parliamentary force.
President Serzh Sarkisian will complete the formation of his new government by the end of this week, a senior member of his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Monday.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian will not run in next year’s Armenian presidential election, his former election campaign manager now affiliated with a rival opposition party predicted on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday blamed Azerbaijan for the latest upsurge in deadly violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and warned that the Armenian military will continue to take “tough” action against Azerbaijani “provocations.”
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Tuesday described as “very inspiring” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s largely positive assessment of last month’s parliamentary elections and reforms implemented by President Serzh Sarkisian’s government.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and three key ministers have been reappointed to Armenia’s new government being formed as a result of last month’s parliamentary elections.
Gagik Tsarukian, the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader, was conspicuously absent from the opening session of the new parliament on Thursday, a move that will fuel more talk of his discord with the country’s political leadership.
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