Armenia’s governing coalition said on Monday that it will not ask for renewed negotiations with the Armenian National Congress (HAK) despite the end of nonstop demonstrations held by the opposition alliance.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed his government’s willingness to assist in the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Armenia to replace the currently existing one at Metsamor.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday urged Armenia to continue efforts towards normalizing relations with Turkey and finding a durable peace with its other neighbor Azerbaijan.
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Armenia on Thursday on a two-day state visit which he said will highlight “exceptional ties” between the two nations and should help to expand their bilateral trade.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday allowed law-enforcement bodies to keep an opposition activist in jail for two more months as the Armenian authorities showed no signs of bowing to sustained pressure from the country’s leading opposition force.
A deputy chairman of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) criticized the Armenian police on Tuesday for not dispersing opposition supporters holding nonstop demonstrations in Yerevan’s Liberty Square.
Armenia’s former president Robert Kocharian has not ruled out the possibility of his return to big politics, but has markedly refused to link any such move with outside developments.
The United States Embassy in Armenia has issued a notice to its citizens in Yerevan that a local opposition rally and subsequent march can “turn confrontational and possibly escalate into violence without warning.”
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), which once was a major political support base for ex-president Robert Kocharian, would not be drawn into whether the party sought the former leader’s inclusion in its slate the upcoming parliamentary elections as he answered media questions on Thursday.
An entrepreneur owning a bakery in a small Armenian town claims his family has been a target of an attempted ‘business seizure’ after police arrested his son on suspicion of leading a series of recent daring robberies.
Armenia’s police have announced the arrest of more than a dozen members of an alleged gang suspected of committing high-profile robberies in Yerevan earlier this year.
One man died and several others were arrested in Yerevan on Friday as police claimed to have busted a gang responsible for a series of daring robberies of homes belonging to wealthy government-linked individuals.
Opposition leader and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian accused the government on Wednesday of effectively destroying Armenia’s national independence that was gained during his rule.
President Serzh Sarkisian and the top leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church inaugurated on Tuesday a new, more sprawling building of Armenia’s world-famous Matenadaran repository of ancient manuscripts.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) suspended its dialogue with the government on Friday in protest against the continuing imprisonment of one of its activists arrested earlier this month.
Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian expressed serious concern on Wednesday about a series of armed robberies in Yerevan that have targeted wealthy people, among them a former local government chief and an ex-parliamentarian.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) predicted the impending release of one of its activists remaining in prison on Tuesday after holding another round of negotiations with Armenia’s governing coalition.
Two more members of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) arrested last week were released from prison on Friday pending investigation into their violent dispute with police officers in Yerevan.
The Armenian police promised on Thursday to investigate allegations by two lawyers that they were illegally detained and mistreated at a police station in Yerevan last week.
A representative of Armenia’s governing coalition expressed confidence on Wednesday that its ongoing dialogue with the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) will continue despite the controversial arrest of three HAK activists.
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