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.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) chose to continue to negotiate with the government on Tuesday despite its threats to halt the dialogue because of the arrest and prosecution of several HAK activists.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Monday that it will decide within the next 24 hours whether to continue its dialogue with Armenia’s governing coalition if not all of its seven activists arrested last week are set free.
Lieutenant-General Alik Sargsian, the chief of the Armenian police, on Thursday vehemently defended the arrest of seven opposition activists, saying that they assaulted and verbally abused police officers maintaining public order in Yerevan.
Two major opposition parties at odds with Armenian National Congress (HAK) insisted on Tuesday that the opposition bloc is not serious about its repeated pledges to force early elections.
A senior member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Monday praised official Yerevan for avoiding a deterioration of Armenia’s vital relations with Georgia during and after the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.
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