The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader, Gagik Tsarukian, declined to pledge support for President Serzh Sarkisian’s reelection and the stressed the importance of holding free and fair elections in Armenia over the weekend.
One officer and three soldiers have been arrested in connection with yet another non-combat death in the Armenian army ranks, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
A court in Yerevan on Monday ordered the pro-opposition daily “Haykakan Zhamanak” to pay three government-connected businessmen 6 million drams ($16,500) in damages and retract its allegations that they engaged in criminal activity in Russia.
A leading member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Thursday blamed its increasingly obvious friction with Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on his reluctance to pledge support for President Serzh Sarkisian’s reelection bid.
Armen Harutiunian, Armenia’s state human rights defender, has officially resigned to take up a high-level United Nations post in Central Asia.
Amid strong objections from its Armenian members, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) decided on Friday to restart the work of an ad hoc “subcommittee” on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict championed by its Turkish president, Mevlut Cavusoglu.
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Wednesday listed Armenia among more than a dozen member states which it said are not fully and promptly complying with rulings handed down by the European Court of Human Rights.
Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, has met with the most prominent of Armenian opposition members remaining in prison during his continuing fact-finding visit to Armenia.
Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, expressed concern about the continuing imprisonment of Armenian opposition members on Tuesday as he began a fact-finding visit to Yerevan.
Armenia’s recently appointed Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasian confirmed on Monday that one of his high-ranking subordinates will not be sacked despite reportedly violent conduct that led to the resignation of his predecessor Gevorg Danielian.
The Orinats Yerkir Party of Artur Baghdasarian announced on Monday that it has decided to replace yet another minister representing it in President Serzh Sarkisian’s coalition government.
A national gas-distribution company’s top manager was installed as Armenian capital Yerevan’s new mayor on Friday after the city council dominated by the ruling party voted overwhelmingly to support his candidacy.
Armenia’s ruling party has approved several major changes in the current government proposed by President Serzh Sarkisian and has named a candidate for the mayoral post in capital Yerevan that has remained vacant since its former holder’s scandalous resignation earlier this month.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s office has confirmed the latest reports in the media about imminent “personnel changes” in the government. But talking to RFE/RL’s Armenian service late on Thursday, presidential spokesman Armen Arzumanian stopped short of providing details.
President Serzh Sarkisian will have decisive word in the upcoming election of Yerevan’s new mayor by the municipal council, a leading member of his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Monday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) stepped up its criticism of the Armenia’s current leadership on Wednesday, saying that the country is controlled by a “privileged class” of wealthy government-linked citizens.
Yerevan’s controversial Mayor Gagik Beglarian was forced to step down on Wednesday after reportedly beating up a member of President Serzh Sarkisian’s staff. (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian urged the European Union on Tuesday to press harder for the release of his loyalists remaining in prison, the Armenian government’s respect of civil rights and an objective inquiry into the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
Thousands of Armenians have donated small amounts of money to a fund set up to assist a television company that has been struggling for years to regain its broadcasting license.
The failure of the latest international push for a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement has demonstrated that both the conflicting parties and international mediators are interested in preserving the status quo, a spokesman for Karabakh President Bako Sahakian claimed on Friday.
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