Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian said on Wednesday that he has instructed his subordinates to oversee controversial criminal proceedings launched by the Armenian police against a brother of Khachatur Sukiasian, a prominent opposition businessman.
A prominent Armenian photojournalist claimed on Wednesday to have been verbally abused and attacked by a law-enforcement official outside of the Office of the Prosecutor-General.
The main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) unveiled on Tuesday a detailed plan of actions which it said are necessary for a “radical transformation” of Armenia’s flawed economic system.
Draft amendments to Armenia’s Law ‘On International Treaties’ have been put on the agenda of the four-day parliament sessions that open Monday, the Armenian National Assembly's press office reported on Friday.
A senior member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) opposed to the fence-mending agreements with Turkey expects a key parliament committee headed by him to approve of the two protocols signed between Yerevan and Ankara last year.
A senior Armenian lawmaker representing the ruling party has cautioned against setting deadlines for the ratification of normalization agreements with Turkey despite what now appears a stalling process.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s former ally sees ‘losses’ for Armenia as he claims the fence-mending agreements signed with Turkey effectively reflect two of Ankara’s three preconditions set forth since 1993.
Armenia’s leadership has toughened its conciliatory policy on Turkey under pressure from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a leader of the nationalist opposition party claimed on Tuesday.
The Armenian police on Friday reported a 40 percent surge in the number of corruption-related prosecutions carried out last year and pledged to further toughen their declared fight against graft.
Leaders of the two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament exchanged on Monday bitter recriminations stemming from a controversial change in the composition of the Armenian delegation in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with her counterparts from Armenia and Turkey to discuss an intensifying diplomatic dispute that has raised an additional obstacle to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
Former President Robert Kocharian visited Iran this week in a private capacity even though he was invited by the Iranian government, official Yerevan said on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian told the Armenian parliament’s Audit Chamber on Friday to press harder for the prosecution of state officials suspected of embezzling public funds and engaging in other corrupt practices.
Former President Robert Kocharian has visited Iran and reaffirmed Armenia’s commitment to further deepen relations with the Islamic Republic, it emerged on Thursday.
Nikol Pashinian, a prominent opposition figure and newspaper editor, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison on what he and his supporters call trumped-up charges stemming from the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
The January 10 parliamentary election in Yerevan exposed a glaring decline in the popularity of the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), the ruling Republican Party (HHK) claimed on Friday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will strive to depose President Serzh Sarkisian if his fence-mending agreements with Turkey are unconditionally ratified by Armenia’s parliament, a leader of the nationalist opposition party said on Wednesday.
The Constitutional Court upheld on Tuesday the legality of Armenia’s controversial normalization agreements with Turkey amid continuing protests staged by nationalist groups opposed to the deal. (UPDATED)
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied more than a thousand supporters in Yerevan on Monday to demand that Armenia’s Constitutional Court invalidate the fence-mending agreements with Turkey.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) condemned on Wednesday prosecutors for demanding an eight-year prison sentence for Nikol Pashinian, one of its leaders standing on trial on charges stemming from last year’s post-election unrest.
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