U.S. Ambassador John Heffern has urged Gyumri’s new Mayor Samvel Balasanian to put in place “an open and transparent system” of governance, saying that foreign investors and development agencies have been reluctant to do business in Armenia’s second city.
Some 1,750 families in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri received new government-funded apartments on Monday more than two decades after a catastrophic earthquake that destroyed their homes.
Armenia’s agricultural sector is on course to expand at a double-digit rate for a second consecutive year, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Tuesday.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Monday claimed victory in local elections that were held in more than 370 urban and local communities across the country over the weekend.
President Serzh Sarkisian said on Tuesday that he does not regard the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) of Gagik Tsarukian, a former member of his governing coalition, as a rival political force.
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia launched a hunt for the son of Gyumri’s outgoing Mayor Vartan Ghukasian on Wednesday after confirming his reported involvement in an election-related brawl accompanied by gunfire.
One man was arrested in Gyumri on Tuesday in a criminal investigation into a shootout allegedly provoked by the notoriously unruly son of Vartan Ghukasian, the outgoing mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.
A businessman tipped to become the next mayor of Gyumri on Tuesday flatly denied reports that he will join the ruling Republican Party (HHK) after the local election that will be held in Armenia’s second city next month.
Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri will hold next month the most competitive ever elections of its municipal council that has until now been a largely rubber stamp body controlled by mayors loyal to the central government.
Gyumri’s controversial Mayor Vartan Ghukasian said on Friday that he will not run after all for another term in office in next month’s local elections and will step down after 13 years at the helm of Armenia’s second city.
Wheat production in Armenia will not fall this year despite weather conditions that have been less favorable for the staple crop than in 2011, a senior government official predicted on Wednesday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) became on Monday the first opposition party to field a candidate for an upcoming mayoral election in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri.
Gyumri’s controversial Mayor Vartan Ghukasian has resigned as a regional leader of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) amid growing signs that the government in Yerevan does not want him to run the country’s second largest city anymore.
Hundreds of self-employed taxi drivers converged on a major square in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri on Friday to protest against new licensing and taxation rules which they said could drive them out of business.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) will not necessarily join the opposition despite its decision pull out of the country’s governing coalition, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said over the weekend.
Vartan Ghukasian, the controversial mayor of Gyumri, dismissed on Wednesday media reports that he will be forced to resign soon because of the ruling Republican Party’s electoral defeat in Armenia’s second largest city.
A prominent regional leader of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) stepped down on Monday in another sign of discord within the opposition alliance headed by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
A young man who planned to marry a daughter of Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian has been gunned down in Armenia’s second largest city in unclear circumstances.
Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian predicted on Wednesday that the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will win parliamentary elections in Armenia’s second largest city and surrounding Shirak province because of large-scale housing construction in the area ravaged by a 1988 earthquake.
Police in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri officially launched criminal proceedings on Tuesday in connection with a violent clash between groups of men reportedly linked with the country’s two main governing parties.
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