The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province was relieved of his duties on Thursday more than two weeks after the ruling Civil Contract party’s failure to win a municipal election in the provincial capital Gyumri.
A leader of the political force that won the October 17 municipal election in Gyumri became the mayor of Armenia’s second largest city on Monday after striking a power-sharing deal with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party.
The political force that won the October 17 municipal election in Gyumri has yet to clarify whether it will team up with the ruling Civil Contract party or an opposition group to install the new mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party failed to unseat the jailed opposition-linked mayor of a major community in Armenia’s Syunik province and was also defeated in Gyumri in local elections held on Sunday.
Seven political parties and three blocs have applied to run in local elections that will be held in Gyumri on October 17.
Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikian hailed on Tuesday the European Union’s pledge to provide up to 600 million euros ($715 million) in funding for the Armenian government’s plans to upgrade major national highways.
The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province has denied allegations that he fired the directors of two local schools and a policlinic because they supported the main opposition Hayastan alliance in this month’s parliamentary elections.
Vote counting began in Armenia late on Sunday after polls closed in tightly contested general elections.
Russian should beef up its military presence in Armenia to counter the “Turkish expansion” into the South Caucasus, former President Robert Kocharian said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s human rights defender, Arman Tatoyan, has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political opponents of resorting to inflammatory rhetoric in their election campaigns, saying that could deepen a political crisis in the country.
Georgia has reopened its land border with Armenia to travelers more than one year after closing it to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Armenian officials accused Azerbaijan on Friday of reneging on a pledge to free Armenian soldiers and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity five months after a Russian-brokered ceasefire stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again welcomed on Friday the Russian government’s decision to lift a coronavirus-related entry ban for Armenians, saying that it will reduce their economic hardship.
Opposition leaders promised on Friday more efforts to force Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign as they began touring Armenia’s regions in a bid to drum up greater support for their campaign.
The governor of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province, Tigran Petrosian, tendered his resignation on Friday after almost two years in office.
Armenia’s government gave on Thursday the green light for the relocation of an entire village as part of a $71 million project to build a new reservoir and irrigation system in northwestern Shirak province.
At least 55 elderly people living in a nursing home in Gyumri have been infected with the coronavirus following similar outbreaks of the disease reported at Armenia’s two other elderly care centers.
Two more textile factories in Armenia suspended their operations on Tuesday after dozens of their workers tested positive for the coronavirus.
Authorities sealed off a small town and an adjacent village in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province on Sunday after 18 employees of a local hospital tested positive for coronavirus.
Residents of a small town in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak province and nearby villages blocked a highway on Wednesday to protest against the government’s decision to close a local maternity hospital.
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